Description
Two long, ship-like buildings on a mediterranean square with large plane trees. The open basement serves as a covered parking lot, the cars, hidden on the level lowered by a half story, are no longer visible from the grove of plane trees. The building is composed of two maisonettes, i.e. double floors, stacked one above the other, and an attic story. Every second story has 3-m-wide, perimeter galleries, which serve as covered walkways on the north side and as balconies on the south side. The fabrics are divided into 5-m-wide crosswall sections. The maisonettes can be completed without further structural constraints, the only fixed component being the location of the installation shaft. Aside from a few interior walls, the otherwise undivided space is defined by the bathroom and kitchen core, often set into the space, and the maisonette stairwell. Most of the apartments occupy one crosswall width and are developed vertically as two- or three-story maisonettes. Bathrooms and kitchens lie mostly on the north side, the living areas, many two stories high, open onto the balcony. The building is executed as a rough concrete structure, made inhabitable with simple, prefabricated elements adopted from 1980s industrial architecture: galvanized folding doors open the living space onto the terrace, the entrance doors are made of steel sheet, a red alarm button serves as a door bell.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
4-room apartment, scale 1:200
2-room apartment, scale 1:200
6-room triplex apartment, scale 1:200
5-room duplex apartment, scale 1:200
4-room duplex apartments, scale 1:200
6-room duplex apartment, scale 1:200
2-room duplex apartment, scale 1:200
2-room apartments, scale 1:200
Cross section through both slabs
Cross section through duplex apartment
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.