Description

A complex mixture of spare floors plans, combined in a variety of ways. Almost every apartment is oriented toward east and west, either as a single-floor apartment perpendicular to the access axis or as a maisonette. Only the two-room apartments and a few of the three-room apartments face only east or west.

In the case of the maisonettes, the top floor is taken up by the living room, open kitchen, and dining area; the sleeping floor lies below, usually extending through the entire building. All kitchens are positioned as part of the living area along the access axis; all baths, WCs, and the double-return maisonette stairs also lie in this inner area. Access hallways are necessary on only two of three floors.

The complicated arrangement of the apartments is also expressed in the facade: the large horizontal living-room windows appear on each third floor, with a row of narrow, almost floor-to-ceiling bedroom windows and a row of large and small windows mixed between them.

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Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.