Description

Apartments around two courtyards. Four row houses (three stories in N and W, four stories in E and S) make up one side of a courtyard; the square corner buildings, as joints, have five stories. Inside the courtyards: circulation, businesses, public outside space, communal institutions (laundry, club room). In outside ring, private greenery.

The row houses consist of two floor plan types developing vertically or horizontally; a four-room maisonette over two or three levels (inside a bay) and a four-room apartment on the roof (over two bays). The corner buildings are double- or triple-loaded with one-, two-, or three-room apartments on one or two levels. All building types vary the same floor plan idea.

Row houses: height differences between court level and entry level separate the public space (courtyard) from semi-public (entry platform, terrace) and private spaces. The stairway can be semi-public or private, inside or outside. The apartments are always accessed via the kitchen/dining area separated from the living area by the WC, cabinet, and inside stairway. From this level, access to garden (via stairway) or terrace. Above are three to four bedrooms, spatially separated by bath, walk-in closet, and stairway.Extra studios in the basement stories are assigned to some apartments.

Three-room apartments on the roof: they are accessed from the corner buildings and distribute living and sleeping areas horizontally to one bay each. The corner houses mix all types.

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