Description
An introverted dense housing complex with row houses staggered in height. The larger apartments are accessed via courtyards, the smaller ones from the upper access path that runs through the center of the development. This path across the roofs serves as an open-air recreational area for residents.
Transverse housing blocks divide these areas into easily identifiable sections. Between the house rows are residential paths and courtyards; the taller buildings provide noise protection along the street elevation.
The apartments are mainly vertical in organization; the lower maisonettes have two to three floors following the “back-to-back crossover” scheme, i.e. the apartments are organized back to back, but the compass points are switched on the following floor so that each apartment and its living area profit from the more favourable direction.
Access to the maisonettes is provided through the private green spaces in front; kitchen/dining, living, and sleeping are accommodated on separate levels. The third floor contains the pedestrian deck (footpath), to which the two-story maisonettes and/or flats are attached. Individual rooms can be assigned to various apartments; this provides additional flexibility in apartment sizes.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
Floor plans from Basement to 2nd floor, 5-story building; scale 1:200: Apartment type A – 3-room triplex, sleeping area in basement, kitchen, dining area on ground floor, living area on 2nd floor (cross-over) Apartment type B – 3-room duplex, living area on ground floor, sleeping area on 2nd floor (cross-over)
Floor plans 4th floor, 5-story building, scale 1:200: Apartment type C – 2-room apartment along roof path
Floor plans from 3rd to 4th floor, 5-story building, scale 1:200: Apartment type D – 2-room duplex
Floor plans from basement to 2nd floor, scale 1:200: Apartment type E – 4-room triplex, living area on ground floor, sleeping area on 1st floor Apartment type F – 2-room duplex, living area and entrance on 2nd floor, sleeping area on 1st floor
Cross section
Sectional drawing
Diagram of apartment layouts
Photos
View over estate
View from upper level pedestrian path
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.