Description
The open entrance hall with access elements, galleries, and bridges forms the spine of the building. The terraces at both ends serve simultaneously as entrances to the apartments. This open area, at once terrace, entryway, and part of the hall, is the distinctive feature of this housing strategy.
The ground floor and second floor, that is, the area of the two-story lobby, contain maisonettes on both sides that can be entered from the ground floor. On the upper floors, a central gallery along the longitudinal axis of the building plays a distributing role; this gallery gives way to two open terraces on both sides, forming this intermediate zone in front of the apartments. As a result, there are a wide variety of unobstructed views into all levels: clear space around the staircase, the elevator, the gallery.
The apartments are organized on a classic pattern; installation zone on the inner side with bath, closet area, WC, kitchen. The kitchen is part of the living room and has a window to the intermediate zone in front of the apartment. All rooms are fronted by narrow terraces (wide terraces in front of the penthouses).
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
Typical floor plan with 3-room apartments, scale 1:200
Ground floor with 5-room duplex apartments, scale 1:200
Second floor with upper part of the 5-room duplex apartments, scale 1:200
Cross section
Photos
Exterior view
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.