Description
High residential quality despite reduced costs by means of narrow building widths and extremely simple structural features (concrete crosswalls, wooden roof frame). The development of twenty-eight staggered one-story homes is structured by the accentuated crosswalls that demarcate the houses and their open spaces (greenspaces to the front and rear of the house, as well as inner courtyards in the case of the larger houses).
The open spaces are tightly interlocked with the interior spaces and, except for kitchen and bath, almost all interior rooms are defined by sliding walls and can be utilized with corresponding freedom. The entire length of the house, all the way to the garden, is immediately visible to anyone entering. The rooms to left and right bulge out allowing the house to appear much larger.
The clever use of natural light – by means of floor-to-ceiling windows, glassed-in patio, and skylights – also enhances the atmosphere of spaciousness and brightness. The sizes of the houses are varied by changing the length of the buildings between the crosswalls.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
2-room house type with and without garage, scale 1:200
3-room house type, scale 1:200
4-room house type, scale 1:200
5-room house type, scale 1:200
Longitudinal sections through 5-room house type, scale 1:200
Cross section through row of houses
Photos
Exterior view
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.