Description

Access:

Entrance hall on corner of the building connects the street side and the garden side; combination of access types: direct access to the apartments on the ground floor; interior corridor on the second floor (lit by light wells and windows at the ends); external gallery on the top floor provides access to the maisonette apartments; interior stairwells, lit by windows and skylight.

Interior:

As a rule, the apartments have a living/dining room with kitchen units and a wing of individual bedrooms and bathrooms that do not receive natural light or ventilation and are accessed via a linking hallway inside the apartment. With the exception of the apartments along the interior corridor on the second floor, all of the units face two sides. The top floor has maisonette apartments.

Exterior:

Loggias adjacent to the living room and kitchen; broad external access gallery with features to enhance their attractiveness as public spaces; private gardens on the ground floor.

Morphology:

This angled slab is located in the southern part of the Kabelwerk grounds, which is conceived with a heterogeneous approach to urban planning. The massive, brightly plastered building is one of the more restrained buildings in the context of this colorful ensemble, taking into account a kind of honest serialism of the realities of subsidized housing. It contrasts a perforated facade on the street side with a garden facade distinguished by continuous horizontal bands of window breasts.

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Originally published in: Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek, Typology +: Innovative Residential Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2009.