Interbau 1975 Berlin (Germany) part 2
At the Interbau 1957 in Berlin (Germany), not only apartment blocks were built, but also single-family houses. The architects built with airy courtyards and large windows or planned the house according to the daily routine of its inhabitants.
Light-flooded house with doctor's practice
The office of Klaus Kirsten and Heinz Nather built a light-flooded house with a doctor's practice. Inside, it opens up to the garden like a fan. The upper floor has a terrace that also faces the garden. The concrete walls were partly made from the rubble of the war-damaged buildings of the old Hansa district.
Atrium House
Architect Arne Jacobsen built this atrium house. It appears closed to the outside, but opens up to an inner courtyard, the "room in the green". The rooms are grouped around the open courtyard like three wings. "The west wing with a kitchen-living room and large windows facing the courtyard, the north wing with a bathroom and bedrooms (and a wall of cupboards that acoustically shields the house from the street), and the south wing with a large living room, behind which the garden extends the full width of the plot." (Hansaviertel website)
Almost without right angles
Wolf von Möllendorff and Sergius Ruegenberg's house has hardly any right angles. "Ruegenberg's aim was not only to improve the living quality of the individual, (...) but he placed the individual with his daily routine in the foreground of his planning. The angled floor plan and the arrangement of the windows follow the position of the sun and the specific uses of the rooms. The complex design is intended to enable liveliness and diversity in which people can develop freely. (...) The formal language of the house went down in architectural history in a similar way as deconstructivism at the end of the 1980s and was anticipated by Ruegenberg. He was 30 years ahead of his time architecturally." (see above)
Eternithaus
Paul Baumgarten did not simply want to build terraced houses. He designed the "Wohnschiff" (living ship), which floats on uprights above a glazed ground floor. Above you can see a gangway, railings, cabins and living quarters. Instead of terraced houses, "seven maisonettes were created with glazed living studios on the top floor and private roof terraces instead of gardens. The classic-modern design language, the numerous glass surfaces, the colour scheme and the sloping monopitch roofs lend the building a serenity and airiness that was typical of Baumgarten's architecture" (see above).
Best regard, Uli