E2A: Werkbundstadt design, Am Spreebord,10589, Berlin, Germany; competition
In its history, the Deutsche Werkbund has repeatedly faced the task of finding a model response to the urgent question of contemporary urban housing, and to this day creating exemplary settlements. Almost one hundred years after Stuttgart-Weißenhof, an entire WerkbundStadt is being built in Berlin: a new dense, urban quarter on 29,000m2, which will transform a former industrial location in Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf into a place to live, live and work.
OUR HOUSE IS AN ORGANIZATION FORM IN WHICH SPACES CAN BE RESTRICTED. THE ARCHETYPIC A PROPER RULES OF EQUIVALENT SPACES WILL BE RELATED ON ANOTHER, THAT IS INDEPENDENTLY ADVISED. THERE IS THE IDEA OF THE MIXED CITY TO LIVE IN A HOUSE PRAYED BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT NEEDS.
The house in Werkbundstadt focuses on the wall. An industrial-looking brick wall, which is designed as a self-supporting masonry in a blockboard. In this wall windows are regularly placed, which represent the internal organization of the floor plan to the outside. The windows are all bodied and designed as French balconies. The presence of the wall is additionally emphasized by the formulation of base and roof seal. The pedestal hides the basement cellar windows by alternately omitting individual stones. The roof is perforated punctiform by spiers.
The ground plan organizes the living space into an order of spatial equivalence. We thus enable a polyvalent and equivalent space, which does not define the form of the housing, but provides a basis for an individual interpretation. Our housing estates should not be typified for a specific resident or for a precisely defined housing form, but should be made independent of it.
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