DOI article:
Tomaszewicz, Agnieszka: Antiquity in residential architecture of Wrocław in the nineteenth century
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Pig. 11. C. Schmidt: Villa Welz in Breslau, side view, 1868. Drawings collection, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland.
construction of the building consisted of three adja-
cent cuboids — the base of the main patt was set by
the middle passage and adjoined a symmetrical fron-
tal segment, whose base was equal to the area of the
sitting room, and an identical rear segment. The build-
ing seemed composed of two interpenetrating cuboids,
especially that these were covered by two low-sloped
roofs, with the roof ridges Crossing on one level at a right
angle. From the front the layout was completed by
a ground floor annex with an entrance hallway, and
from the garden — by a vent running down the side
end-wall, which was covered by a roof with the same
slope direction as the roof of the middle part and thus
seemed to be an integral part of the structure.
In accordance with Boetticher’s guidelines, the
main éléments of the façade fulfilled, at least seem-
ingly, constructional functions. The exterior walls of
the basement had the form of a plinth, crowned with
a cornice, on top of which were pilasters supporting
the wide entablature — roof support. In the smooth
wall surfaces between the pilasters there were win-
dow openings decorated with aedicule framings. The
number of Windows in the front façade was doubled
— the larger Windows, closed with arches and limited
by richly decorated framings, underlined the piano
nobile [Fig. 10]. The composition of the face of the
building was closed by the jerkinhead with a tym-
panum filled with sculpture décorations. A similar
layout of the middle risalit of the side façade was di-
versified with an oriel, which enlarged the living room
[Fig. 11], On both sides of the oriel, in the side seg-
ments of the building, there was an aedicule framed
window opening, whose symmetry axis was under-
lined on the first floor by circular niches with busts.
The rear façade of the building was simplified to
a great extern, the décorative framing of Windows was
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