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93. House No. 7, living room, designed by Adolf Rading, furniture, designed by Josef Vinecky, 1929. Inner/ Dekoration 1929, vol. 40, p. 422
94. Tea table, designed by Josef Vinecky, 1929. Architektura i Budownictwo 1929, p. 336
city lifestyles and urban living space suited to their particular needs, he writes: "On the one hand,
there is the detached house, unpretentious and informal, reduced to standardised forms for the
sake of comfort and functionalism; it corresponds to a standard car; on the other hand - rejecting
the traditional type of tenement house - there is the need for a large building, separated from other
buildings, surrounded by trees and greenery. (...) The city has to consider various manifestations of
life so these large buildings will have to assume as diverse forms as possible." 355 His WUWA project
illustrates the latter category.
The building's right and left wings together comprised of 48 small duplex (split-level) apart-
ments while the central section accommodated a restaurant, a lobby, and recreational space com-
plete with a rooftop garden. The rightwing accommodated 16 larger apartments (37 m2) with balco-
nies (for couples) 356, while the left wing comprised of 32 smaller flats (27 m2) for single people.
The idea of communal living and raising children outlined Rading's design for Building No. 7.
The architect rejected the traditional form of land parcel for a tenement house, which was originally
conceived as an 11-storey building to provide model solutions for high-rise apartment blocks 357, it
was later erected as a lower structure. Rading justified his original vision: "The purpose underlying
this solution was to compensate for the limited space of isolated, individual flats by providing the
communal space: corridors, rooms, gardens on the rooftop terrace, storage rooms and shops; to
355 Ibidem, p.414.
356 Edgar NORWERTH, op cit., p.328. 'The apartments have been calculated for two people so precisely that the arrival of an unexpected guest
would render the living guarters impossible to use'.
357 There is no agreement concerning the number of storeys in the original version. Heinrich Lauterbach mentions seven, Ernest Niemczyk,
Peter Pfankuch, and Beate Szymanski put the number at eleven, while Christine Nielsen guotes both versions. Lubomir SLAPETA, Vladimir
93. House No. 7, living room, designed by Adolf Rading, furniture, designed by Josef Vinecky, 1929. Inner/ Dekoration 1929, vol. 40, p. 422
94. Tea table, designed by Josef Vinecky, 1929. Architektura i Budownictwo 1929, p. 336
city lifestyles and urban living space suited to their particular needs, he writes: "On the one hand,
there is the detached house, unpretentious and informal, reduced to standardised forms for the
sake of comfort and functionalism; it corresponds to a standard car; on the other hand - rejecting
the traditional type of tenement house - there is the need for a large building, separated from other
buildings, surrounded by trees and greenery. (...) The city has to consider various manifestations of
life so these large buildings will have to assume as diverse forms as possible." 355 His WUWA project
illustrates the latter category.
The building's right and left wings together comprised of 48 small duplex (split-level) apart-
ments while the central section accommodated a restaurant, a lobby, and recreational space com-
plete with a rooftop garden. The rightwing accommodated 16 larger apartments (37 m2) with balco-
nies (for couples) 356, while the left wing comprised of 32 smaller flats (27 m2) for single people.
The idea of communal living and raising children outlined Rading's design for Building No. 7.
The architect rejected the traditional form of land parcel for a tenement house, which was originally
conceived as an 11-storey building to provide model solutions for high-rise apartment blocks 357, it
was later erected as a lower structure. Rading justified his original vision: "The purpose underlying
this solution was to compensate for the limited space of isolated, individual flats by providing the
communal space: corridors, rooms, gardens on the rooftop terrace, storage rooms and shops; to
355 Ibidem, p.414.
356 Edgar NORWERTH, op cit., p.328. 'The apartments have been calculated for two people so precisely that the arrival of an unexpected guest
would render the living guarters impossible to use'.
357 There is no agreement concerning the number of storeys in the original version. Heinrich Lauterbach mentions seven, Ernest Niemczyk,
Peter Pfankuch, and Beate Szymanski put the number at eleven, while Christine Nielsen guotes both versions. Lubomir SLAPETA, Vladimir