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96. House No. 35, living room, designed by Heinrich Lauterbach, 1929. Die Form 1929, p. 468
ber of communal rooms to be used by all inhabitants. The building was intended as a prototype for
large housing estates composed of high-risers.360 It seems possible that both Scharoun and Rading
were inspired by American solutions, the so-called “boarding houses" or "apartment houses"361, or
"communal houses" in the Soviet Union.
Gustav Wolf's objective, as seen in building No. 8, was to ensure each apartment the privacy
and independence of a miniature detached house: each apartment had a private entrance, staircase
and basement.362 The layouts were functional, with the family rooms arranged on the southern side
while kitchens and bathrooms facing the north.
360 Beate Szymanski, Der Architekt Adolf Fading (1888—1957) -Arbeiten in Deutschland bis 1933. Munchen 1992, p.141-147. Already in 1928 Rading
developed a plan of the housing estate with high-rise apartment blocks, with the same floor plan as his WUWA building.
361 Szczesny RUTKOWSKI, op.cit., p.118-119. The author describes the American model: 'Something in-between a tenement house and a hotel.
Individual apartments are small - from a studio to a two-bedroom unit - but fitted with all modem conveniences: electrical stoves, bathrooms with
running hot water, foldable beds and tables, movable screens, etc.There are hotel-like service apartments with communal diners, lobbies,a reading
room, terraces and gardens (...) Such complexes may accommodate up to several thousands rooms on some thirty to forty floors.'
362 Gustav Wolf explained his design in Breslauer lllustrierte Zeitung 1929, Sonderausgabe Wohnung und Werkraum. In: Lubomir SLAPETA, Vladimir
SLAPETA, op.cit., p.1432.
96. House No. 35, living room, designed by Heinrich Lauterbach, 1929. Die Form 1929, p. 468
ber of communal rooms to be used by all inhabitants. The building was intended as a prototype for
large housing estates composed of high-risers.360 It seems possible that both Scharoun and Rading
were inspired by American solutions, the so-called “boarding houses" or "apartment houses"361, or
"communal houses" in the Soviet Union.
Gustav Wolf's objective, as seen in building No. 8, was to ensure each apartment the privacy
and independence of a miniature detached house: each apartment had a private entrance, staircase
and basement.362 The layouts were functional, with the family rooms arranged on the southern side
while kitchens and bathrooms facing the north.
360 Beate Szymanski, Der Architekt Adolf Fading (1888—1957) -Arbeiten in Deutschland bis 1933. Munchen 1992, p.141-147. Already in 1928 Rading
developed a plan of the housing estate with high-rise apartment blocks, with the same floor plan as his WUWA building.
361 Szczesny RUTKOWSKI, op.cit., p.118-119. The author describes the American model: 'Something in-between a tenement house and a hotel.
Individual apartments are small - from a studio to a two-bedroom unit - but fitted with all modem conveniences: electrical stoves, bathrooms with
running hot water, foldable beds and tables, movable screens, etc.There are hotel-like service apartments with communal diners, lobbies,a reading
room, terraces and gardens (...) Such complexes may accommodate up to several thousands rooms on some thirty to forty floors.'
362 Gustav Wolf explained his design in Breslauer lllustrierte Zeitung 1929, Sonderausgabe Wohnung und Werkraum. In: Lubomir SLAPETA, Vladimir
SLAPETA, op.cit., p.1432.