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Tenement row housing
CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND MATERIALS:
External walls: Kilgus system 569 lined with large Kerament plates
Internal wails: gypsum walls, Pruss walls, Schugk walls
Floors Ackermann floors
Flooring wooden floors, linoleum
Roof: flat, wooden roof frame with a hollow, covered with Rexitekt
DESCRIPTION (as of 1929):
Building No. 9 - In his corner section, adjacent to the tenement row-houses, Emil Lange proposed
small-sized apartments, 4 on each floor, served by one staircase, thus reducing the passageways by
40%). The smaller apartment (45.5 m2) was to accommodate 3 beds, while the larger (62 m2) was to
accommodate 4 beds. The layout provided for the kitchen and bathroom next to each other (reduced
cost of the water and sewage systems) and ensured privacy of the bedroom(s). The kitchens had fitted
cabinets. By employing the split-level arrangement (two apartments per level), adequate ventilation
was ensured. The rooms opened towards the eastern or western side and thus had adequate natural
light. Storage rooms were shared. The building's architectural form was extremely simple: it comprised
of two connected cubic shapes, covered with flat roofs.
Buildings Nos. 10-22: It is a complex of tenement row-houses, containing apartments of similar size,
representing several versions of very simple and economical layouts. Except for the corner sections, the
units were extremely narrow (9 x 6 m and 2 x 7.2 m). The first floor accommodated the "day" zone (with
the kitchen), connected through the terrace to the garden; the bedrooms and bathroom were located
on the second floor. Larger apartments (including one with an atelier) were only in the corner sections.
Striving to reduce construction costs, the architects tried to develop functional solutions while reduc-
ing the apartment's size. In most units the ratio of the building's cubature to its ground floor area aver-
aged 5.3 (only in Building No. 22 it was larger - 6.7). The proposed solutions included fitted cabinets in
the kitchen and the service window connecting the kitchen with the living room, built-in closets, large
glazed doors opening into the garden to make the room appear more spacious.570 On the outside, the
building had a very simple structure covered with a flat roof.
CHANGES TO THE ORIGINAL DESIGN:
Minor changes to the elevations and architectural form: replacement windows, added porches in some
units, enclosed terraces on the garden side in some sections, a storey added in No. 22.
569 'Wohnung und Werkraum.,.', p.95, 97; Adolf ROTHENBERG, op.cit., p.347. System patented by E. M. Kilgus of Wroclaw: wall constructed of two
vertical leaves of slag concrete, in load-bearing areas the hollow block was filled with steel-reinforced concrete. This type of construction was
employed here for the first time in order to test its insulating properties, impact sound transmission in Kilgus walls and floors, the condensation
of water on the walls, the effect of the weather upon the materials' behaviour and the durability of the painted surfaces exposed to light and
water.
337
570 Adolf ROTHENBERG, op.cit., p.346. Rothenberg compares designing the Existenzminimum appartment to arranging a cabin, restaurant-car
or sleeping-car.
Tenement row housing
CONSTRUCTION METHODS AND MATERIALS:
External walls: Kilgus system 569 lined with large Kerament plates
Internal wails: gypsum walls, Pruss walls, Schugk walls
Floors Ackermann floors
Flooring wooden floors, linoleum
Roof: flat, wooden roof frame with a hollow, covered with Rexitekt
DESCRIPTION (as of 1929):
Building No. 9 - In his corner section, adjacent to the tenement row-houses, Emil Lange proposed
small-sized apartments, 4 on each floor, served by one staircase, thus reducing the passageways by
40%). The smaller apartment (45.5 m2) was to accommodate 3 beds, while the larger (62 m2) was to
accommodate 4 beds. The layout provided for the kitchen and bathroom next to each other (reduced
cost of the water and sewage systems) and ensured privacy of the bedroom(s). The kitchens had fitted
cabinets. By employing the split-level arrangement (two apartments per level), adequate ventilation
was ensured. The rooms opened towards the eastern or western side and thus had adequate natural
light. Storage rooms were shared. The building's architectural form was extremely simple: it comprised
of two connected cubic shapes, covered with flat roofs.
Buildings Nos. 10-22: It is a complex of tenement row-houses, containing apartments of similar size,
representing several versions of very simple and economical layouts. Except for the corner sections, the
units were extremely narrow (9 x 6 m and 2 x 7.2 m). The first floor accommodated the "day" zone (with
the kitchen), connected through the terrace to the garden; the bedrooms and bathroom were located
on the second floor. Larger apartments (including one with an atelier) were only in the corner sections.
Striving to reduce construction costs, the architects tried to develop functional solutions while reduc-
ing the apartment's size. In most units the ratio of the building's cubature to its ground floor area aver-
aged 5.3 (only in Building No. 22 it was larger - 6.7). The proposed solutions included fitted cabinets in
the kitchen and the service window connecting the kitchen with the living room, built-in closets, large
glazed doors opening into the garden to make the room appear more spacious.570 On the outside, the
building had a very simple structure covered with a flat roof.
CHANGES TO THE ORIGINAL DESIGN:
Minor changes to the elevations and architectural form: replacement windows, added porches in some
units, enclosed terraces on the garden side in some sections, a storey added in No. 22.
569 'Wohnung und Werkraum.,.', p.95, 97; Adolf ROTHENBERG, op.cit., p.347. System patented by E. M. Kilgus of Wroclaw: wall constructed of two
vertical leaves of slag concrete, in load-bearing areas the hollow block was filled with steel-reinforced concrete. This type of construction was
employed here for the first time in order to test its insulating properties, impact sound transmission in Kilgus walls and floors, the condensation
of water on the walls, the effect of the weather upon the materials' behaviour and the durability of the painted surfaces exposed to light and
water.
337
570 Adolf ROTHENBERG, op.cit., p.346. Rothenberg compares designing the Existenzminimum appartment to arranging a cabin, restaurant-car
or sleeping-car.