Studio House79
The Atelierhaus79 has been an artist and studio house at Wilhelminenhofstrasse 83-85 in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, which has been in existence since 2007 . It was named Building No. 79 Part of the former Oberspree cable works (KWO).
The House
The Atelierhaus79 is located in the area of the former AEG transformer works Oberspree (AEG-TRO, until 1945) or the state- owned transformer works Oberspree (until 1990) and today's culture and technology center in Rathenau-Hallen . It has the yellow clinker facade typical of the entire KWO system (so-called Schöneweider clinker). In 2007, the building was converted to its current state by the architects ARCHPLAN Joachim Hoffmann and the independent architect Hildegard Erhard. It comprises a total of 36 studio rooms that are used purely as work studios as well as living studios or offices.
history
The studio house was designed by Paul Tropp in 1899 for Deutsche Niles Werke AG , licensee of the US Niles Tool Works Company from Hamilton (Ohio) , and completed in 1901. After the Niles licenses had expired, the Maschinenfabrik Oberschöneweide AG (MOAG) founded in 1915 used the building. AEG bought the property in 1920 and set up the works canteen, a sanitary wing and construction offices on the upper floor for their transformer factory. a. Three-phase transformers for substations built.
The house is part of the former AEG cable and transformer works, located over a stretch of almost two kilometers on the Spree, which represent one of the great industrial monuments of Berlin and are considered the largest industrial monument in Europe. In the 1890s, AEG founder Emil Rathenau had the buildings soon to be known as "Elektropolis" built in Oberschöneweide, which was then an independent company. In addition to Paul Tropp, the architects Franz Schwechten , Peter Behrens and Ernst Ziesel were involved.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the VEB Transformatorenwerk was closed in 1990, followed by the cable factory in 1996. An Irish family company has taken over the area where, among other things, the Karl Hofer Society and the Wilhelminenhof campus of the Berlin University of Applied Sciences are housed today.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ N , 13 ° 31 ′ 3 ″ E