Corbusierhaus

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The Corbusierhaus ( Unité d'Habitation ) Berlin

The Corbusierhaus (even Le Corbusier house, Corbusierhaus Berlin or machine for living ) is based on plans by architect Le Corbusier built high-rise building in Berlin's district Westend the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf .

history

The Corbusierhaus Berlin, partial view

The building, actually known as Unité d'Habitation , type Berlin ( French: 'Wohneinheit, Typ Berlin') belongs to the “Unité d'Habitation” high-rise type developed by Le Corbusier. It was designed for the International Building Exhibition of 1957 ( Interbau ) and was originally to be built in the Hansaviertel . The design of the Hansaviertel is seen as a reaction from West Berlin to the architecture in East Berlin , especially to the buildings there around Karl-Marx-Allee. These new buildings in the eastern part of Berlin were to be countered with the designs of Interbau and thus also with the Corbusierhaus. Due to the planned size of the building, however, it was ultimately not built in the Hansaviertel. Berlin provided urban land between the Berlin Olympic Stadium and Heerstrasse , the so-called "Heilsberger Dreieck", between Heilsberger Allee, today's Flatowallee and the S-Bahn route . The building was erected between 1956 and 1958 on a slight hill overlooking the surrounding area. It now includes 530 apartments on 17 floors, which are accessed via ten “streets”. Because of the regulations of the German building code and for social housing , the implementation of the building shows strong deviations from the original design. The room height is 2.50 meters instead of the 2.26 meters provided by Corbusier's Modulor proportion scheme . Likewise, the columns that are distinctive for this type of house are not three-dimensional and sculptural, but rather designed as simple panes. Le Corbusier accepted the deviations in 1957, but a year later the architect distanced himself from the construction. The Corbusierhaus has been a listed building since 1996 . Since the renaming of Reichssportfeldstrasse in 1997, the address has been Flatowallee 16.

literature

  • Frithjof Müller-Reppen: Le Corbusier's "Typ Berlin" residential unit , facsimile of the original edition from 1958 with an updated appendix, WEG Corbusier-Haus / Förderverein Corbusierhaus Berlin e. V. (Ed.), JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-005-0
  • Bärbel Högner : "Typ Berlin" The Corbusierhaus in Charlottenburg , JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-004-3
  • The Berlin Book , ed. by Heinz Ohff and Rainer Höyinck, Stapp Verlag, Berlin, 1987; Pages 190, 206/207, ISBN 3-8777-6231-X

Web links

Commons : Corbusierhaus, Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tänzler, Jade-Yasmin (2007): Instructions for use for Corbusier's living machine: State monument office hands over maintenance plan. In: Berliner Zeitung of March 15, 2007, p. 20
  2. ↑ Without author (2012): Berlin shows East and West in one city: Karl-Marx-Allee and Hansaviertel at the start. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 7, 2012, p. 26
  3. ^ Unité d'Habitation - Corbusier Bürgererverein Hansaviertel.
  4. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler Berlin , Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006, p. 246
  5. ↑ Without author (2007): The Hansaviertel and 50 years of Interbau. In: Berliner Zeitung , May 15, 2007, p. 27
  6. ↑ Tänzler, Jade-Yasmin (2007): Instructions for use for Corbusier's living machine: State monument office hands over maintenance plan. In: Berliner Zeitung of March 15, 2007, p. 20

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 37.4 ″  E