E 7, 7 Mannheim
E 7, 7 Mannheim is the address of the listed business and residential building "House and Studio Mutschler" in square E 7 of Mannheim city center.
History of development and description of the building
The Mannheim architect Carlfried Mutschler built his studio, commercial and residential building in a vacant lot on the vault that remained in the basement. In the immediate vicinity, some Wilhelminian-style buildings survived the nights of bombing more or less intact. The Eiermann student designed a modern architecture which, despite its radical difference, took over the delicacy of the neighboring buildings and blended in.
The shop front on the ground floor and the studio on the first floor are fully glazed without a frame. The three residential floors above take over the building material clinker from the neighborhood. The masonry is walled up in the Tannenberg Monument Association , which Mutschler used in all of his clinker buildings. Extremely slim exposed concrete parts with a yellowish shimmer and rough-sawn board formwork refer to the sandstone elements of the neighboring facades . The concrete parapet on the studio floor was vertically structured by the painter and sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek . A design relationship with the balcony parapets of the neighboring buildings is intended.
The three residential floors are combined above the floor-to-ceiling windows with flower trough elements in front. An extremely slim concrete stele that extends over all three floors brings together the three residential floors. Slender vertical window slots serve as linear dividing elements. The residential floors together form exactly one square . The rules of the golden section can be found in the entire facade design.
The top floor, where Carlfried Mutschler lived with his wife Isolde, differs in the kitchen area from the otherwise identical facades below. This disruption of uniformity emphasizes the attic. Mutschler used the stylistic device of disrupting uniformity in all of his buildings and described it as “dropping a stitch”, a term from the field of knitting .
The top floor apartment is connected to the roof via a concrete spiral staircase attached to the outside . On the courtyard side, it emphasizes the top floor. An idyll with green roofs was created on this roof terrace in the middle of the city center.
Inside, all doors with a top panel are room-high. The windows each span two rooms, with the inner wall connection being glazed. As a result, the lighting is also successful over the respective neighboring room. The interior glazing allows the rooms to flow into one another, making them appear much larger than they are. Inside, too, clinker walls appear, which work together creatively with wooden cladding in a similar color.
The successor architecture office of Prof. Mutschler, Ludwig Schwöbel and Partner continued to work in the studio rooms in E 7, 7. The corner building E 7, 5 was built in 1987 by Carlfried Mutschler and his partners Joachim Langner and Dieter Wessa in the same architectural language . The builders here were Carlfried Mutschler with his wife Isolde, and the married couple Bramertz and Pfeifer. It was recognized by the BDA with the Good Buildings Award.
Monument protection
This exemplary gap closure is now a listed building . Due to its exemplary design, it is an important example in the history of architecture for the integration of modern architecture into a historical ensemble and is often the destination of architectural excursions.
literature
- Mannheim and its buildings 1907–2007 . Volume 3 Edition Quadrat, pages 12, 42
- Andreas Schenk: Architectural Guide Mannheim . Dietrich Reimer Verlag
Web links
- Mutschler residential and studio building near the city of Mannheim
- Carlfried Mutscheler: Project 032 - E 7, 7 in Mannheim , Foundation of German Architects
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '25.8 " N , 8 ° 27' 39.9" E