Falowiec

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Falowiec in Gdansk

As Falowiec is called a plate type , which in Gdansk was implemented eight times. These are very elongated houses with a wave-shaped floor plan . The name is derived from fala , the Polish word for wave.

History and architecture

The buildings were constructed in the late 1960s and 1970s as part of a major construction program to address the growing housing shortage in Poland. A total of seven of these buildings were built in the Przymorze district of Gdańsk and one in Nowy Port (Neufahrwasser).

A special architectural feature is that all apartments are not entered from the stairwell, but via arcades that also contain the kitchen windows. The arcades were originally fully accessible, but were later equipped with additional doors or walled up for safety reasons. Every staircase has a passenger elevator , every second stairwell has an additional, larger freight elevator .

The longest Falowiec is located in the Przymorze satellite settlement on Obrońców Wybrzeża Street . It was built from 1970 to 1973 according to plans by Tadeusz Różański , Danuta Olędzka and Janusz Morek . With eleven floors, it is around 30 meters high and consists of four segments with four staircases each for around 110 apartments. It was designed for 6,000 residents. The individual sections form angles of around 165 ° with one another. The entire floor plan is arched. The apartments have an average size of 40 m², opposing room walls are not always parallel, and the balconies are trapezoidal. The original facade made of bare concrete was clad with colored thermal insulation panels after 1989 . With a length of 850 meters, the building is the third longest residential building in Europe after Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna (1,100 meters) and Corviale in Rome (980 meters).

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Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  N , 18 ° 35 ′ 48 ″  E