House Gummersbach
The Gummersbach house is a residential building on Deichweg 12 in Langst-Kierst , a district of Meerbusch . It was planned and built in 1967 by Wolfgang Döring for P. Gummersbach.
description
The house is a single-storey flat roof building . The building material was whitewashed brickwork made of sand-lime brick and exposed concrete , the structure is divided into seven bulkheads of equal size , each 2.50 meters wide, in order to achieve "a clear spatial and structural order based on the additive principle". A garage belonging to the house is made using the same technique. The roof consists of U-shaped elements made of exposed concrete, in whose grooves frameless skylights are embedded. The transverse masonry between the bulkheads forms the abutment for the slab and beam ceiling of the concrete roof, which is visible inside and out.
The doors and windows are set in black wooden frames. On the street side there are only firmly cemented glass elements in the cross section of the U-shaped roof elements, otherwise the front on the street side has no windows. On the garden side, the outer wall level is set back and provided with glazed sliding elements that extend to the floor. A studio adjoins the garage, which is also floor-to-ceiling glazed towards the garden. The architect Döring claims that he only used the inner courtyards and the old orchard behind the house as a basis when designing the building.
The garden is surrounded by a floor-to-ceiling limestone wall with a pavilion at the rear end opposite the house. In addition to the studio and the pavilion, there is also a tool shed and an outdoor seating area within the wall, making the facility reminiscent of an atrium . The garden itself was designed among other things from an old stock of fruit trees and rhododendrons .
meaning
Wolfgang Döring states that the locally responsible building officer found the design "extremely ugly" and insisted "at the lowest possible height so that it was" little to see "". Today the building is considered an important testimony to the architecture of the 1960s. By arranging basic elements of the same size, it exemplifies the simplification of building processes through the use of modular systems . The building is typical of the transformation of the previously agricultural parts of Meerbusch into attractive residential areas with a high standard of living.
The building and the garden were placed under monument protection in February 2014 for reasons of architectural, architectural and local history .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang H. Döring: Wolfgang Döring: Architect. Verlag W. König, 1989, ISBN 3-88375-118-9 , p. 20.
- ^ Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste, Düsseldorf 1975, No. 95
- ↑ a b Registration of a monument on Deichweg 12 in Langst-Kierst
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 48.6 " N , 6 ° 42 ′ 56.2" E