House Mayer-Kuckuk

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House Mayer-Kuckuk, garden side (2011)

The Mayer-Kuckuk house (also erroneously spelled cuckoo in the literature ) in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , is a single-family house built in 1967 and viewed as a paradigmatic in German architectural history in the 20th century System construction . It was created according to a design by the architect Wolfgang Döring ; The builder was the atomic physicist Theo Mayer-Kuckuk . The house is the youngest monument of the city under monument protection .

location

The house is located at the southern end of Böckingstrasse, a cul-de-sac , below the Rommersdorf district in the north of Bad Honnef town center. South of the house is the site of the former Haus Nazareth monastery.

history

The building area of ​​the house, previously used as an orchard , was a 650 m² leasehold property of the Elly-Hölterhoff-Böcking Foundation of the University of Bonn and was left to the client, who worked there as a professor of theoretical physics, for development. The planning began in 1965. 80,000 DM were available for the construction of the house . The architect was given specifications about the function and number of rooms, which, together with the tight budget, led to considerations about the use of new materials and production methods. The architect wanted to create an example of how the house of the future could be manufactured industrially as a consumer article with new spatial structures. In 1977 Döring said: “I wasn't really interested in the appearance of this house.” After the concrete foundations had been completed, the assembly of the prefabricated structural elements only took five days.

The house remained the only one in a series of prefabricated buildings planned by the architect. In the early 1990s, an application to place the house under monument protection failed due to resistance from the city of Bad Honnef. 2007, it was finally in the monument list entered the city. The LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland described it as a “prototypical realization of progressive architectural ideas from a time that believes in progress, an architectural and social historical testimony to the 1960s.” From spring 2014 to autumn 2015 the house was renovated, the entire framework was replaced and the constructive wood protection optimized. The construction project was made possible thanks to financial support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

For the renovation of the house, the owners received the Rheinisch-Westphalian State Prize for Monument Preservation 2016.

architecture

Concrete cuboid

The Mayer-Kuckuk house is a prefabricated house with a supporting structure made of glued wood beams stiffened with triangular wooden discs. The vertical glued beams are anchored with thin steel pins in the concrete foundations, which consist of 16 concrete blocks. The placement of the static components outside the structure is remarkable . In addition to the supporting structure, the second system element is serially produced floor and wall elements that already contain the furnishings.

The main living space covers a large part of the floor space , about half of which is two-story. The upper floor is reached in the open living room via a spiral staircase and a working gallery. A narrow corridor takes up the other living rooms.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ House Mayer-Kuckuk - A house monograph - The concept
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef, number A 280
  3. ^ House Mayer-Kuckuk - A House Monograph - Introduction
  4. ^ House Mayer-Kuckuk in Bad Honnef: German Foundation for Monument Protection supports renovation , General-Anzeiger , 23 January 2014
  5. ^ Rhenish-Westphalian State Prize for Monument Preservation goes to Bad Honnef , press release by the Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport , December 16, 2016
  6. ^ State Prize for the Preservation of Monuments for the Mayer-Kuckuk House , General-Anzeiger , December 20, 2016

Web links

Commons : Haus Mayer-Kuckuk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wolfgang Pehnt : New German Architecture 3 . Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-7757-0001-3 , p. 54-55 .
  • Heinrich Klotz : Architecture in the Federal Republic . Talks with six architects. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1970, ISBN 3-550-07475-1 , pp. 65-104 (conversation with architect Wolfgang Döring with a detailed discussion of the Mayer-Kuckuk house. With photographs from the construction phase.).

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 6.3 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 18.3 ″  E