House building machine
The house construction machine is a semi-automatic system developed by the German architect Ernst Neufert in 1943 for building houses in mass production .
idea
The house-building machine was a semi-automatic system, which, moving on rails , was supposed to leave behind a five-storey row building of unlimited length cast from concrete . The required concrete was to be delivered in large quantities, transported with hand-operated cable winches to the floor to be built and then introduced into the formwork . After all the floors were created, the machine should move on its rails to create the next house. The house construction machine should be designed in such a way that it can be reassembled at every construction site and dismantled again after the construction work so that it can be transported to the next project.
In this way, the apartments destroyed in the Second World War should be rebuilt as quickly as possible. Neufert's goal was that his house building machine could create 10 apartments per week, regardless of the time of year.
implementation
The design was no longer implemented during the war, but the idea inspired numerous architects in the post-war years to put the design into practice. All attempts failed. For example, there were many deaths in the GDR during the testing phase of a similarly built machine, so that this idea was ultimately rejected completely.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hildegard Schröteler-von Brand: City building and urban planning history . Springer Vieweg , Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-658-02560-1 , p. 213 .
- ↑ a b Die Platte - Industrialized Housing in the GDR . Schiler , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89930-104-8 , pp. 45 .
- ↑ Triumph of Uniformity. In: uni-due.de. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 1994, accessed on January 23, 2015 .