Collective house
The collective house ( Swedish collective house ) was a residential project opened between 1932 and 1935 in Stockholm based on the plans of the architect Sven Markelius in collaboration with the politician and later Nobel Peace Prize laureate Alva Myrdal .
In the collective house, the ideas of “modern” life developed in the 1930s should be implemented in a functioning Folkhemmet . The collective house, designed as a single- kitchen house, took on functions such as childcare , washing and cleaning. A central kitchen and a restaurant should make cooking in your own kitchen superfluous. The idea was that all adult residents of productive employment was made possible. Characteristics such as a sense of duty and strength of character were required of the residents. Sven Markelius himself lived from 1938 to 1945 in the collective house he designed , John Ericssonsgatan .
The attempt with collective houses, of which only a few were built, was by and large successful. The YK-Haus , designed in 1939 by the architects Albin Stark and Hillevi Svedberg , still has a restaurant on the ground floor, from which the residents of the house can order meals using a specially designed elevator into the apartment.
The collective house, John Ericssonsgatan , was restored between 1988-1992, but the collective idea was no longer carried out. The building is now a listed building .
literature
- Staffan Lamm, Thomas Steinfeld: The collective house: utopia and reality of a living experiment. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-043924-6 .
- Eva Rudberg: Sven Markelius, architect. Arkitektur Förlag, Stockholm 1989, ISBN 91-86050-22-2 .
