Arcade houses Dessau-Törten
The Dessau-Törten arcade houses are five listed residential buildings in the Törten district of the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt . They were built in 1930 by the architect and director of the Bauhaus, Hannes Meyer, for the Dessau savings and construction cooperative . Since 2017 they have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage as Bauhaus-style buildings ; so called as Bauhaus sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
Emergence
In 1928 the city of Dessau commissioned Hannes Meyer as the new director of the Bauhaus Dessau to expand the Dessau-Törten estate . It was built by his predecessor Walter Gropius and his private construction office between 1926 and 1928 in three construction phases with 314 terraced houses. The expansion of the settlement was the first joint task of the Bauhaus construction department under Hannes Meyer. The draft presented included a mixed development with multi-storey arcade houses and single-family houses. Meyer intended through these urban planning measures to mix different classes of the population, such as "petty bourgeoisie in single-family houses with allotment gardens" and "proletarians in three-storey arcade houses". Of the extensive expansion plans, only five three-storey arcade houses were actually implemented. Twelve Bauhaus students were involved in the design, including Konrad Püschel and Philipp Tolziner who would later be site managers.
description
The five arcade houses, each with 18 small apartments and a total of 90 residential units, are in Peterholzstrasse with three buildings and two buildings in the middle. They show the eponymous, external arcade , which connects the apartment entrances with a free-standing stair tower. While the arcade faces north, the living rooms face the south. Each arcade house has a garden courtyard with a children's playground and a communal wash house.
The buildings were made of exposed brick, steel windows and visible lintels made of reinforced concrete beams, which emphasizes the materiality. The architectural concept was a departure from the classic Bauhaus style with white cubes and ribbon windows that Walter Gropius had previously implemented in the estate.
According to Hannes Meyer's motto, “People's needs instead of luxury needs”, the living space was tightly measured at 48 m². These are efficiently divided three-room apartments with modern equipment for the time, with central heating, kitchen, bathroom and toilet. The furniture designed by the Bauhaus for the people's apartment should contribute to saving space . The apartments were intended for families of up to four. They were rented cheaply.
Today (2019) the 90 apartments in the five portico houses are inhabited by around 100 people. After the renovation of the building from 1996 to 1998, an apartment can be viewed in its original state on guided tours.
literature
- Magdalena Droste: Extension of the Törten housing estate in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 308–310
Web links
- Arcade houses Dessau-Törten at bauhaus100.de
- Arcade houses in grandtourdermoderne.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Astrid Volpert: A name that has disappeared returns
- ↑ Arcade houses. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
- ↑ We are proud of what is special about the Dessau eG housing cooperative
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 3.7 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 32.4" E