Oscar Niemeyer House

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Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus,
view of the west facade, around 1958

The Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus is a high-rise apartment building with eight floors and 78 apartments on Altonaer Strasse in Berlin's Hansaviertel . It was designed by Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (Oscar Niemeyer) on the occasion of the first International Building Exhibition (IBA 1957).

General

The Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus is one of the 35 objects realized by the IBA in 1957 . The architects involved were exclusively representatives of the New Building direction, including Alvar Aalto , Egon Eiermann , Walter Gropius , Arne Jacobsen , Wassili Luckhardt , Max Taut and Le Corbusier and others. a.

Based almost exclusively on concrete as a building material, the Oscar-Niemeyer-Haus is 70 meters long, 14 meters wide and 27 meters high. About seven meters behind the building there is a triangular elevator tower for two elevators , but they only stop on the 5th and 7th floors. You can take the elevator or the stairwell to the 5th floor, which is also intended as a communal floor. The drying floor is on the top floor.

history

Layout

After the competition was completed in 1953, the architects were commissioned with the further planning. They also included the representative architects in Germany Franz-Heinrich Sobotka and Gustav Müller, who were commissioned at the beginning of 1955 to prepare building application drawings based on Niemeyer's design. After the plans were examined by the building authorities, the then Senator for Building and Housing, Rolf Schwedler , let it be known that the Niemeyers design could not be implemented because it did not meet the guidelines for housing construction. On August 1, 1955, Senator Schwedler wrote to Niemeyer: “The design has peculiarities that make it impossible to implement it in the context of social housing ”. In the spring of 1955, Niemeyer was to be invited to Berlin to clarify how to proceed. According to a profitability calculation from June 27, 1956, the building costs of the house were estimated at three million marks (adjusted for inflation in today's currency: around 7,457,000 euros). The building application was submitted on August 21.

Construction began on July 28, 1956, initially with three different proposals for implementation, the earthworks began in August 1956 and the shell was accepted on May 23, 1957. In June 1957 the final building inspection came. The entry in the land register took place on January 17, 1964 .

In 2002 the building became part of the insolvency estate of Philipp Holzmann AG , and from 2003 it was divided into 78 condominiums and gradually sold. The building was entered in the list of monuments under the number 09050387, T, 003 in 1995 as part of the entire Hansaviertel complex .

  • View of the north facade

  • View of the south facade

  • Elevator tower

literature

  • Ulrike Eichhorn : Oscar Niemeyer in Berlin Edition Eichhorn, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-8442-6954-3 .
  • Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper: The Hansaviertel. International Post-War Modernism in Berlin Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-345-00639-1 .
  • Interbau Berlin 1957. Official catalog of the International Building Exhibition Berlin 1957. Ed. d. International Building Exhibition Berlin GmbH. Berlin-Charlottenburg 1957.

Web links

Commons : Oscar Niemeyer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Eichhorn: Oscar Niemeyer in Berlin Edition Eichhorn, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-8442-6954-3 .
  2. ↑ Maike Wetzel: Monolith at the Tiergarten. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Ulrike Eichhorn: Oscar Niemeyer in Berlin Edition Eichhorn, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-8442-6954-3 .
  4. ↑ Monuments in Berlin: Buildings of "Interbau 57" and Hansaviertel , Monument Database / Senate Department for Urban Development Berlin

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '4 "  N , 13 ° 20' 39"  E