Student dormitories on St. Petersburger Strasse
The student dormitories complex on St. Petersburger Strasse (Christianstrasse, later Leningrader Strasse) in Dresden consists of three high-rise buildings, St. Petersburger Strasse 21, 25 and 29 in Seevorstadt . Erected from 1960 to 1963 as the first large-panel buildings in the city using pure concrete, they are now a listed building . It was renovated and modernized in 2001.
description
The architects Heinrich Rettig , Manfred Gruber and Rolf Ermisch designed the residence complex as a three-tier complex with ten floors. On the roof terraces there were club rooms enclosed by a flat roof. The buildings consist of industrially prefabricated concrete slabs that were assembled on site. While the corner of house No. 29 is directly adjacent to the footpath, the other two are visibly set back from the street. With the renovation of the houses in 2001, the rooms of the student club Aquarium at St. Petersburger Straße 21 were relocated from the roof of the house to the basement, as an external staircase as a second escape route could not be installed for reasons of monument protection. Today there are attic apartments in the former club rooms.
Urban planning background
The reconstruction of the Dresden city center took place during the late 1950s with uniform, six-story apartment blocks in brick construction with traditional pointed roofs, as can also be found in the immediate vicinity of the dormitories. With the introduction of industrially prefabricated concrete slabs, which only had to be assembled on site, buildings could be erected faster, cheaper and more efficiently. After the first industrial construction methods with brick rubble slabs were tried out on Borsbergstrasse from 1957 to 1958 , residential construction broke away from the traditional, sloping roofs, which were considered to be historically outdated at the time.
In addition, the city planners were able to deal lavishly and generously with the inner city space. The extensive arrangement of the three student dormitories along the expressway should be seen “from the accelerated car perspective as a rhythmic sequence” and at the same time as symbols for “acceleration, progress and dynamism”. This is expressed in contemporary photographs from the time of creation, which show the high-rise buildings in connection with the expressway.
Design of the outdoor area
"Differentiating green areas" were created between the open spaces of the houses. The larger than life bronze sculpture Two Women by Wieland Förster from 1963 adorns the east side of high-rise No. 25. The “gable design [of the high-rise] with light architecture” was also emphasized.
Redevelopment
In 2001 the Ulf Zimmermann architectural group renovated the building. The renovation was awarded the “Builders Prize 2001” of the “High Quality - Affordable Costs” campaign and the “ Erlwein Prize of the City of Dresden”.
Oddities
The student club in the house at St. Petersburger Strasse 21 called "Aquarium" was flooded to the ceiling with water from the Weißeritz during the floods in summer 2002 .
literature
- Ingeborg flag: Dresden, city guide of contemporary architecture . The example, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935243-48-0 .
- Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
Web links
- Entry in Das Neue Dresden
- Information from the Studentenwerk about the dormitory St. Petersburger Straße 21, 25, 29 in Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c http://www.das-neue-dresden.de/studentenwohnheime.html
- ^ Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.
- ↑ May et al., No. 63 (student residence of the TU Dresden, Leningrader Str. 21-25).
- ↑ Flag, p. 37 (Studentenwohnheime Petersburger Straße 2001)
- ↑ Club Aquarium: About us
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 20.5 ″ E