Stuttgart roof
The Stuttgart roof is a roof shape that consists of a low truncated pyramid and is crowned by a sheet metal platform.
description
The Stuttgart roof consists of one or three sloping roof surfaces and a tin flat roof, which is not visible from the street, so that a saddle roof or a hipped roof is simulated. The walls behind the sloping roof surfaces are designed as sloping roofs, the other walls are built vertically.
purpose
The Stuttgart roof appeared in the last quarter of the 19th century. It served to save costs and to circumvent building regulations. The proverbial Swabian economy led to the fact that part of the elaborate roof construction was dispensed with on the Stuttgart roof due to the sheet metal platform, as well as the back of the building and the side sides were left unplastered for reasons of cost, in contrast to the representative visible facades.
The Stuttgart roof made it possible to circumvent the building regulations regarding the limitation of the building height, so that a complete apartment could be furnished in the attic and the courtyard side could be increased by one floor. As a result, the houses have four floors towards the street and five floors at the rear.
criticism
- After moving to Stuttgart, the architect Theodor Fischer studied the existing building stock intensively. In 1903 he presented his observations in a lecture to a select Stuttgart audience, including About the Stuttgart Roof:
- “One thing in particular struck everyone immediately: the ugliness of the roofs. This is actually a phenomenon, doubly sensitive, as one often has the opportunity here to have to look down at the houses. And now you can hardly see a healthy, fully grown roof outside the older city. Tin platforms in the most monstrous forms, among which one in particular shines out, equipped with every conceivable unsightliness like that image of the faulty horse. This is a low truncated pyramid shape, the street side of which is dragged down to the next floor, so that the architectural lie arises that one believes to have a house with four floors opposite the street when it actually has five floors. Now who is the one who has been deceived? ! Verily! People who bring such freaks into the world year after year should be made more difficult to reach a marriage consensus with architecture. "
- Annette Schmidt, the biographer of the Stuttgart architect Ludwig Eisenlohr , wrote in 2006 about the Stuttgart roof:
- “In Stuttgart, a particularly economical form of apartment house roofs soon developed: the so-called Stuttgart roof. ... The Stuttgart roof should give the impression of a tent or gable roof towards the street. In fact, however, it bent halfway up and was carried on through a cheap, flattened tin roof. In this way, an additional storey was gained in the tenement houses that was invisible to the street and, like the other floors, was equipped with verandas and kitchen balconies from the courtyard. "
See also
literature
- Theodor Fischer: Urban expansion issues with special consideration for Stuttgart. A lecture by Theodor Fischer on May 27, 1903. With 32 illustrations. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1903, pdf .
- Annette Schmidt: Ludwig Eisenlohr. An architectural path from historicism to modernity. Stuttgart architecture around 1900. Stuttgart: Hohenheim-Verlag, 2006.
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Footnotes
- ↑ # Fischer 1903 , page 29.
- ↑ # Fischer 1903 , page 31.
- ↑ Site building statute for the city of Stuttgart 1874, § 29.
- ↑ # Fischer 1903 , pp. 28-29.
- ↑ #Schmidt 2006 , page 125th