Superjednostka

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Superjednostka
Superjednostka
Superjednostka from the east
Basic data
Place: Katowice
Construction time : 1967-1972
Status : in use
Architect : Mieczysław Król
Technical specifications
Height : 61 m
Height to the top: 61 m
Height to the roof: 58 m
Floors : 15th
Elevators : 12
Usable area : 37,349 m²
Enclosed space : 150,000 m³

Superjednostka ( Polish , "super unit") is one of the largest residential buildings in Poland . It is in Katowice , Silesian Voivodeship at Aleja Wojciecha Korfantego 16–32. The architecture of the building, designed by Mieczysław Król and built between 1967 and 1972, is based on Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation . The building has the status of an independent settlement.

The block of flats was planned as an architectural counterweight to the circular multi-purpose hall Spodek ("Saucer") located to the northwest, on the other side of the large roundabout ( rondo Ziętka ) , which had been under construction since 1964. With an area of ​​9,817 m² and a length of 187 m, it contains 762 apartments, 17 shops and 175 underground parking spaces. There are nine entrances, three of which are main entrances. About 1300 people live in the building. The small apartments with windowless kitchens were intended for childless couples and single people.

The facade of the building was repaired from April 2009 to summer 2010.

  • Superjednostka

  • Superjednostka with the art gallery (Galeria Rondo Sztuki) in the foreground

  • Superjednostka and Spodek in the background

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description and photos (Polish)
  2. ↑ Tomasz Malkowski: Superjednostka - katowicka maszyna do mieszkania ( Memento from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), gazeta.katowice.pl (Polish)
  3. ↑ Filip Springer: head births. Architectural reports from the People's Republic of Poland. Dom Publishers, Berlin 2015, p. 155
  4. ^ Iwona Sobczyk: Katowicki gigant wreszcie wypiękniał , wyborcza.pl, January 28, 2011 (Polish, accessed February 19, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Superjednostka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '48.7 "  N , 19 ° 1' 13.9"  E