Werkbundsiedlung

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Werkbundsiedlung is the generic term for experimental housing estates that are being built on the initiative of various European Werkbunds . In the context of temporary exhibitions of permanent and temporary buildings, current possibilities and developments in the settlement sector are exemplarily presented.

Goal setting and history

Beginning

The Werkbund settlements began in the 1920s. The model settlements were, alongside the trade magazines, the mouthpieces of the new building culture. In addition to the most famous, the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart , others took place in Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Sweden. The organizers were the labor associations of the respective countries.

With the Werkbundsiedlungen, a space for experiments with new technologies was created for international architects. In addition to the industrialization of building through prefabrication and new building techniques, the focus was on new forms of living and forms of social coexistence. In the beginning, this included, for example, apartment houses for single people, self-managed single-family houses or particularly economical floor plans in apartment buildings through standardization and typification. This was accompanied by a new aesthetic language of forms, based on theories and design ideas that were developed in many places at the time.

The forerunners of the Werkbundsiedlungen were the Werkbund exhibitions, which took place in Cologne in 1914 and in Berlin in 1924 and in which the latest developments in design were presented. Such exhibitions were also a separate part of the Werkbundsiedlungen in the following years for the duration of the actual exhibition.

present

After the marriage of the Werkbunds until 1933 and the interruption due to the Second World War, housing and settlement projects were repeatedly initiated in the following decades with the participation of the Werkbund, but these were not referred to as "Werkbundsiedlungen". For the 100th anniversary of the German Werkbund , the Werkbund Bayern initiated the construction of a new Werkbund settlement in Munich, the city where the Werkbund was founded. Based on the urban planning concept of the Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto , the construction of the new Werkbundsiedlung “Wiesenfeld” with around 500 apartments based on designs by twelve international architectural offices was originally supposed to begin in 2007. On October 4, 2007, the architect's concept was rejected by the Munich City Council and will no longer be pursued.

The structural, social, creative and economic guidelines were expanded to include aspects of environmentally friendly construction and green planning.

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