Dodecagon house
The Zwölfeckhaus was an experimental building in the GDR and was developed by the architect Manfred Zumpe as a new "point-to-point residential series for the Dresden area" in order to test new building types with effectively usable floor plans and structural design options. The first dodecagon house was built in the 1970s in Ottendorf-Okrilla near Dresden in Saxony .
architecture
The Zwölfeckhaus is an "experimental building in industrial monolith construction ", built from prefabricated parts using the large panel shuttering method and wall elements made on site. The building has a symmetrical footprint of around 880 square meters. Characteristic features are the eponymous twelve outside corners and the triangular and square loggias . The five-storey buildings have a central staircase and offer space for around 50 one to five-room apartments.
The architect Manfred Zumpe began planning in the early 1970s, initially without a government mandate. His goal was to develop a new type of living concept away from the typical prefabricated buildings for the Dresden area. An important aspect of the new building type was the lowering of the construction costs compared to other prefabricated buildings like the housing series 70 , one of the "classic" series of the GDR. In the case of the Zwölfeckhaus, for example, over 40 percent of the reinforcing steel required for a comparable WBS-70 building could be saved. The council of the then Dresden-Land district became aware of the draft and took over the construction management from 1975. One advantage of building floor plan was the possibility of flexible arrangement of different apartment sizes, resulting in a wide social diversification led the residents. The location of the triangular loggias in the inner corners of the house meant that they were not visible from other apartments. The GDR housing program saw the Zwölfeckhaus as a competition to the usual prefabricated buildings. A further development of the concept was prevented.
Dodecagon houses with up to 30 floors were described as technically feasible, but the five-floor buildings were still erected. Zumpe's ideas for larger dodecagon houses for the Neu-Gorbitz housing estate in Dresden were not implemented either.
Locations
A total of seven dodecagon houses were built in the following towns and communities in Rödertal:
| place | image | number | Construction year | Remarks |
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Ottendorf-Okrilla ( location ) |
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1 building | 1977 | This building was the first completed dodecagon house. A special feature of this building are the balconies on the "front sides", which each have an additional corner in the parapet . |
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Arnsdorf ( location ) |
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3 buildings | 1978-1980 | In the 1980s, the houses were provided with roof gardens. A renovation took place in 1999. The buildings are arranged side by side in a line. |
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Radeberg ( location ) |
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3 buildings | 1983 | One building was extensively renovated in 2011. The building ensemble is arranged in a triangular shape. |
Annotation:
- ↑ The year of completion is given.
Others
- The apartments on the top floors were generally the least popular, as the balconies were less protected from the sun and rain than the ones below due to the lack of a roof. In the meantime (as of 2013) the balconies on the fifth floor of the three buildings in Arnsdorf and two Radeberger houses have been roofed.
- The three dodecagon houses in Arnsdorf were given the nicknames Working House (the residents took care of the green spaces around the houses), Celebrating House and Special House .
- Some scenes of the crime film "Dream of Forgetting" from the series Polizeiruf 110 from 1985 were shot in one of the Radeberg dodecagon houses.
- The town council of Ottendorf-Okrilla has been awarding the town's newborns a medal made of fine silver since 2012, with the stylized dodecagon house on the back next to the town hall and the church tower.
- The architect of the Zwölfeckhaus, Manfred Zumpe, who was born in Dresden in 1930, was part of the design department of the Berlin Housing Combine. In the 1960s and 1970s, for example, high-rise residential buildings were built on Fischerinsel and on the street of the Paris Commune in Berlin, as well as the Windmühle high-rise building ( Hackescher Markt ), also in Berlin, based on drafts he (co) designed .
- As early as 1970 to 1972, the winter garden tower was built in a similar form in Leipzig , and Manfred Zumpe was also involved in the design. It has a sixteen-sided floor plan and has three triangular loggias on each of the four diagonal sides, the parapets of which run in a continuous line. This creates the impression of an only octagonal building.
- Other buildings with a twelve-sided floor plan were and are sometimes referred to by the regional press as twelve-sided houses, for example a commercial building built in 2001 in Rehlingen in Saarland or the nine individual buildings in a retirement home in Herdorf in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald) in Rhineland-Palatinate, which was inaugurated in 2005 . Both examples are not dodecagonal houses in the sense of Manfred Zumpe, but merely have a dodecagonal floor plan.
Web links
- Photos of a model apartment in the Zwölfeckhaus Ottendorf-Okrilla. Twelve pictures by Friedrich Weimer in the archive of the Deutsche Fotothek .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dresden: First Zwölfeckhaus In: Neues Deutschland , Ed. 27./28. November 1976, p. 13.
- ^ Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architekturführer DDR . Dresden district. 2nd Edition. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1981, p. 84 .
- ↑ Zwölfeckhaus residential series . In: Construction planning and construction technology . tape 27 . Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1973.
- ↑ a b c Matthias Weigel, Iris Hellmann: My house, that has twelve corners. Dodecagon houses in the Rödertal . In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition October 14, 2006, p. 15.
- ^ Günter Kramer: New dodecagon house with loggias and gardens. In: Berliner Zeitung , edition April 13, 1977, p. 2.
- ↑ a b c Timeline of the Arnsdorf housing association. Retrieved October 16, 2013 .
- ^ A b c Sylvia Gebauer: HauSZ visits in Rödertal: The first tenants of the twelve-corner house . In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition November 24, 2011, p. 16.
- ^ History of the Radeberg housing cooperative. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Annual review 2011 of the Radeberg housing association. (PDF; 1.6 MB) Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Jens Fritzsche: Broken leg in the hospital . In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition 31 August 2013, p. 16.
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Ottendorf Okrilla municipality, February 2012 edition. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 24, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Manfred Zumpe; Entry in the artist database. Institute for Foreign Relations , accessed on October 17, 2013 .
- ↑ A unique piece of architecture . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , edition September 18, 2001.
- ↑ The foundation stone has been laid. Nursing home in Herdorf as a “village within a village” . In: Rhein-Zeitung , edition July 24, 2004.
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