As part of an inner-city densification, a development of seven Houses with 50 apartments.
The buildings are based on the existing small-scale structures of the neighbourhood in terms of grain and materiality and form the new end of a porous city block. Closed, lightly sludged clinker brick facades characterise the densely packed structure. To the south, the buildings open up to the wooden balconies presented.
The clinker brick façades tie in with the surrounding surfaces of the residential buildings, walls and old industrial buildings, such as the nearby Opel old plant. The district between the railway tracks and Verna Park is characterized by small individual houses that were built around 1900 for Opel employees in a dense structure of small city blocks. These buildings are still preserved today, some of them in unplastered brick. The farm-side stable and barn buildings of the Hofreiten with their Wooden gates and wooden galleries form the model for the wooden construction of the southern balconies. The historic clinker bricks in the area are characterised by a pale, partly greenish tone that is no longer available in this form.
In order to embed the facades in the surroundings, a red brick was refined with coal firing and a light-coloured burnt-in slurry. The custom-made clinker bricks were broken into brick slips by hand and applied to the facades in a mortar bed.
Text: Baur & Latsch Architekten
Photos: Sebastian Schels, Christian Latsch
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