As part of an inner-city densification, a development of seven Houses with 50 apartments.
In terms of grain size and materiality, the buildings are based on the existing small-scale structures of the neighbourhood and form the new end of a porous city block. Closed, light-coloured clinker brick facades characterise the densely packed structure. To the south, the buildings open up to the wooden balconies presented above.
The clinker brick facades tie in with the surrounding surfaces of the residential buildings, walls and old industrial buildings, such as the nearby Opel old plant. The quarter between the railway tracks and Verna Park is characterised by small individual houses that were built around 1900 for Opel employees in a dense structure of small town blocks. These buildings are still preserved today, partly in unplastered brick. The courtyard-facing 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 of the area are characterized by a pale, partly greenish tone, which is no longer available in this way.
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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