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Start | Bauwerke | Altonaer Straße 4–14 Oscar Niemeyer
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Altonaer Straße 4–14
Oscar Niemeyer

Slab high-rises
East facade with elevator towe Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Horst Siegmannr
East facade with elevator tower Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Wolfgang Krüger
Normal storey with triangular elevator tower Landesarchiv Berlin, Amtlicher Katalog der Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin 1957
Explanation board in front of the shell of the building Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Foto: Willy Pragher
Facade shortly after completion Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Horst Siegmann

This striking building rests on seven double supports that allow views of the surrounding green and access to the six building entrances. Niemeyer, who was influenced by Le Corbusier’s ideas of “modern living”, created a design with generous floor plans, loggias, and light-filled spaces. Niemeyer’s original design had to be altered in order to meet the Berlin government’s requirements for social housing. The communal area planned for the fifth floor was abandoned in favor of six 3-room apartments along a narrow corridor (recognizable on the western side of the building by the row of windows). Niemeyer created a building with several apartments that cut through the building from east to west. This means that the apartments cannot be reached by long corridors, but rather via six interior stairwells and the elevator tower. For reasons of stability, the building has a top floor with a roof of reinforced concrete as a “lid”; this floor only receives daylight through narrow slits.

Building
  • Seven-storey slab high-rise on seven double supports
  • Length 70 m, width 15 m, height 27 m
  • Ground floor 2.2 meters above ground
  • 78 apartments between 38 and 91 sqm
  • Tower accessible via ramp with two elevators that stop on the fifth and eighth floors
  • Apartments cut through the building from the east to west side
  • Six entrances on the open ground floor
Construction
  • Reinforced concrete cross wall construction, cast on site, with open façades behind loggias (western side) and continuous strips of windows (eastern side)
  • Closed top floor to stabilize the building
Bartningallee 2–4
Egon Eiermann
Altonaer Straße 3–9
Schwedenhaus
Fritz Jaenecke – Sten Samuelson

Oscar Niemeyer

(Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho) * 1907 in Rio de Janeiro † 2012 in Rio de Janeiro

  • studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro; graduated in 1934
  • from 1934 worked in the office of the Brazilian city planner Lùcio Costa
  • from 1945 member of the Communist Party of Brazil
  • 1947–1953 representative of Le Corbusier on the planning committee for the UN Headquarters in New York
  • 1957–1964 public buildings in Brasília
  • from 1966 exiled to Algeria and France; later taught at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • 1982 final return to Brazil; membership in numerous institutions; his work received many awards; intensive planning and construction work until his death in 2012
  • 2013 inclusion of his architectural archive in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme

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