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Start | Bauwerke | Bartningallee 12 Otto Heinrich Senn
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Bartningallee 12
Otto Heinrich Senn

Solitary high-rises
Four-storey residential house on pentagonal ground plan (diameter approx. 21 m) Landesarchiv Berlin; Foto: Horst Siegmann
Staircase pedestal with four apartments Landesarchiv Berlin, Amtlicher Katalog der Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin 1957
View from east Landesarchiv Berlin, Wiederaufbau Hansaviertel; Sonderveröffentlichung zur Interbau Berlin 57
View from northwest Landesarchiv Berlin, Amtlicher Katalog der Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin 1957
In front of the solitary high-rises Foto: Oettel

Between solitary high-rises, the Akademie der Künste, and the slab buildings along Bartningallee, Otto Senn designed this building as a pentagonal central structure placed on a recessed pedestal. Since the top floor is also recessed, the impression is that of a structure rotated on its axis. In the apartments arranged radially, with four on each floor, the rooms are placed around the central pedestal. Bathrooms and toilets are located on the inside, while the living rooms with kitchens and loggias are on the outside. By placing the stairwell on the building’s northern side, Senn secured either southern or western light for all apartments. The top floor apartments have a more open floor plan; there is no separation of the living room from the landing or of the kitchen from the living room. Senn had already conceived a solitary high-rise on a pentagonal floor plan for Basel in 1942, but he was only able to realize his plans in 1962 after his successful contribution to Interbau.

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  • Four-storey residential building on a pentagonal floor plan (ca. 21 m across)
  • 16 apartments (one to four rooms)
  • The base level houses the entrance foyer, technical installations, and communal rooms
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  • Outer walls, balustrades, ceilings in reinforced concrete, interior walls of brick
  • Terrace walls, roof and base floor in exposed concrete
Hanseatenweg 10
Akademie der Künste – Werner Düttmann
Bartningallee 10
Kay Fisker

Otto Heinrich Senn

* 1902 in Basel † 1993 in Basel

  • studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, including under Karl Moser, one of the fathers of modern construction in Switzerland; 1927 Diploma
  • 1927–1930 worked in the offices Artaria/Schmidt, Basel, and Rudolf Steiger, Zurich
  • until 1932 study trips to England and the USA
  • from 1933 freelance architect in Basel in a joint office with his brother Walter Senn; housing estates, industrial buildings, residential buildings
  • 1950 development plan for the Gellert site, Basel
  • 1962–1965 high-rise Hechtliacker, Basel

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