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Start | Bauwerke | Händelallee 3–9 W. Gropius – TAC, W. Ebert
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Händelallee 3–9
W. Gropius – TAC, W. Ebert

Slab high-rises
View from east with pulled out loggias “boxes” Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Horst Siegmann
Draft sketch of the south facade Landesarchiv Berlin, Wiederaufbau Hansaviertel; Sonderveröffentlichung zur Interbau Berlin 57
Downstairs: Floor plan floors 2, 3, 6, 7; above: Floor plan top floor Landesarchiv Berlin, Amtlicher Katalog der Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin 1957
Shell construction Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Horst Siegmann
Plastering work on the south facade Landesarchiv Baden Württemberg; Foto: Willy Pragher

A joint project of TAC and Berlin architect Wils Ebert, Gropiushaus, with its concave façade to the south, serves as the opening gateway to the Interbau complex. In fact, the building is not actually curved. The walls themselves are straight but are kinked in four places. The apartments face north (bedrooms, bathrooms) and south (living rooms, kitchens). The eight residential units on the eastern and western corners of the building are turned 90 degrees on their axis with their balconies extending out of the building. With their windowless sides, they give the building a frame and break up the façade. The “sails” of the balcony balustrades, which appear to be filled by the wind, contribute to the liveliness of the façade, with their white enamel steel panels and red balustrade elements. The ground floor, where the building’s entrances and access to the auxiliary rooms are located, is recessed. Four elevator towers are located on the northern side of the building. An 80-square meter flat building, intended as a retail space on the western side, closes the building architecturally.

Building
  • Nine-storey slab high-rise
  • Length 80 m, width 10 m, height 25 m
  • 67 apartments (3 1/2 rooms with approx. 77 sqm, three apartment types) in eight residential storeys (the top floor deviates from this)
  • Ground floor: laundry rooms, heating and other technical systems
  • Four elevator towers on the northern side of the building
Construction
  • Reinforced concrete skeleton, outside exposed concrete, massive cross walls
Klopstockstraße 14–18
Pierre Vago
Klopstockstraße 2
K. Müller-Rehm – G. Siegmann, Giraffe

Wils Ebert

(Willy Karl Ebert) * 1909 in Obercunnersdorf, Saxony † 1979 in Berlin

  • 1923/24 Fach- und Fortbildungsschule Hainsberg, Thuringia
  • 1924–27 Städtische Gewerbeschule Dresden, at the same time
  • 1923–26 locksmith apprenticeship
  • 1927/28 lathe operator
  • 1928/29 machine draughtsman of the tool factory Enke & Co., Tharandt, at the same time apprenticeship as a bricklayer
  • 1929 Bauhaus pupil, Dessau
  • 1933 Diploma from the Building and Interior Design department. At the same time student trainee in the technical office of the Deutsche Wohnungsfürsorge AG, Dresden, Germany
  • 1933 scholarship for study trips to Greece and France
  • 1933/34 worked in the Walter Gropius office in Berlin (representative of Gropius at the CIAM Congress in Athens)
  • 1934 freelance architect
  • 1935–37 worked in the architectural office R. Linneke, Berlin
  • 1938 after L. K. Hilberseimer had emigrated, he took over his office in Berlin
  • 1941–45 civil engineer, employed by the Mineralölgesellschaft, Berlin
  • 1945–49 Head of the Main Office for Planning at the Berlin municipal authorities and assistant to Hans Scharoun at the Technical University, Berlin
  • 1947 Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Berlin
  • 1956–57 planning and construction of the “Gropius-Haus” with Walter Gropius / TAC (The Architects Collaborative) on the Interbau
  • 1960 co-initiator of the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin
  • 1963 Full Professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Berlin

Walter Gropius

* 1883 in Berlin † 1969 in Boston/USA

  • studied at the Technical Universities of Munich and Berlin.
  • 1908 worked at Peter Behrens (with Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Meyer).
  • from 1910 self-employed industrial designer and architect
  • 1911/1912 Fagus movement (with Adolf Meyer), Alfeld/Leine
  • 1919 successor of Henry van de Velde as director of the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Weimar; taking over the management, he renamed the university “Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar”
  • 1925/1926 The Bauhaus moves to Dessau.
  • from 1926 occupied with mass residential construction; architect at the “New Frankfurt”
  • 1929–1930 Siemensstadt development, Berlin
  • 1934 emigrated
  • from 1937 Chair of Architecture at Harvard University, Cambridge USA
  • 1946 founder of “The Architects Collaborative” (TAC)
  • 1957–1959 Pan-Am Building (today Met Life), New York
  • from 1960 Gropiusstadt Berlin

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