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Start | Bauwerke | Klopstockstraße 2 K. Müller-Rehm – G. Siegmann, Giraffe
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Klopstockstraße 2
K. Müller-Rehm – G. Siegmann, Giraffe

Solitary high-rises
Solitary high-rise at Faulen See Deutsches Historisches Museum
South entrance to the Interbau, at the “Giraffe” high-rise building Landesarchiv Berlin; Foto: Willy Kiel
West wing apartments with kitchen cupboard; East wing apartments with kitchenette Landesarchiv Berlin, Amtlicher Katalog der Internationalen Bauausstellung Berlin 1957
Filming during the Interbau Landesarchiv Berlin, Foto: Gert Schütz
Facade detail with Interbau logo Foto: Dobrzynski

With the intention of creating small city apartments, this was one of the first buildings ever erected exclusively for single residents. All the units have only one room, a small bathroom, and a small cooking area. The auxiliary spaces are small in comparison to the main living space. Each floor has ten apartments (eight with 32 sqm; the apartments on the northwestern and southeastern corners with 42 sqm). All apartments have a narrow balcony and large door windows, so that the living rooms have the feeling of sitting “outdoors” when opened. The apartments in the western tract were considered “masculine”: they have tripartite, room-high windows and only a kitchenette. In the eastern tract there are the “feminine” apartments with a small kitchen and bipartite door windows. The central stairwell links the two tracts. The recessed top floor is covered by a strong flat roof.
Finished in 1955, the all-concrete Giraffe building was the first building project of the Hansaviertel to be completed and was already occupied for the Interbau.

Building
  • Solitary high-rise, 17 floors
  • At its longest 50 m, width 21 m, height 53 m
  • Floor plan in the shape of a Z
  • From the first to the 16th floor each floor has ten apartments, eight with 32 sqm, two with 42 sqm
  • Apartments on the western tract have a kitchenette, while the eastern tract apartments have small kitchens
  • Entrance area with elevators, corridors, and stairwells links eastern and western tracts
  • 17th floor recessed with communal rooms
  • On the ground floor, the restaurant Giraffe
Construction
  • Foundation on 240 wooden columns, each 4.5 meters long
  • Cross wall construction of reinforced concrete: supporting walls 20 cm thick, from top to bottom
  • Outer walls with insulation, non-bearing partitions with doorframes, plumbing, electrical wiring
  • All parts of the building poured concrete, cast at the construction side
  • Outer and inner walls without plaster
Händelallee 3–9
W. Gropius – TAC, W. Ebert
Ev. Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche
Ludwig Lemmer

Klaus Müller-Rehm

* 1907 in Berlin † 1999 in Berlin

  • studied at the Technical University Berlin
  • 1931 Diploma under Hans Poelzig
  • 1932–1933 colleague of Charles Sieles in Paris
  • 1935–1945 Government Building Council in Berlin
  • 1945 appointment by Max Taut to the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Berlin; focus on housing construction according to the requirements of the post-war period

Gerhard Siegmann

* 1911 in Münder/Deister † 1989 in Berlin

  • studied at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart, including under Heinrich Tessenow and Hans Poelzig; 1945 Diploma
  • from 1945 freelance architect, proposals and plans for small apartments with space-saving solutions
  • 1951 administration building of Berliner Bank
  • 1956/1957 development coordinator of Interbau 57

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