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Berlin "Weinmeisterhornweg

Solar house10963 Berlin-Spandau: 60 WE, solar air wall collector, size: 60 WE, completion: 1993

Street
Weinmeisterhornweg
State 
Berlin
Building type(s) 
New construction, multi-storey apartments, terraced houses (split-level)
Form of ownership
Social rented housing
Location  
Urban fringe. Southwestern outskirts of Berlin-Spandau; peripheral to downtown Berlin at the time of construction as it is today
Stakeholders
Client: GSW Gesellschaft für Sozialen Wohnungsbau, Berlin
Architecture: Competition winners: Prof. Schreck, Hillmann, Nagel, Dürr, Güldenberg
Garden architect: Prof. Dr. Klaus Neumann, Prof. Jürgen Hoffmann
Project development
"Design of a residential complex in social housing as a future 'ecological standard' "
Planned by the SPD senate at the time as a standard for future housing development, the results achieved with this housing estate were not pursued further as a result of German reunification.
Urban planning
Gap closure on vacant lot. The south-west orientation of the buildings (solar architecture) and the depth of the site (approx. 55 m, with a length of 190 m along the road) means that a further row of buildings must be developed through the front row at the rear. Urbanistically unexciting row along the road, which fits into the surrounding area of terraced houses, multi-storey housing, detached houses; at the rear of the site an allotment.
Architecture
Along the street, three-storey row, interrupted several times; the individual structures are partly connected with winter gardens. At the rear of the front row, it becomes clear that the houses actually (in part) have "split-level layouts" (offset storeys). Some of the buildings, namely the head buildings which are offset in design, are also not terraced houses but multi-storey flats, with the 2nd floor flats accessed by an external staircase. The ground floor apartments are handicapped accessible.
The houses in the second row are somewhat lower. Entrances basically on the north side or on passages, therefore extensive paths and stairs required.
Size (WE) 
60
Completion 
1993

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Ecology
Waste/water
Rainwater harvesting
Waste
Energy
Small block heat and power plant, passive and active heat protection, passive and active heat recovery, ground plan zoning

On the southwest sides of the houses, large wall-mounted solar collectors are integrated into the upper floors in an architecturally appealing way.

Building Biology
Conventional, masonry, plastered; extensive roof vegetation (sedum) on the gable roofs with an inclination of approx. 35º, normal roof covering (concrete moulded stone, similar to roof tiles) on the offset head buildings.
Traffic
Outdoor facilities
Nature, landscape and living environment design
Contact  
Prof. Schreck, Hillmann, Nagel, Dürr, Güldenberg, Kempchen, Caperan, Benzeronal, Landscape Planning: Prof. Dr. Neumann, Base
Sources 
Hartl, Johann/Lee, Eun-Heui: Ökosiedlungen in Deutschland. A Guide to Realized, Ecologically-Oriented Housing Estates in Germany 1980- 2002. Berlin/Seoul, 2003. German CD edition, Ottobrunn 2004.
Berlin Tour Ecological Planning and Building p. 46
Notes 
social housing


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