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Atelier5 Siedlung Halen
Atelier5 Siedlung Halen
Atelier5 Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Design Objective: To use a modern architectural language influenced by Le Corbusier to create a high-density suburban community emphasizing a relationship with nature and a strong connection between private family homes and community facilities.
Connection to nature Siedlung Halen Herrenschwanden-- 5 km outside of Bern, Switzerland 1955(initial studies)-1961(completed) 79 Units (High Density, Low Rise) and shared community ammenities Atelier 5 Erwin Fritz Samuel Gerber Rolf Herterberg Hans Hostettler Niklaus Morgenthaler Alfredo Pini Fritz Thormann Design strategy Built as an experimental solution for the post-war housing problem-a solution which several of the architects themselves lived in modern garden suburb for the well-off middle class cit (self-contained residential development) without cars connection to light and nature focus on children and the family as a natural structure private homes + private outdoors space + communal facilities = SIEDLUNG HALEN
Connection to light
Private homes
Pedestrian walks
Children as focus
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Type 12
top level
entry level
basement
exterior circulation
horizontal circulation
vertical circulation
Unit Circulation
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Type 380
top level
entry level
basement
exterior circulation
horizontal circulation
vertical circulation
Unit Circulation
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
second level
entry level
Unit Circulation
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Studios
exterior circulation
horizontal circulation
vertical circulation
Unit Circulation
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
try en
try en
try en
Type 12
Type 380
exterior circulation
horizontal circulation
vertical circulation
Unit Circulation
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Regularity Privacy
Inside-outside Dynamism
The Unit
Fluid space
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
EXPANSION COMPRESSION
Type 380
(+)
= hardliner
Ateliers (workshops)
The Unit
Siedlung Halen
Atelier 5
Achleitner, Friedrich. Atelier 5. Basel, Switzerland; Boston: Birkhuser, 2000. Atelier 5 (Firm), Yukio Futagawa, and Niklaus Morgenthaler. Terrace Houses at Flamatt Near Bern, Switzerland, 1957, 1960 :Halen Housing Estate Near Bern, Switzerland, 1961 ; Apartment in Brugg, Switzerland, 1970-71. Vol. 23. Tokyo: A. D. A. EDITA Tokyo, 1973. Brown, Neave Sinclair. Siedlung Halen. Architectural Design. 33 (1963): 63-83. Burkhard, Balthasar, and Atelier 5. Atelier 5 :26 ausgewhlte Bauten. Zrich: Ammann, 1986. Gfeller-Corthsy, Roland, and Atelier 5. Siedlungen Und stdtebauliche Projekte. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1994. Irace, Fulvio. Locchio di ieri, gli occhi di oggi = Yesterdays eye, todays eyes. Abitare. 432 (2003): 316-329. Scalbert, Irene. Siedlung Halen: between standards and individuality. arq 2(autumn 1996): 14-24. Schafer, Roger. The Happy Householders of Halen. Architectural Forum. 124.6 (1966): 80-85. Sherwood, Roger. Modern Housing Prototypes. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. Siedlung Halen website (search for it on google and then have have google translate it from German): http://www.halen.ch/31150
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