Residential building type WBS-70 (part-2)

Here is the WBS-70 series of panel houses; WBS70 stands for Wohnungsbauserie 70 (series of apartment buildings 70), and the number in the name means the year of development of the project. The decision to develop a new model series of panel houses was taken at the 5th Construction Conference of the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic, which took place in the late 1960s. The basis for this decision was a 1969 study on optimizing and rationalizing mass production of standard building components in the field of panel construction, whose authors Wilfried Starknecht and Achim Felz eventually developed the Wohnungsbauserie 70 project.

This series of residential buildings is the most common in East Germany and accounts for more than 42 percent of all residential buildings in East Germany! This typical building design, designed in 1970 to replace the pre-1961 P2 series, was not economical enough due to the large number of building blocks, lack of standardization and regional differences. The WBS 70 is a more unified model. It was standardized with fewer structural elements so that it could be produced in all GDR. construction plants.

Despite the maximum inclusion of architectural elements, the project WBS70 actually was a kind of designer in which it was possible to build houses, radically change their appearance and floor. No other project in East Germany gave city planners and regional factories the freedom of the WBS70 project. Most of the houses under the project were five or six stories, but since 1977 it has been possible to build buildings up to 11 stories high. Each factory changed the basic shape of the panels, added decorative elements to them and played with the shapes of windows, balconies and entrance groups. Thus, the WBS70 project became the universal designer of the panel house and gave architects in East Germany the space to experiment and express themselves as much as possible within the framework of the panel architecture.

The first house in this series was built in Neubrandenburg in 1972 and listed as a heritage site in 1984. Currently, buildings of this type are undergoing reconstruction, as a result of which the number of floors in some houses is reduced, balconies and loggias are replaced, the layout of apartments is improved.

Characteristics.

The package includes the following projects:

WBS-70_1b11f with 99 inhabitants and quality of housing 86;

WBS-70_2b11f with 141 inhabitants and quality of housing 86;

WBS-70_2b11f-end-L with 163 inhabitants and 86 quality of housing;

WBS-70_2b11f-end-R - 158 inhabitants and housing quality 86;

WBS-70_2b11f-corner has a population of 110 and a housing quality of 86;

110 people live in WBS-70_2b11f-invert-corner, housing quality is 86[/list].

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The development was funded by General-Inkvizitor.