Die Frage trieb sie um, wie der Mensch „als wichtigster Maßstab architektonischen Handelns“ in zukünftiger Architektur wohl wohne und lebe.
Das Ledigen Haus in Darmstadt, is a building for singles, designed by Ernst Neufert in the early fifties. The Neufert.
The innovative, intimate balconies feature a very elegant ring to suspend a flowerpot. Or is actually a cup holder?
Surprisingly the ceilings in the stairwells are low. Too low for Jana and Hans. They are both pretty tall, ganz tall actually, but just 2 meters headroom?
Perhaps this building ‘error’ was the catalyst of the Bauentwurfslehre, the spark to develop the apparently indispensable Architects’ Data…
Der Mensch, das Mass aller Dinge.
NL Architects Blog 
May 24, 2012 at 3:20 pm |
..guess Hans needs to write his own “Ringenier” (for extra-tall humans) 😉
May 25, 2012 at 7:27 am |
Yesterday I ran into the grand daughter of Neufert. She is a painter and temporarily uses the Wasserbauhalle as her studio. She let me in: freaky structure, gorgeous space!
May 25, 2012 at 12:55 pm |
..wow! i never knew.
we have to go there!
May 25, 2012 at 7:28 am |
Hans would easily fit…
May 28, 2012 at 10:18 am |
Kamiel? what are you doing in Darmstadt?? got a fax from Darmstadt?
also check out the “baumhaus” komponisten viertel, mathildenhoehe and the TU
ja, the wasserbauhalle i only know from outside, but its a beauty!
May 29, 2012 at 7:08 pm |
Yep. Baumhaus blew my mind! Next time I should ring the door bell…