#Housing estate #Berlin #1926
Heimstättengesellschaft "Primus" GmbH
Afrikanische Straße 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 29, 31, 33, 37, 39, 41; Dualastraße 12A, 12B; Sambesistraße 10A; Tangastraße 8A, 8B; Ugandastraße 8A, 8B
13351
Berlin,
Germany
Public transport: Seestr./Amrumer Str.
Today's use: Apartments
Description
The houses along Afrikanische Straße have three floors and a very high attic. In the three side streets, lower buildings lead in a zigzag pattern westwards into the slightly older, neighboring settlement called Jungfernheide. All in all 88 apartments with sizes from one to three bed apartments are part of the housing estate. As a project for the growing city those houses were planned much lower than older Berlin tenant houses. The courtyards are no stone landscapes anymore, but a green garden for the house's tenants.
Description
The houses along Afrikanische Straße have three floors and a very high attic. In the three side streets, lower buildings lead in a zigzag pattern westwards into the slightly older, neighboring settlement called Jungfernheide. All in all 88 apartments with sizes from one to three bed apartments are part of the housing estate. As a project for the growing city those houses were planned much lower than older Berlin tenant houses. The courtyards are no stone landscapes anymore, but a green garden for the house's tenants.
History
The plans for those houses date back to 1925. It is one of Berlin's first modern housing estates, built between 1926 and 1927. The project Mies van der Rohe Siedlung suggests that the sources for the housing estate are very weak, so that it is hard to tell something about the past.
History
The plans for those houses date back to 1925. It is one of Berlin's first modern housing estates, built between 1926 and 1927. The project Mies van der Rohe Siedlung suggests that the sources for the housing estate are very weak, so that it is hard to tell something about the past.
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