The multistoried building of the municipal savings bank Wuppertal is at present with approx. 70 m height the highest building of the city Wuppertal. It has 17 projectiles, of it 13 utilizable projectiles and is surrounded by auxiliary buildings, the banking hall and parking lots to take up. With the draft of the building was tried to make outward visible an unusual static structure.

History

The multistoried building of the municipal savings bank is in the quarter Elberfeld, in the southwest city center on the Iceland bank. This street name reminds of in former times the quarter here present Iceland. These quarters was coined/shaped by simple half timbered houses and poorer inhabitants. It was because of the Cologne road, which led here of the in extension of the barrier after southwest. Already over 1900 were torn off these quarters and made for large volume period of promoterism houses place. The Thalia theatre, a famous theatre opened here 1906. As one of the few buildings it got over the Second World War, however in the 60's was torn off, in order to make for the new building of the municipal savings bank place, which was inaugurated 1972.

The draft planned a new conception of the situation concerning town construction. Before the war the range between Wupper and railway had been built-up by closed blocks. With the war effects and the break-through of the valley route (B 7) this changed. single's buildings in urban grassland shank were assigned to to the broad traffic flight corridor. One of these buildings became the new building of the savings bank.

Architecture

The plant dominated by the 17-geschossige multistoried building. Architect was Paul cutter Esleben. Its conception already shows a prevention in the 60's of so wide-spread functional architecture. Instead one tries here to create by the choice of an unusual static carrying system a more exciting solidium. The elevator and secondary room core serve now the complete load demolition. On it a load-bearing slab, which takes up the seventeenth floor and takes supported by a pyramid-shaped underbody a larger surface area, rests as the core. At the four outside edges two steel depending each are installed, on which the exteriors of the office projectiles hang. Critics speak here of "“forces walk lead"”: Partly will load demolitions only the whole building high-led, in order across the core to be again down-led. Nevertheless an arranged solidium results from the conception. Originally the head a took up, which lies as independent element over the office floors. The base of the building shows the freely lying core without office space change. The multistoried building floats thus between the surrounding Nebenbauten, the banking hall and parking lots takes up. Thus the main's building works rejecting, those for many humans hopelessly working view concrete front however also contributes to this appearance.

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