The Peikert housing estate is an ideal-typical contemporary witness of high modernism, developed in an ideal-typical urban development of the tabula rasa. We do not want to break with the past for the Peikert settlement, but to continue writing the history that has begun. The radical step of total demolition proves to be a stroke of luck here, for once, because the greatest restrictions are not to be found in urban planning or open space, but in total architecture, which no longer seems appropriate to a plural society.
A line-up of identical buildings is transformed into an assembly of four related but individual houses that respond to their different locations and allow for a wide variety of living arrangements. The monothematic open space, with order as a principle, is to be transformed into a diverse, atmospherically dense landscape. The building industry logic of system element construction is replaced by sustainable cycle thinking. In an archaeological journey through time, ideas and elements of the high modern, the late modern, the postmodern and the present are thus rescued, evaluated and combined into something new, in order to make a unique contribution to sustainable, shared living in the urban landscape of the future – just as the Peikert settlement was something special in its time and a contribution to a new way of living.
