Prager Strasse 20-98

Residences Auerberg (Bonn 1998-2003)

Wohnhöfe Auerberg consists of 40 single-family houses that were designed as two-storey rental houses. They are arranged in two square courtyards. The houses are particularly suitable for families. Facing the inner courtyard are the common areas on the ground floor, such as the entrance area, kitchen and living room. There is a free seat in front of this. The staircase, storage, house connection and sanitary areas are located in the central area. The individual rooms are on the upper floor. These 2 rooms can be divided into three or four rooms by installing a central partition wall. The living area of the common and individual rooms in the houses is approx. 90 m².

Every 20 houses form a courtyard, every five houses a house group. Four groups of houses are laid out like windmills around a square open space and form a square courtyard with a large opening on each side. The houses are accessed via the courtyard, so the entrances do not face the street but the inner courtyard. The resulting courtyard expresses the idea of communal living.

The houses have wooden slat sliding shutters and a flat roof. For ecological reasons and to make the roof structure last longer, the warm roof (non-ventilated roof) was extensively greened.

Auerberg has good shopping facilities, secondary schools and the Sportpark Nord with a swimming pool and is characterized by good local transport connections and its level cycle paths, which can be used to reach Bonn city center in just 15 minutes. At the same time, nearby motorway junctions offer fast connections in all directions, especially to Cologne and Konrad-Adenauer Airport (motorway junction A 565).

Photos: Peter Oszvald, Bonn