Terrace House Settlement

Together with the architect Herbert Kochta, the contractor Georg Eichbauer planned a housing complex with 100 residential units around the city starting in 1970, also as a reaction to the rising construction prices in the course of the upcoming Olympics in Munich. Thus, the terraced housing complex was built on a narrow plot of land on Unterhachinger Straße, forming an ensemble with specially landscaped green areas, playgrounds and a swimming pool. The complex's houses are designed in three different building types, but they are always staggered flat-roofed buildings in massive construction, whose floors project forward and backward to create terraces and balconies for each apartment. Kochta used concrete arched roofs as a motivic, repetitive design element, which are formed into plant pots or canopies for the terraces and building entrances. These are made of exposed concrete and stand out as sculptural elements against the otherwise white plastered walls. The architect set further accents with details such as deep-blue exhaust pipes rising into the air, vertically curved door handles, individual color accents on the wooden windows and front doors, and colorful graphic signals, stripes, and bands distributed in high-contrast on the exposed concrete surfaces of the stairways and houses.