Apartment buildings
The city of Wrocław has been characterized for centuries by the brick architecture of numerous historic buildings. This building material is also incorporated into the innovative residential project "Corte Verona" as a central design element, allowing it to blend seamlessly into the surrounding neighborhood. In the early 1920s, architects Paul Heim and Albert Kempter designed the Grabiszyn housing complex in this area. They also created architectural features such as walls, benches, and fences. An open brick wall in the vicinity of "Corte Verona" then served as inspiration for the form of the new building. The bricks in the wall conceptually correspond to the size of an apartment, with the loggias representing the gap between two bricks. The building is designed in the form of a block, divided into public (exterior), private (apartments), and semi-public areas (courtyard). The ground floor houses small shops accessible from the street. Above are apartments, accessible from the courtyard via entrance halls. A generously sized garage is located in the basement.
Most of the apartments are rather small. Units of approximately 45 square meters predominate in the building. They consist of a living room with a kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a small dressing room, along with a relatively large loggia of about eight square meters. Thanks to the loggias, the builders were able to provide more light to the relatively long apartment wings by using corner windows. The building was designed as a structure of soundproofed partition walls running both horizontally and vertically. The horizontal panels form the floor-level elements. All structures consist of longitudinal walls, which are soundproofed on both the apartment and hallway sides by two separate layers of masonry.
The ground floor facade consists of silicate plaster, along with aluminum doors and windows. On the upper floors, thin brick in the imperial format were used. Two thicknesses and colors were employed, alternating on each block to create a gradient effect. Wooden windows and glass balustrades complete the look on the upper floors. The courtyard is reserved for pedestrians but can also be accessed by special vehicles when needed. Particular attention was paid to the courtyard's design, which is inspired by the paintings of Władysław Strzemiński. Following his artistic compositions, green spaces with lawns, flowers, shrubs, and trees were created; paths, ramps, steps, and a sandbox with swings, seesaws, and benches further enhance this composition.
