Heinz Bach House, Dortmund
Competition: 1983 – 1st Prize
Construction period: 1985 - 1986
Design: Eckhard Gerber
Project director/Project manager: Marita Langen
Project team: Annegret Droste, Rainer Rotthäuser et al.
Client: Continentale Krankenversicherung a.G.
Gross area: 11.400 m²
Volume: 35.300 m³
Four bar-shaped buildings enclose an almost square garden courtyard to form a street pe-rimeter block. Three of these ‘bars’ contain just short of 100 rental apartments, while the fourth contains the training centre, trainee accommodation and offices of the Continentale insurance company. Both the residential units and the training centre open to the quiet green courtyard.