A tuber, french expat in Russia, explained that Kruchevian housings had infamously thin walls (corner cutting measures to build plenty, cheap and fast), which were the reason Russians nailed carpets on their walls. To keep their home warm and filter noises from their neighbors. This why you see carpets on their walls, when you see the inside of a Russian apartment
A tuber, french expat in Russia, explained that Kruchevian housings had infamously thin walls (corner cutting measures to build plenty, cheap and fast), which were the reason Russians nailed carpets on their walls. To keep their home warm and filter noises from their neighbors. This why you see carpets on their walls, when you see the inside of a Russian apartment
A tuber, french expat in Russia, explained that Kruchevian housings had infamously thin walls (corner cutting measures to build plenty, cheap and fast), which were the reason Russians nailed carpets on their walls. To keep their home warm and filter noises from their neighbors. This why you see carpets on their walls, when you see the inside of a Russian apartment
Certainly bad by modern standards; it was an improvement over Stalinist bunkhouses. Can you say that they were substantially worse than other mass housing initiatives in post-war Europe?
Certainly bad by modern standards; it was an improvement over Stalinist bunkhouses. Can you say that they were substantially worse than other mass housing initiatives in post-war Europe?
Hey! I lived in one of those. It's a big luck to find a flat in 3-4 floor Stalin era house in good conditions, very reliable apartments. Especially those that were built by prisoners of war from Germany.
Certainly bad by modern standards; it was an improvement over Stalinist bunkhouses. Can you say that they were substantially worse than other mass housing initiatives in post-war Europe?
In a quarter of my hometown built in the 60's they favored buildings with up to 20 storeys made from concrete (example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettenhof#/media/Datei:Wei%C3%9Fer_Riese_Mettenhof.jpg ). The walls were not thin. They were so hard, you had to use special hardened steel nails, if you wanted to hang a picture! The brutalist architecture combined with the social problems of suburbs made it one of the "quarter with special need of development" of this town.
Hey! I lived in one of those. It's a big luck to find a flat in 3-4 floor Stalin era house in good conditions, very reliable apartments. Especially those that were built by prisoners of war from Germany.
I have no doubt that there was good housing constructed during the Stalinist era, but they were the exception rather than the rule. So far as I can tell, planners still heavily relied on housing people in barracks-style arrangements into the 1950s, where multiple families would live in one room. When you look at what the Khrushchev apartments offered for the time (one unit per family, each with their own bathroom and kitchen) they were a general improvement.
sanitaeter said:
In a quarter of my hometown built in the 60's they favored buildings with up to 20 storeys made from concrete (example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mettenhof#/media/Datei:Wei%C3%9Fer_Riese_Mettenhof.jpg ). The walls were not thin. They were so hard, you had to use special hardened steel nails, if you wanted to hang a picture! The brutalist architecture combined with the social problems of suburbs made it one of the "quarter with special need of development" of this town.
I myself live in a similar apartment at the moment, though it was built about ten years after your example, and was built as student housing from the start. The walls enclosing the unit are made of solid load-bearing concrete. Great for sound isolation: I am more likely to hear sounds outside the door or window than from my neighbours.
That said, I am stating that it is a matter of fair-for-its-time: there are public housing projects all around which were built to satisfy a specific social context which end up ageing very poorly.
A tuber, french expat in Russia, explained that Kruchevian housings had infamously thin walls (corner cutting measures to build plenty, cheap and fast), which were the reason Russians nailed carpets on their walls. To keep their home warm and filter noises from their neighbors. This why you see carpets on their walls, when you see the inside of a Russian apartment
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