East Germany · Neubrandenburg / 1970 design · 1973 first occupied block
WBS 70 housing system
A home, assembled
A 2011 photograph of WBS 70 blocks in Leipzig-Grünau. It documents later use and renovation, not the construction period.
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The WBS 70 is not one building but a repeatable system of housing. Introduced in 1970, it reached its first completed block in Neubrandenburg in 1973. Prefabricated elements made construction an industrial process, extending the logic of standard parts to the rooms of everyday life. The system helps connect architecture with smaller objects in this collection: both a kiosk and an apartment can be designed as modules. A standard plan, however, is only the beginning of a home's history; inhabitants furnish, maintain and remember particular rooms.
- Date
- 1970 design · 1973 first occupied block
- Maker / designer
- GDR industrial housing programme
- Material
- Prefabricated concrete panels
- Context
- Industrialised housing provision in the German Democratic Republic.
Evidence: Date established · Place established
Historical record
- The housing series was presented in 1970.
- Its first block was delivered in Neubrandenburg in 1973.