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Aalto designed a twenty-two-storey apartment block that was built in a suburb of Bremen. The sketches show several variants for the building’s irregular fan plan.

Designed in

1958−62

Location

Bremen, Germany

— 1

Neue Vahr. Photo: Lücking Wolf, Alvar Aalto Museum

— 2

Floor plan. Drawing: Alvar Aalto Museum

— 3

Neighbourhood of Neue Vahr in Bremen. Photo: Franz Scheper, Alvar Aalto Museum

— 4

Façade. Photo: Lücking Wolf, Alvar Aalto Museum

— 5

The apartment block seen from a distance. Photo: Becking, Alvar Aalto Museum