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92 HAUS PETER BY ERNST PLISCHKE Year 1936 Status Project Material Foamboard Paper Glue Scale 1:50 Model maker Barbara Gruber In 1936 Ernst Plischke designed a family house in Hietzing, a wealthy neighbourhood of Vienna. The main concept was to enrich the floor plan by making living at different levels possible.1 The house was planned for a couple with no children. The floor plan shows a single room concept on four different levels. The concept can be seen as a modern interpretation of the Raumplan by Adolf Loos. The areas for dining, making music, resting, reading, working and sleeping are located at different levels separated only by stairs and curtains. Only the bathroom, the kitchen and the room for the staff are independent elements.2 The facade was planned to be constructed from prefabricated elements made of concrete. Because of the floor plan and the prefabrication, both uncommon in Vienna at the time, the house remained a project and was never built.3 1 Plischke, Ernst Anton (1969): Vom Menschlichen im neuen Bauen. Wien, München: Verlag Kurt Wedl. 112-113. 2 Ottillinger, Eva; Sarnitz, August (2003): Ernst Plischke: Das Neue Bauen und die Neue Welt. München: Prestel Verlag. 81. 3 Plischke, Ernst (1989): Ernst A. Plischke: Ein Leben mit Architektur. Wien: Löcker Verlag. 207.