Feistel (1928)

It is definitely worth to come here by day and in the dark to experience the different architectural effects.

The basic construction of the house consists of a steel structure. Concrete asbestos plates were screwed onto these. Inside, the steel construction has the advantage that no additional load-bearing walls have to be set up and the room layout can be made very variable. The cube as living space contrasts with the cylindrical structure of the stairway facing northeast. This is built with glass bricks, making the stairway very light during the day. In the dark, this effect is reversed as the house illuminates the surroundings. A very ingenious fusion of outside and inside, which was also used for Šalda's villa in Prague, Czechia.

The southwest facade opens up to the garden with a large balcony on the first floor. On the top of the building is accessible a roof terrace.

The architect Max Feistel designed his own house to show what modern architecture of the late 1920s can be. After the original panels made of cement asbestos were removed from the facade and plaster was applied, it is now planned to reattach the panels piece by piece using a different material.

• Der moderne Blick Villa Feistel
• http://villa-feistel.de