Waltner House Germany
In his time in Germany Werner Stoff designed organic spaces as a ‘Gezamtkunstwerk’ (German) or ‘total art concept’ which translation doesn’t actually grasp the totality of the concept.
The Waltner house and his own apartment in Cologne are the only buildings we have pictures and videos of and they exude the same organic atmosphere with wavey, fluid walls, objects, furniture and fittings.
See the video of the walk through below…
Similar to Jugendstil or Art Nouveau designs, everything was designed to work together and form a unity. From the facade, the volume of the building and surrounding gardens, to the internal and external spaces, the windows, the colours, the furniture and even door handles and light switches.
The same design elements will return later in his work in Auroville: circular windows, tables, walls, fountains, pavement, carpets, chairs, etc. Spaces, windows and openings in walls without corners.
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- Waltner pool
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- combination of round tiling and carpet adjoining
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- seating bar area with ceiling decoration vertical mirror separations and rounded walls
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- wall sculpture as in Prayatna rounded tiling
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- carpet on the edge of the pool and all the way up to the wet area light fixtures that stoop out of the ceiling into simple light bulbs space for the statue collection of Mr. Waltner
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- elaxing seating area with one of the sculptures and ceiling decoration – this corner reminds of the pooja altar corner in the Prayatna office
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- Waltner dining room
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- with modular wall separation that can be opened or closed at will
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- Waltner hall way
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- with Werner reflected in the mirror notice the lights on the ceiling seemingly ‘dripping’ out into a single lightbulb
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- horizontal rounded window slits vertical mirror wall space separated by rounded wall extrusions circular carpets
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- with round windows with their metal circles which return in later designs just like the rounded light switch covers
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- typical fluid furniture, round windows and tiles
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- fountain in the Waltner house spa area
Werner's apartment in Koln Cologne
The full design language is already present in Werner’s own apartment in Cologne dating from the seventies… The rounded windows, corners and doorways, the mirrorwall, straight from a James Bond movie.
In Auroville and the bioregion Werner created temples, schools, housing projects, a proposal for the new campus of Svaram and even the cremation ground at Adventure where he was put to rest. These are some of the projects outside Auroville in the bio region.