Appreciation of Shanghai’s Excellent Historical Buildings: Free Apartments


Among the numerous apartment buildings in Shanghai, this apartment can be called “pocket apartment”.

The exterior wall is inlaid with brown face bricks.

The box room, closet and servant room are arranged in the center of the standard floor plan, and the servants enter and exit from the balcony corridor.

A large room is set in the south as the living room, one bedroom is set in the north and one bedroom is set in the south, and a shared bathroom is set in the middle.

Light colors are used at the central and corner balconies and the window frames of the living room to break the dull feeling of dark colors.

The standard floor takes the central elevator and stairs as the axis, and both sides are symmetrical.

Although the scale of the apartment is small, the architect still carefully designed every detail, which is reasonable and perfect.

This design makes it easy for low rise residents to take the elevator or take the stairs according to the elevator situation.

Nearby residents said that now Germans often come to look for ancestors.

It is a masterpiece of apartment design.

The total floor area is 1220m2, and the building area is 2740m2.

The building plan is a four bay point type.

Small staircases are set on the north wings of the standard floor, which are used for servants to get in and out at ordinary times and as fire stairs in emergency.

In order to avoid the crowding caused by the collision between the elevator waiting area and the people entering the lobby, the elevator door is arranged behind the apartment entrance, opposite to the stairway entrance.

At the top of the building facade, the drop processing technique is used to enrich the overall facade of the building.

The facade of the building is of modern style and very simple.

It was built in 1937.

In order to avoid wasting the building area on both sides of the entrance passage of the apartment, two one bedroom households facing south are carefully arranged, and a boiler room and an apartment management room facing north are also arranged.

Free Apartment is located at No.

258, Wuyuan Road, which is an excellent modern building protection unit in Shanghai.

Each standard floor has two three bedroom households.

Ring Clutch

The indoor lobby connects all parts.

The enclosed corner balcony is set at the internal corner of the bedroom and the living room, which can be used as the passage of two rooms and also as the sunlight room.

The south entrance of the ground floor is introduced by the passage, and three steps are set to enter the elevator hall.

A kitchen and a north balcony are set in the north of the staircase hall.

Later, for unknown reasons, it fell to the Germans.

For a long and narrow plot, a large green space is arranged in front of the apartment, seven parking spaces are arranged on the sideline of the plot behind, and three parking spaces are arranged behind the apartment, so that the backyard forms a parking area for cars.

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After the end of World War II, the Germans returned home and sold the house to the Chinese.

It is a nine storey reinforced concrete structure and a modern mid high rise point apartment.

The apartment hidden in the courtyard is said to be made by Jews.

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