Part utopic idea, full blown propaganda project, mostly collapsing residence, all historical monument.
Built by the GDR in the 1950's to house the new workers of the socialist state. It ironically became the scene of their revolt, and had to be saved by capital investment post reunification. The workers of the new state were to have the best, fully plumbed, heated, modern accommodation unlike any the proletariat had seen before. This was to be what you could expect if everyone worked together to provide for each other. If those who could did, society could figure out a way to provide for each other.
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This is a landscape like so many others, both ancient and in a state of constant, modernising flux. Speaking to a friend about this place, they know it well from researching it from an information gathering project, it becomes clear that it has been well studied for a long time (by our measure at least). A time, short in comparison to its age of human occupation, but longer than the unit of a lifetime so often worked in.
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