{"id":20286,"date":"2025-07-01T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/objekte\/bauhaus-gebaeude-dessau-1925-1926-orientierungsplan\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:26:23","slug":"bauhaus-building-dessau-1925-1926-orientation-plan","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/objects\/bauhaus-building-dessau-1925-1926-orientation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauhaus-building Dessau (1925\u20131926), orientation plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-objekt'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-12 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-2'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/kuenstler_taxonomy\/hinnerk-scheper-en\/\" class=\"artist-tag ho-sd-h4\"><span>Hinnerk Scheper<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h4' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Bauhaus-building Dessau (1925\u20131926), orientation plan<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-top-5'>\n\n<div  class='header-image-wrapper'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 9257,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-212x300.jpg\",\"width\":212,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":12834},\"large\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-722x1024.jpg\",\"width\":722,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":104799},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-768x1089.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1089,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":115965},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-1083x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1083,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":212157},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-1444x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1444,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":348745},\"small\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-310x440.jpg\",\"width\":310,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":24198},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-409x580.jpg\",\"width\":409,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":40051},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-508x720.jpg\",\"width\":508,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":57210},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-902x1280.jpg\",\"width\":902,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":155231},\"full\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA-1354x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1354,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":311396},\"original\":{\"file\":\"2022_81_Hinnerk-Scheper_Bauhaus-Gebaeude-Dessau-Orientierungsplan_1926_c_BHA.jpg\",\"width\":2115,\"height\":3000}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:141.84397163121%; 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Abteilungen und R\u00e4ume sind mit Farbbalken markiert \u2013 z. B. die B\u00fchne im Zwischentrakt blau und die Druckerei orange. Drei geschwungene B\u00e4nder verbinden die Etagen miteinander. Unten links steht die Legende.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"content-reveal-controls\" @click=\"toggle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-open\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-plus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Extended image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-close\">\n\t\t\t\t<!--button type=\"button\" class=\"ho-button is-text\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Weniger lesen<\/span>\n<\/button-->\n<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-minus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Extended image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/reveal>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1 padding-top-2 mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-center mobile-flex-align-center-center'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center mobile-text-align-center'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Date:<br>1926<br><br>Inventory number:<br>2022\/81<br><br>Object type:<br>Design drawing<br><br>Technique \/ Material:<br>Tempera and pen on paper<br><br>Dimensions:<br>44,5 x 59,1 cm<br><br>Provenance:<br>Acquisition Dirk Scheper from the estate of Lou and Hinnerk Scheper, 2016<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1 color-fg-highlight-2'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The school building that Walter Gropius designed for the Bauhaus is a complex structure consisting of three interconnected individual components. In order to find his way around and easily arrive at the individual workshops, classrooms and other rooms, Hinnerk Scheper wanted to use colour as a means of orientation \u2013 a method he had already tried out at the university hospital in M\u00fcnster. Scheper also wanted to use colour to identify ceilings, corridors and stairwells in the Bauhaus building. However, his colour concept was only implemented in part, especially in the wing for the school of the technical college and in the studio building. In the workshop wing, on the other hand, the unplastered surfaces were whitewashed and the workshops were not colour-coded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school building that Walter Gropius designed for the Bauhaus is a complex structure consisting of three interconnected individual components. 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