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The Reichsforschungsgesellschaft für Wirtschaftlichkeit im Bau- und Wohnungswesen (National Research Institute for Efficiency in Housing Construction) sponsored a competition for a workers housing settlement in the Spandau-Haselhorst section of Berlin. Breuer and his colleague and former student, Gustav Hassenpflug, set three parallel, eighteen-story, slab apartment buildings in a park containing playgrounds and promenades. Rows of single-family, two-story houses with gardens inhabited the space between the high-rise apartment buildings. Communal facilities such as nurseries and laundries were to be found in the lower stories of the tall buildings, whose height was determined by the limitations of elevator technology at the time. Like many other modernist housing projects, the facades were oriented so that the apartments received north-south light and the narrow ends of the building faced the street.