So we are finally inside. Moving on to the first apartment and its thrashed kitchen.
The rooms were small, dull, dark and built with cheap materials.
This was also the story with the bathrooms.
The second room of the first apartment. This one was for two people to share. I started my career in the university of applied sciences in a very similar apartment, but I rented it in full. One of the two identical rooms was my bedroom and the other one my living room.
Moving up the stairs with this extremely beautiful photo, which I took by accident. The grey, graffiti colored building on the other side of the block appears as a mosaic through the holes in the stairway wall.
Traces of birds on the stairs.
The balcony on the second floor.
Another apartment coming up. They were really numbered this technically even in my dorm.
And another kitchen. Pretty much identical to the previous one, just very much more intact.
A room in this apartment.
And another room in the same apartment. Again, identical to the previous one. This was how they were built.
Another view of the courtyard.
And another kitchen.
The door to the dorm room had a mark on it.
Still, the room was the same.
So welcome to another kitchen. This one is the mirror image of the previous one.
Another apartment room.
And another one. This time there was even furniture left.
A window towards the courtyard.
And another messed up door to a new balcony.
Which looks exactly like this.
There were several warnings about how dangerous life in this block of flats can be.
We cut the exploration short this time. It was getting so dark, that no great photos could be taken. The block of flats was also so homogenous, that this kind of photos were about the thing we were about to get from it.
So we just quit exploring, went to the sauna and had a very interesting talk.
On December 27th, 2022 after another great season, the best so far, I ended my 221st exploration inside an abandoned building. And yet while I’m writing this, I’m above 500. This shit is about to get real.
And in the next post we will start season 2023 together. It had its pros. And cons.
The buildings in question were bought by a real estate developer back in the autumn of 2023 and demolished shortly later.
Interestingly those kitchens look really similar to the one I had in a shared apartment at another student housing location within same city. With the exception that those ones (also from 1970s) are not abandoned (yet, there’s been plans to do so some time in the future).
They probably got all the materials cheaply in the same bundle back in the days. The places don’t look very comfortable, but must have been real luxury for young students back in the 1970’s.