UNITÉ D'HABITATION


Meaning of UNITÉ D'HABITATION in English

Residential block (18 stories high) in Marseille, France, that expressed Le Corbusier 's ideal of urban family lodging.

Completed in 1952, it is a vertical mixed-use community, with a shopping floor halfway up and other communal facilities on the roof. Two-story living rooms make for efficient use of volumes and permit the use of a "skip-stop" system in which elevators stop on every other floor. Each unit has front and rear balconies with sun protection provided by Le Corbusier's brise-soleil . The concrete screen pierced with differently sized openings evokes tracery.

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