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Brutalism · housing
Unité d'Habitation
The original "vertical garden city" — 337 apartments + a hotel, shops and a rooftop kindergarten in a single slab.
Why this matters
- "Béton brut" raw concrete gave the word "brutalism" its name
- Two-storey apartments interlocking through a central corridor
- Rooftop has a running track, gym, pool and ventilation stack-as-sculpture
- UNESCO World Heritage Site (2016)
Reference prompt
monumental raw-concrete slab apartment with primary-color loggias, Le Corbusier Unite d'Habitation Marseille, hard noon light
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Drawings · Pro
Floor plans, sections and elevations for this building will appear here.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Critics
“The Unité is a vertical garden city, the irreducible answer to the problem of mass housing.”
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit%C3%A9_d%27habitation ↗Photo: Hpschaefer / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA)