The steel stairs and the aluminium kitchen counters were designed by Jean Prouvé. Additionally Perriand collaborated on the design of the apartment kitchens, 321 of the 337 units were equipped with the Cuisine Atelier Le Corbusier, type 1 kitchens, many of which are still in place due to their efficient use of space. The apartments were equipped with built-in furniture, and specially designed storage walls with various cupboards with sliding doors, which were designed by Charlotte Perriand in collaboration with Atelier Le Corbusier. Unlike many of the blocks it inspired, which lack the original's generous proportions, communal facilities and parkland setting, the Unité is popular with its residents and is now mainly occupied by upper middle-class professionals. Le Corbusier's design was criticised by US architect Peter Blake for having small children's rooms, some without windows. "Architects from every part of the world attended", including Walter Gropius, who said at the event: "Any architect who does not find this building beautiful, had better lay down his pencil." The roof has unobstructed views of the Mediterranean Sea and Marseille.Īccording to Peter Blake, members of CIAM held a "great celebration" for the building's opening on its roof, on a summer evening in 1953. The roof, where a number of theatrical performances have taken place, was renovated in 2010, and since 2013 it has hosted an exhibition center called the MaMo. There is also a children's art school in the atelier.
The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool for children. On those floors without corridors, the apartments stretch from one side of the building to the other, and each has a balcony on the western side. Each apartment lies on two levels, such that the room on one side of a corridor belongs to the apartment that is mostly below the corridor floor, while that on the opposite side belongs to the apartment above. Inside, wide corridors ("streets in the sky") run along the central long axis of every third floor of the building. The building is constructed in béton brut (rough-cast concrete), as the hoped-for steel frame proved too expensive due to the post-war steel shortage. The building also incorporates shops including an architectural bookshop, a rooftop gallery, educational facilities, a hotel that is open to the public, and a restaurant, "Le Ventre de l'Architecte" ("The Belly of the Architect"). The Marseille building, developed with Le Corbusier's designers Shadrach Woods and George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments of 23 different layouts across 12 stories, all suspended on large pilotis. One of Le Corbusier's most famous works, it proved enormously influential and is often cited as the initial inspiration for the Brutalist architectural style and philosophy. The first and most famous of the Unité d'Habitation buildings is in Marseille, France, and was built between 19. Unité d'habitation model apartments have been rebuilt in exhibitions or renovated in their historic style. In 2007 students built a structurally correct full-scale model inside the museum "Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine" in Paris. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York acquired a complete kitchen in 2013.
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A full scale original kitchen, stairs, and other parts of the apartments are stored and displayed in several museum collections around the world. The same model was then on display at Centre Pompidou. In 1986 a full-scale model was constructed at the Badischer Kunstverein by Gernot Bayne based on the survey of Ruggero Tropeano. In the 1980s a team from ETH Zurich surveyed several apartments in Marseille and built several full-scale models for exhibitions in Paris, Karlsruhe, Tokyo and New York. During construction of the Marseille building, a few model apartments were built and furnished for visitors as an exhibition.
The first realizations were built in Paris and Marseille in the 1940s as high-rise concrete structures. In 1920, Le Corbusier started to develop the Unité d'Habitation type, which became influential in 20th century modernism and contemporary residential design in Europe.
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