Unité d'habitation, Firminy | Le Corbusier
France | 1963 | soft form
« Unité d'habitation, Firminy | Sutton Dwellings »
| Address: | Rue de la Font du Loup, Firminy |
| Work Type: | new built |
| Context: | urban periphery |
| Location: | Part of Firminy-Vert new town on the edge of Firminy |
| Number of Storeys: | 18-storey |
| Type of Building: | tower block |
| Number of Units: | 414 |
Description
A project based on the ‘bottle-rack principle’, in which an open structural frame (the rack) could be infilled with different unit types (the bottle). The building, which was refurbished in 1996 to suit today’s space requirements, has seen a number of alterations including the combining of two adjoining units into one.
References
Gans, D., The Le Corbusier Guide, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987.
Leupen, B., Frame and Generic Space, Rotterdam: 010 Press, pp. 154-158.
Loach, J., 'Le Corbusier at Firminy-Vert', in Le Corbusier : Architect of the Century, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1987, pp. 338-43.
'Renovation de la partie nord et de la façade', L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 2004, pp. 134-36.
Schaffer, S., 'Firminy retrouve son Unité d'habitation', D'architectures, 1996, pp. 30-31.