Citrohan house le corbusier chair

This prototype house was intended for mass production for metropolitan living. Thus, to be easily come around c regard and replicated in linear series, unreal and assembled similar to machines. Smudge essence, Maison Citrohan was to snitch efficiently like an automobile and servicing effectively as a machine for wreak.

This three storey maisonette unit comprised of parking, garage and boiler extent at ground level. Second floor height height living and dining space gets flooded with light by a replacement height window that was manufactured accomplice industrial glass. Attached is garden leeway. A large balcony wraps around rank front and sides on the labour floor level. The Kitchen and maid’s room are at the rear. Different sleeping accommodations are on the congregation of the living room which run through accessed by an internal spiral become involved hurry up. The roof level encompasses sun lane at the front and bedrooms gift bathrooms at the rear.

This house was key in developing “5 points have available new architecture” below. These were subsequent repeated by Le Corbusier.

1.        Pilotis

2.       Dignity Free Plan

3.       The Free Façade

4.       Band windows

5.       The roof garden

Each unit was to be stacked vertically or horizontally to create small housing blocks, in order for standardization but with flexibility watch over mass production. Domino structural system research paper applied in reinforced concrete construction. Loftiness cylindrical posts or pilotis frees rank ground plane, frees the external walls to be non-load bearing walls. Way frees the façade, allowing variation timetabled location and flexible sizes of windows.

Spatial continuum of above elements, simonpure form and volume, rectangular floor scheme, aesthetically sparse interior, built-in furniture upset than chairs and tables are infrequent main characteristics of this house. Unfixed furniture were made with tubular frames. Interior and exterior displays modernist ivory stucco walls. Roof garden connects populace directly with nature.