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Unité d'habitation
The Unité d'habitation (, "Housing Unit") is a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. The concept formed the basis of several housing developments designed by him throughout Europe with this name. The most famous of these developments is located in south Marseille.
History.
Unité d'habitation buildings were designed by French architect Le Corbusier. In 1920, Corbusier started to develop the type apartment which became very influential in 20th century modernism and contemporary
more buildings with this name and a very similar design:
- Unité d'Habitation of Nantes-Rezé in 1955,
- Unité d'Habitation of Berlin Westend in 1957,
- in 1963,
- in 1965.
All of them were oriented with the building's long axis running north–south, so the units face east-and-west.
The replacement material (béton brut) influenced the Brutalist movement, and the building inspired several housing complexes including the Alton West estate in Roehampton, London, and