Unite D'habitation

UNITE D’HABITATION
ARCHITECT-LE CORBUSIER
DISHA SINGH
171110218
ABOUT….
 After World War II, the need for housing is an unprecedented high.
The Unite d habitation in Marseille France was the first large scale
project for the famed architect Le Corbusier .In 1947 , Europe was
still feeling the effects of second World War, when Le Corbusier was
commissioned to design a multi family residential housing project for
the people of Marseille that were dislocated after the bombings on
France.
 Completed in 1952,the Unite d’Habitation was the first of a new
housing project series for le Corbusier that focused on communal
living for all the inhabitants to shop, play, live and come together in a
vertical green garden city.
 With nearly 1600 residents divided among18 floors ,the design
requires an innovative approach towards spatial organisation to
accommodate the living spaces as well as the public communal
spaces .Interestingly enough the majority of communal aspect do not
occur within the building rather they are place on the roof .
CONCEPT OF ARCHITECT
 Its transoceanic ,sustainable

society town houses feed and
entertain thousands of
passengers in a very limited
space and project for new
concept of common building
 The unite d’habitation is bulky
and looks like an ocean liner
 This is huge volume seems to
float .
 The horizontal window look like
ship cabin windows.
 On the roof ventilation
sculptures looks like the upper
deck and the chimneys .
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL CONDITIONS
 Designed as a vertical garden city

unlike villa construction .
 Located on Boulevard Michelet , in the
elegant suburbs of Marseille in France
 Designed specifically to rehouse
victims of destroyed neighbourhood of
the city after the second world war
and to put in place an innovative
project.
 It is an early model building capable in
anywhere positioned.
CONCEPT OF SPACE
 Le Corbusier deliver an analogue

system modulor
 Balance series of Fibonacci ,operating
ratios of the human body and use of
modulor in Unite d Habitation.
 Its not just a series of numbers with
inner harmony but it is for a
measurement system governing
lengths ,surfaces and volume and
everywhere maintains the human
scale.
PLANNING
 We see that the commingling of residents

was on the roof which hosted various
activities .The ground Floor and main
corridors were designed resemble the
street of a neighbourhood .
 Bright apartment covering the full width of
the building have sea view mountain view.
 Unlike most housing projects that have a
Double stacked Le Corbusier designed the
units to span from each side of the building
,as well as having a double height living
space reducing the number of required
corridor to one every three floor .
PLAN OF A SINGLE APARTMENT
INTERIOR DESIGN
 The apartment are private .
 Located around internal central corridors. On one side of the hallway you enter the
lower level of an apartment and on the other side you may enter the upper level of the
adjacent interconnected.
 Each unit has two floors connected by an internal staircase leading to the narrow
bedrooms and a double height space ,living room with a wall around windows ,allowing
a complete picture of the landscape.
LIGHT AND SUN PROTECTION
 Innovations which resolve isolation and light

problems with concrete shutter balcony sun
protections.
 Shelter exceeding from the main body building
apartment are covering the whole floor but
allow to natural light and ventilation to be
permeable in both sides and also surrounds the
apartment
 Each part is decorated with a large glass wall
Internal corridors are dark .the only source of
light comes from lights and doors.
LIGHT AND SPACES
BUILDING MATERIALS
 The materials used are reinforced concrete and

glass ,without ornament and elegance .
 This reveals the greatness of possibilities using
reinforced concrete as a natural material.
 Often referred to as the original inspiration of
the Brutalist architecture Philosophy.
EXTERNAL STRUCTURE
 Located in a large park .

 The north side is blind due to cold winds .
 It consist of 337 apartments of different sizes
,placed on the pilotis creating traffic areas below .
 Discloses the structural core ,through the use of
concrete balconies .
 Uses independent concrete structure ,while the
pay elements are prefabricated ,so the apartment
come and slide the frame.
TERRACES
 The roof becomes a garden terrace that has a 300 m running track ,a club ,a
kindergarten ,a gym ,and a swallow pool .Beside the roof, there are shops ,medical
facilities and even a small hotel distributed throughout the interior of the building .
 The united habitation is essentially a city within a city that is spatially ,as well as,
functionally optimized for the residents.

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UNITE D’HABITATION

 Its transoceanic ,sustainable

 Designed as a vertical garden city

 Le Corbusier deliver an analogue

 We see that the commingling of residents

 Innovations which resolve isolation and light

 The materials used are reinforced concrete and

 Located in a large park .

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