The Textbook of Architecture

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Dom-ino

Also called Dom-ino frame, Domino

Le Corbusier’s diagram of 1914 for a standard concrete skeleton: flat slabs on a few columns linked by a stair, to be filled in freely.

Dom-ino frame Open in Models ↗

Rules that use the word

The Dom-ino frame. Build the house as a standard skeleton of flat concrete slabs, a few columns set back from the slab edges, and a stair; everything else (walls, windows, partitions) is infill that can be placed freely.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement.

Nearby in the glossary

Die · Diminution · Dipteral · Dolmen · Dome · Domus · Doric · Dormer