Glossary · I
Interior street
Also called rue intérieure, streets in the sky
A wide internal corridor serving flats and shops inside a large housing block, as in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation; the Smithsons’ “streets in the sky” were external versions.
Rules that use the word
The vertical village. House a whole community in one tall slab: stack duplex flats that run through the block with light on both sides, put shops and services on an interior street half-way up, and give the roof to everyone.
Where it appears in the book
A feature of Brutalism architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Inglenook · Inset corner · Insula · Intercolumniation · International Style · Intrados · Ionic · Irimoya