The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

Housing à redents

Le Corbusier’s housing for the Ville Contemporaine and the Ville Radieuse: a continuous slab on pilotis, folded back and forth round open courts so that every flat looks out over park.

Housing à redents Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Modernism

The rules it illustrates

Housing à redents. House the population in continuous slabs raised on pilotis and folded back and forth round large open courts, so that every flat looks over the park and the ground runs unbroken beneath the buildings.