Unite D’Habitation
Unite D’Habitation by Le Corbusier was located on Boulevard Michelet, Marseille, France. It was the first large scale project he had ever taken part of as the housing became a necessity after World War II. Due to the bombings on France during the second World War, hundreds of families were left homeless. Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a multi-family residential building, and it would be the first of a series that focused on the ideas of community that would come together in a “vertical garden city”. When completed in 1952, the project would house nearly 1,600 residents. At the time, if one was to design for so many people they would stretch the building out but the site was located on a mixed use, modernist, residential high rise neighborhood. Le Corbusier places the communal areas of the project on the roof, these included places to shop and play. The finished roof was a large garden terrace that included a running track, a club, a kindergarten, a gym, and a shallow pool. The...