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It might look humble, but legendary architect Jean Prouvé pushed the boundaries with the project you see here. For decades now, the architecture world keeps coming back to the concept of prefabricated housing, buildings designed for repeatable manufacturing and ease of transport, built and shipped at scale just like the many other mass produced goods that define the times we live in.⁠
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Though it feels like a very modern idea, its origins really took shape in the post-war period, when there was an urgent need for cheap, mass housing and an appetite for fresh solutions that architects like Jean Prouvé were more than willing to experiment with. Prouvé came up with dozens of prefabricated designs in this period, often with a strong emphasis on a lightweight aluminium structure similar to what you would find on aeroplanes, the mass production of which had been recently perfected during the war.⁠
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One of these designs was the ‘Bungalow du Cameroun’ - a dwelling Prouvé had devised specifically for the climate of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was simple, easily assembled and surprisingly ingenious in its methods of passive climate control. Many were built including some larger variants and some remain in Cameroon where they’re still in use to this day.⁠
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This example was returned to France by noted Prouvé aficionado Eric Touchaleaume of @galerie_54 who maintains a collection of Prouvé’s original surviving works, restoring them to original specifications so they can be preserved for future generations.⁠
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Photos by @maqse for @type7⁠
Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7

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Ciao 2024 !! Belle année 2025 à tous malgré l’augmentation du cheval fiscal en moyenne 30% de plus en France ! (60% de plus pour la Corse 😭) 🏎️💨

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Encore un énorme merci pour ce premier apéro Mistral !! À refaire très vite !! 🏎️💨
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Thanks @theo_masurel for inviting me at the first @mistralmotors after work meeting. I spent a good time drinking beers, meeting new people and talking cars with friends

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C’est une nouvelle page qui se tourne pour MM, après 6 mois d’activité nous déménageons ! Nous quittons la Zone d’Activités de Signes pour installer les bureaux à Marseille et les voitures à la Penne-sur-Huveaune. De nombreux projets sont en cours, stay in touch ! 🏎️🏁
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La Cité Radieuse was completed in Marseille in 1952, but it was only the first to be built from Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation blueprint. The architect often held that his works weren’t site specific, but replicable wherever they were needed. In total, five of these were built across France and Germany. Most of them were built to stricter constraints than Corbusier would’ve liked though, so the Marseille example is considered the truest to its original intent.

The building’s packaging is easily its most impressive feat. While there are a number of different layouts across its 337 apartments, most of them span the full width of the building, so they’re sunlit at both ends. They’re accessed by five “streets” as Corbusier called them, which were corridors that run the full length of the building. They’re built deliberately wide however, emphasising their function not simply as access passages, but as important communal spaces. The apartments are packed around these streets like Tetris pieces. Each front door opens to a reception room, which then leads either up or down to a much larger living space.

The rooftop is its most exciting feature however, and it’s where Corbusier believed the community would really be fostered. There you’ll find a club, a kindergarten, a shallow pool, various gym facilities and even a running track. The building was, and still is, widely celebrated by architectural scholars. A strong case can be made that brutalism and the broader high rise living phenomenon of the 20th century began right here, which isn’t going to endear it to the many critics of those movements.

In truth, the decades have exposed the various flaws and virtues of Corbusier’s thinking. Framing the needs of human beings in entirely mechanical terms is inadequate, if we’re being charitable. The way the building was designed however remains a masterstroke of spacial engineering, in ways that many of its brutalist descendants can’t claim to match.

Photos by @maqse for @type7
Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7

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“La Cité Radieuse” - the radiant city. A name doesn’t get much more optimistic than that, but then again we’re talking about a pivotal work by one of modern architecture’s most audacious figures; Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known by his stage name, Le Corbusier.

Corbusier was never one for small measures. Virtually every one of his designs, many of which were never even built, prescribed for complete societal overhaul. He refused to appeal to nostalgia or fashion trends, choosing to approach architecture purely as an engineering problem. His view of the house was that it should literally be “a machine for living in”, in which the mechanical needs of an ordinary human being should be met in an efficient and standardised manner.

Corbusier’s “Unité d’Habitation” idea was billed as the ultimate machine for living in. He began developing it in the 1920s, but it would be a long time before it could be realised. For much of his interwar career, Corbusier’s built work consisted of private commissions, producing a few well known villas for rich clients. However, during Europe’s post-war reconstruction period, demand for housing was understandably high and a unique appetite existed for radical proposals. La Cité Radieuse was finally given the green light in 1952.

Its design featured not only apartments, but shops, a restaurant, a school, a gym, even a hotel. Essentially, he identified the basic elements of a typical village, bordered them into standard modular blocks and packed them on top of one another to form a neat, self sustaining community. The entire thing floated on great concrete legs, aloof from the ground as if to emphasise its independence from the outside world.

Photos by @maqse for @type7
Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7

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La Cité Radieuse was completed in Marseille in 1952, but it was only the first to be built from Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation blueprint. The architect often held that his works weren’t site specific, but replicable wherever they were needed. In total, five of these were built across France and Germany. Most of them were built to stricter constraints than Corbusier would’ve liked though, so the Marseille example is considered the truest to its original intent.

The building’s packaging is easily its most impressive feat. While there are a number of different layouts across its 337 apartments, most of them span the full width of the building, so they’re sunlit at both ends. They’re accessed by five “streets” as Corbusier called them, which were corridors that run the full length of the building. They’re built deliberately wide however, emphasising their function not simply as access passages, but as important communal spaces. The apartments are packed around these streets like Tetris pieces. Each front door opens to a reception room, which then leads either up or down to a much larger living space.

The rooftop is its most exciting feature however, and it’s where Corbusier believed the community would really be fostered. There you’ll find a club, a kindergarten, a shallow pool, various gym facilities and even a running track. The building was, and still is, widely celebrated by architectural scholars. A strong case can be made that brutalism and the broader high rise living phenomenon of the 20th century began right here, which isn’t going to endear it to the many critics of those movements.

In truth, the decades have exposed the various flaws and virtues of Corbusier’s thinking. Framing the needs of human beings in entirely mechanical terms is inadequate, if we’re being charitable. The way the building was designed however remains a masterstroke of spacial engineering, in ways that many of its brutalist descendants can’t claim to match.

Photos by @maqse for @type7
Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7

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