Hey Guys, the idea of mixed acommodation along the central dividing spine is interesting. Peter raised the idea of doing so. We had discussed the types of accommodation, such as the corprate facilities required close to the function center on the waterfront, the need for student accommodation, and the need for emergency accommodation or services for the underprivileged (as the functions of the food shelter and homeless services are removed under our masterlan).The curved spine acts a divider of space, though the unite d'habition provides a model of mixed housing:
"Le Corbusier chose the ocean liner, which housed, fed, and entertained thousands of passengers in a very restricted space, as the design paradigm for his new concept of communal housing. He undertook to adapt many of his features, from the organization of space to the organization of people's lives within it, to this project.
To make this project economically feasible, he had to work on a very tight scale. Le Corbusier was able to design extremely tight but efficient cells for his high-density housing by adopting the minimal dwelling space of 14m2 per occupant proposed at the 1930 Brussels International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM). Le Corbusier posed the inevitable question: "Will it be possible to live comfortably on the proposed basis of 14m2 of floorspace per occupant?" He answered it by returning to the example of luxury liner staterooms -which took up considerably less space- , as proof of it's viability, without however noting in his argument that residency on a ship was only temporary.
The building consists of 17 floors of which 15 are residential floors, housing some 1600 inhabitants in 337 apartments. Floor 7 and 8 are communal levels, where we find commercial services to provide in daily needs such as shopping, laundry, catering, medical offices and hotel-rooms (for residents 'guests). A public "exterior" gathering place was fitted with large windows. The roof, "deck of the ship" offers place for recreation and relaxation in its gymnasium, 300m track, outdoor stage, and children's play area.
In contrast with these communal, public services, the apartments are strictly private. The apartments are situated around interior streets that provide access to the apartments at the kitchen-level. Because of these interior streets at every third level, it's possible to let the apartments face nature at both sides, which adds to the light- and ventilation-quality of the apartments. Each unit has a mezzanine level as well as a double height space against one fully glazed wall. The units are offset in this pattern, forming a series of vertical interlocking "L"-shapes, each sandwiching a corridor.
Less quality is found in the "interior streets", which are dark, and aren't very pleasant to stay. The only light-sources are the lights above every front-door. Le Corbusier intended to define the building as a neighbourhood. To support this intention the doors, mail-boxes and delivery-boxes are all coloured, in this way all "houses" in the "neighbourhood" will have an own identity. Every "street" has it's own colour of delivery-boxes, in this way the floors become recognisable."
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