Delirious Guimarães | A reinterpretation on Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles
This is an Architecture Project named "Delirious Guimarães", done in my second year as a student of architecture at University of Minho.
The apartment building is to be an object that arises in a somehow maladjusted scale, assuming an exceptional character in the city's landscape.
The concept is based on one of Le Corbusier's most influential late works with a significant postwar structure. The Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles. The mass housing scheme, although with an elaborate program, is structurally simple: a rectilinear ferroconcrete grid into which are slotted precast individual apartment units, like 'bottles into a wine rack'.
In this project, the concept is inverted - the idea was to replace the units with empty space and to make the apartments the structure itself. Therefore, the apartment building stands out in the city, imposing itself with a very unique image.
