Unité d'Habitation Berlin

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UNITÉ D'HABITATION

BERLIN

The series leads through the „Wohnmaschine“ ("housing machine") by Le Corbusier, which was built in 1956-58 on the occasion of the International Building Exhibition in Berlin. Besides Marseille and Nantes, the "Unité d'habitation, Type Berlin" is the third residential complex of that kind. A 17-storey high-rise building standing on reinforced-concrete stanchions with 557 apartments, which are accessible via nine centrally located "streets". Corbusier himself describes his residential housing design with the following quote:

In this vertical village
of 2,000 inhabitants
you don't see your neighbor
you don't hear your neighbor
we're a family placed
'in the conditions of nature'

– Le Corbusier –