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Rue Franklin, Auguste Perret

This dwelling’s building was built in Rue Benjamin Franklin, Paris, by Auguste Perret (1874-1954) in 1903. It is Perret’s first building construction made out of reinforced concrete. It is also seen as one of the Modern Movement precursor and for Sigfried Giedion, as the first example of free-plan, as a consequence of being constructed between two dividing walls. The building is a traditional reinterpretation of a Parisian apartment block but with a new layout. The exterior wall seams to be a load bearing masonry wall in which openings have been perforated, it disappears the level of the street being substituted by a glass. U shape in plan, facing concave to the street, placed the courtyard on the façade, and allows visual connections between the different rooms.

There is just one dwelling per floor, except the two ground floors, which are commercial. The staircase, elevators and bathrooms are situated on the back, so all the living spaces are placed symmetrically in the centre of the plan facing to the exterior. The kitchen is placed at the entrance near from the service staircases and next to a dividing wall. The repetitive store has two balconies to the street, opposite to the two back upper floors for the terraces. The seventh floor has a terrace a long the whole façade.

The dwelling design is a new way of conception, instead of interior orientation it is oriented to the light and the exterior spaces.

ie School of Architecture lo descubrió en diciembre de 2009

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Dom-Ino System Explanation

The architectonical education of Le Corbusier came from experience garnered in the offices of Auguste Perret (1908-1909) and Peter Behrens.

Perret, as the Greeks did translating the wood construction rules to stone, translated the rules to reinforced concrete, in this times he was the one with widest knowledge of how to use it. From Perret he acquired a firm understanding of reinforced concrete, and from Behrens he learned about designing for industry. He combined these two strains in the Dom-Ino system (1914), made in response to the outbreak of World War I.

Anticipating that destruction caused by the fighting would increase the demand for rebuilding when hostilities ended, Le Corbusier proposed a mass-produced housing scheme that reduced components to a minimum: floor slabs, regularity spaced piers for vertical support, and stairs to connect the floors, Inherent in the design was the possibility of factory fabrication of these parts near the construction site and rapid erection of the frame by crane.

The subdivision of the interior and precise weatherproof enclosure of the exterior would be left to the discretion of the builders so that local preferences could be observed.

Fernando Jimenez Salmeron, BA in Architecture 2008

ie School of Architecture lo descubrió en diciembre de 2009

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