Marseille, France: Le Corbusier, Unite d’Habitation The students take their first big trip out of Paris this weekend and travel all the way down to the south east coast of France: Marsaille. Marsaille is most commonly known as a beach town, but in fact it is second to Paris in population. There lies another famous piece by Le Corbusier, the Unite d’Habitation.
The building, developed with Corbusier's designers Shadrach Woods and George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories, all suspended on large piloti. The building also incorporates shops, sporting, medical and educational facilities, and a hotel. The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool.
Inside, corridors run through the centre of the long axis of every third floor of the building, with each apartment lying on two levels, and stretching from one side of the building to the other, with a balcony. Unlike many of the inferior system-built blocks it inspired, which lack the original's generous proportions, communal facilities and parkland setting, the Unité is popular with its residents and is now mainly occupied by middle-class professionals.
Gastronomique dinner
CUA Paris 2010 took their first big dinner together down in Marsaille, in a picturesque gastronomic restaurant.
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