Piloti
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Pilotis, or piers, are supports such as columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water. They are traditionally found in stilt and pole dwellings such as fishermen's huts in Asi
The Engel House in the White City of Tel Aviv. Architect: Zeev Rechter, 1933. A residential building that has become one of the symbols of Modernist architecture. The first building in Tel Aviv to be built on pilotis.
University of Florida (1979). There is space for lush vegetation under the building. Visible concrete pilotis.
Paul Rudolph's The Concourse (1994) in Singapore is supported on large pilotis.
Erasmus building at Queens' College, Cambridge (1959). Designed by Basil Spence and directly inspired by Le Corbusier.
Unité d'habitation
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The Unité d'habitation is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso. It formed the basis of several housing developme
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…of a building above typical storm surge levels. Le Corbusier used them in a variety of forms from slender posts to the massive Brutalist look of the Marseilles Housing Unit (1945–1952) with a range of bases, inclusions and surfaces. This was part of Le Corbusier's idea of machine-like efficiency where land, people and…
East elevation Unité d'Habitation Marseille (La Cité Radieuse)
Roof terrace of La Cité Radieuse, Marseille
Roof terrace of the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille
Interior of La Cité Radieuse, Marseille