From the main road that joins the center of Pessac, the third largest city in the Bordeaux suburbs, we do not suspect anything. In the 1920s, Le Corbusier would have done fifty houses, to the attention of small classes. That would be the first working and only consists of single family houses of the career of the architect.
A sign says "City Frugès-Le Corbusier". This first name evokes memories for some Bordeaux: Frugès Henry was a wealthy industrialist in the sugar sector. He loved the arts - artists working in Paris and Bordeaux in his house - but did not favor the big bourgeoisie of Bordeaux, which snubbing this progressive and did not like his concept of social economy.
"For the time, make happy workers was a very subversive idea," says Carole Davenne, host of the Municipal House, Le Corbusier, the only accommodation in the city open to the public. The contractor was enthusiastic about the innovative ideas of the architect. In 1924, he offered to design a city of 150 dwellings, 70 to 100 m2 each, which he intends to sell to its workers. The houses, on two levels, are for the modern era: bathroom with shower, toilet interiors, stove, boiler supplying hot water and current for the hot air furnace, etc..
Over eighty years later, in an unvarnished, between a railroad and its bar HLM, a small wooden houses and 1970s, the emerging "modern Frugès Neighborhoods." The initial project was more ambitious, but only about fifty houses have sprung up in sweat and pain. Henry Frugès are engulfed much of his fortune.
The administration made a face. Local entrepreneurs came up against new construction techniques desired by Le Corbusier (cement gun, prefabrication ...). All Bordeaux criticized this "rigolarium Frugès (...), built with pieces of sugar from the grocer."
HOUSES "ZIGZAG"
Two houses called "zigzag" are figureheads of this set of about 2 hectares. In their alignment, the "twins" close the composition of the islet. With each name, a different architectural style: the Skyscraper, the emblem of the neighborhood, dominates all others; the Arcade offers a covered patio overlooking the woods, sort of eye on nature. Opposite, in a corner, Vrinat, named manager of the time, is the house closest to the five points of the architecture of Le Corbusier: piles, roof terrace, open plan, free facade and long windows.
A sign says "City Frugès-Le Corbusier". This first name evokes memories for some Bordeaux: Frugès Henry was a wealthy industrialist in the sugar sector. He loved the arts - artists working in Paris and Bordeaux in his house - but did not favor the big bourgeoisie of Bordeaux, which snubbing this progressive and did not like his concept of social economy.
"For the time, make happy workers was a very subversive idea," says Carole Davenne, host of the Municipal House, Le Corbusier, the only accommodation in the city open to the public. The contractor was enthusiastic about the innovative ideas of the architect. In 1924, he offered to design a city of 150 dwellings, 70 to 100 m2 each, which he intends to sell to its workers. The houses, on two levels, are for the modern era: bathroom with shower, toilet interiors, stove, boiler supplying hot water and current for the hot air furnace, etc..
Over eighty years later, in an unvarnished, between a railroad and its bar HLM, a small wooden houses and 1970s, the emerging "modern Frugès Neighborhoods." The initial project was more ambitious, but only about fifty houses have sprung up in sweat and pain. Henry Frugès are engulfed much of his fortune.
The administration made a face. Local entrepreneurs came up against new construction techniques desired by Le Corbusier (cement gun, prefabrication ...). All Bordeaux criticized this "rigolarium Frugès (...), built with pieces of sugar from the grocer."
HOUSES "ZIGZAG"
Two houses called "zigzag" are figureheads of this set of about 2 hectares. In their alignment, the "twins" close the composition of the islet. With each name, a different architectural style: the Skyscraper, the emblem of the neighborhood, dominates all others; the Arcade offers a covered patio overlooking the woods, sort of eye on nature. Opposite, in a corner, Vrinat, named manager of the time, is the house closest to the five points of the architecture of Le Corbusier: piles, roof terrace, open plan, free facade and long windows.
long dubbed the "Moroccan district" because of the terraces, residents have turned out - more rarely inside - to their liking, according to their means, the constraints of construction and alteration of the time. Until the early 1980s, it was closer to the slum that's trendy.
Since the site is protected, and restorations are monitored closely. The whole is a patchwork amazing. With the investment of a resident passionate Arcade is even a house listed building. Sidewalks and streetlights are original, and most walls were reunited with their original colors: sienna, light green, white, ultramarine blue, burnt umber. Over time, the city becomes more homogeneous. The spirit of Le Corbusier can run again on the roof terraces.
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