About Marseille apartment

French architecture was severely damaged and suffered heavy losses in World War II. The living conditions in France before the war were quite tense; After the war, housing construction became the top priority.

In the early years after the war, because France did not start urban planning during the war like Britain, there was a great contradiction between emergency reconstruction and urban planning. Sometimes, it's like going your own way. This problem didn't get better until the early 1960s.

In the second half of 1950s, France adopted a series of laws and regulations on regional development and regional planning, and built many houses with prefabricated industrial system with the support of the state. Among them, Toulouse-le-Milla, funded by the state, has100000 residents, and the types and combinations of houses are various, thus announcing that a large number of French residential buildings have entered the prefabricated industrial system from prefabricated components. This enabled France to quickly solve the serious housing problem.

2. Features

The difference between Marseille apartment and other houses is mainly reflected in the following two aspects.

The first is the house designed from the perspective of urban planning. It embodies Corbusier's idea of forming the most basic unit of the city as early as 1920s. The seventh and eighth floors of the building are shops and public facilities, including bakeries, grocery stores, restaurants, hotels, pharmacies, laundry rooms, barbershops, post offices and hotels. There are kindergartens and nurseries on the seventeenth floor and the roof. There is a children's playground and an adult gym on the roof, and a 300-meter-long runway is arranged along the breast wall. These facilities enable more than 300 families not only to live in them, but also to meet their basic needs in daily life.

Second, after the formwork of the building was dismantled, the wall surface was not treated, and the rough concrete with holes and stains was directly exposed, which seemed to be unfinished. This is very different from the smooth glass-metal curtain wall popular in the United States after World War II. This kind of wall gives the building a rough temperament. When using reinforced concrete, Corbusier no longer highlights the characteristics of industry and machinery, but deliberately keeps the traces left by manual operation and pursues a rough, primitive and simple sculpture effect.

The unique functional composition and unique surface texture make Marseille apartment unique and go down in history.