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| Dom-Ino House | |
|---|---|
%2c_1914-15%2c_Maison_Dom-Ino.jpg) Drawing of theMaison Dom-Ino | |
| General information | |
| Location | Unlocated |
| Completed | 1914-15 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Le Corbusier |
Dom-Ino House (French:Maison Dom-Ino) is an open floor plan modular structure designed by the pioneering architectLe Corbusier in 1914–1915.[1][2] This design became the foundation for most of his architecture for the next ten years.[citation needed]
The Maison Dom-ino was a constructional system prototype for the mass production of refugee housing units during World War I that Le Corbusier developed in response to theGerman invasion of Belgium in 1914. The name is a pun that combines an allusion todomus (Latin for house)[3] and the pieces of the game ofdominoes, because the floor plan resembled the game and because the units could be aligned in a series like dominoes, to makerow houses of different patterns.
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This model proposed an open floor plan consisting of concrete floor slabs supported by a minimal number of thin,reinforced concrete columns around the edges, with a stairway providing access to each level on one side of the floor plan. The frame(s) was to be completely independent of the floor plans of the houses thus giving freedom to design the interior configuration. The model eliminatedload-bearing walls and thesupporting beams for the ceiling.
In the first volume of hisŒuvre complète (1929), Le Corbusier specifies leaving the choice of the size and layout of the frame(s) to inhabitants.[4] The determination of the formal arrangement of building elements (footings, columns, floor slabs, stairs, infill) would thus be deferred beyond the architect as traditionally conceived according to theRenaissance ideal. This gives grounds for Le Corbusier's vision to be considered as one of the firstmodernist architectural projects, in that it marks a radical departure from that previous tradition: inhabitants, rather than the architect, would motivate the process of the becoming of architecture. The architect would simply develop the possibility for that becoming.[5] In this way, the Maison Dom-ino prefigures the Open Form approach (1958) that the Polish architect couple Oskar and Zofia Hansen promulgated in the second half of the twentieth century, having elaborated the modernist essence of Le Corbusier's vision into a comprehensive theoretical, design, and pedagogical program.
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