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The Offices Also situated on the mid-level of the building, are various offices occupied mainly by professionals such as architects, designers, lawyers and doctors. These spaces are located on one side of the mid-level (the other side being used for the eighteen hotel rooms). The presence of these offices has equally added to the social range with in the building, and the integration of small businesses and habitats appears a harmonic one. 64. The upper ‘street’ of offices on the mid-level. 65. The lower section of the mid-level onto which half of the offices look. 119 66. View under the crèche to the paddling pool on the rooftop of the‘Unité d’habitation’ in Marseille.
The Roof Terrace The roof terrace of the ‘Unité’ in Marseille has become one of its most famous features. It includes a kindergarten and crèche for children of the inhabitants, along with various sports and recreational facilities. 38 But although the terrace is often praised for its dramatic sculptural architecture – often compared in its beauty to an ancient Greek temple, or a ‘Homeric’ landscape 39 – it is not with out its problems. The facilities of the terrace are small and separated from the surrounding population – isolating, in particular, the children of the school, rarely allowing them to interact with the outside world and the natural environment. This lack of interaction with nature seems especially contradictory of Le Corbusier’s principles in which ‘verdure’ is one of the three factors he states as being integral to the design of the human habitat. 40 It’s all very well to have a view onto green space (intended to be provided from terrace), but what about physically experiencing it? To truly appreciate nature one must interact with it. But even the view is beside the point in the case of the children, as they are much too short to see above the tall perimeter wall of the terrace, only the very tops of the distant mountains (if that) are just perceivable from this level. The children of the rooftop school are left to play in a concrete jungle, totally cut off from the natural surrounding environment. The building co-operative have since arranged for a slightly more extensive planted area of small shrubs, running along certain sections of the roof terrace perimeter. 41 The committee were cautious, however, not to add a more significant amount of vegetation, as this would have altered the most renowned and acclaimed part of the building. 121 122 67-70. The roof terrace of the ‘Unité d’habitation’ in Marseille today. Other facilities provided on the roof of the building are a 300m running track circling the perimeter of the terrace, a small child’s paddling pool around 500mm deep, a small gymnasium 42 and an outdoor theatre space. These features are unfortunately more novel than useful – facilities the building description can boast of, despite the fact that they are rarely used. This lack of use may be attributed to the fact that the roof terrace is highly exposed to the harsh Mediterranean sun. The only shade provided on the terrace (which is incidental, rather than considered), is that which is provided by the structures of the gym, the ventilation tower and the elevated room of the crèche. Outside of these areas, one is left out, unprotected from the harsh rays of the sun, and blinded by the extreme glare reflected off the surrounding light grey concrete surfaces.
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Isabelle Toland B Sc. (Arch) Hons.
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Acknowledgements In writing this th
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Preface Observations and Visitation
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Introduction Singular / Plural The
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1. Dynamiting a grand barre on the
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Appendix CHA - Unité Berlin-Charlo
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Bibliography Affron, Matthew + Antl
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