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Charlotte Perriand, Gaston Regairaz/AAM
Arc 1600 site plan, detail, July 17, 1968.
Print.
AChP 67.256.
Zone B, preliminary agreement, elevations,
July 17, 1968.
Print.
AChP 67.258.
Right-hand page
Perspective drawing of the site, October 1970.
Promotional document for the Cachette building.
AChP.
Site plan, 1972.
Illustration reproduced in Jean-François Lyon-Caen,
Catherine Salomon-Pelen, eds,
Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel,
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes/Fonds AAM/
Archives départementales de la Savoie.
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret
Durand subdivision in Oued Ouchaia in Algiers, 1933.
Mockup of the project.
FLC.
Le Corbusier
Maison de la culture in Firminy, 1953–61.
Photograph Olivier Martin-Gambier/FLC.
Georges Candilis, Alexis Josic, Charlotte Perriand,
Henri Piot, Jean Prouvé,
Ren Suzuki, Shadrach Woods
Competition for the development of a winter
sports resort in the Belleville Valley, 1962.
Cells extended by terraces
arranged in tiers on the slope.
AChP.
Charlotte Perriand, Alain Bardet, architecture
Cachette residence, 1969–70. Arc 1600.
Photograph Tom Mauron-Stéphane Ghez/Cinétévé.
Charlotte Perriand, Gaston Regairaz, architecture
Cascade residence, 1967–69. Arc 1600.
Photograph Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Charlotte Perriand, Gaston Regairaz, architecture
Versant Sud complex, 1969–75. Arc 1600.
Photograph Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Charlotte Perriand
Opposite, study mockup of a staircase with
offset steps for the duplexes under the roof of
the Belles Challes-Lauzières residences,
October 1975.
Photographs Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Below, study mockup of a standard cell
of the Pierra Menta residence, 1979.
Photograph Peter Myburgh/AChP.
Right-hand page
Study mockup of an apartment
in the Miravidi residence, 1974.
Photograph Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Study mockup of a duplex
in the Miravidi residence, 1974.
Upper floor, seen in profile, without the kitchen.
Photograph Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Charlotte Perriand
Cascade residence, 1967–69.
Curved wooden partition inside the living room.
Photograph Pernette Perriand-Barsac/AChP.
Left-hand page
Living room with two “breathing closets”
connected by a countertop desk with lamp
built into the upper rail.
Adjustable table, cross-shaped metallic leg
assembly with jackscrew and round enameled sheet
metal top. Elephant stool by Sori Yanagi.
Photograph Éric Dessert/
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,
Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel.
Type 4 storage unit with plastic drawers,
combined with a type 2 closet.
Photograph Catherine Taillefer.
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Facilities, a new version of the site plan, the result of a compromise, was adopted on
January 15, 1968. 137 It contained the first studies for building B1 (La Cascade) conducted
in parallel by Perriand and Regairaz. The site plan was once again modified in February–
March 1968. The capacity of the buildings in zone F (Versant Sud) was reduced from 1,000
to 600 beds. Originally composed of closely packed, cascading chalets, Versant Sud was
now grouped into small buildings of varying sizes arranged in four tiers down the slope.
The composition was similar to a sort of subdivision on the outskirts of the resort. To meet
the various constraints on the center of Pierre Blanche in front of La Cascade, Perriand
proposed a group of buildings with a ground floor and three upper stories arranged in six
tiers down the slope. Straddling each other, these were to be off-centered so as to create
large terraces facing south and west. The height of the buildings and their position on
the terrain would ensure that they could not be seen from the balconies of La Cascade.
During the general meeting of the SMA with Perriand and Regairaz on March 4, 1968, an
agreement reconciling “the different interests was finally reached” 138 ready to present to
the Higher Council of Architecture. The site plan was updated accordingly in July 1968. 139
Withiin just a few months, the project’s parameters had changed three times. Godino was
able to advance only one step at a time, constantly improvising in the fog of financing and the
injunctions of the regulatory authorities. Perriand asked him for detailed programs for each
building so that she could draw up the urban development plan and keep to the schedule.
could not handle the melting snow and the runoff infiltrated the foundations of the B2 building. 304
The glass doors of the entrances broke three months after the opening 305 and the repairs of La
Cascade had still not been completed by the summer vacation of 1970. Several owners complained
about missing parts and fittings in the studios or apartments and refused to pay the last installments.
“This state of affairs is extremely harmful for the resort,” 306 the real-estate department warned.
The sales director complained to his counterpart at the developer’s: “As of today, nothing has been
done. I find this particularly shocking and unacceptable considering the sales situation.… In a
large number of apartments it is still raining in. There is no doubt that this will most definitely not
facilitate the sales that could otherwise have been made in the July–August period. I must ask you
to intervene once again, and very energetically, with Monsieur Rey-Millet that he might deign to
assume his responsibilities as architect.” 307 The design of the interior architecture was not spared
criticism. “As a saleswoman, I can assure you that the curved Seguet panels are not liked and
that most buyers ask that they be replaced by rectangles. The corner as it stands is considered an
unaesthetic dust trap, impossible to furnish and a waste of space. On several occasions, I personally
have been asked to have these curved partitions modified.” 308
Today, La Cascade is considered a model of originality among the other buildings at Les
Arcs. Its design would make a strong impression. The main buildings of Arc 1600, the
Cascade and Cachette hotels, the Cascade and Versant Sud residences, would reference
many of its features, including the terraces, slanting façades, tiered levels, staggered cells,
interior architecture, and the furniture and fittings.
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