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1952 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Unité d'habitation image

Modernist style of residential housing

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Unité d'habitation

Paris, Ile-de-France, France · Exact work coordinates

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Modernist style of residential housing

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Field	Unité d'habitation 1952 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Safdie Architects Singapore, Singapore
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1952	Unrecorded
Place	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Singapore, Singapore
Place context	Paris, Ile-de-France, France	Representative site: Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Climate	24°C · 13.7h daylight · 8 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via National Gallery of Canada
Focus	Housing	19 works in corpus
Architects	Le Corbusier	Moshe Safdie
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Le Corbusier	Notable works National Gallery of Canada Salt Lake City Public Library Yad Vashem Habitat 67
Typologies	housing	museum gallery library memorial housing residential complex prefabrication building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass
Carbon signals	housing gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	9 of 9 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.