Immeuble Clarté

The Maison Clarté is a residential building designed by Le Corbusier in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1930-32.

The client was the Swiss industrialist Edmond Wanner, who also worked as a building contractor and, therefore, the necessary quality of welding works was able to register for the steel construction. This the standing on the height of his fame first Le Corbusier commissioned thus to design a modern house. The steel-framed houses 45 duplex apartments in the then current design standard. The modular system of order, the bands of windows, the serial production illustrate the demands of 1928 he co-founded Congrès International d' Architecture Moderne and leave the house so be the forerunner and prototype of a modernity that could be later than prevail in the 50s worldwide - and this is often criticized today.

Specifications and urbanistic situation

The house, situated on the edge of downtown, oriented his apartments with views of Lake Geneva. In a tie are on each of the two staircases, two apartments per floor. The herauskragenden in each second floor ceilings give the duplex apartments each have a spacious balcony. Curtis describes it " ... rise from the complex road structure like a beached ocean liner. " This radicalism, the Pavillon Suisse and Maison de Refuge shares it with the almost simultaneously built works, is mediated by the ground floor area that the old Stadtgrungriss shall be adapted or anempfunden and the small stitch alley is where the house is. There are practice and law office and a semi-circular front building forming, a restaurant.

Use

The house, built for a wealthy user base is 2007-09 extensively renovated after it was in an externally worrying rusted condition.