TY - JOUR AU - Martinelli, Patrizio M. PY - 2019/07/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - House, Street, City: Le Corbusier’s Research Towards a New Urban Interior JF - Interiority JA - Intry VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7454/in.v2i2.57 UR - https://interiority.eng.ui.ac.id/index.php/journal/article/view/57 SP - 129-153 AB - <p>Le Corbusier’s investigations, conducted between the 1910s and the 1930s, were focused on a new relationship between street and building. This research started from texts about the city, in particular, the writings of Eugène Hénard’s. These essays, dating back to 1903-1909, dealt with the necessity of a renewed strategy for the urban street, breaking down the monotony and the problems related to the sequence of buildings and creating a series of places as squares, gardens, and open courtyards: actual urban rooms between streets an buildings. Learning from those texts, Le Corbusier worked on a series of polemical writings about the <em>rue corridor</em>, collected in particular in <em>The City of Tomorrow, Precisions</em> and <em>The Radiant City. </em>A&nbsp;series of projects explored to the extreme consequences the topic: the <em>Dom-ino</em> building principle used for collective housing evolved to the <em>redent,</em> detached from the infrastructure, and the&nbsp;<em>immeuble villa</em>, with its inhabited façades. Finally, the curved&nbsp;<em>redent for t</em>he Plan Obus in Algiers transformed the street itself into a "building as city" flowing in the landscape. The essay follows how Le Corbusier transforms the street and its traditional urban components in interior elements inside the buildings.</p> ER -