Le Corbusier & Pierre Jeanneret - Restoration of the Clarté Building, Geneva / Office du patrimoine et des sites, Geneve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Office du patrimoine et des sites, Geneve.

Contributor:

Office du patrimoine et des sites,, Editor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Restoration ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel, [Switzerland] : Birkhauser Basel, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Le Corbusiers erste "Wohnmaschine" saniert

The book describes the story of Clarté, Le Corbusier’s first apartment building, continuing the narrative into the 21st century. The steel skeleton building completed in Geneva in 1930/1932 is a prototype of the Moderne style and a precursor of the Unité d’Habitation. The building was neglected for many decades and not listed as a historic building until the 1990s. In 2007 the external envelope was repaired as the first step, followed by refurbishment of the interior, in which building preservation requirements were taken into account in an exemplary manner. The building log book by the architects and structural engineers is illustrated with numerous new and historic drawings and photographs, and has been supplemented with an account of the building’s history. The renovated building is presented in large photographs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

The historical context of the Clarté site – Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

“A milestone of modern architecture …“ The Clarté building in the creations of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret

Lessons of a rehabilitation

The restoration of the Clarté building, an introduction

Plan of the footings and of the ground slab, by the engineer Robert Maillart, 18 March 1931, modified on 30 April, and again on 30 June 1931

Foundation cross-sections, by the engineer Robert Maillart, 18 March 1931, modified on 30 April, and again on 30 June 1931

Plan of the first and third storeys (actual second and fourth storeys), dated 22 October 1931, plan kept at the gta of EPFZ

Plan of the first and third storeys (actual second and fourth storeys), modified 18 December 1931, plan kept at the gta of EPFZ

Plan of the second and fourth storeys (actual third and fifth storeys), final revision of 24 August 1931, plan kept at the gta of EPFZ

Plan – 1932 detail ground floor and basement scale 1:300

Plan – state 2014 ground floor and basement scale 1:300

Roof terrace scale 1:300

West facade scale 1:300

Transverse section scale 1:300

North facade scale 1:300

South facade scale 1:300

The site installation

The roof

The balconies

The metal facades and windows

The roller blinds and their enclosures

Masonry and reinforced concrete

Travertine cladding

The glass bricks

The technical services

The communal areas

Colours

Chronology

Regulations for co-owners 2008

Excerpts from the Inventory undertaken by the firm of architects Laurent Chenu

Principles for conservation of interior areas – rules of intervention for the owner’s attention

Construction of 1931–1932

Restoration project of 2007–2011

Biographical notes

Select bibliography and sources

Acknowledgements

Photo Credits

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2016).

ISBN:

3-0356-0759-1

OCLC:

979625604