Unité d’habitation Berlin 1
Le Corbusier – Unité d‘Habitation Berlin – doors & streets
2019
Among architects, the Unité d’Habitation, a concrete structure containing more than 500 apartments, designed by Le Corbusier, represents a milestone in architectural thinking. The original design was executed in Marseilles, France in 1952. Five more, individually altered Unités followed until 1967. The biggest one was built in Berlin in 1958.
Le Corbusier‘s Œuvre includes a distinctive pallet of colours, that give a special atmosphere to his in- and exteriors. However, for financial reasons, theses colours were not used in Berlin – except on the interior doors, marking the different “streets” as LC calls the access corridors, accompanied by the “ocre” tone for the secondary doors.
I photographed the doors at the same angle and distance producing a line of typologies, making them comparable. Placing several of them together provides an opportunity to create a huge variety of different atmospheres well beyond the photo or the shown objects. This act produces a composition harmonically lead by Le Corbusier‘s colour keyboard.
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