Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In 1971, while the Taller de Arquitectura was beginning the project for Walden 7, the team received the commission to build a housing complex in the ville nouvelle of Cergy-Pontoise on the outskirts of Paris. Continuing with the working method that began with the book "Towards a Formalization of the City in Space", the Taller established a construction system for the project of 1000 homes, which they would call Le Petite Cathédrale, based on working with models and creating a clear spatial order. However, unlike the Walden 7 project, this small cathedral began to address the concerns of the Taller members, seeking formal relationships with the architecture present in the Mediterranean city. For the team, in this project, the form is the "what," the final objective, and the "how" is the Cartesian arrangement of the modules. Thus, Le Petite Cathédralebecomes the last example of the team's modular work; an unbuilt project that marks the end of a line of research, that of the city in space, and opens the door to a new attitude in approaching a project, based on form and image.
Authors: Alvarez Arce, Raquel, Bustamante, María Soledad, Sanz Rojo, Mercedes
Institutions: Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
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