Le Corbusier’s Cité de Refuge: historical & technological performance of the air exacte

• Luis Manuel Diaz ^[1] ; Ryan Southall ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Brighton

     University of Brighton

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Le Corbusier: 50 años después / Jorge Torres Cueco (aut.), 2016, ISBN 978-84-9048-373-2, págs. 551-567
• Idioma: español
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  • Despite a number of attempts by Le Corbusier to implement the combination of ‘respiration exacte’ with the ‘murneutralisant’ he was never able to test the viability of his environmental concepts in a realised building. The Cité de Refuge,which was built with a more conventional heating system and single glazed facade, is however unique in that unlike the otherpotential candidates for the implementation of these systems, the building, as built, retained a key design feature, i.e. thehermetically sealed skin, which ultimately contributed to the building’s now infamous failure. It is commonly argued that LeCorbusier, however, abandoned these comprehensive technical solutions in favour of a more passive approach, but it is lesswell understood to what extent technical failures influenced this shift. If these failures were one of the drivers for this change,how the building may have performed with the ‘respiration exacte’ and ‘mur neutralisant’ systems becomes of interest.Indeed, how their performance may have been improved with Le Corbusier's later modification of a brise-soleil offers analternative hypothetical narrative for his relationship to technical and passive design methodologies.