Architect Richard Rogers has redesigned a flatpack home originally designed by Jean Prouvé as a housing answer for victims of the second world war .
Richard Rogers and Ivan Harbour
The architects’ London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners was asked to adapt French architect Jean Prouvé’s 1944 design and style for use as a holiday house with present day additions. The new version is due to go on display at this year’s edition of Design Miami/Basel, opening next week.
The unique 6×6 design and style was designed by Prouvé exclusively for rehousing civilians in Lorraine, France, following the second planet war. It was 1 of a series of prefrabicated steel, wood and aluminium homes Prouvé developed to tackle comparable difficulties all around the country.
The patterns characteristic a single space with the dimensions reflected in their names, and had been produced to be straightforward to transport, assemble and dismantle.
An additional original illustration, 1 of two surviving versions of the Maison Démontable 8×8, was place up for sale by Galerie Patrick Seguin at Design and style Miami in 2013 for \$2.3 million.
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Roger’s adaptation was also commissioned by Galerie Patrick Seguin, a French art dealer specialising in 20th-century furniture and architecture. The design is primarily based on Prouvé’s unique programs but has cylindrical pods containing a present day kitchen and bathroom, a scorching water technique, and solar panels to make its very own electricity.
Rogers aimed to “preserve the integrity of the unique as a single living room,” so the new additions are housed in satellite structures and a series of “services trolleys”. These modules can be added in various arrangements about the central framework.
According to the gallery, the aim was to develop a prospective blueprint for more adaptations of Prouvé’s other Demountable Residence types.
6×6 Demountable Property, France, 1944
The adaptation of the 6×6 Demountable Residence will be displayed alongside the architect’s Complete Filling Station from 1969 – a prefabricated petrol station with an almost cylindrical prepare and glazed walls.
Interior of 6×6 Demountable Residence, Seoul, Korea, 1944
The two buildings will be portion of the At Big part of the Style Miami/Basel honest in Switzerland from 15 – 21 June.
The gallery, which specialises in architect-designers like Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, is also releasing 5 monographs focused to Prouvé’s Demountable Home designs. The books are the initial in a series of 15 that will be released as three boxed sets amongst 2015 and 2016.
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Kitchen pod 
Bathroom pod 
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Installation diagram one particular 
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Ateliers Jean Prouvé presentation drawing, May 1945 
Marketing brochure for the Ateliers Jean Prouvé, circa 1950-1951 Dezeen
