CLAUDE PROUVÉ Experimental Building of SIRH - Recently Demolished | via
Mid-March brought the destruction of an important 1970s building that symbolized the experimental nature of industrialized housing that became popular after World War II as an effort to meet the economic demands of reconstruction. Known as the “experimental building of SIRH”, the eight storey abandoned structure was created by sixty prefabricated modules that served as a prototype for the SIRH Process – a construction process that experimented with the idea of prefabricating flexible standard living cells that could be easily assembled on site in a unlimited amount of configurations to provide for affordable individual or collective dwellings. This process was designed by French architect Claude Prouvé – son of the illustrious French architect, designer and metal worker Jean Prouvé, who is widely known for successfully and beautifully transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture (+)
To learn more, be sure to check out the exhibit “SIRH, Mémoire d’un prototype” that open’s tomorrow, June 7th, at the Maison de l’Architecture Lorraine in Nancy. It will conclude June 13th, 2012. Find more information here
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CLAUDE PROUVÉ Experimental Building of SIRH - Recently Demolished Mid-March brought the destruction of an important...
CLAUDE PROUVÉ Experimental Building of SIRH - Recently Demolished | via Mid-March brought the destruction of an...