ABSTRACT
Le Corbusier prepared several projects for the construction of housing units, most of which were intended for French territory. Examples of these are the Marseille, Rezé-les-Nantes, Briey-en-Forêt and Firminy projects, to name a few. The Marseille Housing Unit began as a commission made by Raoul Dautry, then Minister of Reconstruction and Urban Planning of France. On this ideal ground rests a cross-linked honeycombed structure made of reinforced concrete. Its axes are separated from each other by 4.19 metres, and it incorporates 337 cells, horizontally and vertically juxtaposed. Le Corbusier has hinted that what exists on the top of the Marseilles Housing Unit is of great relevance. Following the Radiant City project, housing projects once again emerged, with ones whose rooftops featured one single architectural volume as a type of exceptional typology and others which had earmarked the rooftop as a space dedicated to the community and that would come to include one sole architectural volume.
