DÉCOR IN LE CORBUSIER’S NUNGESSER-ET-COLI APARTMENT (PART 1) : ANOTHER ‘HONEYCOMB’

Abstract

This paper analyses the conception process of Le Corbusier’s apartment (1933) to reveal the realization or transformation of the ‘honeycomb as volume’ and the germination of the later ‘honeycomb as frame’. Although the construction method followed the ‘domino’ of columns and slabs that enabled ‘free planes’, the vaulted roof on the top floor transformed it into a more fluid interior space with fewer partition walls, and the various rooms were softly divided by freestanding furniture and revolving doors. The freedom of such ‘equipment’ is one achievement of the‘ honeycomb as a volume’ rather than a ‘dom-ino’.