Plan of one storey.
At street level a great entrance hall; on other floors the grand staircase and the main corridor.
Ground floor plan: The shading indicates the hanging gardens
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LE CORBUSIER, 1922. A GREAT RENT-PURCHASE SCHEME
The drawings show the arrangement of a croup of 100 maisonettes disposed in five storeys, each maisonette having two floors and its own garden. A communal service provides for all necessities and provides the solution to the servant question (which is only just beginning and is an inevitable social fact). Modern achievement, applied to so important an enterprise, replaces human labour by the machine and by good organization: constant hot water, central-heating.
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"FREEHOLD MAISONETTES"
Mass-production construction of concrete piers and slabs. Cavity walls.
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