tower to the next; for what purpose? The arteries for traffic would be placed far away from the houses; and the inhabitants, free to disport themselves in the parks among trees planted in ordered patterns, or on the grass or in the places of amusement, would never have the slightest desire to take their exercise on giddy bridges, with nothing at all to do when they got there! The reporter would have it also that the
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LE CORBUSIER, I9I5. TOWNS BUILT ON PILES
The ground level of the town is raised from 12 to 16 feet by means of concrete piles which serve as foundations for the houses. The actual “ground”? of the town is a sort of floor, the streets and pavements as it were bridges. Beneath this floor and directly accessible are placed all the main services, at present buried in the ground and inaccessible—water, gas, electricity, telephone wires, sewers, etc.
town would be raised on innumerable piles of reinforced concrete carrying the streets at a height of 65 feet (6 storeys if you please!) and linking the towers one to another. These piles would leave an immense space underneath the town in which would be placed the gas and water mains and the sewers, the viscera of the city. Perret had never set out his plan, and the idea could not be carried further without a plan.
I had myself put forward this idea of using piles a long time before Auguste Perret, and it was a conception of a
