Loucheur House

Le Corbusier – Maison Loucheur, 1929

In 1928, the French government passed the “Loi Loucheur”, a financial investment program for public housing that was also intended to stimulate the steel industry. Le Corbusier designed the Maison Loucheur as a response to the policy of industrializing housing.
The house is built with prefabricated, insulating and lightweight elements, the elements are transported and assembled on site in a few days, thus responding in the best way to the economic laws of industrialization.

Maison Loucheur is conceived with different combinations: the original house is 45 m90, it is possible to combine two, three or four to obtain modules to obtain houses of 135, 180 or XNUMX mXNUMX. The use of reinforced concrete fully expresses the concept of Le Corbusier's geometric architecture.

One of the characteristics of the Loucheur project is the thick stone wall as a separation between the two dwellings. Le Corbusier defended its presence with practical arguments, it is a clear separation between the two houses that makes them independent and has the ability to fit better into multiple contexts by adapting with the use of local material.