Abstract
The problem of mass housing dates back to the fifties as a crisis of the modern movement. Several responses have been proposed through the charters of CIAM where the future of the mass housing construction was in standardization and heavy industrialization in the image of mass production system. This created a separation between the housing itself and its environment. Meanwhile, Fernand Pouillon, far from theoretical debates, was able to find answers to the mass housing production issue by returning to the design (composition) of the traditional city, where urban planning established the art of architecture, and housing with its inner landscape as a part of the city. Through the analysis of the housing estate Diar El Mahcoul of Fernand Pouillon, we will try to understand the modern vision of the future of housing, which were his references, his tools and how did he manage to do it? KEYWORDS: Architectural composition, architecture and urban planning, housing estate and city, mass housing, Diar El Mahcoul, Fernand Pouillon.
Highlights
This mass housing issue dates back to the fifties as a crisis of the modern movement
An intense activity of housing construction was undertaken in order to eliminate slums invading the capital
The answer brought by the architects of the modern movement at the time was the standardization and heavy industrialization of mass housing following the example of the car industry, with compositions based on the layout of the ground plan
Summary
This mass housing issue dates back to the fifties as a crisis of the modern movement. Several international congresses of modern architecture (CIAM) have been organized to solve this problem. Algeria does not escape this crisis as long as it was a French colony at the time. An intense activity of housing construction was undertaken in order to eliminate slums invading the capital. The answer brought by the architects of the modern movement at the time was the standardization and heavy industrialization of mass housing following the example of the car industry, with compositions based on the layout of the ground plan. Fernand Pouillon introduced new ideas and a new vision for the future of the construction of mass housing, which were criticized by most of his colleagues
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