Montreal. Habitat 67 Bashny.Net

Habitat 67 - residential complex in Montreal, which was designed by architect Moshe Safdie in 1966-1967.
This is a unique housing project future





I'm sure many of the residents of apartment buildings familiar with the situation when the balcony overlooking the courtyard in a remote and private space on the street for a single family there is almost nothing. This is a typical situation in large cities, where every inch of space is worth the crazy money, and everything is already perceive it as the norm. Meanwhile, in the world there are exceptions to the rule, such as unusual apartment building called Habitat 67 (Habitat-67).



Is a miracle of architectural thought in one of the Canadian cities - Montreal, and is excreted primarily by the fact that every one of its 146 apartments have a separate entrance and a small private patio. Achieve such a result was made possible by an unusual planning of the building - from a distance it can be mistaken for a pile of randomly piled on each other children's blocks.



The design of this house in 1967 developed a 24-year-old architect Moshe Safdie, who carefully thought out layout of apartments and covered walkways between them. The name "Habitat" is translated as "habitat", and indeed, every inhabitant of this building has its own private space: magnificent living quarters with an overview of the three sides of the world and even a private terrace with a miniature garden, located on the roof of a neighbor below.



However, despite the high hopes pinned on the building site at the time of its construction, the house so did not become the "first swallow", and the construction of such buildings is not found continue. The fact is that contrary to the stated policy of affordable and comfortable housing, Habitat 67 became a very expensive place to stay, affordable only to the rich people.



Reinforces the discontent of residents and the fact that the building became an elaborate tacitly recognized venue for training and competitions for parkour, and who also want to constantly look at the windows of jumping figure athletes? But, in spite of some negative aspects, the house did a great job with the role of the local attractions in the Montreal port, look at that many want.









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