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...Dwellings will incorporate the principle of mass-production and of large-scale industrialization... Building "to measure" will cease...
...If we eliminate from our hearts and minds all dead concepts in regard to houses and look at the question from a critical and objective point of view, we shall arrive at the "House Machine," the mass production house, healthy (and morally so too) and beautiful in the same way that working tools and instruments which accompany our existence are beautiful...
Le Corbusier, from Vers une architecture
In a series of CAD operations more or less analogous to the prefabrication and placement of forms in reinforced- concrete construction, generate and duplicate the three basic elements of Le Corbusier's 1915 Maison Dom-ino, namely base, column and slab. Setting appropriate grids, snaps, and geometrical constraints, and switching often between orthographic, perspective and axonometric views, copy these standard elements and distribute them in three-dimensional space, producing a own multi-level structure of your own design. Repeat: Do not reproduce the original Domino House.
As you proceed, regularly use the interactive cone-of-vision controls to set and save views, including one similar to that of the original perspective.
Consider these points: Is it more effective to construct and duplicate a complete floor level consisting of slab and columns, than to work in section on a vertical slice of the structure? Are the columns defined as volumes that stretch exactly from floor to ceiling, or do they penetrate the slabs? Are the columns exactly centered on the blocks, and on each other? Is the column grid square or rectangular and what is the module? Is a different grid setting required when working at the site scale?
Further explorations should include: generating a staircase (using the duplication function with an offset) and adjusting the floor slabs to accommodate it; using Boolean operations to cut into, or add to, the structure; adding partitions using the 3D enclosure mode in combination with the 2D vector tool; warping the entire structure with the deformation command; adjusting the hither and yon planes to effect a cut-away perspective that reveals the structural system by slicing through a column.
Zoom out to a "site" scaled for "mass-production". By duplicating, mirroring, moving and/or rotating the entire object, place several units in a courtyard, row, redans, or other configuration perhaps suggested by Le Corbusier's sketches of Dom-ino clusters.
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