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Name: Notre Dame du Raincy Architect: August Perret Location: Raincy, France Date: 1922-23 Style: Early Modern St. Jean-de-Montmartre Anatole de Baudot Paris, France 1894-1904 Art Nouveau Typology: Churches arch382: architecture history iv // spring 2012 // ibrahim issa // lara saleh This iconic building of the early modern period allowed Perret to “give rein- forced concrete an aesthetic expression. It was the dignification of the material that led to the building’s international recognition.” -Britton “curious amalgam of Gothic, vaguely Byzan- tine and Art-Nouveau- inspired forms” -Ayers “Unlike the usual church orientation, here the front faces east. A tower of 145 feet--a reminder of the traditional bell tower--rises from the first bay of the nave.” -Britton “awarded the contract because by using the new material he [Baudot] was able to underbid all his competitors” -Giedion Restaurant Shops Shops Restaurant Restaurant s Shops hops Restaurants Bank Shops Shops Shops Shops Library u r b a n f a b r i c f l o o r p l a n s Notre Dame du Raincy Notre Dame du Raincy St. Jean-de-Montmartre St. Jean-de-Montmartre
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Name: Notre Dame du Raincy Architect: August PerretLocation: Raincy, FranceDate: 1922-23Style: Early Modern
St. Jean-de-Montmartre Anatole de BaudotParis, France1894-1904Art Nouveau
Typology: Churches
arch382: architecture history iv // spring 2012 // ibrahim issa // lara saleh
This iconic building of the early modern period allowed Perret to “give rein-forced concrete an aesthetic expression. It was the dignification of the
material that led to the building’s international recognition.” -Britton
“curious amalgam of
Gothic, vaguely Byzan-tine and Art-Nouveau-inspired forms” -Ayers
“Unlike the usual church orientation, here the front faces east. A tower of 145 feet--a reminder of the traditional bell tower--rises from the first bay of the nave.” -Britton“awarded the contract because
by using the new material he [Baudot] was able to underbid all his competitors” -Giedion
Restaurant
Shops
Shops
Restaurant
Restaurant
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Shops
hops
RestaurantsBank
ShopsShops
Shops
Shops
Library
urban
fabric
floor
plans
Notre Dame du Raincy
Notre Dame du Raincy
St. Jean-de-Montmartre
St. Jean-de-Montmartre
Symmetry
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program
circulation
sections
entry
detail
side aisles
Notre Dame du Raincy St. Jean-de-Montmartre
Notre Dame du Raincy
St. Jean-de-Montmartre
central nave apse
circulation
The circulation is very similar. One would enter into the central nave andbe distributed into the side aisles circulating through the church.
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Structural Grids: columns vs. colums & shear walls
Concrete framing Column cross-section
After the First World War ended, the parish priest at Le Raincy decided to build a new church, but the country was ruined and the clergy’s coffers were empty. Architect Auguste Perret took the challenge of urgency and budget. Building quickly and cheaply at that period meant building with reinforced concrete. This material was considered shameful and only fit for industrial use, although it deemed to be a magnificent demonstration of the plastic and constructive qualities of concrete and a splendid lesson from Perret who revolutionized the language of architecture.
“vertical infill panels, which are formed form two skins of brick separated by a 7 cm-wide insulating air gap” -Ayers
“Eight internal free-standing columns support a ceiling ring beam which supports a gridded skylight across its diagonal corners.” -Britton
“the first church to have a ferro-concrete skeleton enclosed by thin walls” -Giedion
stain
ed-glass
windows
structure
cultural
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social
Notre Dame du Raincy
St. Jean-de-Montmartre
Notre Dame du Raincy St. Jean-de-Montmartre
Both churches utilize similar earth tones in stained-glass windows
“Saint-Jean was commissioned in the wake of Montmartre’s popula-tion explosion following the village’s annexation into the city of Paris in 1860. The site acquired for the church was on steep gravely terrain, thus hampering traditional construction methods, and it was prob-ably for this reason and ina bid for ecomnomy that Baudot’s proposal was chosen. The architect had realized that reinforced cement, because it could be used as both skeleton and covering (unlike iron), would allow both a lean structure and an economy of materials in the spirit of Gothic construction.
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Longitudinal Sections: Simple vs Complex Geometries Cross Sections: Simple vs Complex Geometries
interior
geometry
flooding light
vaulted ceiling
mezzanine
continuous concrete tracery
light fixtures
one big open space
hierarchial; sub-division of spaces & varying ceiling heights
procession
procession
prooocesssiiooon
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“patented his own system of reinforced-cement construction,
something of a hybrid in that hollow bricks, bound in the cement with wire, formed an integral part of the structure” -Ayers
“The walls are non-load bearing, they
are continuous concrete "tracery" in various patterns contain-ing glass. This grill work actually forms the walls. “ -Britton
Ayers, Andrew. The Architecture of Paris: An Architec-tural Guide. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges, 2004. 260-61. Print.
Britton, Karla, and Auguste Perret. Auguste Perret. London: Phaidon, 2001. Print.
Giedion, S. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard UP, 1967. 326. Print.
innovation
other
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works
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Works cited:
Name: St. Joseph’s Church Architect: August PerretLocation: Le Havre, FranceDate: 1953-57
Name: Design for an Ideal TheatreArchitect: Anatole de BaudotMedium: Oil Painting on Canvas
