Dall’Unité d’Habitation al Market Hall. Funzioni extra residenziali e link caratteristici/From the Unite’ d’Habitation to the Market Hall. Extra-large functionality and characteristic ties

L'articolo mette a confronto il progetto dell'Unité d'Habitation realizzata a Marsiglia da Le Corbusier e il recente progetto "Market Hall" del gruppo olandese MVRDV dimostrando l'attualità del pensiero di Le Corbusier sul tema della residenza collettiva come entità attrezzata autosufficiente in grado di far fronte alla crescita smisurata della metropoli contemporanea e ai relativi disservizi che ne scatiriscono. With his Unité d’Habitation project in Marseilles (1947-1952), Le Corbusier creates a characteristic tie between the sense of domestic privacy and the convenience of having numerous services annexed to the building which echo the pulsating life of the city. Today the theme introduced by Le Corbusier has become timely once again, as can be seen in a series of projects recently built, first and foremost the Market Hall opened in Rotterdam in October 2014, designed by the architectural firm MVRDV, which already in the past had taken its inspiration from the great twentieth-century master.