1. AROUD THE GOLDEN RATIO CAMILLE & PIERRINE LA CITE RADIEUSE

2. La Cité Radieuse We can see this architecture in Marseille, a city in the south of France. The Architecture

3. Generalities This residence was built between 1945 and 1952 by Le Corbusier. It’s an apartment building which counts 337 flats 1887-1965

4. The “Cité Radieuse”also known as a "dwelling unit" is actually a residence built in the form of bars on stilts. Designed by Le Corbusier, the real "city within a city" was built between 1945 and 1952 near the Boulevard Michelet in Marseille. In over 360 duplexes separated by real "internal streets" on the roof, a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a nursery school as well as an open-air theater. There are numerous coffees, restaurants, hotels, businesses, grocer's shops, bakeries, etc. … At the beginning, everybody was hostile to the construction of such a building.For the realization of the “Cité Radieuse” in Marseille, Le Corbusier's used a tool of his invention. In architecture, a module is a measure used to determine the relationship between the proportions of parts of a building. Description

5. Its measurement system, called Modulor is based on the proportions of the human body. In “the Cité Radieuse”, the golden ratio is omnipresent, the roof height and the total height is proportional in relation to phi. The proportions determined by the Modulor are directly related to the number of gold. The figures used by Le Corbusier are approximate values ​​. The Modulor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99Zz_WFsVI The link with the Golden Ratio