Jean Prouvé: A Tropical House
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Jean Prouvé designed the Tropical House in 1949 as a prototype for inexpensive, readily-assembled housing that could be easily transported to France's African colonies.
The house was erected in Brazzaville, Congo, where it remained for nearly 50 years. In 1999, the Tropical House was disassembled and shipped back to France for restoration.
This film documents the re-construction of the Tropical House at the Yale School of Architecture in April 2005. It took a team of four workmen ten days to assemble the house.
An all-metal house inexpensive? This house is an example of how you can achieve something highly complex by engaging in an extreme intellectual exercise .. He was a genius, no doubt!
beautiful
This is beautiful & a delight to watch! You can understand how it went for so much at auction, it's truly an excellent example of mid-century architecture! Only wish that we had something like this to send to those in the Caribbean that lost their homes to Harvey & Irma.
Amazing, love it!
mesmerizing
Given the thermal conductivity of metal this house must have been like a furnace inside during the daytime (when in the tropics). I guess the saving grace would be that it would cool quite quickly once the sun went down. No sign of any plumbing though, nowhere to wash or cook. electricals, light fittings, fans? It looks like it's main role was to boost the French steel industry rather than be a space that is comfortable to live in.
marc de faoite
Why isn't it made out of bamboo if it is supposed to be a 'tropical' house?
Hi ! I just discovered this video and your comment but it seems nobody answered to your question for 4 years so let me explain what I learned about this house as a French Architecture student :
The thermal conductivity of the metal is indeed quite important so in day time it warms up quickly but when the sun disappears it gets cold realy fast as you mentionned. However the house features an empty space in the roof (7:50 - 8:15) to protect from the heat radiations of the top part and all around the house the roof is larger than where the walls are so they are mostly protected from the direct sun rays. The tropical climate is hot and wet wich means the temperature keeps high even during night time so the low thermal resistance of the metal is perfectly appropriated to not keep the heat from the day. I have no clue for the electricals etc. but you probably wouldn't need a fan since the roof shape is made to evacuate the hot air from the empty space I mentionned earlier.
I hope I brought you some relevant elements.
Have a nice day !
@@oltedders actually the purpose of the house was to be entirely able to be taken to pieces and transported by boat so Jean Prouvé tried to produce the perfect design to answer the local climate challenges & the client's will at the same time.
@@squirl843
And bamboo is so permanent. I've never heard of a bamboo house being disassembled and transported by boat.
Ridiciculous!
Imagine if the Congolese government of the time had invested in these for its people; millions would have been uplifted from poverty.
+Pinch Hitter For a micro economy that could probably barely sustain itself without foreign aid, these pre fabs would be poor investment. Was housing in short supply? Like most colonies or former colonies, better returns would be found in infrastructure (bridges, roads, rail, ports, airports/strips, electricity grid), governance and institution building, education and trade. If you were going to do pre fab for the masses, you would look to locally sourced materiels and design your concept around that.
I live in tropical and humid climate (rains plenty in monsoon) and I reckon the noise of rain on that metal roof without noise dampening insulation would be annoying. I love this concept of pre fabs though.
DerAngriff
Yeah, I agree with you!