{"id":3074,"date":"2018-01-04T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/203.98.95.105\/~designtel\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:26:39","slug":"hexacube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/hexacube\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexacube"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hexacube module exists as one of the few experimental takes on future-proof, plasticised living along with the more-renowned\u00a0Futuro<\/a>, Bolwoningen<\/a> and Monsanto House<\/a>. The brainchild of\u00a0Georges Candilis and Anja Blomstedt – the former of whom had worked with Le Corbusier on such projects as the Unit\u00e9 d’habitation<\/a>\u00a0– <\/em>the design consisted of two fibreglass hulls with an interior footprint of 7m\u00b2 and was detailed to permit connection of multiple modules\u00a0and thus allow for a more dynamic plan and increased volumes. Originally coming into being in response to a brief that requested ‘space cells’ for a nearby bathing resort, the components were manufactured by Dubigeon Plastiques and are one of the earlier examples of prefabricated, modular construction.<\/p>\n

For more about how these designs came into being, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hexacube module exists as one of the few experimental takes on future-proof, plasticised living along with the more-renowned\u00a0Futuro, Bolwoningen and Monsanto House. The brainchild of\u00a0Georges Candilis and Anja Blomstedt – the former of whom had worked with Le Corbusier on such projects as the Unit\u00e9 d’habitation\u00a0– the design consisted of two fibreglass hulls with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}