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"Sea, Sun And Fun: Georges Candilis’ Researches on Leisure Units (1963–1979)"

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Added in 2014 on the list of French Historical Monuments, the holiday village of Les Carrats, built by Georges Candilis along the Mediterranean coast (1966–1970), is widely recognized as a “timeless model” of the Modern Movement for its grid composition and architectural qualities. Furthermore, as underlined by our previous paper, this village is representative for a wide research on “leisure housing” developed by Candilis from 1963 within his planning mission of the Leucate–Barcarès “leisure unit”. Indeed, on the one hand, in order to meet the expectations of this development program intended for 70,000 to 120,000 summer vacationists, Candilis established urban principles to host different scales and types of accommodation. On the other hand, during his general coordination duty, he had the opportunity, alone or with other architects, to design and build several housing units as well as public or commercial facilities. Candilis summarized these experiments in the book Researches on leisure architecture (1972), by means of theoretical diagrams, views of construction models or achievements organized by scales and types (from horizontal combinations to urbanism). Thus, he raised the Leucate–Barcares project to a theoretical level, as a case study for a new approach of the human environment, matching the needs of the contemporary “leisure society” (as defined by Joffre Dumazedier in Vers une civilisation des loisirs, 1962). Based on a new lecture of Candilis’ writing and archives (partially deficient), this paper aims to reveal this specific research and to assess its status in the architect’s work and within the Post–War historiography
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hal-04424792 , version 1 (13-02-2024)

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Catherine Blain, Laurent Duport. "Sea, Sun And Fun: Georges Candilis’ Researches on Leisure Units (1963–1979)". 17th Docomomo Conference "Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life", Sep 2022, Valence, Spain. pp.258-266. ⟨hal-04424792⟩
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