Carpenters Workshop Gallery has unveiled a model of the Jean Prouve?-designed 6x6 demountable house in a London garden created by landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei.
Maison Démountable will be a permanent fixture of the publicly accessible garden at Ladbroke Hall, the west London arts venue that Carpenters Workshop Gallery moved into in 2023.
Maison Démountable is an early model of Jean Prouve?'s 6x6 demountable house
It forms the centrepiece of a 1,150-square-metre "hidden oasis" envisioned by Giubbilei, a Tuscan-born, London-based designer who won the Chelsea Flower Show in 2014.
The house is an early model of the structure that the late French architect Prouve? developed to accommodate people made homeless at the end of the second world war. It is the centrepiece of a new garden at Ladbroke Hall
Ateliers Jean Prouvé was commissioned to deliver 800 of the 6x6 demountable houses to be installed in Lorraine and the Franche-Comté regions of France.
The design, which became an influential example of prefabricated architecture, features a patented axial portal frame that supports a modular system of wall and floor panels.
The design features an innovative portal frame system
The name, 6x6, refers to the dimensions of the 36-square-metre floorplate, which provided three rooms.
"The earlier models of Prouvé's 'demountable buildings', including Maison Démountable, exemplify the initial stages of his soon-to-be revolutionary innovation in prefabricated housi...