Maison de la Chine Dorms is located in the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris. The university city was established to provide housing primarily to international students in Paris in 1925 and has now more than 40 dormitory buildings named after different countries. It is well known for its remarkable collection of architecture, such as the ?Collège Néerlandais? (The Netherlands College,1926) designed by Willem M. Dudok, the ?Pavilion Suisse? (The Pavilion of Switzerland, 1930) by Le Corbusier, the ?Maison du Brésil? (Home of Brazil,1954) by Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier, and the ?Pavilion de L?Iran? (Pavilion of Iran,1969) by Claude Parent.
Pavillon Suisse by Le Corbusier
In 1930, Chinese architecture student Yu Ping-Lih in France proposed a Maison Chinoise, or Zhongguo Xueshe in Chinese, as his diploma project since the CIUP had allocated a lot to China without charge. In the year before, the Association for the Realization of Maison Chinoise in the Cité Universitaire de Paris was organized by Chinese students from various universities in Paris and published a manifesto pleading with the Chinese government then to fund such an important project but without success. © Fangfang Tian
Yu?s drawings are now kept in the archive of Southeast University in Nanjing. Finally, in 2017, a design competition was held to produce a proposal for the House of China with the official name of Fondation de Chine. The scheme of FCJZ x C...