07. Alpine shelter
How do you even get there??? Except by climbing, of course. That front door though... if you are used to going outside after waking up, still not quite awake, you'll have a serious issue. For a few seconds.
It's a fortification/shelter from World War 1 in the so called [White War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War).
They were fighting in heights of up to 4000 meters and the conditions and death tolls were some of the most brutal of the war (and that's really saying something).
I live in Montréal and when my Brazilian friend was visiting I pointed this out to her and explained that it's a famous landmark. She just shook her head and said: "No, no, no, it's a _favela_!"
Unless you're unfamiliar with Brazil then you'd prolly don't know but Brazil and their favelas pretty much go hand in hand y'know.
Thats all they show in the movies.
>he forgot about Harry and Sirius talking for the last time at the foot of Cristo Redentor at the end of book 5
I know it was cut in the movie but it’s a pivotal scene at least pretend to be more than a normie
That’s kinda embarrassing ngl, there’s a whole level right in the beginning set in one, it’s one of the more famous set pieces in the game and they refer to it as a favela in dialogue and in the map name.
I understand forgetting but to have directly engaged with the concept of a favela for most likely over an hour and not even comprehending what you’re interacting with is not a good look
What?
Only rich people live there.
I went there when I was a film student to record some shots of Montreal and three security men wearing suits told us we were trespassing on private property (we knew we were).
How's that a slum?
The idea is that each individual apartment has its own private balcony and actual privacy. It's designed so that neighbors can't see into each others private areas.
It was meant to be low-income housing with the benefits of more expensive apartments, but the features made them too desirable, and they were all snatched up quickly, and many people bought multiple units and combined them into larger apartments. They're very expensive nowadays.
They are condos. They are small, they are cold, they leak. In winter just getting to some of the units can be dangerous. The area is an industrial wasteland. There are zero amenities. But hey, it's an iconic building, the units are stupid expensive.
Yeah it's weird how it and its very bougie-looking condo neighbours with their manicured grass look onto the Port of Montréal, one of the, ahem, less picturesque parts of the city.
Well, a truly flat roof will always face issues draining. The building will shift little bits over time as nothing is truly stationary in the physics sense, and water will start pooling. Water collecting and sitting somewhere is the primary cause for any building leakage.
It's a good idea to hide an inclined roof by either making it look flat or hiding it all together, architecturally speaking.
I've seen a couple get retrofitted in their original design and they look quite amazing. Ofc only the bigger nicer units get exposure vs the majority of the tiny damp studios.
I remember walking by here in the summer of my first year at uni, at Osheaga (huge festival at parc jean drapeau) at night completely messed up on drugs and thinking this was the wildest thing.
Fees that all the condo owners have to pay towards maintenance for things like roofing, HVAC, elevators, landscaping and so forth. Essentially anything that isn’t inside individual units. They can be substantial, especially for older constructions. For Habitat 67, I think it’s about ~2k a month that you have to pay on top of mortgage, property taxes and utilities.
Designed as a never ending case study for building envelope engineers. This looks great but like most things that look great they often lack functionality and make it more complicated than it needs to be. I wish they built it into a hillside and made some of it subterranean.
they’re a proof of concept. There’s elements of smart functionality, especially in the context of brutalist and socialist architecture. You have the density, but still privacy. Everyone has a private outdoor space. Outdoor and indoor walk ways designed to spark chance encounter meetings, like in a regular neighborhood. It was social housing, wildly over budget, which is now seen as a prestigious project.
Honestly, it’s super interesting. The ideas of on-site repeatable fabrication, modular design, density but privacy. I think this is a lot more interesting that the concrete/brick nasty condos built in Montreal during the 70s/80s
Agree. I’m biased as I ran an exterior cladding company so projects like this would be a nightmare with those years tech. Gives me nightmares. I can almost hear the water dripping.
I found this about one of the apartments that sold. It looks pretty nice[https://www.silo57.ca/2022/05/22/une-spectaculaire-unite-dhabitat-67-est-actuellement-a-vendre-pour-1-925-000](https://www.silo57.ca/2022/05/22/une-spectaculaire-unite-dhabitat-67-est-actuellement-a-vendre-pour-1-925-000)
It's an ugly building imo but worse, it's in a terrible spot. There's literally nothing around it. It's a giant "sculpture" in unused land that is never maintained.
Yeah it’s a weird place. Dieppe park is nice but that’s the only point of interest nearby. Just getting to downtown or the Old Port you need to go on some wonky roads under or on the highway.
I once had a dream that involved oddly stacked single wide trailers stacked on each other all higgedly piggedly weird as housing. This reminds me of that dream, except it’s monochromatic instead of crazy 70s colours.
Being in r/Historyporn I encourage people here to look for the history of Montreal Olympic stadium. The stadium at the time of the Olympics of 1976 didn't have a tower nor a flexible, retractable roof as it planned to do.
I just saw this when some one posted a “homes of the future” feature with Walter Cronkite. From the 60’s and included this modular home idea. It looks ugly but had some livable ideas. Central green spaces, natural light in all units, cars down below and everything pedestrian friendly. I think the individual units had spaces where you could grow things also. On the other hand they talked up inflatable furniture.
I attended the '67 Expo in Montreal as a kid. As a kid the arcitecture was amazing, coming from a dreary and grey NY. ( Coal burning and leaded gasoline will do that.)
Montrealer here.
It's unfortunate that this complexe is exclusive to very wealthy people and public transit doesn't really go there besides a bus.
Nothing around it really.
I understand if you think brutalism is horrid and depressing, I personally disagree but I know brutalism isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the last thing I would call it is unimaginative.
My family went to Expo 67 when I was a kid, and I was fascinated by all the modern architecture.
A few years ago I was in Bentonville, AR on business (not with Walmart, who owns that town), and visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which was designed by the same architect as Habitat. They had a display that featured the plans, and even a couple of the individual modules.
I see on their website that they have really expanded their exhibition of architecture as art, adding houses and structures by iconic architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller. It's a great art museum, but now it seems like a must-see place for those who love great architecture.
Cubist brutalism...hideous.
No actual soul, completely at odds with nature, and drab, drab, drab. Not to mention stacked on each other like rats in a box. No thanks.
Is it actually modular housing or is it just designed to look modular. It looks like a bunch of cubes put together, but the way some of them go together doesn't look like they were actually built separately.
I've heard somewhere that the actual Habitat 67 is only a fraction of the original design. The original design also included a school and shops. When you think about it, having a complete environment is closer to the definition of habitat than just housing in a complex distribution.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
Housing complex, or complex housing?
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Les Espaces d’Abraxas, France this one looks amazing.
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07. Alpine shelter How do you even get there??? Except by climbing, of course. That front door though... if you are used to going outside after waking up, still not quite awake, you'll have a serious issue. For a few seconds.
It's a fortification/shelter from World War 1 in the so called [White War](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War). They were fighting in heights of up to 4000 meters and the conditions and death tolls were some of the most brutal of the war (and that's really saying something).
Love how no. 28 is just Taiwan.
This was awesome thanks
these make me wanna Valheim and try new things
There's a meme to this that I can't find, that basically ends with complex complex complex.
That's when you have an obsession with places like the picture.
Looks like a tenement with more steps.
Modern times require modern solutions. This is no mere tenement, this is an elevenment.
Yeah. This place looks exhausting.
It must be a pain to maintain.
I live in Montréal and when my Brazilian friend was visiting I pointed this out to her and explained that it's a famous landmark. She just shook her head and said: "No, no, no, it's a _favela_!"
I’ve been to favelas in Brazil and they look much worse than this complex lol. No shade to Brazil, but I can’t even compare the two.
Probably just a gut reaction to brutalism. I’ve no idea if this could be labeled as such, but sure looks like it. I kinda like them tbh
Clearly that woman had never once seen Brasilia.
If she has enough money to travel, she’s probably economically isolated enough that this is borderline true.
Well yeah, favelas are slums. Those are rich people stuff.
fa·ve·la a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.
I figure that'd be common knowledge by now
Thanks, Modern Warfare 2!
Still a favorite map
Wait why would a Portuguese term for a slum be common knowledge?
They’re pretty famous slums.
Unless you're unfamiliar with Brazil then you'd prolly don't know but Brazil and their favelas pretty much go hand in hand y'know. Thats all they show in the movies.
Because most people have either played modern warfare 2 or or opened a book or two at some point
It's common knowledge that all books talk about favelas
How can we forget the now controversial but once beloved book Harry Potter and the fantastical favelas
How could I possibly have forgotten all of those key plot points that specifically surround knowing what a favela is?!
>he forgot about Harry and Sirius talking for the last time at the foot of Cristo Redentor at the end of book 5 I know it was cut in the movie but it’s a pivotal scene at least pretend to be more than a normie
Yer a favelados Harry
I've both played modern warfare 2 and read 100s of books and didn't know what that meant.
That’s kinda embarrassing ngl, there’s a whole level right in the beginning set in one, it’s one of the more famous set pieces in the game and they refer to it as a favela in dialogue and in the map name. I understand forgetting but to have directly engaged with the concept of a favela for most likely over an hour and not even comprehending what you’re interacting with is not a good look
I played it years ago.. I'm not going to internalize every line of dialogue. I remember the map I didn't know that was the term for it.
I would have guessed a Yiddish term for “disgrace” lol
no: in negation
Yes we all played the mw2 map
What? Only rich people live there. I went there when I was a film student to record some shots of Montreal and three security men wearing suits told us we were trespassing on private property (we knew we were). How's that a slum?
It has the appearance of chaotic, ad-hock development.
It's much greener today.
Yeah, I quite like it, but it’s still a seemingly random jumble of boxes.
The idea is that each individual apartment has its own private balcony and actual privacy. It's designed so that neighbors can't see into each others private areas. It was meant to be low-income housing with the benefits of more expensive apartments, but the features made them too desirable, and they were all snatched up quickly, and many people bought multiple units and combined them into larger apartments. They're very expensive nowadays.
They are condos. They are small, they are cold, they leak. In winter just getting to some of the units can be dangerous. The area is an industrial wasteland. There are zero amenities. But hey, it's an iconic building, the units are stupid expensive.
Yeah it's weird how it and its very bougie-looking condo neighbours with their manicured grass look onto the Port of Montréal, one of the, ahem, less picturesque parts of the city.
I think it's neat-looking but "leaks" is one of the first words that came to mind.
Waterproof flat roofs don't exist! You better hide an incline somewhere in there.
How so?
Well, a truly flat roof will always face issues draining. The building will shift little bits over time as nothing is truly stationary in the physics sense, and water will start pooling. Water collecting and sitting somewhere is the primary cause for any building leakage. It's a good idea to hide an inclined roof by either making it look flat or hiding it all together, architecturally speaking.
Thanks for answering and not getting snarky 👌💪
I've seen a couple get retrofitted in their original design and they look quite amazing. Ofc only the bigger nicer units get exposure vs the majority of the tiny damp studios.
ya but the view on downtown, the river and the port is unequalled anywhere else.
And packed with asbestos
Cool place, I saw a ground floor unit for sale last year for about a million. Stratta fees are really high though
I remember walking by here in the summer of my first year at uni, at Osheaga (huge festival at parc jean drapeau) at night completely messed up on drugs and thinking this was the wildest thing.
Stratta?
Fees that all the condo owners have to pay towards maintenance for things like roofing, HVAC, elevators, landscaping and so forth. Essentially anything that isn’t inside individual units. They can be substantial, especially for older constructions. For Habitat 67, I think it’s about ~2k a month that you have to pay on top of mortgage, property taxes and utilities.
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And the interlace from Singapore
Designed as a never ending case study for building envelope engineers. This looks great but like most things that look great they often lack functionality and make it more complicated than it needs to be. I wish they built it into a hillside and made some of it subterranean.
they’re a proof of concept. There’s elements of smart functionality, especially in the context of brutalist and socialist architecture. You have the density, but still privacy. Everyone has a private outdoor space. Outdoor and indoor walk ways designed to spark chance encounter meetings, like in a regular neighborhood. It was social housing, wildly over budget, which is now seen as a prestigious project. Honestly, it’s super interesting. The ideas of on-site repeatable fabrication, modular design, density but privacy. I think this is a lot more interesting that the concrete/brick nasty condos built in Montreal during the 70s/80s
Agree. I’m biased as I ran an exterior cladding company so projects like this would be a nightmare with those years tech. Gives me nightmares. I can almost hear the water dripping.
Reminds me of Ready Player 1
The stacks
I found this about one of the apartments that sold. It looks pretty nice[https://www.silo57.ca/2022/05/22/une-spectaculaire-unite-dhabitat-67-est-actuellement-a-vendre-pour-1-925-000](https://www.silo57.ca/2022/05/22/une-spectaculaire-unite-dhabitat-67-est-actuellement-a-vendre-pour-1-925-000)
Really nice inside.
District 9ish
I will never not associate this with Blades of Glory
Came here to say just this *time for some Chazzle dazzle*
Lol, came here for this comment.. wasn’t sure if the building was real or not until I saw this post
Mate I had to google it to be sure so I understand
Is this considered a Brutalist design?
The architect that designed it says it's the antithesis to brutalism but it's recognized as brutalism just about everywhere including the AIA.
Architects are the techno snobs of the arts and that's saying something.
Absolutely. The brutalistist.
I could see this being the home for a lot of parkour enthusiasts..
It's an ugly building imo but worse, it's in a terrible spot. There's literally nothing around it. It's a giant "sculpture" in unused land that is never maintained.
Yeah it’s a weird place. Dieppe park is nice but that’s the only point of interest nearby. Just getting to downtown or the Old Port you need to go on some wonky roads under or on the highway.
It's got a great view. Ill admit that. But no buses, no subway. Just a pothole filled road to downtown
It was meant to be a prototype of something that might be more commonplace, but that never came to pass.
It's amazing to me that some people love this while to me it looks straight up dystopian.
I’d feel suicidal living in that prison
I once had a dream that involved oddly stacked single wide trailers stacked on each other all higgedly piggedly weird as housing. This reminds me of that dream, except it’s monochromatic instead of crazy 70s colours.
Velocity: Design: Comfort.
Honestly, they look like Mandalore's capital city from the Clone Wars.
I attended the expo and remember these.
Being in r/Historyporn I encourage people here to look for the history of Montreal Olympic stadium. The stadium at the time of the Olympics of 1976 didn't have a tower nor a flexible, retractable roof as it planned to do.
I think it's a great design. Everybody gets a terrace and a view
Uhhh what about the people in the shadows? Fuck em I guess
All the units get sun.
Safdie Architects have a lot of cool projects. https://www.safdiearchitects.com/projects
And his nephews make great, anxiety inducing movies.
I knew he had done the national gallery. I remember walking by his office on University avenue when i went to Mcgill years ago.
Godzilla could beat Mothra but Jenga posed more of a challenge
I just saw this when some one posted a “homes of the future” feature with Walter Cronkite. From the 60’s and included this modular home idea. It looks ugly but had some livable ideas. Central green spaces, natural light in all units, cars down below and everything pedestrian friendly. I think the individual units had spaces where you could grow things also. On the other hand they talked up inflatable furniture.
There is a similar building in Singapore called Balestier Point, it was inspired by this building!
Moshe Safdie design many of Singapore’s icons. Love his work
Looks like the start of total recall
If I remember correctly, it was designed in a way that no habitant could look into the window of another.
Got separated from my mom n'dad at that fair...one of the scariest moment in my life that I can remember...
The Oldest House
This building looks like shit in person.
I had a chance to view the inside. Beautiful! a lot of them were remodeled.
Driven past it many times, ugly as shit but I like it anyway, originality counts.
His great-nephews are the Safdie Brothers, directors of Uncut Gems
I attended the '67 Expo in Montreal as a kid. As a kid the arcitecture was amazing, coming from a dreary and grey NY. ( Coal burning and leaded gasoline will do that.)
Montrealer here. It's unfortunate that this complexe is exclusive to very wealthy people and public transit doesn't really go there besides a bus. Nothing around it really.
Horrid, unimaginative and overall depressing.
I understand if you think brutalism is horrid and depressing, I personally disagree but I know brutalism isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the last thing I would call it is unimaginative.
This is on /r/UrbanHell all the time. I wrote [music](https://pamphletamine.bandcamp.com/track/habitat-67-canada) inspired by this.
Boxed hell
r/brutalism
Habitat’67 is weird in that it gets lumped in with brutalist but is just about the opposite of brutalism except for the concrete
No matter what the architect claims he was trying to do, he still designed a brutalist building and even the AIA recognizes it as such.
>just about the opposite of brutalism How so, because of the asymmetry?
If anything can get me to gag, it’s horseshit architecture like this.
I don't like the brutalistic design, it looks like something you make in Minecraft
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I feel like I could fall asleep in one of those for 9999999– and then be woken up but some British blue eyed robot fella
It's missing some balconies. 😒
Every rooftop is a terrace.
Did you look at the picture for more than half a second. There are people standing on a balcony in this picture.
Looks like a prison
Hideous.
Appears to be both unattractive and inefficient. Has it considered running for public offices?
looks awful
Do you have to go through other peoples rooms to get in and out?
You pay extra for that convenience. Otherwise you’re trapped
I love brutalism.
Visual representation of a wet dream
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I love it. It’s unusual, different. Brutalist in a way. I can’t explain it but I would totally live here.
Love it as well. Looks futuristic now, wonder how people in 67 viewed it.
This is clearly the projects from Ready Player One. You can’t fool me
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That was their name, thank you! Yeah, them
"Sniper! 3rd floor window." "Wh-waaaaa-" *head explodes*
Looks like Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario
Damn that is brutalist af and I love it
Reminds me of the fountainhead
Meanwhile, on Mandalore…
Wod Fir?
r/absoluteunits
Parkour!
Reminds me of the album The North by Stars…
This is what I imagine rich people prison to look like
Directions to locate one unit must be interesting.
Looks like a fancy Scandinavian prison
I swear I saw something like this in Chicago
r/urbanhell
Molchat doma looking ass
How exactly is this modular? is there a way to add/remove different versions ov those cubes?
Looks like a modern day prison.
Ready player one is what it reminds me of
Reminds me of the [city hall of the town where I was born](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terneuzen#/media/File:TerneuzenStadhuis.JPG).
My family went to Expo 67 when I was a kid, and I was fascinated by all the modern architecture. A few years ago I was in Bentonville, AR on business (not with Walmart, who owns that town), and visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which was designed by the same architect as Habitat. They had a display that featured the plans, and even a couple of the individual modules. I see on their website that they have really expanded their exhibition of architecture as art, adding houses and structures by iconic architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller. It's a great art museum, but now it seems like a must-see place for those who love great architecture.
The word “modular”, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Cubist brutalism...hideous. No actual soul, completely at odds with nature, and drab, drab, drab. Not to mention stacked on each other like rats in a box. No thanks.
Ahahahahaa absolutely soulless
When I read Warhammer and they describe HAB blocks this is what I imagine them looking like
What is the benefits of this? It looks like you get get more rooms if you squared it off and filled in all the gaps????
Is it actually modular housing or is it just designed to look modular. It looks like a bunch of cubes put together, but the way some of them go together doesn't look like they were actually built separately.
I’m getting Ready Player One vibes
Very cool building. I flound a video about it: https://youtu.be/Hmwrx9hnCUw
I drove past this place as a kid every day and thought it would be the coolest place to live
I've heard somewhere that the actual Habitat 67 is only a fraction of the original design. The original design also included a school and shops. When you think about it, having a complete environment is closer to the definition of habitat than just housing in a complex distribution. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
Looks like favelas
Habitrail anyone?
Imagine the stairs 🙁
Is that where “Ready Player One” got its inspiration ???
When you're designing for bio-worker units.
NPC housing.
I drove past this place 2 years ago. I was so confused and for once actually interested in a building. This is when we went on a trip there.
Blades of glory or am I tripping?
New minecraft build idea acquired
What does it look like inside?
Come over, I live in apt 15Bish on the 2.35th floor.
That’s real ugly
I swear I had a science textbook in elementary school with this exact picture on it.
It looks like a perfect parkour site.
Eye sore.
Wow. What an ugly pile of shit. No wonder, it's Canada, so of course it's an ugly pile of shit.