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Developed for the experimental housing display site at Noisy-le-Sec near Paris, this version of the 8x12m demountable house was among the winners in the New Houses Competition organized by the Ministry of Reconstruction and Town Planning (MRU) early in 1947.<\/p>\n

Intended as a demonstration model that would illustrate the virtues of prefabricated housing to the public, this was a copybook example: the use of structural axial portal frames met the requirements of the competition while providing an open, fluid plan rendered highly adaptable by interchangeable partitions and one-piece glazed or solid facing panels.<\/p>\n

Originally commissioned as a prototype for the Reconstruction, the house failed to find the success that had been hoped for; one of the few that was actually made was ultimately set up in 1952 at the Max\u00e9ville plant, where it became the Ateliers Jean Prouv\u00e9 Design Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metal, wood and glass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture-jean-prouve"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJean Prouv\u00e9 - Max\u00e9ville Design Office - Galerie Patrick Seguin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Max\u00e9ville Design Office by Jean Prouv\u00e9 - Galerie Patrick Seguin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickseguin.com\/en\/designers\/jean-prouve\/architecture-jean-prouve\/maxeville-design-office-1948\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jean Prouv\u00e9 - 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