image :http://www.leonardfrank.com/Worldheritage/ArcetSenans01.jpgThe Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign of Louis XVI, was the first major achievement of industrial architecture, reflecting the ideal of progress of the Enlightenment. This vast, semicircular complex was designed to permit a rational and hierarchical organization of work and was to have been followed by the building of an ideal city, a project that was never realized.
It was a factory for the production of salt by heat evaporation of salted water.The complex consists of 11 buildings, not only workshops but also workers home, and is laid out in a semicircle around the Directors House.It was part of a bigger, unrealised plan of a circle containing the factory as well as other buildings of the ideal city of Chaux.The factory was in production until 1895.
credits:Leonard Frank and UNESCO
沒有留言:
張貼留言