Dom-ino frame: slabs on columns and the free plan
Estructura Dom-ino: losas sobre pilares y planta libre
- Date
- 1914 · confidence high
- Place
- La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Le Corbusier and Max du Bois
- Field
- Tools
What was discovered
A scheme of three reinforced-concrete slabs on six columns and a stair, with no bearing walls or visible beams. It separates structure from partitions and permits free plans, free façades and strip windows.
It is a conceptual model and was never built; frame structures were already used by Hennebique and Perret, and the contribution is systematisation.
What it led to
- the five points of modern architecture
- mass-produced modular houses
- free-plan reinforced-concrete buildings