barrière des bons hommes

First semester / history of architecture /

workshop together with Eirik Møller, Jørgen Tandberg og Tommy Møller
builiding a model of Barrière des Bon Hommes.
Architect: Claude Nicholas Ledoux
Built around 1785.

the original:

Ledoux greatest project was a wall of toll-barriers around Paris. Le Fermè Generale wanted as much as 45 stations, placed by every entrance to the city. The buildings would serve as offices, accomodation, storing etc.

Because these buildings were of the first things to meet visitors to the city, Ledoux wanted to give them a design that he felt could represent the city of Paris. All the buildings had a common style, so that it was clear that they belonged to the same institution. He picked out elements from the creek temples, from Pallladios Villa Rotunda, from pavillions and from geometry, and put them together in his own way.

This was in the neo-classical period. A style that used the old classical greek elements; the colomns, pilasters and tempelgables. The neo-classisists worked with straight lines, geometry and symmetry….