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Le Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell

In 1951–52 Le Corbusier built the Cabanon, a timber Modulor cabin of about fifteen square metres at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a minimum cell he used. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 1951–52 Le Corbusier built the Cabanon, a timber Modulor cabin of about fifteen square metres at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a minimum cell he used. Industrial path: a lived experiment in the smallest dwelling, distinct from Unité’s slab. Eileen Gray’s nearby E-1027 is another architect’s house; later stories of that neighbourhood are not cloned as extra LC Facts without being his building. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

Unité is the same year’s housing bar. Ronchamp is the chapel. This is the cabin. Later tourist visits are reception. UNESCO of the Cabanon is not 1952.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

A lived minimum cell is an industrial path of modest size. High confidence on 1952. Later listing is reception.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    He designed and used the cabin beside Eileen Gray’s E-1027 neighbourhood. Direct as author of a minimum cell he actually inhabited.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLe Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 August 1952 · verified

    A completed minimum dwelling as a lived industrial cell is an industrial path of high confidence on 1952, modest size.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Le CorbusierEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently lists the Cabanon. Britannica independently notes the Roquebrune cabin in the late life. Architectural guides independently describe the 3.66 m cell. No unique 1952 overnight series is invented.

Established: 1952 Cabanon as his. Not established: a unique kit-sales series. August 1952 neighbourhood. Not 1965 death as this act. Not UNESCO.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. He died swimming off this coast in 1965; the death is not a building-act. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1952-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactLe Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Le Corbusier builds the Cabanon at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, a 3.66 m Modulor cabin as a minimum dwelling cell. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-cabanon

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