Jean Prouvé designed and manufactured three prototype Maisons Tropicales for West Africa between 1949 and 1951. The Brazzaville house is made from folded sheet steel and aluminium and can be assempled by two people in a couple of days. For ease of transport all the parts were flat, lightweight and could be neatly packed into a cargo plane. The Maisons Tropicales were designed to address the shortage of housing and civic buildings in France’s African colonies.
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