Habitat 67

Habitat is a model com­mu­nity con­struc­ted along the St. La­wrence River in Mon­treal, com­po­sed of 354 pre­fa­bri­ca­ted mo­du­les which com­bine to form a three-dimensional space struc­ture. The mo­du­les, or »boxes« as they are known, are con­nec­ted in va­ry­ing com­bi­na­ti­ons to create 158 re­si­den­ces ran­ging from 600 sqft to 1,700 sqft Pe­de­strian streets serve as ho­ri­zon­tal cir­cu­la­tion throughout the ent­ire com­plex. Ha­bi­tat '67 was the rea­li­sa­tion of Moshe Safdie's the­sis tit­led »A Case for City Li­ving, A Study of Three Urban High Den­sity Hou­sing Sys­tems for Com­mu­nity Development« and was also the major theme ex­hi­bi­tion of the 1967 Mon­treal World Ex­po­si­tion.