Charlotte Perriand, a mountain architect

Architect, urban planner, designer, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) put her genius visionary in the service of mountain development, from Saint-Nicolas-de Véroce in Méribel, from the Belleville valley to Les Arcs in Savoie via the China. Combining her passion for the mountains with her professional activity, the Most of Charlotte Perriand's pre-war architectural projects are related to the practice of skiing and mountaineering. Before the birth of holidays paid, it specializes in prefabricated housing for leisure, in order to make them accessible to as many people as possible. Pioneer of architecture bioclimatic, it develops green roofs and the prefabrication of buildings using materials found on site and know-how premises combined with a modern approach. From 1967 to 1989, she devoted her activity in the creation of the Arc 1600 and Arc 1800 stations, one of the largest ski areas in France, under the supervision of the developer Roger Godino. It is the first time in the history of architecture that a woman has led a team of architects responsible for the construction of 25,000 beds. In addition the interior architecture of all homes, it determines the urban planning choices of the two stations and the architecture of most of the buildings, in collaboration with Gaston Regairaz and Bernard Taillefer for Arc 1800. For more than twenty years, she worked to design this place of leisure winter and summer to share his love of the mountains and nature to city dwellers from all over the world.