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The Dom-ino house, or Maison Dom-ino, was an open floor plan prototype designed in 1914-1915 by the Modernist architect Le Corbusier in response to the destruction of World War I. The plan was intended to be pre-fabricated, easily replicable, and easily modified to fit each user's needs. The plan consists of thin horizontal platforms, raised off the ground, and supported by pilotis, or slim pillars, with staircases stacked on one side. Made of cast concrete, the Dom-ino house could be cheaply made, and because it had no load-bearing walls, the interior and the exterior could be modified to fit the owner's needs.

*** below to be edited*** In December 1914, along with the engineer Max Dubois, he began a serious study of the use of reinforced concrete as a building material. He had first discovered concrete working with Auguste Perret in Paris, but now wanted to use it new ways. "Reinforced concrete provided me with incredible resources", he wrote later, "and variety, and a passionate plasticity in which by themselves my structures will be rhythm of a palace, and a Pompieen tranquility." .  This led him to his plan  for the  Dom-Ino House (1914–15). This model proposed an open floor plan consisting of concrete slabs supported by a minimal number of thin reinforced concrete columns, with a stairway providing access to each level on one side of the floor plan. with this design, the framework of the house He described it in his patent application as "a juxtiposable system of construction according to an infinite number of combinations of plans.  This would permit, he wrote, "the construction of the dividing walls at any point on the facade or the interior."  Under this system, the structure of the house did not have to appear on the outside, but could be hidden behind a glass wall, and the interior could be arranged in any way the architect liked. He refined the idea in his 1927 book on the Five Points of a New Architecture. This design, which called for the disassociation of the structure from the walls, and the freedom of plans and facades, became the foundation for most of his architecture over the next ten years.

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