Francois Hennebique’s Concrete Manor – Bourg-la-Reine, France - Atlas Obscura
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Que c’est drôle. Je suis passé devant pendant 30 ans pour prendre le RER et aller au taf, j’ai toujours pensé que cette maison était l’oeuvre d’un huluberlu sans me poser plus de questions :)
While his name may be unfamiliar to you, you’re probably surrounded right now by what this self-taught engineer and builder created more than a hundred years ago: reinforced concrete.
Hennebique built his family home on a property he purchased in Bourg La Reine in 1910. He designed a manor made of concrete—an experiment that would allow him to explore and exhibit the strength and solidity that reinforced concrete could provide to a structure. While one might think such a house would be ponderous, too cumbersome for its surroundings, Hennebique incorporated the motto: “fleur
