Habitat 67

"Habitat 67" on the banks of the St. Lawrence River is the weirdest building in Montreal, both in appearance and architectural approach, it is unprecedented! The building named "67 Residence" was designed by Canadian-Israeli architect Shafdi in 1967. Shafdi was born in Haifa, Israel in 1938, completed his basic education in Israel in his early years, and moved to Canada in 1955, where he graduated in architecture from MiGill University in Montreal. Habitat is a pre-cast concrete housing complex consisting of 158 rooms in clusters of 3 separate complete room units arranged in an irregular block like body stacked along a zigzag frame. It is a typical work of "Cubism". This bold experiment of using modularity in precast modular housing aroused considerable international interest at the time, but it failed to create such a low-cost unit housing. There is a lot of construction. However, the architect Shafdi still made a name for himself with this work, leaving a glorious stroke in the history of world architecture.