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In 1927 the association Deutscher Werkbund – dedicated to promote the encounter between art and industry – built an experimental neighbourhood on the slope of Stuttgart’s Weissenhof for the exhibition Die Wohnung. Mies van der Rohe, in charge of tracing the master plan, invited numerous European architects to participate on the project, among them was Le Corbusier. The houses built there became a real synthesis of the diverse research that had been carried out in Europe with regard to the renovation of social housing.

Le Corbusier erects a Citrohan-type house-box, tested since the early 1920s, and beside it, a double house in which he experiments solutions for the minimal dwelling and creates an experimental device that permits to differentiate between the daily and nightly uses, among the parameters of comfort, efficiency and austerity.