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The Monastry of Sainte Marie de La Tourette Lyon, France.

This is a Dominican Order priory. The structural frame is of rough reinforced concrete. The panes of glass located on the three exterior faces achieved the system called "the undulatory glass surface". In the garden-court of the cloister, the fenestration is composed of large concrete elements reaching from floor to ceiling, perforated with glazed voids and separated from one another by "ventilators": vertical slits covered by metal mosquito netting and furnished with a pivoting shutter. The corridors leading to the dwelling cells are lit by a horizontal opening located under the ceiling.

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The Monastry of Sainte Marie de La Tourette Lyon, France

The buildings contain a hundred sleeping rooms for teachers and students, study halls, a hall for work and one for recreation, a library and a refectory.
Next comes the church where the monks carry on alone (on occasion in the presence of several of the faithful).
Finally, the circulation connects all the parts in particular those which appear in a new form (the achievement of the traditional cloister form is rendered impossible here by the slope of terrain).

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The Monastry of Sainte Marie de La Tourette Lyon, France

On two levels, the loggias crowning the building (one for each acoustically-isolated monk's cell) form brises-soleil.
The study halls, work and recreation halls, as well as the library occupy the upper-level.
Below are the refectory and the cloister in the form of a cross leading to the church.
And then come the piles carrying the four convent buildings rising from the slope of the terrain left in its original condition, without terracing.