Design for a Mass-Operational House: Construction Directions for Wooden Columns

This technical drawing by Hector Guimard presents standardized construction details for a prefabricated wooden-frame house intended for rapid assembly. The plan illustrates the joinery of montage columns with masonry, showing cross-sections and dimensional specifications across two levels. Guimard's approach reflects early twentieth-century ambitions toward industrial housing—economical, repeatable, and practical. The annotations in French detail measurements and assembly procedures for standardized wooden posts, beam connections, and floor-to-foundation integration. This document exemplifies how architectural modernism engaged industrial production and modular construction, translating Art Nouveau innovation into functional systems for building at scale.