Design for a Mass-Operational House: Support Construction

French Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard presents engineering blueprints for standardized residential construction. The "Ferme Standard" (Standard Farm) project demonstrates Guimard's late-career pivot toward industrial design and prefabrication. Technical drawings show cross-sections, perspective views, and detailed joinery—the structural vocabulary of modern building systems. Guimard's systematic approach reflects post-WWI efforts to address housing shortages through rational, repeatable methods. These plans bridge decorative modernism and utilitarian construction, revealing how early twentieth-century architects reimagined domestic building as a design problem amenable to mass production rather than individual craft.