The machine as a house to live in

One progressist ideal that was adopted at the beginning of the 20th century was the minimum standard of living. Inspired by the minimal, yet sufficient space that an automobile has for adapting the needs of the driver, as well as its full [[ Frankfurt type kitchen, Margaret Schutte-Lihotzky|equipment ]], Le Corbusier traced the guidelines of what a rational apartment meant and what the minimum standard of living had to be. He illustrated this way of living’s qualitative and quantitative qualities that it provided for the modern and beautiful man. He strived for meeting the needs of the clients while also making the housing unit hygienic and civilized. This was one search direction in the sense of affordable living, that supported splitting the interior spaces into two different kinds of spaces based on when they were used, thus resulting two categories: diurnal and nocturnal. These spaces had each one separate distribution and circulation, rarely intertwining.