Pile

The pile traditionally indicate the whole of piles out of wooden inserted in the ground and intended to support a Construction out of water or above the ground. The piles are also used to establish solid foundations on spongy ground.
They were already used with prehistory for the construction of quoted lake. They support cities such as Venice.

Examples of construction

Fish

Scouting

Some scouts build piles during their camp of summer.

Le Corbusier

  • Quoted radiant of Marseilles
  • Quoted Radiant of Rezé
  • Villa Savoye

The East

  • Temple of Itsukushima

Harbor infrastructure

Anecdote

At the 16th century, the dwellings of the Amerindian autochtones añu built on pile inspired to the first European explorers the name of Venezuela, i.e. “Small Venice”.

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