Le corbusier
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Biography
● Charles - Edouard Jeanneret - Gris , better known as Le
Corbusier was Born on ( October 6 , 1887 August 27 ,
1965 ) .
● He was an architect , designer , painter , urban planner ,
writer , and one of the pioneers of what is now called
modern architecture .
● He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in
1930 . In his architecture , he chiefly built with steel and
reinforced concrete and worked with elemental geometric
forms .
CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHITECTURE
● He was the pioneer of modernism in architecture
● He laid foundation to what is known as Bauhaus
movement or international style
● He is known for innovation in urban planning and
his solutions for low income housing
● He formed the five points of architecture which
were the guiding principles for many architects .
CONCEPT
● PILOTIS : - ( raise the building off the ground ) to
let nature move under the building footprint .
● FREE PLAN : - ( allowing the internal
partitions ) this also allowed the division of
rooms to be placed at minimums with
minimal wall thickness
● FREE FACADE : - ( partly based on free plan , this
allowed the windows to be formed independently of
the wall structure ) it also allowed lighting to rooms
to be controlled , increasing the lighting and
removing the possibility of dark spaces .
● LONG HORIZONTAL WINDOW ( also known as the
window wall ) this allowed for large amounts of light
to be driven into the living areas of dwelling ,
creating sunny places in winter , the removal of dark
cluttered spaces .
GARDEN :-( replacing displaced nature ) letting maximum light
and air enter the recreation spaces of the residents . the
person on the new roof garden is soaking in the sun , which is
seen as the healthy and right thing to do .
UNESCO added 17 projects from Le Corbusier
to its World Heritage
The full list of sites are below:
● Maisons La Roche et
Jeanneret, France
● Petite villa au bord du
lac Léman, Switzerland
● Cité Frugès, France
● Maison Guiete,
Belgium
● Maisons de la
Weissenhof-Siedlung,
Germany
● Villa Savoye et loge du
jardiner, France
● Immeuble Clarté,
Switzerland
● Immeuble locatif à la
Porte Molitor, France
● Cabanon de Le Corbusier,
France
● Dominican Monastery of La
Tourette, france
● The National Museum of
Western Art
● Maison de la Culture de
Firminy, France
● Capitol
Complex,Chandigarh, India
● Unité d’habitation Marseille,
France
● Usine Claude et Duval
Factory, Saint-Dié, France
● Maison Curutchet, La Plata,
Argentina
● Chhapelle
Notre-Dame-du-Haut de
Ronchamp, France
Villa Savoye et loge du
jardiner, France
Plan and sections
● the construction of Villa Savoye began in 1928
● It is built in the International style under modern
movement and is set on top of a hillside
● This house was built for the Savoye couple, who wanted
a vacation house in the countryside that was not far
from Paris.
● Corbusier’s famous dictum, that “The house should be a
machine for living in,” is perfectly realized within the
forms, layout, materials, and siting of the Villa Savoye
● The Villa Savoye incorporated the five
principles
The interiors
● The ramp
● The stair
● The kitchen
● The living room - 925.7 sqft
● Garden
● The bathroom
notre dame du haut
Notre Dame du Haute
● Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France.
● Built in 1955,
● it is one of the finest examples of the architecture of
Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
● The chapel is a working religious building
● It attracts 80,000 visitors each year.
● In 2016, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
in along with sixteen other works by Le Corbusier, because of
its importance to the development of modernist architecture.
● Ronchamp is more of an irregular sculptural form where the
walls, the roof, and the floor slope. Stylistically and formally it is
fairly complex; however, programmatically it is relatively simple:
two entrances, an altar, and three chapels
● The walls of Ronchamp give the building its sculptural character. The thick
(4’-12’ thick), gentle curving walls act as a practical method of supporting
the concrete and masonry construction, as well as the massive curvilinear
roof.
● The most striking part of Ronchamp is the curved roof that peels up
towards the heavens
● The curving roof appears to float above the building as it is supported by
embedded columns in the walls, which creates a 10 cm gap between the roof and
the walls, which allow for a sliver of clerestory light.
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