Sinai University

Faculty of Engineering
Department of Architectural Engineering Semester: Fall 2021
Subject: Theory of Architecture-03 (ENA 4118-ARC 331) Date: 8/11/ 2021
Examiner: Dr. Eng. Ahmed Mohamed Kamel Almrazky
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Student Name: ……Naira Abdelhakim Elsayed…..…... ID: 201815322………..
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PRACTICAL – 04
Answer in your sketch note:
• Present the principles of the Functional Formalism
Theory of Le Corbusier.
• Pilotis: means Columns it helped to redefine the house as a matter of form and function.
• THE ROOF GARDEN: the Roof Garden often equipped for Sports, emulates the ‘condition of
nature’
• THE FLOOR PLAN: Reinforced concrete brought the innovation of the free plan in which the
interiors were no longer the rigidly determined by the Structural Walls , they had become free.
• THE ELONGATED WINDOW: Le Corbusier’s obsession with the form of the facade long
windows that is totally independency of structure.
• THE FREE FAÇADE: Pillars retreated from the facade to the inside of the house i.e the Façade
became no more than Light Membrane.
o Consist of Isolating Walls or Windows.Facade was now free and the windows could
extend without interruption from one end to the other.
• The Modular was both a Module of Measurement and of Scale ;in Addition it
o provides a means of relating measurements in Feet and Inches to those of the
o Metric System.
• Analyze a project explaining the Functional Formalism
Theory of Le Corbusier.
Philips Pavilion:
• In his first sketches for the Philips Pavilion, Le
Corbusier was thinking primarily of something organic;
the ground plan drawings more precisely resemble a
stomach.
• The reinforced concrete pavilion is a cluster of nine
hyperbolic paraboloids in which music.
• The speakers were set into the walls, which were coated
in asbestos, creating a textured look to the walls.
• Varèse drew up a detailed spatialization scheme for the
entire piece which made great use of the physical layout
of the pavilion, especially the height of it.
• The asbestos hardened the walls which created a
cavernous acoustic.