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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SHEET – 05
Answer in using sketches:
1- Mention 5 Projects of Le Corbusier, Explain one of them …
VILLA SAVOYE
SWISS STUDENTS HOSTEL
MRS. MANORAMA SARABHADPS HOUSE
SHODHAN HOUSE
UNITED HABITATION
VILLA SAVOYE
Villa Savoye is related to the whole range of Le Corbusier’s
Architecture and Urban Planning
It is situated on smoothly sloping hill top in midst of fields
It illustrates with extreme clarity and is perhaps the most
faithful in its observation of hi five points i.e Pilotis, Roof
Garden, Free Floor Plan , Elongated Window, and Free
Facade
Palladian Grid is followed
Golden Proportions
are Analyzed
Columns of the
Buildings are
defined by a system
of walls
independent of
Structure
Entry to the property is through a gate at one end of High Stone Wall

2- Discuss the main concepts 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.
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
provides a means of relating measurements in Feet and Inches to those of the
Metric System.