LeCorbusier

SUBMITTED BY:AKSHI GIRDHAR

F.O.A.P., JNU

LeCorbusier
He was born in La
Chaux-de-Fonds, in
French-speaking
Switzerland, with
the name of Charles
Edouard JeanneretGris.
At 29 he moved to
Paris where he
adopted the
pseudonym "Le
Corbusier", the
name of his
maternal

LeCorbusier
In 1900 Le Corbusier began his apprenticeship as an
engraver and chipping art school in La Chaux-deFonds, Switzerland.
In 1905 he designed his first building, a detached
house for a member of the School of Art Villa Vallet.In
the next ten years made numerous buildings, which
nevertheless still not bear his trademark back, and
that he did not include in the record of their works.
Back in Paris, he worked for 15 months in the studio
of Auguste Perret, pioneering architect in reinforced
concrete construction technique.He then traveled to
Germany to study architectural trends of the country.

LeCorbusier
In 1911 he devoted himself entirely to travel.From
Vienna he went to Romania, Turkey, Greece and Italy
and on his return he taught for two years at the
department of architecture and decoration of the
School of Art in Paris.
In 1922 Le Corbusier opened an architectural practice
with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, with whom he
maintained his association until 1940. Initially both
designed almost exclusively residential buildings.One
of his major projects of these years, in this case as an
urban planner, is the conceptual design of a city of
three million inhabitants, the Ville Contemporaine.

eCorbusier -- Villa Savoy

Architect:
Le Corbusier
Year Of Constrution:
1929
Location:
Poissy, Paris, France
Coordinates:
48 55' 28" N, 2 1' 42" E

Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine,

1929-30

Concept

The Villa Savoye was designed by Le Corbusier as a

paradigm of the "machine as a home", so that the
functions of everyday life inside become critical to its
design. The movement of cars to enter the interior of
the house (a concept that empassioned Le Corbusier
for years) is the trigger for the design of the building.
This concept also includes the fact that housing is
designed as an object that allegedly landed on the
landscape, is totally autonomous and it can be
placed anywhere in the world. Architecture followed
the style of airplanes, cars and ships, with the
declared aim of achieving mass production of
housing.
Pillars supporting the ground floor also advanced this

Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine,

1929-30
Materials
The materials used in the
Villa Savoye is prosaic
materials; such materials
were used during this
time in building houses
for lower-class Parisians.
Although the house is
designed for the affluent,
plaster walls and iron
handraills are used

Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine,

1929-30
Distribution

The ground floor has a curved form that is

influenced by and emphasizes the movement of
the cars in it. On one side, occupying about a
quarter of the floor, is the garage, with capacity
for three cars in 1930 (considerably larger than
the current), and replacing the space formerly
occupied by stables and horses.

Distribution
In the front of the house near the garage entrance
is the front door, in front of which there is a hall that
has two main elements: a ramp that runs from the
bottom up the entire building that constitutes its
backbone, prolonging this movement from outside
inward, and a sprial staircase. Everything inside the
hall is painted white, representing the interests of
Le Corbusier in architecture, health and hygiene in
an era in which the city suffered the consequences
of overcrowding in the form of epidemics, and
reflects the important discovery of microbial life
everywhere, including inside homes. This point is
also reflected in the profusion of toilets and sinks
inside the Villa, apparently well above the needs
and taking advantage of the running water on
which they counted.

exterior

ground floor

exterior

garage door

pure color -- white on the outside, a color

with associations of newness, purity,
simplicity, and health (LeCorbusier earlier
wrote a book entitled, When the Cathedrals
were White), and planes of subtle color in the

INTERIOR

ROOF GARDEN

roof garden, with both plantings and

architectural (sculptural) shapes

dynamic , non-traditional
transitions between floors
-- spiral staircases and
ramps

"PILOTIS" -- the house is

raised on stilts to separate it
from the earth, and to use the
land efficiently. These also

a) GROUND FLOOR PLAN

b) FIRST FLOOR PLAN

c) ROOF PLAN

GROU
ND
FLOOR
PLAN
ribbon windows

(echoing
industrial
architecture, but
also providing
openness and
light)
integral garage
(the curve of the
ground floor of
the house is
based on the

FIRS
T
FLOO
R
Modulor
design
PLAN
-- the result of

corbu's
researches into
mathematics,
architecture
(the golden
section), and
human
proportion
No historical
ornament

ROOF
PLAN
abstract
sculptural
design
a very
open
interior
plan

SECTION

Villa Savoye

Works of LeCorbusier

Ahmedabad
Museum
Cabanon de
Vacances
Carpenter Center
for the Visual Arts
Chapel of Notre
Dame du Haut
Convent of Sainte
Marie Tourette
Curutchet House
Double House in
Weissenhofsiedlu
ng
Fallet House
Headquarters of

Heidi Weber
Museum
House in Les
Mathes (Le
Sextant)
Immeuble
Clart
Inmueble Porte
Molitor
JeanneretPerret House
L'Esprit
Nouveau
Pavilion
La Roche Jeanneret
House
Maison

National Museum of
Western Art
Philips Pavillion
Expo 58
Quartiers Modernes
Frugs
Swiss Pavilion
Unite dhabitation
of Marseille
Unit d'Habitation of
Berlin
Unit d'Habitation of
Nantes-Rez
Usine Claude et
Duval Factory
Villa Le Lac
Villa Savoye
Villa Schwob