Le corbusier

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Le corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known
as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French
architect, designer, painter, urban
planner, writer, and one of the
pioneers of what is now regarded as
modern architecture. He was born in
Switzerland and became a French
citizen in 1930.
Artworks: Taureau, Nature morte, La
pêcheuse d'huitres, Totem, Panurge,
Femme, Bull III.
Basic materials
Basic materials he generally used
in his design was:
● Concrete
● Glass
● Steel
Among all of these his main
emphasis was on concrete.
Le corbusier
The modular:
Le corbusier explicitly used the
golden ratio in his modular system
for the scale of architectural
proportions
The modular is an anthropometric
scale of proportions devised by him
It is based on the height of an
English man with his arm raised
 ideology s The piolets
• PILOTIS MEANS COLUMNS
• IT HELPED TO REDEFINE THE HOUSE AS A MATTER OF
FORM AND FUNCTION
• REINFORCED CONCRETE GAVE US THE PILOTIS
• IT RAISED THE BUILDING IN THE AIR, FAR FROM THE SOIL,
WITH GARDENS STRETCHING BENEATH THE BUILDING
• FOR E.G VILLA SAVOYE,POISSY IN FRANCE IN 1929
• PILOTIS USUALLY SERVED AS AN ELEMENT OF
DRAMATIZATION AND VISUAL ISOLATION
• PILOTIS
The garden roof
• USUALLY KNOWN AS HANGING GARDEN
• FIRST REALIZATION OF THIS IDEA WAS IN THE SMALL HOUSE
THAT THE ARCHITECT BUILT FOR HIS PARENTS ON LAKE GENEVA
IN 1923 IS DESCRIBED IN A HYMNAL TONE
• REINFORCED CONCRETE MADE THE STRUCTURALLY
HOMOGENOUS ROOF POSSIBLE
• REASON OF TECHNIQUE, ECONOMY AND COMFORT LEAD TO
THE ADOPTION OF THE ROOF TERRACE AND THE ROOF
GARDEN
• THE ROOF GARDEN OFTEN EQUIPPED FOR SPORTS, EMULATES
THE ‘CONDITION OF NATURE’ IN HUMAN HABITAT
• ROOF GARDEN
Famous projects
Villa savour
Chandigarh
Unite D habitation,at
marseille,France(1945-53)
Chapel notre-damr-du-
haut,France(1950-1955)
• LOCATION  - Poissy, France​
• • MATERIAL Reinforced Concrete​
• • Planned the entire composition as a sequence of spatialeffects​
• • Arriving by automobile, the visitor drives underneaththe house,
circling around to the main entrance​
• • Stairs and Ramp for circulation - Sheltered
by brightlycolored wind screens. Celebrates Le Corbusier's belief
that ideal, universalforms, although rooted in the classical
tradition, wereappropriate to architecture for the machine age​
• • Houses to be "machines for living in."Modulor design : The result
of Le Corbusier's researches into mathematics, architecture
(thegolden section), and human proportion​
Villa Savoye
▪ Villa Savoye is arguably Le Corbusier’s
most renowned work and a prime
example of Modernist architecture. The
sleek geometry of the white living
space, with its elongated ribbon
windows, is supported by a series of
narrow columns around a curved glazed
entrance – and topped with a solarium.
Completed in 1931, this building
was revolutionary: the use of reinforced
concrete required for fewer load-bearing
internal walls, allowing for an open-plan
● Chandigarh
● The plan of the chandigarh was grid iron pattern
● The city of chandigarh is planned to human scale.
● Head(the Capitol Complex, Sector
● Heart (the City Centre)
● Lungs (the leisure valley, innumerable open spaces and sector greens)
● The intellect (the cultural and educational institutions)
● The circulation system (the network of roads)
● The viscera (the Industrial Area)
● The city was divided into sectors each representing a theoretically self-
sufficient entity with space for living, working and leisure. The sectors were
linked to each other by a road and path network developed along the line
of the 7 Vs, or a hierarchy of seven types of circulation patterns.
The 7 vs
● V 1 - Fast roads connecting
Chandigarh to other towns.
● V 2 - Arterial roads.
● V 3 - Fast vehicular roads.
● V 4 - Meandering shopping streets.
● V 5 - Sector circulation roads.
● V6 - Access roads to houses.
● V 7 - Footpaths and cycle tracks
● Exposed brick and boulder stone
masonry in its rough form produced
unfinished concrete surfaces, in
geometrical structures. This became the
architectural form characteristic of
Chandigarh,landscaped gardens and
parks.
● The whole city has been divided into
rectangular patterns, forming identical
looking sectors, each sector measures
800 m x 1200 m. The sectors were to act
as self-sufficient neighbourhoods, each
with its own market, places of worship,
schools and colleges - all within 10
minutes walking distance from within the
sector.
• LOCATION -  Ronchamp, France​
• • MATERIAL : Reinforced Concrete, Stone​
• • Singular in Corbusier's work, in that it departs from his principles of
standardization and the machine aesthetic. Giving a site-
specific responseCara​
• • Upturned roof​
• • Appears to float above the wallsThe different-sized
windows arescattered in an irregular pattern​
• • A wall starts out asa point on the eastend, and expands toup to 10
feet thick​
• • The openings slant towards theircentres at varying
degrees, thusletting in light at different angles​
• • Derived from a proportional system​
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