Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
• Along with Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier was instrumental in
the creation of the International Style. This was a movement defined by rectilinear
forms, open interiors and 'weightless' structures.
• Le Corbusier laid out these tenets in his five principles of new architecture, published
in 1927. He advocated:
• The Pilotis – a grid of columns to replace load-bearing walls, allowing architects to make
more use of floor space.
• Free floor plans – flexible living spaces that could adapt to changing lifestyles, thanks to the
absence of load-bearing walls.
• Roof gardens – a flat roof covered in vegetation, which keeps moisture consistent and
regulates temperature.
• Horizontal windows – cut through non load-bearing walls, these strips provide even light
and panoramic views.
• Free facades – open and closed sections that allow the facade to actively connect or
separate interior and exterior design elements.
• Le Corbusier’s philosophy was as much about function as form. Much of
his work centred on how good architecture can affect social landscapes
too.
• His ‘Unité d'Habitation’ principles outlined his vision: large apartment
blocks that offered spacious housing, shaded social spaces, roof gardens,
shopping streets and other amenities. These would be houses for the
masses not merely to inhabit, but to truly live in.
The separation of the shell roof and The punctured hole in southern wall
The light from north of tower heavy walls is more clearly visible from emphasizing the rough texture of
provide calm environment in interior with a band of natural light. wall material with brilliant colour of
church below acting as the painting like glazing.
indirect light
Villa Shodhan (or Shodhan House)
• modernist villa located
in Ahmedabad, India.
• Designed by the Swiss architect Le
Corbusier.
• Constructed in:1951
• Construction completed :1956.
• Design consideration: sun, wind, the
view and landscaping.
• House is surrounded by the garden.
• The rectangles on the north-west and
south-west façades are further
emphasized through the installation
of brise soleil for protection from
glare.
Form and shape:
• Cubical form
• Volumn has been cut in form of brises
soloeil, recessed column on the
rooftop.
• Placed diagonally on the site to give
the 3d view of the house.
• Apart form the private spaces such as
bedroom, whole place acts as
transition area as client needed a
place where he could entertain guest.
• Transition space are connected by the
ramps and staircase.
STRUCTURE:
LIGHT
Due to absence of
interior partitions natural
light was able reach to
certain spaces .
City of Chandigarh The city beautiful 1952
The conception of the City has been formulated on the basis of four major functions:
Living, Working,
Care of the Body and Spirit
Circulation.
CAPITOL COMPLEX
•In Le Corbusier’s original concept; the Capitol was to consisted of:
• 1. Secretariat
• 2.Assembly
• 3.High Court and
• 4.Governor's Palace(later
changed to Museum of
Secretariat
•The Secretariat is the largest of all from the buildings in
the complex (254 meters by 42 meters) and was the first
to be built in the complex.
•Positioned at a sharp right angle to the mountain range
it is designed as a vast linear slab-like structure – a
workplace for 4000 people.
•An endless rhythm of balconies and louvers on its linear
facades is punctuated in a subtle way by a deliberately
asymmetrical composition of brise-soleil (a sun shading
device), evolved by Le Corbusier.
•It’s façade, besides the rhythmic brise-soleil, is also
sculpturally punctuated by the protruding masses of
angled ramps and stairways,
•The roof line has a playful composition of a restaurant
block ,a ramp and a terraced garden, to break the
endless linearity.
Assembly Building
•In front of the Secretariat is located the most sculptural
and eye-catching of all the geometrical forms of the
Capitol -The Assembly.
•Characterizing the roofline of the Assembly is a great
hyperbolic drum connected to
•a pyramidal by a small bridge
•The building has two entrances: one at the basement
level for everyday use an the other from the piazza level
for ceremonial occasions through a massive entrance,
7.60 meters high and 7.60 meters broad, whose
enameled door (a gift to Punjab from France) translates a
cubist mural painted by Le Corbusier himself.
•The external façade of the cuboid base has a rhythmic
pattern of the brise-soleil with its play of light and
shadow on three sides, And on the fourth opening
towards the large piazza facing the High Curt is a huge
trough supported on massive pylons.
High Court: