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CONTENTS
Biography
Early Life
Golden Ratio
Vitruvius Man
Le Corbusiers Relation With Golden Ratio and
Vitruvius Man
Ideals Of Le Corbusier
List of His Major Projects
Natore Dame Du Haut
Villa Savoye
BIOGRAPHY
Charles-douard Jeanneret, was better known
as Le Corbusier .
Born on
:- 6th October 1887.
Place
:- Switzerland.
Died on
:- 27 august 1965.
Nationality :- Swiss/French
Place
:-Roquebrune-cap-martin, France
Awards
:- AIA Gold medal(1961)
LE CORBUSIER
He was an architect, designer, urbanist,
and writer,
Famous for being pioneers of what is now
called modern architecture.
His career spanned five decades, with his
buildings constructed throughout Europe,
India and America.
Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the
1920s .
EARLY LIFE
Le Corbusier was attracted to the visual arts and
studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School.
He was greatly influenced by his teacher Rene
chapallaze.
About 1907, he travelled to Paris, where he found
work in the office of Auguste Perret, the French
pioneer of reinforced concrete.
Between October 1910 and March 1911, he worked
near Berlin for the renowned architect Peter Behrens
Later in 1911, he
journeyed to
the Balkans and
visited Bulgaria, Greece
and Turkey.
He filled sketchbooks
with renderings of
what he saw, including
many famous sketches
of the Parthenon
GOLDEN RATIO
Two quantities are in
the golden ratio if
the ratio of the sum of the
quantities to the larger
quantity is equal to the ratio
of the larger quantity to the
smaller one .
Expressed algebraically:- (a +b)/a =a/b =phi.
Where phi = 1.6180
IDEA OF LE CORBUSIER
Le Corbusier invented the domino system of housing.
Five basic principle which he followed always are as
follows:
Pilotis
Roof gardens
The free plan
Ribbon window
The free facades
MAJOR PROJECTS
HISTORY
was thought of as a more extreme design of Le
Corbusiers late style.
the chapel is a simple design with
two entrances,
a main altar, and
three chapels beneath towers.
SITE
The site is high on a hill
near Belfort in eastern
France.
After the war, it was
decided to rebuild on
the same site.
STRUCTURE
ROOF
The roof of Notre Dame appears to float above the
walls.
Because it is supported by concrete columns, not the
walls themselves.
The effect produced allows a strip of light to enter
the building, thus lighting the space
roof was planned to slope toward the back
fountain is placed on the ground.
In rains the water comes pouring slanted concrete
structures, creating natural fountain.
SECTION
VILLA SAVOYE
Type :Villa
Architectural style :Modernist, International
Address :- 82, Rue de
Villiers,78300 Poissy
Town or city :- Poissy,
Yvelines
Country :- France
Coordinates:- 4855'28?N
21'42?E
THE HORIZONTAL
WINDOW: 'The window is
one of the essential features
of the house.
Progress brings liberation.
Reinforced concrete
provides a revolution in the
history of the window.
Windows can run from
one end of the facade to the
other.'
THE FREE
FACADES: 'The columns
set back from the
facades, inside the
house.
The floor continues
cantilevered. The
facades are no longer
anything but light skins
of insulating walls or
windows. The facade is
free.'
PLANS
The son's bedroom faced the north west and the kitchen and
service terrace were on the south west.
The plan was set out using the principle ratios of the Golden
section. in this case a square divided into sixteen equal parts,
extended on two sides to incorporate the projecting faades
and then further divided to give the position of the ramp and
the entrance.
TERRACE PLAN