Five points of architecture
It was Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (1929–1931) that most succinctly summed up his five points of architecture that he had elucidated in the journal L’Esprit Nouveau and his book Vers une architecture, which he had been developing throughout the 1920s. First, Le Corbusier lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground, supporting it by pilotis – reinforced concrete stilts. These pilotis, in providing the structural support for the house, allowed him to elucidate his next two points: a free façade, meaning non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished, and an open floor plan, meaning that the floor space was free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls. The second floor of the Villa Savoye includes long strips of ribbon windows that allow unencumbered views of the large surrounding yard, and which constitute the fourth point of his system. The fifth point was the roof garden to compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof. From Wikipedia
Here is my personal interpretation-sketch to the story of buildings Façades. From Le Corbusiers’ Villa Savoye “free Façade” ( 1929-1931) till today.
I am aware about the existence of other parallel stories….
I will deal with them in my future posts
Conscious Inspiration Facades eliinbar Sketches 2011
Two Dimensional Facades
Jean Nouvel Architect Tour Agbar 2005
The Transparent Façade
Mies Van de Rohe The Seagram Building 1969
The Double Wall Facades
The “Mashrabia” Facades
Jean Nouvel Architect Institute du Monde Arab 1981-1987
Shadowing Facades
Sean Godsell Architect Cater\Tucker house 1998-2000
The Lace Facades
Jacob Macfarlane Arch. “the Orange Cube” 2005-2011
Three Dimensional Facades
Steven Holl Architect Sketch for Nanning Chaina 2002
The Wrapped Boxes style Facades
Ron Arad Architect Holon Museum 2003-2010
Zaha Hadid Performing Arts Center Hague 2010
The Frank Gehry Style Facades
Frank Gehry’s private house 1978
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5 thoughts on “Conscious Inspiration Facades 2”
Wow, i never thought of it that way – it is easier for some reason to trace the lineage of pilotis and open plans from Corb to today’s architecture, yet you are exactly right – if anything, this confirms exactly how visionary (and more importantly, relevant) the architect’s theories and predictions are, and that they entail so much more than the white-with-ribbon-windows ‘style’ his buildings popularised.
This gets me thinking, however, that pilotis and open plans are easily recognizable because they have not changed much – that perhaps the potential of these devices have not yet been fully explored? and, i suppose ‘roof garden’ then translates to ‘useable roof space’, not gardens themselves if Corb’s buildings are anything to go by!
Keep up the good work,
Tin
Hai Tin, thanks for your elaborate comment
In this post I tried to exhibit a simple notion.
The natural development of Architecture design is based on inspiration techniques (Conscious Inspiration)
(In this post.Villa Savoye “free Façade” is the inspiration source)
It is rare to experience invention in architecture
I invite you to comment and participate at the dialogue I am promoting In my blog
Eli Inbar
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