Architect:
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known by the pseudonym of Le Corbusier
Location:
The Villa Savoye is a villa built from 1928 to 1931 by the architect Le Corbusier, in the French town of Poissy in the Yvellines.
The Villa belongs to the modern architectural style, it respects the 5 points of architecture according to Le Corbusier .
It is cubic in shape and has a flat roof that acts as a roof terrace. Its dominant color is white for all the cube part (upper part) but the rounded bottom part is green. The entire upper part of the house rests on many white and fine pilings. It has large glazed openings and a prolongation of narrow and thin windows on its facade. The materials present in this villa are mainly concrete, (brick), glass and steel which are very avant-garde materials for the time and which represent quite the modern style.
This villa has a narrow central staircase and ramps to better observe the architecture and for the more original side.
Indeed, in 1931 this house was intended for well-off people and served as a weekend villa, but today it is a museum.
Objectives:
Exercise of introducing research in project theory
Search of information in specialized sources, collection and selection of information
Production of research texts and development of the capacity to work as a team
Ability to interpret projects / works of architecture
Ability to reflect and write and oral synthesis
Methodology:
Election of an author to investigate.
General search of the constructed work of this author.
Election of a paradigmatic work of this author.
Specific study of the work and the author (biographical data, the theoretical approach to works that precedes the chosen work.)
Research on the project / work.
Model by:
Margarida, Filipa, Joana and Jean Jacques
