Le Corbusier's Shodan's house investigation. House designed by Le Corbusier in 1956, located in Ahmedabad India. The Villa Shodhan was one of Le Corbusier’s later projects, completed in 1956 in Ahmedabad, India. The house explores a series of relationships within the cubic form. The main circulation spine of the house makes the house asymmetrical and creates diagonal connections between spaces.
Le Corbusier, Shodan, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 1956
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The villa Shodan is the culmination of a lifetime of research and testing in the field of domestic architecture. In it, Le Corbusier, adapting them to resume their invariants “a tropical Indian”
Le Corbusier referred to the house as Shodhan update the Villa Savoye. This metamorphosis involves the emergence of a brise soleil and a parasol-like armor béton brut superimposed on the city of Ahmedabad, a lattice wall to the bread of watercress and a roof garden on toit.
On a magic trick that, by juxtaposition of two new elements, a refined house gives the appearance of a warrior of concrete, however, suggests the presence of the former.
At home Shodan pilotis lose the slenderness chasing the directionality of a ramp connecting seamlessly to the different areas of the building, housing space organizations.
The front facade is a self-brise soleil that, freed from the rigors geometric be imposed in the House Curutchet a few years before going to dominate the image of the building without losing its original function hide torrador capture the sun and fresh breezes.
The terrace garden, like the Villa Savoye and the Properties of-town is now triple its height, in a magnificent scale housing conferring almost monumental proportions …
Structure: Independent structure of concrete, foundations pilotis.
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This is a model of Le Corbusier’s Shodan House that I made over 4 years ago, I posted it on a blog I had back then and the post received nearly 3000 views.
I can only imagine people either found it interesting/helpful so with that in mind, I’m posting the plans as well. If you’re having a go making it, leave a comment and let me know where you are from as well. Good luck!
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(model was made from 2mm grey card at 1:100- looks a little wobbly as the brief said that it was to be easily taken apart so I decided to build it in sections, also I accidentally drop kicked it).