Sulaiman Bin Ahmed
Villa Schwob
Villa Schwob is located in 167 Rue du Doubs City La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland. The building was one of the most famous work of Charles Edouard Jeanneret who later assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier after relocating to France. Villa Schwob is also known as the “Villa Turkish” and the house was designed for a watch-maker named Anatole Schwob in 1916. Construction costs were found higher than the initial estimates of the architect Le Corbusier, he had to go to Paris after being sued by his client, not coming to see the house completed until two years after its completion in the year 1919. The Turkish Villa is the only one of his first houses considered worthy of publication in “L’Esprit Nouveau”. The Villa Schwob appears larger and more complex than some of the later buildings Le Corbusier designed, this showed that he was still experimenting with methods to best depict Purist ideals of clean lines and balance in architecture. The Villa Schwob was important to Le Corbusier’s career because he designed and built the it during his years of training as an architect and it helped in exploring how to fully embrace the purists objectives of order and mathematical precision in architecture, it also gave him a chance to experiment with ideas, such as the Dom-Ino System, the free plan, and mathematical order, which he refined in his later buildings. His trip along the Bosphorus led him to know many details of this type of construction that which he started in 1905.
Villa Schwob was designed for the support of a single structure interior columns a more open space is created and allow the plant to be developed around the central hall. Inside this room, the most prominent and striking feature is the large vertical window covering two floors of the house. This window serves as a focal point, turning the other rooms around the living room in part of the periphery, thus more adaptable, although the rooms are around a “peripheral” design, it is important for the aesthetic of Le Corbusier, due to its versatility and separation. The input space communicates with the living room of double height sketches, this space houses the large flat situated at the junction between the longitudinal axis from the entrance to the garden and the transverse axis that connects downstairs game room with dining area. At the top floor there is a clear and logical separation between functional areas such as public space on the ground floor and private rooms upstairs. Another detail that creates more space is the roof garden, which became a staple in the homes designed by the allow Le Corbusier. These gardens allow Le Corbusier achieve harmony in its design by creating a balance between the industrial and the natural world. On the first floor, two bedrooms form a U around the central hole. The kitchen is relegated to the outside, against the wall facing the street, and the bathrooms and service of the plant are compressed between the bedrooms and staircase.
The Dom-Ino system was employed in the building. This system consisted of large concrete slabs resting on a series of thin columns around the edges and stairs leading to other levels, thus creating an open floor which makes the building look wider. Its construction employs reinforced concrete structure, made in a few weeks, and the filling of small bricks apparent, with a façade, a wide ledge that forms a gardener around the terrace.
REFERENCES
Charles Edouard Jeanneret and Amédée Ozenfant, (2003). “Purism,” in Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, eds. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 241-42
Jencks, Charles. Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1973.
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