Le corbusier

Works in India

Le Corbusier's Villa
Shodhan
In the 1950s Le Corbusier
designed a number of buildings
in India. The most famous of
these constructions is
Chandigarh, the government
town in Kashmir, the least known
building is Villa Shodhan in
Ahmedabad. As a privately
owned home it has been
protected from fame and only a
few have been granted access to
this fantastic house, the last villa
to be designed by Le Corbusier.
The owner of the building has
been the same through out the
years, and it has been preserved
exactly as it was constructed in
1957.

Concept
Le Corbusier referred to
the house as Shodhan
update theVilla Savoye.
This metamorphosis
involves the emergence
of a brise soleil and a
parasol-like armor bton
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,

Spaces

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
theHouse Curutcheta few years before going to
dominate the image of the building without
losing its original function hide torrador capture
the sun and fresh breezes.

Plan

Various floor plans