VILLA CAPRA(La Rotunda)

PLAN situated on the top of a hill outside

the town of Vicenza

Each portico has steps

Symmetrical plan leading up, and open via
building having a small cabinet or corridor
square plan with to the circular domed
four facades, each central hall
of which has
projecting porticos

•Rooms were proposed

with mathematical The name La Rotunda refers
precision according to to the central refers to central
Palladio’s own rules of circular hall with its dome
architecture.

4 Access Central 2 Axis

The whole is contained within an imaginary
circle which touches each corner of the
building and centres of the porticos

To describe the villa, as a whole , as a

Rotunda is technically incorrect, as the
building is not circular but rather the
intersection of a square with a cross.
 poche

Axial collective space

circulation
Flanked private space
closed

Public space half open space

In order to get sunlight in each room, the building was rotated 45 degrees from
each cardinal point of the compass
A narrow hallway
The dome was ultimately leads vaulted from
completed with a cupola each chamber, the
central space,
Whose diameter is
The equivalent to width
pediments of gate
were
supported
by six Ionic
columns
•Each portico
was flanked
by a two
window.

Each of four porticos has pediments graced by

statues of classical deities
EXTERIOR

ICONIC
COLOUMNS

FAÇADE AND STEPS

INSPIRED BYTHE CLASSICAL
WINDOWS FAÇADE TEMPLES
INTERIOR