VILLA SAVOYE

The Villa Savoye at Poissy, designed by Le Corbusier in 1929, represents the

culmination of a decade during which the architect worked to articulate the essence
of modern architecture.

Le Corbusier  considered the nature of modern life

and architecture’s role in the new machine age.
His famous dictum, that “The house should be a
machine for living in,” is perfectly realized within the forms, layout, materials, and
siting of the Villa Savoye.

Located just outside Paris, the Villa Savoye offered an escape from the crowded city
for its wealthy patrons.. The delicate floating box that he designed is both functional
house and modernist sculpture, elegantly melding form and function.
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Villa Savoye is thoroughly tailored to Corbusier’s Five Points.

• _Pilotis  
• _Flat Roof Terrace
• _Open Plan
• _Ribbon Windows
• _Free Façade  
The pilotis that support the decks, the ribbon windows that run alongside the hull, the
ramps providing a moment of egress from deck to deck; all of these aspects served as the
foundation of the Five Points of Architecture and are found in the overall composition of
Villa Savoye.

The architect wrote about Villa Savoye:

The house will rest on the grass as an object without disturbing anything because it is
raised above a meadow. It overturns the traditional codes of the architecture of a classic
country house and redefines all the architectural criteria of living spaces according to their
function, their relationship of forms, light, and landscape