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Le Corbusier was a pioneering modern architect and urban planner who helped establish the principles of the modernist movement. He advocated for high-density urban planning with towers set within open green spaces. Some of his influential urban plans included the Ville Contemporaine from 1922, which proposed a concentric city with central skyscrapers surrounded by parks, and Plan Voisin from 1925, which reimagined part of Paris with cruciform towers. Le Corbusier believed high density could reduce travel distances if incorporated with efficient transportation systems and abundant public green spaces.

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Le Corbusier forays into urbanism CT.LAKSHMANAN B.Arch.,M.C.P. SRM SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Le Corbusier originally Charles-Edouard Jeanneret 1887-1965 founding father of the modernist movement
CIAM 1928 ( Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne ). At the request of a rich patron of architects, Madame Hélène de Mandrot(1867–1948), in 1928, Sigfried Giedion organized a meeting of leading Modern architects including Berlage , Le Corbusier , El Lissitzky , Rietveld , and Stam The organization was hugely influential. It was not only engaged in formalizing the architectural principles of the Modern Movement, but also saw architecture as an economic and political tool that could be used to improve the world through the design of buildings and through urban planning.
 It affirmed that town planning is the organizations of functions of collective life – this applies to both rural and urban settlements  four functions of any settlement  dwelling  work  recreation  transportation, which connects the first three with one another.  Le Corbusier organized in CIAM, Assembly of Constructors for an Architectural Renewal (ASCORAL) which systematically studied the problems of construction, architecture and city planning.
 It resulted in the publication of ‘The Three Human Establishments’. The examination of working conditions in a mechanistic society led to the recognition of the utility and necessity of three unit establishments indispensable for human activity :  The Farming unit – the cooperative village : a unit for agricultural production  The linear industrial city  The radio concentric city - same as Radiant city (Ville Radieuse) for the exchange of goods and services.
Background of ville contemporaine : philosophy of Le corbusier  No matter how open and green, cities should be frankly urban, urban surroundings are to be definitely contrasting with rural surroundings  Densities are in themselves not a problem. Congestion and slum conditions in the cities are due to excessive coverage, persistence of old street patterns and unrestricted land speculation  Slums exist because of the failure to provide the proper surrounding for high density living  He protests against strict functionalism : “Human creations that survive are those which produce emotions, and not those which are only useful”
LA VILLE CONTEMPORAINE (CONCENTRIC CITY) 1922 City for 3 million people was proposed by Le corbusier in 1922, which was based on four principles :  Decongestion of the centre of the cities  Augmentation of the density  Enlargement of the means of circulation  Increase in the number of parks and open spaces
THREE ZONES  CENTRAL CITY  PROTECTED GREEN BELT  FACTORIES & SATELLITE TOWNS CENTRAL CITY  Rectangle containing two cross axial highways  At its heart was a six-level transport interchange – centre for motor, rail lines (underground and main-line railways) and roof of which is air-field  24 cruciform skyscrapers - 60 storeyed office building with density 1200 ppa and covers 5% of the ground  Surrounding skyscrapers was apartment district – 8 storey buildings arranged in zigzag rows with broad openspaces with density of 120 ppa
Le corbusiers planning concepts
Le corbusiers planning concepts
 The buildings in the central area were raised on stilts (pilotis) so as to leave panoramas of unbroken greenery at ground level  The general impression was more of a city in a park than of a parkland in the city  The city espoused space, speed, mass production and efficient organisation, but also offered combination of natural and urban environments
criticism  Class based conception of life – different classes being separately housed  Doubts were expressed about the scale and degree of centralisation
PLAN VOISIN 1925  18 double cruciform 60 – storey skyscrapers, placed in an orthogonal street grid and park-like  Le corbusier reworked green space certain elements of the Ville Contemporaine &  three clusters of applied to a section of luxury apartments paris
Street system  Heavy traffic would proceed at basement level  lighter traffic at ground level  fast traffic should flow along limited-access arterial roads that supplied rapid and unobstructed cross- city movement  pedestrianised streets, wholly separate from vehicular traffic and placed at a raised level.  The number of existing streets would be diminished by two-thirds due to the new arrangements of housing, leisure facilities and workplaces, with same-level crossing points eliminated wherever possible.
 Critics attacked its focus on the central city, where land values were highest and dislocations most difficult  the creation of vast empty spaces in place of close-knit streets with their varied civic life
LINEAR INDUSTRIAL CITY  Leaving the ‘evils of the sprawling town’, the new industrial communities are located along the main arteries of transportation – water, rail and highway connecting the existing cities.  Factories are placed along the main arteries, separated from the residential section by the highway and a green strip  The residential areas include the ‘horizontal garden town’ of single houses and vertical apartment buildings with civic center. Sports, entertainments, shopping and office facilities are distributed in this district and all community facilities are placed within ample open space.
LA VILLE RADIUSE (RADIANT CITY)  Le corbusier rearranged the key features of the Ville Contemporaine.  The basic ideas of free circulation and greenery were still present, but the juxtaposition of different land-uses had changed. For example, the central area was now residential instead of a skyscraper office core.
Le corbusiers planning concepts
Elements of Le Corbusier’s Plan  very high density  1,200 people per acre in skyscrapers  overcrowded sectors of Paris & London ranged from 169-213 pers./acre at the time  Manhattan has only 81 pers./acre  120 people per acre in luxury houses  6 to 10 times denser than current luxury housing in the U.S.  multi-level traffic system to manage the intensity of traffic
Analogy of the city with the abstract image of a man  The skyscrapers (business area) of the Ville Contemporaine were rearranged away from the city center at the ‘head’…[The] ‘body’ was made up of acres of housing strips laid out in a stepping plan to generate semi-courts and harbours of greenery containing tennis courts, playing fields and paths.  Traffic pattern – an orthogonal system with super imposed diagonals & the civic center is on the main axis  Light manufacturing, freight yards and heavy industries at the bottom
Elements of Le Corbusier’s Plan  access to greenspace  between 48% and 95% of the surface area is reserved for greenspace  gardens  squares  sports fields  restaurants  theaters  with no sprawl, access to the “protected zone” (greenbelt/open space) is quick and easy
The logic of increasing urban density  “The more dense the population of a city is the less are the distances that have to be covered.”  traffic is increased by:  the number of people in a city  the degree to which private transportation is more appealing (clean, fast, convenient, cheap) than public transportation  the average distance people travel per trip  the number of trips people must make each week  “The moral, therefore, is that we must increase the density of the centres of our cities, where business affairs are carried on.”

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Le corbusiers planning concepts

  • 1. Le Corbusier forays into urbanism CT.LAKSHMANAN B.Arch.,M.C.P. SRM SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
  • 2. Le Corbusier originally Charles-Edouard Jeanneret 1887-1965 founding father of the modernist movement
  • 3. CIAM 1928 ( Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne ). At the request of a rich patron of architects, Madame Hélène de Mandrot(1867–1948), in 1928, Sigfried Giedion organized a meeting of leading Modern architects including Berlage , Le Corbusier , El Lissitzky , Rietveld , and Stam The organization was hugely influential. It was not only engaged in formalizing the architectural principles of the Modern Movement, but also saw architecture as an economic and political tool that could be used to improve the world through the design of buildings and through urban planning.
  • 4. It affirmed that town planning is the organizations of functions of collective life – this applies to both rural and urban settlements  four functions of any settlement  dwelling  work  recreation  transportation, which connects the first three with one another.  Le Corbusier organized in CIAM, Assembly of Constructors for an Architectural Renewal (ASCORAL) which systematically studied the problems of construction, architecture and city planning.
  • 5. It resulted in the publication of ‘The Three Human Establishments’. The examination of working conditions in a mechanistic society led to the recognition of the utility and necessity of three unit establishments indispensable for human activity :  The Farming unit – the cooperative village : a unit for agricultural production  The linear industrial city  The radio concentric city - same as Radiant city (Ville Radieuse) for the exchange of goods and services.
  • 6. Background of ville contemporaine : philosophy of Le corbusier  No matter how open and green, cities should be frankly urban, urban surroundings are to be definitely contrasting with rural surroundings  Densities are in themselves not a problem. Congestion and slum conditions in the cities are due to excessive coverage, persistence of old street patterns and unrestricted land speculation  Slums exist because of the failure to provide the proper surrounding for high density living  He protests against strict functionalism : “Human creations that survive are those which produce emotions, and not those which are only useful”
  • 7. LA VILLE CONTEMPORAINE (CONCENTRIC CITY) 1922 City for 3 million people was proposed by Le corbusier in 1922, which was based on four principles :  Decongestion of the centre of the cities  Augmentation of the density  Enlargement of the means of circulation  Increase in the number of parks and open spaces
  • 8. THREE ZONES  CENTRAL CITY  PROTECTED GREEN BELT  FACTORIES & SATELLITE TOWNS CENTRAL CITY  Rectangle containing two cross axial highways  At its heart was a six-level transport interchange – centre for motor, rail lines (underground and main-line railways) and roof of which is air-field  24 cruciform skyscrapers - 60 storeyed office building with density 1200 ppa and covers 5% of the ground  Surrounding skyscrapers was apartment district – 8 storey buildings arranged in zigzag rows with broad openspaces with density of 120 ppa
  • 11. The buildings in the central area were raised on stilts (pilotis) so as to leave panoramas of unbroken greenery at ground level  The general impression was more of a city in a park than of a parkland in the city  The city espoused space, speed, mass production and efficient organisation, but also offered combination of natural and urban environments
  • 12. criticism  Class based conception of life – different classes being separately housed  Doubts were expressed about the scale and degree of centralisation
  • 13. PLAN VOISIN 1925  18 double cruciform 60 – storey skyscrapers, placed in an orthogonal street grid and park-like  Le corbusier reworked green space certain elements of the Ville Contemporaine &  three clusters of applied to a section of luxury apartments paris
  • 14. Street system  Heavy traffic would proceed at basement level  lighter traffic at ground level  fast traffic should flow along limited-access arterial roads that supplied rapid and unobstructed cross- city movement  pedestrianised streets, wholly separate from vehicular traffic and placed at a raised level.  The number of existing streets would be diminished by two-thirds due to the new arrangements of housing, leisure facilities and workplaces, with same-level crossing points eliminated wherever possible.
  • 15. Critics attacked its focus on the central city, where land values were highest and dislocations most difficult  the creation of vast empty spaces in place of close-knit streets with their varied civic life
  • 16. LINEAR INDUSTRIAL CITY  Leaving the ‘evils of the sprawling town’, the new industrial communities are located along the main arteries of transportation – water, rail and highway connecting the existing cities.  Factories are placed along the main arteries, separated from the residential section by the highway and a green strip  The residential areas include the ‘horizontal garden town’ of single houses and vertical apartment buildings with civic center. Sports, entertainments, shopping and office facilities are distributed in this district and all community facilities are placed within ample open space.
  • 17. LA VILLE RADIUSE (RADIANT CITY)  Le corbusier rearranged the key features of the Ville Contemporaine.  The basic ideas of free circulation and greenery were still present, but the juxtaposition of different land-uses had changed. For example, the central area was now residential instead of a skyscraper office core.
  • 19. Elements of Le Corbusier’s Plan  very high density  1,200 people per acre in skyscrapers  overcrowded sectors of Paris & London ranged from 169-213 pers./acre at the time  Manhattan has only 81 pers./acre  120 people per acre in luxury houses  6 to 10 times denser than current luxury housing in the U.S.  multi-level traffic system to manage the intensity of traffic
  • 20. Analogy of the city with the abstract image of a man  The skyscrapers (business area) of the Ville Contemporaine were rearranged away from the city center at the ‘head’…[The] ‘body’ was made up of acres of housing strips laid out in a stepping plan to generate semi-courts and harbours of greenery containing tennis courts, playing fields and paths.  Traffic pattern – an orthogonal system with super imposed diagonals & the civic center is on the main axis  Light manufacturing, freight yards and heavy industries at the bottom
  • 21. Elements of Le Corbusier’s Plan  access to greenspace  between 48% and 95% of the surface area is reserved for greenspace  gardens  squares  sports fields  restaurants  theaters  with no sprawl, access to the “protected zone” (greenbelt/open space) is quick and easy
  • 22. The logic of increasing urban density  “The more dense the population of a city is the less are the distances that have to be covered.”  traffic is increased by:  the number of people in a city  the degree to which private transportation is more appealing (clean, fast, convenient, cheap) than public transportation  the average distance people travel per trip  the number of trips people must make each week  “The moral, therefore, is that we must increase the density of the centres of our cities, where business affairs are carried on.”