VILLA SARABHAI,Ahmedabad, Gujarat .

Villa Sarabhai or Villa de Madame Manorama Sarabhai

is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, it was built between 1951 and

1955.[1] It was built with an austere interior, a typical Le Corbusier design principle.

THE OWNER

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It was built for

Manorama

Sarabhai who commissioned in 1951 to build a home for her growing family and was

completed in 1955

THE ARCHITECT

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was better known as Le Corbusier (French: [lə kɔʁbyzje]; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and the Americas.

Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès international d'architecture moderne (CIAM). Corbusier prepared the master plan for the planned city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there.

THE VILLA

PLAN

SECTION

INTERIORS

EXTERIORS

DESIGN

It is located on a verdant 20-acre park owned by Sarabhais. After taking into consideration the local climate conditions which are characterized by wide fluctuations of temperature and humidity, Corbusier decided on the vault as the villa's defining structure.

The house was sited and designed to catch the winds in summer, but to be penetrated by the Sun in the winter.

The structure has rough brick walls coated with white supporting concrete beams and consisting of vaults.

Cradle vaults of flat tiles set in plaster without formwork coupled with a row of bricks cast roughly in cement.

The Sarabhai house is situated according to the prevailing winds (in order to be traversed by currents of air), and its façades are furnished with brise-soleil

It was designed to create a cool living space, which is why the house is only separated from the outside with bamboo curtains in the residential sapces, and also why the house is positioned the way it is.

The ground floor is of Madras stone with an unobstrusive black bonding according to a new method applied by Le Cor busier to ail his stone paving according to the resources of the Modulor.

. The half-cylinders of the vaults, once the waterproofing is assured, are covered with earth and the upper part of the house becomes a magnificent garden of lawn and charming flowers.

All these qualities of this house makes it one of its kind, and clearly shows

Corbusier’s ways to transform and modernize

Architecture.

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