This is a personal video to showcase Le Corbusier's five points of a new architecture, using his masterpiece, The Villa Savoye, which serves as an example to illustrate them.
The video was designed to be easily understood and provide a clear and concise explanation of the five points, making them accessible to anyone interested in architecture or design.
The five points are:
1. Lift the building over pilotis: The ground floor of the house, like the street, belongs to the automobile. Therefore housing is raised on pilotis to allow the automobile's movement or the green continuity.
2. Free designing of the ground plan: A building floor plan should be free from structural conditioning so partitions can be organized in any way.
3. The free facade: The structure separates from the facade relieving it of its structural function.
4. The horizontal window: The facade can be cut along its entire length to allow the room to be lit equally.
5. The roof garden: A building should give back the space it takes up on the ground by replacing it with a garden in the sky.
Le Corbusier's five points revolutionized the way architects think about design, and they continue to inspire and influence the field of architecture to this day.
It has participated in many festivals like:
• New Urbanism Film Festival: November 7th- 10th, 2013, Los Angeles.
• Architecture + Design festival: April 30th – May 4th, 2014, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
And has been published at:
• The Guardian on cities section;
• ArchDaily;
• Architizer.
