Le Corbusier - Villa Cook - Boulogne-Billancourt, France
N 48° 50.837 E 002° 14.564
31U E 444442 N 5410755
[FR] Ici sont appliquées très clairement les certitudes acquises jusqu'ici... [EN] The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz introduced the American journalist, William E. Cook and his wife Jeanne, to the architect Le Corbusier.
Waymark Code: WMK2DV
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 02/02/2014
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[FR] En 1926, Le Corbusier et son cousin Pierre Jeanneret expérimentèrent, ici, leur théorie des cinq points pour une architecture moderne : le pilotis qui détache du sol l’édifice, le toit-terrasse, le plan libre, la fenêtre en longueur et la façade libre.
Le tracé régulateur est ici un "tracé automatique" fourni par les simples éléments architecturaux à échelle humaine tels que la hauteur des étages, les dimensions des fenêtres, des portes, des balustrades.
Le plan classique est renversé, le dessous de la maison est libre. La réception est au sommet de la maison. On sort directement sur le toit-jardin d'où l'on domine les vastes futaies du Bois de Boulogne: on n'est plus à Paris, on est comme à la campagne.
[EN] Le Corbusier, then largely unknown, was designing a series of villas, including innovative homes for Michael Stein (Gertrude's brother) and Lipchitz himself. In 1926, the Cooks commissioned the architect to design what Le Corbusier said was the first "true cubic house," called Villa Cook or Maison Cook, on the outskirts of Paris.
This house is the first piece by Le Corbusier which presents his five points of architecture;
Pilotis, in order to support the structure without the need of big walls.
Free Facade: Now that the pilotis were the ones supporting the building, the facade could have different distributions, and more openings.
Free Plan: The distributions in plan of the different floors could be completely different between one another, because the walls were simply partitions, and they were not supporting any weight. The only necessarily constant element between the plans were the pilotis.
Ribbon Windows: Big openings in the facades, to let in natural light and ventilation.
Roof Garden: One of the most characteristic points of Le Corbusier, he believed that nature should be always present in architecture. He had the idea of a vertical city, and the green area that was lost after building the house was somehow compensated with this roof garden.
Architect: Le Corbusier
Building Type: Residential
Date Built: 1926
City building is located in: Boulogne-Billancourt
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