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Pavillon Suisse
Le Corbusier | |
| location | Paris |
| function | student housing |
| contributed by | goa |
Cité universitaire was founded in 1921 to provide accommodation and support for foreign students in Paris, with a number of residential pavilions endowed by different national communities. The pavilion adheres to Le Corbusier's 'five points of architecture', but with a number of developments since the Villa Savoye. The free façade and horizontal window have become a continuous glazed curtain wall, on the south side of the building (above). The pilotis have developed from thin columns to six massive reinforced concrete 'dog-bones' or 'thighs' with their characteristic figure-of-eight cross section to withstand winds. While the client accepted the student rooms being raised in mid air, the public spaces were required to be on the ground. The plan accommodates them in a separate block sitting on the earth, its curvaceous form contrasting with the simple slab of the student accommodation (text from www.galinsky.com).
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