Project 2- Villa Savoye Material Model

 Ground Floor Floor Materials

  First Floor Floor Materials

  Second Floor Floor Materials

Interior and Exterior Ramp Material

The Villa Savoye is a reinforced concrete house. The walls are painted in white. In Le Coursier's opinion the white represents the simple, pure, natural. That satisfies the Modernism concept. Here I emphasis on the floor materials choices. It can be seen the floor of private areas in the house are timber. Some relatively public area inside the house are floored in tile. The terraces on the first floor and second floor are floored in concrete. The interior ramp has carpet pattern and exterior ramp from first floor to roof has built in concrete with the diamond pattern. The material in rest part of the ground floor and the rest part of the second floor is sand. These two area are designed as the extra garden area. 

Project 2-Villa Savoye Structure Analysis Model

 Ground Floor Pilotis

Second Floor Pilotis 

First Floor Pilotis

Second Floor Pilotis 

 Elevation1

Elevation2

These pilotis lift the house off the earth and increase the access to light and air. They make the ground floor more usable, and some part of the ground floor area can become of the garden. These pilotis have a lot of functions around the house. On the two longer elevation, they are flush with the face of the facade. Here they imply the heaviness and support function. They create a floating and horizontal feelings. 

Project 2-Villa Savoye Geometry Analysis Drawings

• Draw a square, then connect the midpoints of each sides, draw a diagonal.
• Divide the big square into 16 small squares.
• Split out a little distance above and below the square scheme, and the distance value is determined by these two triangles. The value is 1.25m. And the side of each small square is 4.75m.

                         

                          

• The width of the ramp is about half width of small square side. 
• The length of the ramp is twice the length of small square side. The width of the platform is half the width of small square side.
• The distance between the intersection of two lines and the center point of the square scheme to be the radius to draw a circle. The circle intersects the middle lines at two points. Then extend the two points to get the shape of the ground floor.

• To determine the position of the staircase, draw a line from upper left corner to the middle point of the line below the ramp. 
• To determine the entrance.
• To determine the position of garage, draw a line from the upper right corner to the middle point of the line below the ramp. 

• On the ground floor, there is a clear symmetry of the square grid. However, the staircase creates a little asymmetric.
• On the second floor, there is no exact symmetry line. But the diagonal from the Southwest to Northeast creates a sense of balance. This balance also comes from the division of the exterior and interior space.
• The wave lines below and above the square grid seems to be the air and light. That represents the air and light movement accessing the raised structure.