AENG 352 PORTFOLIO HADWA MOHAMED

FIRST PROJECT

LE CORBUSIER

“BEYOND STYLE” LEARNING TO READ ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE AND FORM In recent decades of increasing shifts in ideological and socio-cultural trends, architecture continues to be a vehicle of pluralistic expression. As

a young architect developing design skills becomes a challenge of finding your own voice among the crowd. But, as with any new skill, you are

best positioned to succeed when you build on the successes of others.

In order to do this architecturally, one must counteract the common trends of “stylistic”, superficial approaches, and learn to understand

architecture as a language. This language is such that it permits dialogue between the user- with his or her functional, socio-cultural, spiritual

and philosophical needs- within the multi-disciplinary context of technology, climate, environmental awareness, economics and history- as

manifested in the built form.

With this in mind this first assignment is to “read” the language of contemporary architecture, through a critical visual and graphic review of the

works of today‟s most prominent and influential architects. Each student will be assigned an architect to review and is required to prepare a

presentation summarizing the architectural philosophy and vocabulary of their chosen architect. In the first stage of the project the student must

present a comprehensive review of their understanding of their architect‟s vision using language/theme/inspiration/gesture boards and

collages, time lines and precedent matrix “readings”.

At the end of this process each student will be required to develop a program and design a specific project in the “spirit” o f their chosen

architect, taking on their philosophical, ideological and architectural role. This project will be a residential single-family residence prototype

designed “by” the architect for a residential development compound in Egypt.

Each prototype should include the following program:

- 3 bedrooms, including one master suite

- 1 master bath, 1 shared bath, 1 guest bath

- family/living room

- office/studio or guest room

- kitchen

- maid‟s quarters including bedroom, service bathroom, laundry

- storage/pantry

- reception area

- dining room

- appropriate outdoor terraces

- any additional services

Through role-play, the student is required to address how their “role” architect would build in this context- environmental, geographic, socio-

cultural, political and historical.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

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At the SALON D‟AUTOMNE, Le Corbusier exhibited the

[VILLE CONTEMPORAINE pour Trois Millions

d‟Habitants] and his plans for the Immobile-Villas

project.

He opened an office at no.29, rue d‟Astorg, with his

cousin PIERRE JEANNERET.

He built VILLA BESNUS in Vaucresson, This design was

the direct practical outcome of the Town-Planning

Stand at the Paris [SALON D'AUTOMNE] mentioned

above.

With MAX DU BOIS, he

became interested in

reinforced concrete

constructions and devises

the “DOM-INO” system.

Back in LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, he worked on a project for the ATELIERS D‟ARTS

RÉUNIS. Appointed by the Art School to study the decorative arts in Germany.

He began writing La Construction des Villes

He was taken on at AUGUSTE PERRET‟s

architectural firm in Paris, where he worked

for 14 months. During this time, he visited the

museum of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre.

He returned to LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS to

supervise the construction of the STOTZER

and JACQUEMET villas.

Left for Vienna where he stayed for four

months working on the plans for STOTZER and

JACQUEMET villas.

1891-1905 1887

CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET

born at 38 rue de la Serre, La

Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The

son of GEORGES EDOUARD

JEANNERET, watch engraver and

enameller, and of MARIE

CHARLOTTE AMÉLIE JEANNERET-

PERRET, music teacher.

OCTOBER 6 1891

He entered the School

of Decorative Arts in-

La Chaux-de-Fonds, taking classes in

engraving and carving, under

CHARLES L‟EPLATTENIER.

He was awarded a Diploma at

the International Exhibition of

Decorative Arts in Turin for a

chased watchcase.

He attended the Advanced

Decorative Arts Course

directed by CHARLES

L‟EPLATTENIER, who interests Le

Corbusier in architecture .

Commissioned by LOUIS FALLET to

design a FALLET HOUSE, at La Chaux-

de-Fonds, with RENÉ CHAPALLAZ.

After completing his studies, he travels to

Italy with the sculptor LEON PERRIN.

He entered the

primary school in La

Chaux-de-Fonds.

1900

1902

1904 1905

SEPTEMBER

NOVEMBER

MARCH 1907-1922

1907 1908

1910

1911 MAY

OCTOBER He worked as a draftsman at

PETER BEHRENS‟ studio in

Neubabelsberg.

OCTOBER He returned to LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS to set up a new section of the Art

School with L‟Eplattenier.

In the company of art historian

AUGUSTE KLIPSTEIN, he embarked on a

“journey to the East”. His impressions

were published in the newspaper LA

FEUILLE D‟AVIS DE LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS.

In LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, he

converted the SCALA

CINEMA.

After being destroyed by

fire in 1971, only the rear

façade remains of this

neo-classical style cine

built by CHARLES-ÉDOUARD

JEANNERET.

He designed a worker‟s housing development in SAINT-

NICHOLAS D‟ALIERMONT, in France.

He ran the “new department” of the La Chaux-de-Fonds

Art School and works on a freelance basis as interior

decorator and architect at no. 54,rue NUMA-DROZ

producing sets of furniture

APRIL Through AUGUSTE PERRET

he met the painter AMÉDÉE

OZENFANT.

CHARLES-EDWARD

JEANNERET, HIS BROTHER

ALBERT AND AMEDEE

OZENFANT IN L‟ESPRIT

NOUVEAU‟S OFFICE.

1912

LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS - Builds the villa JEANNERET-PERRET lying

on the mountain road [for his parents] and the Villa FAVRE-

JACOT in the nearby town of Le Locle.

1916 1917 1920 1922

1923-1928 PUBLISHED VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE

PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1927 AS

TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE

1923

He designed a house for his parents,

the VILLA [LE LAC] in Corseaux on

Lake Geneva.

EDUCATIONAL LIFE EARLY WORKS AND FORMATIVE YEARS

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MARCH

SEPTEMBER

In LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, built VILLA SCHWOB

This is the best-know and most remarkable OF CHARLES-EDOUARD

JEANNERET'S creations in LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS. Rich in symbols, and with

elaborate technical and aesthetic aspects, it is his most accomplished work

before leaving for Paris.

In Paris, he founded the SCOIETE D‟ APPLICATION DU

BETON ARME‟ (SABA). He opened HIS FIRST STUDIO. At no

13, road de Belzunce

In LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, he built the CHÂTEAU D'EAU,

Podensac, France,.

JUNE

He launched [L‟ESPRIT

NOUVEAU] magazine.

In the company of

AMÉDÉE OZENFANT the

painter and PAUL

DERMÉE.

Adopts the

pseudonym LE

CORBUSIER for his

architectural

persona, derived

from his maternal

grandfather, LE

CORBESIER..

MAY

Trip at Rome with AMEDEE‟

OZENFANT.

TOWARDS NEW ARCHITECTURE

NOVEMBER

AUGUST

OCTOBE

R HE BUILT AMEDEE OZENFANT

ART STUDIO / ART HOUSE,

PARIS, FRANCE

Meets YVONNE GALLIS, a model

from Monaco, whom he will marry in 1930.

He in Paris built VILLA

LA ROCHE-JEANNERET

OCTOBE

R

1926

he designed a VILLAS LIPCHITZ-MIESTCHANINOFF,

BOULOGNE-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE,

1925

1924 He establishes his

ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE

AT 35 RUE DE SEVRES

6TH ARRONDISSEMENT.

He gives lectures in

GENEVA, LAUSANNE AND

PRAGUE

JANUARY

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The founding of CIAM (CONGRES

INTERNATIONAUX D‟ARCHITECTURE

MODERNE) in Switzerland.

HE PUBLISHED ARCHITECTURE OF THE

MACHINE AGE.

He built the VILLA COOK, THE GUIETTE

HOUSE, the SALVATION ARMY HOSTEL

and THE TUNISIAN HOUSE.

1924

1925

1926

1927

He built MAISON

ET CANTINE and

MAISON PLANEIX

He built THE PAVILION DE

L‟ESPRIT NOUVEAU (PARIS) and

the PESSAC HOUSING ESTATE

near Bordeaux.

He gave lectures in Madrid,

Barcelona.

He built VILLA STEIN-DE MONZIE in

Garches, a suburb in Paris, AND

TWO HOUSES AT THE DEUTSCHER

WERKBUND HOUSING EXHIBITION at

Weissenhof, Stuttgart.

1928

Built PAVILION NESTLE, VILLA

CHURCH and CENTROSOYUS

(MOSCOW) AND VILLA SAVOYE

(POISSY).

DEATH OF GEORGES

EDOUARD JEANNERET,

FATHER OF LE

CORBUSIER.

APRIL

Holidays at PICQUEY in the Basin of Arcachon

HE POSTULATED HIS FIVE POINTS

FOR A NEW ARCHITECTURE.

SEPTEMBER

Trip to MOSCOW

Unlike the confined urban locations of

most of le corbusier's earlier houses, the

openness of the poissy site permitted a

freestanding building and the full

realization of his five-point program

essentially the house comprises two

contrasting, sharply defined, yet

interpenetrating external aspects. the

dominant element is the square single-

storied box, a pure, sleek, geometric

envelope lifted buoyantly above slender

pilotis, its taut skin slit for narrow ribbon

windows that run unbroken from corner

to corner (but not over them, thus

preserving the integrity of the sides of the

square).

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APRIL

HE MARRIED YVONNE

GALLIS.

1930 SEPTEMBER HE BECAME A FRENCH CITIZEN

DECEMBER

1935 Moves into apartment and studio spaces on the seventh storey of

the Immeuble 24 rue Nungesser et Coli ,

He designed the “LITTLE WEEKEND HOUSE”

in La Celle-Saint-Cloud and VILLA “LE

SEXTANT” in Les Mathes.

He published La Ville Radieuse and

Aircraft.

His first trip to USA. Where he lecture in

Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Madison and

Hartford.

He received the title of CHEVALIER

DE LA LEGION D‟HONNEUR by the

French Government.

1937 He built the PAVILION DES TEMPS

NOUVEAUX AT THE INTERNATIONAL

EXHIBITION IN PARIS.

MARIE CUTTOLI

FIRST

TAPESTRY

1940s He went to live in VICHY.

He published DESTINY OF PARIS AND

ON THE FOUR ROADS. He became

interested in sculpture.

HE BEGAN COLLABORATION

WITH JOSEPH SAVINA.

He founded ATBAT (Builders‟ Studio).

He published LES TROIS

ETABLISSEMENTS HUMAINS.

He worked on his designs for the

MARSEILLES UNITE D‟HABITATION.

He meets with ALBERT EINSTEIN

BEGINS COLLABORATION

WITH - PIERRE BAUDOUIN

ON THE DESIGN OF

TAPESTRIES.

1941 JANUARY

1943

1945

1946

1948

Involved as consultant to the committee

responsible for THE UNITED NATIONS

HEADQUARTERS building in New York.

1947

He designed the

CURRUTCHET HOUSE in La

Plata and the CABANON DE

LE CORBUSIER

[ROQUEBRUNE CAP -

MARTIN]

HE BUILT SWISS PAVILION FOR THE CITE UNIVERSITAIRE. HE ALSO BUILT ON THE

CITE DE REFUGE , A HOUSE IN LE PRADET AND THE CLARTE APARTMENT BLOCK.

He travels accorss Spain with FERNAND

LEGER, PIERRE and ALBERT JEANNERETE

NOVEMBER

FEBRUARY

OCTOBER

MARCH

APRIL

JULY

OCTOBER

1949

He self supervised

the construction of

UNITE D‟HABITATION

MARSEILLES.

AUGUST

1950s

OCTOBER 14

He published the first volume of

his book on the “MODULOR”.

The MARSEILLES UNITE D‟HABITATION is inaugurated.

He built LA MAISON DU BRESIL at Cite

Universitaire with LUCIO COSTA.

He finished THE JAOUL HOUSES AND THE

CHURCH OF RONCHANMP( was

inaugurated).

In Chandigarh, the HIGH COURT was

inaugurated. The SARABHAI HOUSE is

completed in Ahmedabad, SHODHAN

HOUSE.

He designed the NATIONAL

MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART

in Tokyo to house a

collection of

Impressionist Art

(painting-sculpture). This

collection was considered

as a war price by French

government during war

„39.

His wife, YVONNE, died in Paris.

The inauguration of SECRETARIATE

in Chandigarh.

At the Exposition universelle in

Brussels, he erected THE PHILIPS

PAVILION.

He built the BERLIN-

CHARLOTTENBURG UNITE

D‟HABITATION.

The death of his mother ,

MARIE CHARLOTTE

AMELIE JEANNERET, in

Corseaux

Doctor Honoris Causa from the

University of Colombia and Gold

Medal of the American Institute of

Archiects.

He built the BRIEY-EN-FORET UNITE

D‟HABITATION.

1962 The Musee d‟art moderne in

Paris held a retrospective of Le

Corbusier‟s lifework.

HEIDI WEBER commissioned him

to build an exhibition pavilion in

Zurich which was completed in

1967. He built EGLISE SAINT

PIERRE.

1963 The Inauguration of THE CARPENTER CENTER

FOR VISUAL ARTS.

He designed THE MAISON DE L‟HOMME PAVILION

for HEIDI WEBER.

1965 He completed THE FIRMINY CULTURAL CENTER; UNITE

D‟HABITATION and STADE FIRMINY.

The inauguration of the

Dominican Monastery of

La Tourette.

AUGUST HE DIED AT ROQUEBRUNE-CAP MARTIN.

SEPTEMBER ANDRE MALRAUX honored him with a funeral service in

the COUR CARREE OF THE LOUVRE.

The Indian government entrusted

him with planning the city of

Chandigarh.

1950

1951 First trip to INDIA and

presentation of OPEN HAND

MONUMENT.

1952

1954

1955

JUNE He published the “MODULOR II”.

THE NANTES-REZE UNITE D‟HABITATION was

finished and inaugurated.

1957

OCTOBER 5

1960s

1960 FEBRUARY OCTOBER

1961

1958

MATRICES

UNITE D‟HABITATION

MATRICES

UNITE D‟HABITATION

MATRICES

NOTRE DAME DU HAUT

MATRICES

NOTRE DAME DU HAUT

MATRICES

VILLA SAVOYE

MATRICES

VILLA SAVOYE

EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHES

MODEL EXPERIMENTATION

ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE OF

PHILIPS PAVILION

EXPERIMENTATIONS WITH THE

MODULOR SYSTEM

FINAL MODEL

CONCEPT The Architecture of Le Corbusier is the architecture that promotes the quality of living. The concept was to follow Le Corbusier‟s functional approach, therefore, the modulor system was taken into consideration when designing, in the dimensions and the location of spaces and windows.

FINAL DRAWINGS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

FINAL DRAWINGS

SECTION

ELEVATION

MIDTERM

PROJECT

MVRDV

Upon completion of the first project of semester and the conclusive understanding of your architect‟s vocabulary, you are required to expand

that knowledge to include the work of another architect. By working in teams of two, you will exchange the entire first research stage of your

project and use this new research as your basis for design. In choosing your team member, you must select someone with an architect of a

distinct vocabulary.

Based on this you are required to design a small architect‟s stand-alone one bedroom studio in an urban environment. The location chosen is on

the Mokattam Hills.

The building should include:

- Studio space with all necessary office arrangements, bookshelves, work-space, etc…

- Small living/dining space

- Kitchenette

- Storage

- 1 Bedroom

- 1 Full Bathroom

- You can combine or separate any of these functions, according to your new architect‟s vocabulary

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

FINAL MODEL

CONCEPT

The concept was to try to minimize

the area of the used land which is a

concept that is introduced in most of

the work of MVRDV by designing

vertically. However, trying to make

the building integrate with the

surrounding landscape, a cantilevered

office space was designed in the

ground floor.

FINAL DRAWINGS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Kitchenette

Dining Room

Studio

Living Room

FINAL DRAWINGS

SECOND FLOOR PLAN ROOF FLOOR PLAN

Bedroom

Bathroom

Storage

FINAL DRAWINGS

ELEVATION SECTION SECTION

SECOND PROJECT

MUSIC PAVILION

THE ARCHITECTURE OF EXPRESSION The objective of this second project is to explore the power of architecture to express meaning through form and space. Past projects have

included the expression of art, performance, identity and freedom. This semester we will be exploring the spatial expression of music.

Since first attributed this quality in the late 1700‟s by philosopher Goethe, architecture has been called “frozen music”. Many of the dynamic

characteristics of music that give it quality and excellence have parallel attributes in the world of architecture- rhythm, balance, climax, focus,

repetition, measure, harmony and flow.

These attributes, and their parallelisms, will be the key to designing the space and form of your project to symbolize, express and facilitate the

enjoyment of music. Taking a layered approach of both expression and function you are required to design a music pavilion for contemporary

middle-eastern music performance in the south end of Azhar Park here in Cairo. Maps showing the site and specific location of the chosen plot of

land will be presented in class. Students are expected to visit the site to gather relevant visual and physical data to inform their site analysis and

consequent design process.

Program:

- Backstage: including

- dressing rooms for both sexes

- showers and bathrooms for both sexes

- 2 acoustically treated rehearsal spaces

- storage

- Electrical and Audio/Visual control room

- Performance stage

- Open air seating for 150 persons

- Audience bathrooms

- Ticket booth

- Any additional appropriate services needed

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

MODEL EXPERIMENTATION

Experimenting with

strips of different

colors once and with

white strips. Also,

experimenting with

the place of program

spaces to be placed

in an upper level.

FINAL MODEL

CONCEPT As the study of music may seem boring for some people, the concept is to create a setting where people can get involved with music, interact with the

building and learn more about Contemporary Middle Eastern Music in an informal way. The building, in its form, represents the rhythm of the music with the

transition of its sudden high notes and low notes. As people glance the building from a distant place, they can have an overview of the spaces inside which

will interest them to approach the building to discover it. As they get into the pavilion, people has all the freedom to move, sit and play anywhere. They are

so much involved in everything to the extent that they are able to see the performers while they are rehearsing. Not only does the pavilion allow the people

to experience something new with music and its effect on the soul, but they also, through a temporary gallery with changing themes related to music, can

enjoy getting to know more and more about the history of music.

FINAL DRAWINGS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

Rehearsal

Dressing Room Dressing Room

Control

Room

Main

Stage

Gallery Space

Toilet Toilet

FINAL DRAWINGS

SECTION