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Villa Savoye by
Le Corbusier
The Villa Savoye, which is probably Le Corbusier's best-known building from the 1930s. Its design embodied his emblematic "Five Points", the basic tenets in his new architectural aesthetic:
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Support of ground-level pilotis, elevating the building from the earth and allowing the garden to be extended to space beneath.
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A functional roof serving as a garden and terrace, reclaiming for Nature the land occupied by the building.
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A free floor plan, devoid of load-bearing walls, allowing walls to be placed freely and only where aesthetically needed.
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Long horizontal windows for illumination and ventilation.
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Freely-designed façades functioning merely as a skin for the wall and windows and unconstrained by load-bearing considerations.
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