ARC423 Advanced Building Systems

Lecture Notes for Wednesday March 26, 2003

• Heidi Weber Pavilion, Switzerland. Le Corbusier
• Steel construction
• A building for the display of Le Corbusier’s work and furniture.
• Pavilion is a prototype for a house vs. a gallery.
• Le Corbusier begins to posit a modular steel construction system which he first develops in a hillside housing project. Roq n Rob at Cap Matin in the south of France.
• The forms a ‘kit of parts’ which can be assembled on site versus crafting a concrete building on site.
• He patents a 226x226x226 cm structural cube.
• The second part of the design comes from a previous museum pavilion which he uses a 2 pitched parasols, one pointing up and one pointing down.
• The Weber pavilion comes together as a ‘housing’ style scheme below with the two pitched parasols above.

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