Le Corbusier in his design of buildings in tropical climate wanted to make a ‘pact with nature’ unlike his earlier works of the cold climates where he was to ‘combat the nature’. Le Corbusier’s solar shading strategy in Unit De Habitation and Capitol complex in Chandigarh are pioneering example for his approach towards dealing with the harsh tropical climate.

1. Priyank Mathur
Mervyn Menezes
Suyash Kulkarni
PALACE OF JUSTICE
-CHANDIGARH
The city of chandigarh is
planned to human scale. It puts
us in touch with the infinite
cosmos and nature. It provides
us with places and buildings for
all human activities by which the
citizens can live a full and
harmonious life. Here the
radiance of nature and heart
are within our reach

3. •Head(the Capitol Complex,
Sector 1)
•Heart (the City Centre)
•Lungs (the leisure
valley, innumerable open spaces
and sector greens)
•The intellect (the cultural and
educational institutions)
•The circulation system (the
network of roads) and the viscera
(the Industrial Area).
Le Corbusier conceived the master plan of Chandigarh as analogous to human
body

4. CHANDIGARH
WORKING
CIRCUL
ATION
CARE
LIVING
•Residential sectors - Living part
•Capitol Complex, City Centre, Educational
Zone (Post Graduate Institute for Medical
Education & Research, Punjab Engineering
College, Punjab University, etc.) and the
Industrial Area - Working part.
•The Leisure Valley, Gardens, Sector Greens
and open Courtyards-Care of body and spirit.
•7 different types of roads known as 7Vs and
later on added pathways for cyclists called V8 -
-circulation system.

5. Residential sectors - Living part
•Semi-Private Green Areas for neighborhood pockets
•Private Green Areas for Residential Units

6. The Leisure Valley, Gardens, Sector Greens and open Courtyards
Care of body and spirit.
The Leisure Valley –a green sprawling space extending North-East to South-West along
a seasonal river let gradient and was conceived as the lungs of the city.
Apart from large Public Parks and special Botanical Gardens, it houses series of Fitness
Trails, amphitheatres and spaces for open-air exhibitions.

7. Capitol Complex, City Centre, Educational Zone and the Industrial Area
Working part.

8. Capitol Complex, City Centre, Educational Zone and the Industrial Area
Working part.

9. The Tower of the Shadows
• A lofty, open-sided hall providing ample shade created in the subdued environment
• The building is aligned precisely on the north-south axis, so that it agreeably interrupts the severe
symmetry of the enormous square.
•The north side is entirely open, and the other three faces are furnished with brisesoleil.
•A ramp leads from this square into the sunken park (the Trench of Consideration).
In the Le Corbusier studio in Paris, the track of the sun for all seasons is most precisely recorded for all important
buildings, in order to determine the position of the brise-soleil.

10. P A L A C E O F J U S T I C E
- C H A N D I G A R H
• Year of construction : 1955
• Architect: Le Corbusier
(Charles Edouard
Jeanneret)
• Location: Sector1, Chandigarh
• Construction materials: Reinforced
concrete,
A great architectural venture using very poor materials and a labor force
quite unused to modern building techniques, with the tremendous obstacle
of the sun and the necessity of satisfying Indian ideas and needs, rather
than to impose Western ethics and aesthetics.

11. Within the capitol complex,
•The High court
•The Assembly
•The Secretariat
Are designed as a vast acropolis of
separate monumental structures, set
against a backdrop of Himalayan
foothills.
A r c h i t e c t ’ s w o r d s . .
•C h a r l e s c o r r e a
•Louis kahn

12. •The Superior Court of Justice was the first
building to be finished.
•An L-shaped block, framed by a concrete
cover (1.4m thick) that functions as a large
umbrella that unfolds gracefully in the
shape of arches,
•This space between the double cover
offers a smooth ventilation in the summer
and protection during the rainy season.
•The functional distribution of the courts
and the judges offices had to be shifted to
prevent the sun from direct insulation.
•A special entrance for judges through a
high portico resting on three giant pylons
painted in bright colours

13. •The courts are spaces of 8 * 8 * 12 meter
•A system of ramps connects various offices of the judicial bureaucracy, while offering
impressive views of the entire Capitol complex.
•The continuity of the concrete piazza running into this space establishes a unique site
and structural unity of the structure with the ground plane.

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