le corbusier

1. INTRODUCTION
CHANDIGHAR-HIGH COURT
CHANDIGHAR-ASSEMBLEY
LE CORBUSIER

2. INTRODUCTION
• CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET NOW POPULARLY
KNOWN AS LE CORBUSIER
• BORN ON 6th OF OCTOBER’ 1887 AT LA CHAUX DE
FONDS IN SWISSJURA MOUNTAINS 4 KMS FROM
FRENCH BORDER
• HE STARTED WORKING UNDER CONTRACTER
PERRET, LE CORBUSIER’S SO CALLED MASTER
• HE AS A CHILD PREPARED HIMSELF FOR A MANUAL
OCCUPATION
• HE LEFT HIS SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 13½ YRS
• JOINED AN ART SCHOOL LATER

3. • SINCE PUNJAB WAS
DIVIDED INTO TWO
PARTS, THE CAPITAL
WAS LEFT IN PAKISTAN
THERE FORE PUNJAB IN
INDIA REQUIRED NEW
CAPITAL
• LE CORBUSIER WAS
APPROACHED BY
PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
• CHANDIGARH IS A BOLD
EXPERIMENT IN MODERN
CIVIC DESIGN
• CHANDIGARH HAS
PROVOKED FRESH
THINKING AND IN FACT
SHOWN NEW WAY OF LIFE

4. THE HIGH COURT

5. THE HIGH COURT
• THE ENTIRE STUCTURE HAS RESULTED IN THE USE OF
DOUBLE ROOF
• THE UPPER ROOF CANTILEVERED OUT OF THE OFFICE BLOCK
IN THE MANNER OF PARASOL SHADING THE LOWER ROOF
• THE SPACE BETWEEN THE TWO ROOFS IS LEFT OPEN TO
ENABLE CURRENTS OF AIR TO MOVE BETWEEN THE FLAT
ROOF OF THE OFFICE BLOCK AND THE UNDERSIDE OF THE
PARASOL ROOF WHICH SLOPES TOWARDS CENTER IN THE
FORM OF ROWS OF ARCHES
• IN THE PLAN THE BUILDING TOOK THE FORM OF
ABBREVIATED L – SHAPED WITH LONG FAÇADE FACING THE
CAPITOL PLAZA TO CONTAIN COURT ROOMS
• THE BUILDING IS A RECTILINEAR FRAME WITHIN WHICH THE
INTERIOR FUNCTIONS ARE DEFINED

6. • THE EIGHT COURT ROOMS ARE IDENTICALLY EXPRESSED ON
THE MAIN FAÇADE AND SEPARETED FROM THE LARGER HIGH
COURT BY A MONUMENTAL COLUMNED ENTRANCE RISING THE
HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING
• BUILDING RISES DIRECTLY FROM THE EARTH
• THE MAIN FAÇADE IS DEFINED BY A FULL HEIGHT CONCRETE
BRISE SOLEIL
• THE ARCH FORM IS RESTRICTED TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE
PARASOL ROOF

7. COLOURED MASSIVE PILLARS
PARASOL ROOF
FORMING ARCHES
DOUBLE ROOF
GAP LEFT
BETWEEN
TWO ROOFS
FULL HT ENTRANCE

8. THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

9. • IT IS SQUARE IN PLAN WITH A MONUMENTAL PORTICO FACING
THE MAIN PLAZA
• ON THE LATERAL FACADES BOTH THE PORTICO AND THE
OFFICE BLOCK WOULD BE DEFINED BY SOLID END WALLS
• THE LARGE CHAMBER IS IN HYPERBOLIC FORM OF THE
COOLING TOWER WITH AN AVERAGE THICKNESS OF 15 CMS
• THE SMALL COUNCIL CHAMBER ARE IN RECTILINEAR FRAME
• THE UPPER PORTION OF THE TOWER IS EXTENDING ABOVE THE
ROOF LINE
• AN ASSEMBLY CHAMBER IS 128 FT IN DIAMETER AT ITS BASE
AND RISES TO 124 FT AT ITS HIGHEST POINT
• THIS TOWER WAS DESIGNED TO INSURE THE NATURAL LIGHT,
VENTILATION AND PROPER ACOUSTICS
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

10. • OF ALL BUILDINGS OF THE
CAPITOL COMPLEX , THE
ASSEMBLY IS THE MOST
INTRICATE IN PLAN
• SEPARATE CIRCULATION
ACCOMMODATION OF ALL
GROUPS IS PROVIDED
• EMPLOYING A SYSTEM OF
INDIVIDUAL ENTRANCES,
STAIRWAYS, LIFTS AND RAMP A
COMPLETE SEGREGATION OF
MEMBERS IS PROVIDED
• THER ARE TWO SEPARATE
GALLERIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN
IN COUNCIL CHAMBER

11. INTERIOR &
EXTERIOR
VIEWS OF THE
ASSEMBLY

12. THE END
BY- PRIYANKA MEHTA
PRADEEP PUROHIT