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Video Questions: The Convent of La Tourette (ARCHITECTURES 3, 25:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQSozfwZ_5E
Keywords:
The Convent of La Tourette (Monastery)
Le Corbusier
Pillars
Cells
Ideal proportions
Le Modulor (The Modulor)
Concrete flowers
Mondrian squares
Inexpressible space
Objective Questions:
1.
When was The Convent/ Monastery of La Tourette built? Who was the architect?
It was built between 1953 and 1960 and the architect was LeCorbusier.
2.
What were the two major crises that the monastery faced when it was open?
It was a catholic church that was trying to modernize with Vatican. 2 and the students revolt came to a head in 1968 and in 1970, only one student remained at LaTourette.
3.
What was the new usage of the place?
It became a conference center but it remained Dominican saved by architecture.
4.
How old was Le Corbusier when he designed the La Tourette building?
He was 66 years old when designing La Tourette.
5.
What were Le Corbusier’s previous buildings and structures before this building?
He was at the height of his fame for his individual houses like the Villa Savoye and for his apartment buildings in Marseilles. He
was busy with the capital city of Chandigarh
in the Punjab in India.
6.
What was his approach to architecture in general?
His idea was to free the ground from the grip of the soil and increase the garden area. Free the roof by making it into a terrace. Long live the free plan in which no walls are no longer needed as well as the free facades where glass could be used with total freedom.
7.
In 1953, after visiting the site, how did the site (slope) impact his design?
He stated that he should build at the top of the slope where it may blend in with the horizon.
8.
What is the role of the pillars on the ground?
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They were to support the building and compensate for the irregularities of the relief. 9.
What is the material he used in this building?
He used concrete for the construction.
10. Describe the characteristics of the facades of this building and identify the differences.
At the rear, it shows a modest façade, a small building on 3 levels with a discrete entrance as behooves a place where the inhabitants live reclusive lives.
11. What were the functions that the building housed?
It included a church, a chapter that served as a town hall, a school with classrooms and a library, an accommodation for 100 people. There are also public areas for the town to gather in an enclosed space.
12. What are the dimensions of the cells?
The cells are simple volumes, 5.92 meters long, 1.83 meters wide and 2.26 meters high.
13. What is ‘ideal architecture proportions’?
LeCorbusier defined a system founded on the golden section whose basic unit is the human figure.
14. What is Le Modulor?
That is the name of the standard of modern architecture “The Modular.”
15. What is ‘concrete flowers’?
The were medieval shield-like windows that he placed at the ends of main corridors.
16. Why did the architect create different facades?
Different facades were for different functional purposes.
17. Did the architect use Le Modulor in the design of the façade?
The facades facing the inside courtyard are made of large squares of concrete and 2.26 meters wide glass panels whose geometrical variations were calculated according to the modular.
18. What is Mondrian Squares?
Mondrian Squares were in reference to the work of the painter Piet Mondrian.
19. Why did he separate the church from the rest of the building?
He marked the difference in status by the forms he used and put a wide empty space between the church and the main building and gave it radical treatment.
20. What are the architectural characteristics of the church?
It is a concrete box with a severe enclosed shape like a bunker without any apparent openings that can only be seen from the inside. A high vertical slit was to in the light of the Rising Sun and a wide horizontal slit to let in the lights of the Setting Sun. It was oriented in the traditional way to mark the suns passage from east to west.
21. What were the two volumes attached to the church? What were their roles?
The sacristy was on one side and the Crypt on the other which together formed the transept. The church has the traditional cross shape where the main volume of the nave meets the transept stands the altar.
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The sacristy was set below so sound and light flow there but not sight.
22. How did the architect solve the circulation in structure?
There is a cross passage of the cloister also
known as the main and short conduits. 23. Which functions were connected by the main conduit?
It ends at the door of the church, which is the only access.
24. Which functions were connected by the short conduit?
It connects the entrance building to the refectory and to the chapter.
25. How were these two conduits connected?
They cross in one of the protected public areas, the atrium marked by its slanting roof.
26. What does the narrator mean by “inexpressible space”?
The areas begin to radiate physically where it does not begin to depend on dimensions but on the quality of perfection.
Reflective questions
27. Based on the information provided, please write down 3 most significant facts, features, characteristics, lessons learned, and/or thoughts regarding this documentary:
1.
The idea that the orientation of the sun plays a role in the interior is interesting being that usually there is
a focus on the exterior and how that behaves with the sun. But in this building, there is attention to the viewer from the inside and one must experience its truest intentions within.
2.
LeCorbusier designed for the purpose of the viewer from inside and it is reflected and the different moments of the spaces. Some facades don’t even attain windows which confirms more of that attention
to the internal experience.
3.
The juxtaposition of geometries allow the building to curate interesting moments where one wouldn’t imagine exist until they are begin to exist together.
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