MATERIALS

Basically built with bricks, concrete, stone, glass and natural wood.

The exterior finish gives the concrete view of the structure and rustic red brick materials are combined with unpainted wood and glass. Inside are metal beams in the concrete facade

  In the interior finishes of the same materials with brightly painted walls, vaulted brick ceilings and floors unpolished overlap. Already in the 1920s, Le Corbusier had understood that changes color spaces, stimulates physiological reactions and has a strong effect on our sensibility, concept applied in the halls of these houses where colors provide outstanding visual variables.

The covers are filled with earth and grass to reduce thermal expansion.

CEILINGS

Shallow concrete vaults contrasted with a frame of thin bricks laid without using a centering system These bricks are extended as permanent molds for thin concrete vaults above them Fastened with transverse steel beams, concrete vaults resting on continuous beams extending along the floor, these beams in turn transfer the weight to load brick walls surrounding the houses The same system was used in the two constructs

A house govern both the same measures of space with dimensions of Modulor, two longitudinal bays of different widths, 3.66 and 2.26 meters set by load-bearing walls of bricks and covered by vaults that start at a height of 2, 26 meters from the lintel beams, therefore, the section of the bays is a golden rectangle and square respectively, the matrix of the houses.

STRUCTURE

The structural system is a combination of red brick and concrete dump "in situ", both exposed to the outside Concrete beams separating plants that run lengthwise structure to support the weight of the vaults, can be seen from the outside becoming a new construction detail

DESCRIPTION

Their size gives them a striking sculptural presence and unusual materials used in its exterior, cast concrete, unpainted rustic brick give a deliberately rough appearance. The industrial, exposed brick walls, which highlight the windows of different sizes are traversed horizontally by bands of concrete.

The houses "A" and "B" were designed to be built separately, sharing a lot of 1000 square meters and joining the basement, where parking spaces are located, also share a concrete terrace located in the garden and a system centralized heating. They are an expression of style "brutalist" and are based on the principle of Modulor, Le Corbusier theory on human scale.

The facades of the house "A" onto the street and hide the house "B", with its different orientation. Both houses of about 250 square meters each were designed so that the two families could live comfortably in the three plants each

The buildings are carefully placed on the ground, forming right angles to each other, with strategic setbacks from all property lines, except on the south side where one of the houses adjacent to the wall of an adjacent building. The result of this placement is a sequence of spaces increasingly private outdoor The timing of the trees as well as for the windows of the houses location provides privacy between the two houses and hidden from the adjacent buildings.

BRUTALISM

The Maisons Jaoul were designed in 1951 and built between 1954 and 1956, in the middle stage of Le Corbusier brutalist. In this same period pertein all buildings Le Corbusier designed for the Hindu city of Chandigarh and the convent of Sainte Marie de La Tourette, which were built during the 50s and 60s.

The brutalist stage of Le Corbusier (or '' béton brut '', as he defined it), which was the last of the Swiss architect, began after the end of World War II and was characterized by the use of reinforced concrete without paint or decorate.

 (The building of the secretariat of Chandigarh, example of brutalist architecture)

At this stage, Le Corbusier changed several elements that had been key to its previous architecture, among which were the use of white to paint the facades of buildings (at this time he left the gray concrete is exposed) and strict each of the five points for a new architecture compliance (the Maison Jaoul violate the first of these principles)

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SOURCES ON MAISON JAUOL

"Classic Home 063", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 289, 2006.0531, pH1.

Geoffrey H. Baker. Le Corbusier: An Analysis of form. Hong Kong: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.

Michael Graves. Le Corbusier, Selected Drawings. London: Academy Editions, 1981. NA 2707.L4 A4 1981. site plan, p133. second floor plan, p134. elevation, p134. section, p144. section, p136.

Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photo, p205. 

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.

CURIOSITY

Maisons Jaoul Commentary

"A narrow walkway slopes up from the street to entrances off a shared patio. The buildings are carefully positioned at right angles to one another on the site, with strategic setbacks from all the property lines, except to the south. There, unit A abuts the wall of an adjacent building. The result is a sequence of increasingly private outdoor spaces."

• ArchitectureWeek No. 289, pH1