![]() ![]() ![]() The south tower of the chapel can be seen from afar as we approach the Swiss border. Here is the Cartesian thinking, program disappears, leaving in place an intense lyricism based on the voluptuousness of the masses and built the formal freedom. ![]() This book is the supreme exponent of one of the two extremes between which displays the personality and thus the work of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier took five years to build the Ronchamp, was one of the projects they worked more deeply, to follow staff works. The contrast in color between the walls and the deck joined the curvilinear motion of the elements and the elevation of the deck with respect to the walls makes the play acquires a spirituality and an elevation insurmountable. The dominance of the curves and the kit makes the Ronchamp a single work. A place to meditate and where the sound and the spaces prominence acquired were free of any additions. His idea was to build an enclosure in which the material is presented in all its purity. Pagan temples first, then churches and a chapel. There were always places of worship there. Situated on the hill Bourlémont, a few kilometers from Belfort, the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut from the heights overlooking the small town of Ronchamp. Since its construction has been one of the buildings most praised of this architect. The interior of the chapel seemed “a mountain cave without.” The exterior shape suggests a more modern sculpture in a temple, but the idea was accepted by the church. The Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, in 1950 he received the contract to build a new chapel to replace the center of pilgrimage of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp, near Belfort, destroyed during the Second World War. ![]()
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