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Oblique Integration of Horizontality and Verticality in Le Corbusier's Architecture

르 코르뷔지에 건축에서 수평성과 수직성의 사선적 통합

  • Park, Sung-Yong (School of Architecture, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
  • 박성용 (금오공과대학교 건축학부)
  • Received : 2023.01.04
  • Accepted : 2023.03.06
  • Published : 2023.03.30
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Abstract

In exploring the modernity of modern architecture, this study attempts an integrated analysis ranging from simple architectural facts to the architectural concepts of a specific architect. The integration of verticality and horizontality through oblique movements and compositions in Le Corbusier's works that focused on early house projects was analyzed. This study includes masonry structure and reinforced concrete structure, the examination of Le Corbusier and Perret's horizontal window-vertical window debates, the two prototypes of Le Corbusier's houses, the oblique movement of the architectural promenade, and Le Corbusier's one vanishing point perspective. The analysis results revealed that the traditional masonry structure and modern RC structure respectively contained verticality and horizontality. Through the debates between Le Corbusier and Perret, it became evident that horizontal windows represent modernity and vertical windows represent traditional styles. The two prototypes of Le Corbusier's houses contained horizontality and verticality by slabs and walls, respectively. The horizontality limitedly accommodates the verticality by stacking slabs, but as a part of the architectural promenade, the oblique movement within the spatial volume achieved the integration of horizontality and verticality. Upon analysis of the oblique composition in Le Corbusier's one vanishing point perspective, it was possible to reconfirm that the oblique movement and composition were important spatial characteristics in understanding his architecture. This study examined the horizontality and verticality of architecture from the general facts of architectural structure and Le Corbusier's architectural concepts to overcome the horizontality and verticality by oblique integration. This study is meaningful in understanding Le Corbusier and modern architecture in an integrated way through facts and concepts.

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