Ville contemporanie - Le Corbusier

This design includes a graphic study of the iconic Ville contemporanie. The Contemporary city was an unrealized utopian planned community intended to house three million inhabitants. It was designed by the French-Swiss architect known as Le Corbusier. In 1922, Le Corbusier presented Ville Contemporaine at Salon d'Automne. Following the exhibition, Le Corbusier continued work on the project, developing the plan from a non site-specific concept to a concrete proposal.
The centeral component of this plan was a group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in curtain walls of glass. The skyscrapers housed both offices and the flats of the most wealthy inhabitants. These skyscrapers were set within large, rectangular park-like green spaces.
At the center of the city was a transportation hub which housed depots for buses and trains as well as highway intersections and at the top, an airport. Le Corbusier segregated the pedestrian circulation paths from the roadways, and glorified the use of the automobile as a means of transportation. As one moved out from the central skyscrapers, smaller multi-story zigzag blocks set in green space and set far back from the street housed the proletarian workers.