OZENFANT HOUSE

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Álvaro Estrada
Blanca of Parias
Heidy Valdivieso
Jaime Andreu,
Rodrigo Lizasoain
Marcelina Owono
Maria Garcia
Andrea Baño
Lara Miravalles
Nicolás Rivera
INDEX
Most relevant data. (Date, location, total area, use, client, relationship with other similar ones...)

Lessons worth knowing.

What, who, where, how, and I don't know what about the building

Exterior and interior photos of it. (from the time and current ones to see how time has passed).

Comparison with similar buildings in form or similar in use or contemporary... (and lessons that the comparison leaves).

Explanatory schemes.

Site plans, floor plan, elevation, section, detail...

Bibliography, external references.

Le Corbusier organizes the accommodation on three levels. On the first, the garage and part of the residence are located. On the next level, the
be and the gallery, reserving the upper floor with the best views and lighting for the studio. The studio is equipped with large
external gaps, among them an elongated and vertical one that, in addition to allowing light to enter, represents vertical circulation. Le Corbusier
In those years, I understood housing as a 'machine for living'. This peculiar volumetry is a gesture.
absolutely formal towards the outside, as the ceiling is completely flat on the inside.

These studio houses, without representing a faithful materialization of Le Corbusier's theories (as, according to him, Villa was)
Savoye) is a reflection of many of them: the free facade, independent of the structure and therefore capable of allowing a
greater light entry; or the standardization of the window, to human scale. The house is located at the corner of Avenue Reille in
Paris, France. The site is bound by the neighboring buildings.
LESSONS WORTH KNOWING
- The owner of the housing-studio Amédée Ozenfant was a French cubist painter, within the purist trend, who collaborated
with Le Corbusier in different works and projects.

Le Corbusier designed the studio-house for the artist, becoming his first built work in Paris and the
standardization or the new structural systems and the new language they brought with them.

This modernist work is one of the first purist creations of the renowned architect and reflects some of the 5 famous points.
for a modern architecture stated by the architect, such as the free and independent facade from the structure, which allowed
a greater freedom for the arrangement of openings, or the continuous window, standardized and adapted to the human scale.

Inside, the study appears as a perfect cube, with three glassed faces, so that it dematerializes by
complete the corner of the volume.

When the house changed owners, it underwent a renovation that transformed the work to a great extent: the teeth were removed
saw that finished the construction and that were its hallmark, and also the glazed cover that hid these teeth
from the sierra and that covered Ozenfant's studio, was replaced by a solid and opaque concrete slab, making the cube disappear
perfect light that Le Corbusier had in mind.
WHAT, WHO, WHERE, HOW AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT

WHAT: the Ozenfant house is a house-studio for the painter Amédée Ozenfant.
WHO: the house was designed for the French cubist painter Amédée Ozenfant, who collaborated with Le Corbusier on various works and
works, such as: After Cubism (book) or L'Esprit Nouveau (magazine).
WHERE: the house is located at the corner of Avenue Reille in Paris, France. The site is bounded by the
adjacent buildings. From the upper floor, the views are optimal, and the light enters from three of its sides. The
access to the housing is generated at the façade that faces the secondary street.
HOW: the house is organized into three levels: on the first level, we find the garage and part of the house, on the second level, the
living room and the gallery, and on the third level, the studio, with better views and better lighting.
Le Corbusier elige material el hormigón armado. La estructura está compuesta por forjados planos y columnas rectas, que permiten
both the freedom in the facade and the open floor plan (five points of architecture).
I DON'T KNOW WHAT: Le Corbusier manages to connect the project program (housing-studio) with the materials he uses. For Le
Corbusier saw the painter's workshop as the factory where he produced his art, and that is why he decided to use it for Ozenfant's studio.
the silhouette of the industrial skylights par excellence, the sawtooth ones.

CURIOSITY: when the house changed owners, it underwent a renovation that transformed it: the sawtooth features were removed.
they were remaking the building and that they were its hallmark, likewise, the glazed roof that hid those sawteeth and that
It covered Ozenfant's studio. It was replaced by a massive and opaque concrete slab, disappearing the perfect cube of light that
I had thought Le Corbusier
Exterior and interior photos
When changing ownership, the property underwent a renovation in which the work was completely transformed. Although at first glance the
The changes introduced by the new owner may not seem so important, but they are from a conceptual point of view:

For example, the sawtooth edges that topped the building and that were already a hallmark of identity were removed.

The glazed cover that hid these sawtooth shapes and where Ozenfant's studio was located was also changed for a
solid and opaque concrete slab, which is why the perfect cube of light that Le Corbusier had envisioned disappeared.
Exterior photos
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Interior photos
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Photos
Preliminary sketches and explanatory diagrams
Elevation
Raisers and Section
Sections
Sections
Sections
COMPARISON
This house features a Citrohan type model, a prototype of a single-family dwelling made of reinforced concrete.
of cubist houses that resemble a perfect box. These houses present the five points of modern architecture: the
pilotis, the terrace-garden, the free plan, the horizontal window, and the free facade. An example of a Citrohan house could be the house
Guiette.
CITROHAN HOUSE
HOUSE GUIETTE
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Tecno opens its Maison in Paris
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