After this first week of looking at my assigned house, Villa Meyer, I have learned a lot. The biggest thing is that the villa was never build. It was simply a project that was designed but then decided it would never been built by the client. Researching this project is the first time I've had to complete a precedent study on a project, that is just that, a project. I personally like the challenge of having to figure out what exactly Le Corbusier wanted in the this villa. It forces me to look back at my plans and sections basically whenever I start to work look at my project. I've understood the drawings I have of the project but it's hard to really remember how everything works from one day to the next because it is not something I've decided. But like I previously said, I like the challenge and that this project is really making me look back at all the details.
Like today in class when talking with Luis, he brought up Villa Stein that was somewhat of a precedent for Villa Meyer. I had come across the Villa Stein when I would google Villa Meyer, but did not think much of it. I thought more that since Villa Meyer is only a project maybe Google just added other projects with the word Villa. Though that was not the case because when actually looking at some of the drawings of Villa Stein it showed a language that was present in Villa Meyer with it's double story spaces on the facade of the building, making it a very open facade. From now on I will certainly be looking more at other places that come up when I search a particular project.
Unfortunately, since Villa Meyer is only a project there are not many for of documentation on it. So I have not been able to find a video on my project, but I am going to put a link to one of the first sites I found. This site provides several drawings of the project along with a letter to Madame Meyer from Le Corbusier explaining what he wanted to portray in this house.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fondationlecorbusier.fr/corbuweb/morpheus.aspx%3FsysId%3D13%26IrisObjectId%3D6402%26sysLanguage%3Den-en%26itemPos%3D207%26itemSort%3Den-en_sort_string1%2520%26itemCount%3D216%26sysParentName%3D%26sysParentId%3D65&prev=search
The webpage isn't the best because it's through Google translate, but it's worth the read.
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