Le Cloître La Tourette, a monastery designed by architect Le Corbusier is not just a building, but it is an emotional journey that you take within yourself strolling through this spiritual environment created by simply using space and “architectural forms” to evoke serenity and calm. This “Sante Marie de La Tourette” building is a priory of the Dominican order, it is located on a hillside in Lyon, France, and is one of the last buildings designed by the 66-year-old architect Le Corbusier, The design began in May 1953. and was completed in 1961 and was recently listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay The reason I decided to select this particular building is because it "speaks" to me personally, I like to think that every building has a soul and that soul should be cultivated through the type of design what the Architect does and by the way the Architect translates landscape and space into something as pure as "Poetry", here in the case of La Tourette, Le Corbusier does exactly the same thing, he personifies the landscape and “poetizes” Architecture, he uses the ideology of “form follows function”, since the function of the building is to shelter “wisdom” (school), “spirituality” (monastery), “serenity” (library). This building therefore connects to the human body in a number of cases, according to my vision of this building and the ideologies of Le Corbusier. Physically, the building is raised on stilts, columns and pillars, just as a human body is “liberated from the human body”. the floor" through the use of legs, the floor plans open up just as the torso of a human body expands from the waist to the chest, the free roof with terrace to act as solar gains shows the human head and the ideology of absorbing wisdom The interior of the building is designed to accommodate Le Corbusier's Modular Man which suggests how the interior is organized according to the human form, the interior of the monastery has. three fascinating links with humans, the first character being the minimalist point of view of the interpretation of serenity, spirituality and isolation for a form of concentration on the work in progress, this psychological way of representing architecture is Another poetic character of the interior of this place is the culmination of "light and space", the intellectual way of producing light in a certain way, it requires a lot of observation on the. way light evokes emotions, this idea of ​​"sacred light" or "spiritual light" is really well focused, the light has been controlled in a format such that it touches the human spirit and connects it directly to the Architecture, and also the function of space. Another character of the use of materiality of the interior in relation to the exterior of the building makes us think, the type of facade of which the human body is made. of and how the interior is more complex in a way, in the same way that this building was created with care, the materiality on the exterior is concrete and glass where Le Corbusier mentions concrete as its preferred material to build, this exterior facade is rougher and climate resistant like human skin, while the interior of the building is more inclined to softer skin to create a welcoming emotion, but at the same time some parts of the wall have rougher skin to emphasize the minimalism of the environment. building. The project I'm working on at the moment concerns landscape, and I take a position on the way architecture andhumans give meaning to the landscape, this idea that the landscape has a soul that we cultivate over time through architecture, agriculture, housing. , this is how we design the landscape and the architecture within it to complement each other on an emotional level, we as humans do not realize the landscape until there is a human form present on it which gives it life, this piece which gives shape to the landscape is Architecture, Le Corbusier has the same ideology with the landscape when he suggests that the monastery be placed on top of the hill, because it can be seen from afar , that is, he wants the building to complement the landscape, contouring around it and suggesting that the landscape in turn complements the architecture. La Tourette has been placed on top of the hill in a slightly fashionable way, almost suggesting the way a human body is dressed and viewed, the building is designed "top down", thus creating an irregularity in the relief , Le Corbusier says “let it rest”. as it will", this ideology of making the building blend into the horizon and speak to the landscape is itself fictional. The building uses concrete as a material and therefore personifies the idea of ​​something firm and "concrete", almost like a rock sitting in the landscape. This idea of ​​placing the building where it is and programming it comes from a visit by Le Corbusier to Galluzzo, a "Tuscan town" in Florence. in Italy, located on the top of a hill and which was a community with a town hall, a church, a school and the streets acting as corridors to give way, and each of the buildings had a view of the landscape determining this idea that architecture is nothing without the context of the landscape, and furthermore the La Tourette program is based on this same ideology of creating a city in a single building by creating a school space, a town hall gathering space and a monastery space creating corridors in the building as connections with these main spaces, the architect also makes a ridge in the building separating the main building from the monastery to suggest the division between the functionality of the space, just like the city of Florence, the architect uses glass windows divided by mullions to give all rooms a view of the landscape, he divides the windows according to this rhythmic shape to create a view of the landscape through this mathematical equation of creating space and views. The main point I would like to make about the beauty of this building concerns its terrace. When it comes to serenity and calmness, the terrace truly evokes this emotion inside a human soul since the terrace is covered with earth and is cultivated with meadows. planters and you have the impression of “walking between earth and sky” to meditate and connect the physical to the spiritual. A rather interesting character of the building is this way of entering light and its manipulation to force you to "simulate" an emotion, the skylights which appear more "enigmatic" and "violent" with their cannon and rifle shapes. assault in the courtyard with the steep sloping roof of the forum compared to the serenity and calm of the other spaces of the building, but the skylight which focuses under these luminaires evokes spirituality and "holy light", the building also uses bright colors to the light entry way to create colorful light shapes on the walls of the innermost part of the monastery. This building, in my view, is perfectly located and has had a fair amount of work put into it to create a "being" experience, but if I had to disagree on the design and architecture, this would be the way Le Corbusier uses these rather "playful" objects like pyramids or cubes or",.