Nº 005
pilotis
Columns that give the ground back.
Slender columns that raise a building off the ground, freeing the space beneath for movement, gardens and light; the first of Le Corbusier's five points.
The film, in words
One architect lifted houses off the ground, and cities never looked the same.
They're called pilotis: slim columns that raise a building and free the ground beneath it.
Le Corbusier made them the first of his five points of a new architecture, in the 1920s.
At the Villa Savoye, finished in 1931, a car could drive in under the house, and the lawn ran beneath it.
Later, pilotis lifted whole housing blocks, like the Unité d'Habitation in Marseille.
Their cousins: stilt houses in Southeast Asia, the hórreo in Spain, the Queenslander in Australia.
Pilotis. Columns that give the ground back.
Cousins
- stilt house Southeast Asia
- hórreo Spain
- Queenslander Australia