"Le Cabanon"

After looking a few images of "Le Cabanon" and reading through my class notes about Le Corbusier these are the first impacts and impressions I have perceived about him and the only project he actually imaged, created and had built for himself and his wife.

They might be wrong, but this is how I feel about him and this is the way I'd like to think of one of the most revolutionary Architects of the 20th Century.

We know Le Corbusier was devoted to his work, and addicted to his vices. And work, for him, was a vice, his passion, his religion, his philosophy, his life. Because Architecture embraces a little of everything, as Vitruvio had already underlined Centuries and Centuries ago.

He had a rigid working scheme. He was a slave to it, and he was conscious about it.

On the other hand he would appreciate pleasures and give them to himself, 'cause life, the one we know, is one. And I believe this concept emerges through the importance he gives to functionality in space. Because I believe functionality helps making things easier and much more pleasant.

And he focuses a lot on this concept, which I think makes him the personified Revolution of Modern Architecture. Space is not ordered anymore on the basis of a specific, common, scheme but what rules his spaces is functionality.

So his Cabanon, although being such a small area, is perfect for the use he wanted to make out of it, for the roles he's going to play in it, for the pleasures he wants to live in it: a perfect wonderful view (sunset and sunrises over the beautiful "Cote d'Azur" sea), a balanced sound of nature (waves brushing the coast, the flapping wings of seagulls, the creaking of crickets, the sea breeze through the dense pine forests), a place to focus on work (the hard and severe desk with specific chair) , a place to sleep, to wash, located next to his friends restaurant (to supply himself with delicious meals) ...

All his main principles and characteristics emerge and merge in his Cabanon: square shapes, round ones, functionality, minimalism, freedom and dependence; in one word: Modernism.