Building Detail: Villa Shodhan

Building Technology

Third Year, First Semester : Page is a work in progress

Work in collaboration with Andrew Hebert, Aerin Chavez and Annie He

The project was reproducing a structural detail to a certain scale. Our team chose to make a single window panel from Villa Shodhan by Le Corbusier to full scale. It was not only a visual reproduction, but a structural one as well. This meant making plywood formwork, designing and building rebar cages and pouring concrete. In order to avoid a solid concrete project, we also had to design foam as filler that would not sacrifice the structural integrity of the concrete. For efficiency, the 2000 pound heavy project was cast on four casters to keep it mobile. Made entirely by the students, the project took over two months to complete.