Public and Private Spaces

The Villa Savoye is comprised of spaces of varying degrees or privacy. An emphasis is however placed on more public spaces. The ground floor is, apart from the entrance area comprised of primarily private areas (servants quarters and the garage). Level one is made up of the main living areas and is what Corb described as the habitation. This level is divided in two, one half devoted to private areas (bedrooms, bathrooms and office) the other half is made up of the more pubic kitchen, living room and courtyard. Dominance is placed on these public areas on the South East side of the building by the vertical circulation of the ramp which delivers the inhabitants to the open living area and courtyard, to access private areas one must do a one-hundred-and-eighty degree turn and walk down the horizontal circulation zone. The entirety of the roof terrace or solarium as Corb refers to it, is an open and public area. Each successive level has a higher proportion of the floor area devoted to public zones. Initially I used rough sketches to map out the public and private spaces.



Following that I used 3DS Max to create a range of 3D renders which initially used colour and mass to represent the public and private spaces. I then progressed to using varying opacities and mass to represent the different spaces. The solid and deepest masses represent public zones where the transparent and thinest masses represent public areas.


Below are the renders using materials with different opacities.