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Le Corbusier 柯比意
Ventilator Shutter, Chandigarh, India 印度昌迪加爾通風遮陽板
circa 1957
The Swiss French architect Le Corbusier designed this ventilator shutter for the Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh, India, in the mid-1950s. An entirely new provincial capital planned shortly after the country gained independence, Chandigarh was an initiative of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru meant to fashion an image of modern India. Nehru commissioned Le Corbusier and a team of foreign and local architects to conceive the city at all scales, from infrastructure and public spaces to housing and furniture. Le Corbusier incorporated the ventilator shutter design in several buildings in the Capitol Complex, a set of government structures at the symbolic ‘head’ of the urban plan.
At the Government Museum and Art Gallery, the aluminium shutters appear as serial vertical elements set into the deep recesses of the concrete facade, which prevented direct sun exposure. As their name suggests, the ventilators regulate airflow; a handle at roughly arm level allows an occupant to manipulate them in response to outside conditions, rotating each blade-like shutter around an asymmetrical pivot point. The shutters are consistent with Le Corbusier’s approach to building as a system of coordinated technologies in line with a set of universal proportions, which he referred to as the ‘Modulor’, applied to a demanding climate.
At the Government Museum and Art Gallery, the aluminium shutters appear as serial vertical elements set into the deep recesses of the concrete facade, which prevented direct sun exposure. As their name suggests, the ventilators regulate airflow; a handle at roughly arm level allows an occupant to manipulate them in response to outside conditions, rotating each blade-like shutter around an asymmetrical pivot point. The shutters are consistent with Le Corbusier’s approach to building as a system of coordinated technologies in line with a set of universal proportions, which he referred to as the ‘Modulor’, applied to a demanding climate.
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