This study aims at searching the design process and sources of Ronchamp Chapel. I analyzed the chapel itself and the various materials of Ronchamp Chapel. The chapel at Ronchamp is the most fully documented of Le Corbusier's projects, so his own sketc...
This study aims at searching the design process and sources of Ronchamp Chapel. I analyzed the chapel itself and the various materials of Ronchamp Chapel. The chapel at Ronchamp is the most fully documented of Le Corbusier's projects, so his own sketchbooks, drawings, and writings from the time provide close-up accounts of how Le Corbusier did "get all of that".
1) The unique and plastic form of Ronchamp chapel is the product of not only Le Corbusier's talented intuition but also his deep research, abundant experience, and various information.
2) His creative design process is constructed of four phases as follows.
① Integrate with the site and context
② Incubation phase
③ Spontaneous birth of the whole work, all at once, and all of a sudden
④ The slow execution of the drawings, the design, the plans, and the construction itself
3) The most important 'incubation phase' is tucking all of the information and program away in his memory, not allowing himself to make any sketches for months on end.
4) Corbusier used very diverse stored references such as the travel reminiscences, personal memories, borrowings from the history and language of contemporary technology as the sources of inspiration.