Palace of Assembly
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| Palace of Assembly | |
| Designer | Le Corbusier |
| Location | Chandigarh, India |
| Date | 1953 to 1963 |
| Building Type | parliament house |
| Climate | hot |
| Context | urban, planned city |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Curved concrete roof form accents block massing. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Palace_of_Assembly.html |
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"One of the interesting points to call attention to is the adoption of a circular form for the hall which seems contrary to the development of good acoustics. The Assembly Hall is made in a hyperbolic shell with an average thickness of 15 cm, constant throughout its surface, resulting in a very low cost and a minimum of weight (here the principle of industrial cooling towers has been applied to the architectural intentions). This shell does not terminate in a horizontal but in an oblique section which shall receive a metallic framework (aluminum). This framework will become a veritable physical laboratory destined to ensure the interplay of natural lighting, artificial lighting, ventilation and acoustic-electronic mechanisms."
— Hans Girsberger, ed. Le Corbusier 1910-60. p202.
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References
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. drawings and diagrams, p62-63.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Hans Girsberger, ed. Le Corbusier 1910-60. New York: George Wittenborn, 1959. NA1053.J4A48. p202.
External Links
City of Chandigarh — Architecture, planning, tourism, and more.
