Maison Citrohan – Weissenhof 1927

House in the Weissenhof district, Stuttgart Germany, 1927

In this project in the Weissenhof district of Stuttgart, Le Corbusier's five points of architecture seem mature.
The use of pilotis is present, there is the hanging garden, the ribbon window, the plan and the free façade.
For Le Corbusier, the free façade meant the possibility of freeing the load-bearing functions of the wall envelope, to order the full and the empty spaces with compositional and geometric criteria.
This project features a large double-height window, elongated side windows and a small balcony overlooking the outside.

The free plan is evident in the plasticity with which the walls are managed between straight and curved, independently of the structural role played by the slender pilotis.
On the top floor, the beam that runs along the two free sides of the terrace reconstructs the primary shape, the general volume therefore appears as a pure parallelepiped.