Villa Sarabhai, Modernist residence in Ahmedabad, India.
Villa Sarabhai is a modernist house in Ahmedabad designed by Le Corbusier, built 1951–1955 for Manorama Sarabhai. Its structure is a series of ten parallel vaulted naves, each a concrete cradle with a brick facing. The vaults were chosen for the local climate's wide temperature and humidity swings.
Manorama Sarabhai, sister of Chinubhai Chimanlal, commissioned the villa from Le Corbusier in 1951 as a home for her growing family; it was completed in 1955. Its structural system closely follows that of Le Corbusier's Jaoul houses in Paris. The same owners have lived in the house since 1954–1955.
The villa was designed for Manorama Sarabhai, a widow with two children, and has been lived in by the same owners since 1954–1955. Its ten parallel vaulted naves, each a concrete cradle with brick facing, are the feature a visitor notices first.
The villa stands on a 20-acre park owned by the Sarabhai family, so the house is reached through private grounds rather than from the street. Its ten parallel vaulted bays are arranged in sequence, and the facades work as brise-soleil against the sun. The house has been lived in by the same owners since 1954-1955 and is not a public museum.
The villa is a sequence of ten parallel vaulted bays, each a concrete cradle finished with brick facing. The structural system closely follows that of Le Corbusier's Jaoul houses. The same owners have lived in the house since 1954–1955.
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