Structure
Geometry
Enclosure
Program
Circulation
PARTI:
POCHE:
Plan
Section
Key Points on E1027:
- E.1027 was designed as a maison minimum – a “house envisaged from a social point of view, minimum space, maximum of comfort”12 – simple, yet efficient.
It is a house primarily
designed for independence and study, but sufficiently large to welcome a select group of
friends and entertain them in comfort.
- Many of the design principles of E.1027 had been spelled out by Le Corbusier in his “Five Points of a New Architecture” – an accessible roof deck, a house raised off the ground by pilotis, open‐plan living with free‐facades and ribbon windows. The division between outdoor and indoor space is deliberately eroded.
- E.1027 was also one of the first houses that attempted to use technology to adapt Modernist architecture to the Southern European climate, through the use of shutters that could slide horizontally and / or fold out like an accordion.
- Some commentators have suggested the sensitivity of E.1027’s design is in part because of Gray’s gender – “a woman’s touch” a statement that Gray herself would have likely despised given her work itself was helping erode the usual stereotypes and professional divisions on the grounds of sex.
The house comprises a large, south‐facing living room, extended by a terrace giving onto the
Mediterranean with views to the west of Monte Carlo.
