Grid Design: Chandigarh Architecture

• Grid is a series of vertical and horizontal lines that are used to subdivide an area.
• Chandigarh Architecture was the only urban project executed by Le Corbusier, the most influential teacher of modern architecture, and which made every effort, heart and soul, from 1951 until his death in 1965.

• The plan, designed for a city of 500,000 inhabitants, is based on a rectangular grid adapted to the terrain.
• The basic unit was the "Sector", conceived as self-sufficient and introverted, divided into units of about 150 neighborhood families.

• Chandigarh consist 60 sectors, each sector in 1200 * 800 meters. 17 Sector is considered the center of the city.

• These sectors are linked by a network of streets called the 7Vs.
• The "Vs" are hierarchically organized routes according to the intensity of vehicular traffic they support.

History

• The city of Chandigarh was started by Albert Mayer and Matthew Nowicki.
• Redesigned by Le Corbusier and, finally, planned and carried out in detail by Pierre Jeanneret, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, a leading architecture and urban design of a high quality.
• Since 1951, Le Corbusier comes in relation to India.