recent history. The free plan has influenced not only the design of the building layout in plan view, but other elements such as the facade and structure of a building as well. Two of the most notable and influential architects of Modern architecture, Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier, implemented free plan into their design. Both of these designers use open plan for similar purposes, but go about them in different ways.
Louis Kahn
- uses free plan to allow flexibility within the design
- allows architect to create space to meet the users' requirement and desires for the space
- allows natural light to penetrate every corner of the floor to ceiling windows
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| Esherick House. Philadelphia, PA |
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| Salk Institute. San Diego, CA |
Le Corbusier
- #3 of his "Five Points of Architecture"
- free designing of the ground plan; absence of supporting walls means the house is unrestrained in its internal usage
- free for architect to configure into rooms of re-purpose to fit a certain design
- allows buildings to be created without limited wall placement and more freedom for interior and exterior design
- made possible by a system of supporting stilt-columns that moves load-bearing structure to the exterior
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| Perspective drawing of Le Corbusier's open plan concept; 3rd point in his "5 Points of Architecture" |
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| Villa Savoye. Poissy, France |
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