Villa Savoye
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Description
An astonishing white construction, set on the edge of a forest. Raised on stilts, with a roof terrace adorned with large cylindrical forms, the Villa Savoye is an architectural manifesto.
A major edifice within Le Corbusier’s oeuvre, the Villa, completed in 1931, has maintained its avant-garde character. To employ the architect’s provocative terms, it is both a "machine for living" and a "machine for provoking emotions," arresting the viewer by the radicalness of its form. Today it is accepted as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century architecture.
A veritable manifesto for Modernist architecture, the Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier’s famous “Five Points Towards a New Architecture”: the supports; the free designing of the ground plan; the free design of the façade; the horizontal windows; and the roof gardens. For a more in-depth immersion in the architect’s history, don’t forget to visit the Maison La Roche in Paris, which Le Corbusier completed just a few years before the Villa Savoye. In 2016, UNESCO recognised Le Corbusier’s “Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement,” inscribing his architectural work on its World Heritage List.
Discover the Villa Savoye through one of the treasure hunts in the Paris Region Adventures application specially designed for families and downloadable free of charge.
You might also like the Museum of the 1930s and its artistic, architectural richness and industrial heritage.
Community facilities
Access and contact
Days and opening hours
From 02/05 to 31/08/2024, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
From 01/09 to 30⁄04, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Closed exceptionally on January 1st and December 25th.
Prices
- From 01/01 to 31/12/2023 Full price: 8 € Group adults: 6.50 € (Groups of 20 or more adults) Set price group adults: 350 € (Conference visit package 350 € (up to 30 people including entrance fee)).
From 01/01 to 31/12/2024 Reduced price: 7.50 € Adult: 9 € Group adults: 7.50 €.
Free entry for children < 18 years, Job-seeker, disabled people and accompanying persons. Group rate available for > 20 people.
Facility
- Car park
- Toilets
Services
- Shop
Activities
- Temporary exhibition
- Activity
Tour
Spoken languages
- English
- French
Guided tour languages
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
Documentation languages (home)
- Italian
- Japanese
- Portuguese
- German
- English
- Chinese
- Spanish
- French
Single mean time tour
45 minsSingle services tour
- Unguided individual tours available permanently
Accessibility
See on accessible.net- General
- Physical disability
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Visual impairment
- Mental / Cognitive
- Family
- Senior
Access
Pratical informations
- access to the establishment: graspable outside call button
- floor-level pathways
- pathways that change levels are offset by a sloping surface
- adapted access control to the car park
- reserved and adapted parking space located close to the entrance of the site
- parking spaces laid out and connected to the road or building by an accessible pathway
- reception desk easily identifiable and accessible
- free admission for one accompanying person
- free admission on presentation of proof of entitlement
- the accessible entrance is the main entrance
- the accessible entrance is the secondary entrance (indicated)
- staff informed or trained
- specific tariff policy
- revolving entrance door
- automatic entrance door
- manual entrance door
- accessible information plates
- all documentation graspable
- performance room with a reserved space
- multimedia content access system
- spaces equipped with reserved spaces and adapted to people in wheelchairs
- floor-level establishment
- wheelchair loan
- seated area available
- seated areas available (several spread out across the entire site)
- présence d’un lave main dans les sanitaires adaptés
- accessible communal toilets
- toilets: transfer direction onto the toilet seat to the right
- toilets: transfer direction onto the toilet seat to the left
- Communal staircase adapted for secure movement
- adapted elevator
- elevator
- visual intercom
- adapted access control to the car park
- acceo: instant speech transcription and visio-interpretation in French sign language (LSF)
- reception/information desk equipped with a hearing assistance system with a magnetic loop
- reservation/contact via SMS and/or email
- reservation possible by webcam
- staff trained in French sign language (LSF)
- uniform signage to help people find their way around
- text/image signage
- performance or tour assistance aids
- visual alarm with flashing light in isolated spaces
- intercom equipped with a hearing assistance system with a magnetic loop
- audiovisuals are in French sign language (LSF)
- subtitled audiovisuals
- visioguide with overlay in French sign language (LSF)
- subtitled visioguide
- audioguides equipped with a volume control device
- audioguides equipped with induction loops
- independent visit possible
- guided tour in French sign language (LSF)
- guided tour in international sign language (ISL)
- guided tours with lip reading
- guided tours with an amplifying device
- guided tours with a magnetic loop device
- exterior pathways identifiable by touch
- exterior pathways visually identifiable
- exterior lighting control system in communal areas
- interior pathways identifiable by touch
- interior pathways visually identifiable
- audioguide with description elements
- audioguide with guidance elements
- Braille documentation
- documentation in enlarged characters
- swell paper documentation
- floor-level establishment
- offset or no obstacles at face height
- navigation assistance tool (e.g. map/model - in relief/large characters/contrasting colours)
- possibility to control the lighting
- magnifying glass loan
- glass surfaces identifiable via contrasted elements in relation to the immediate surroundings
- audiodescription system
- tactile tour
- the dangers identified have been addressed
- brochures/documentations classified by topic
- simplified adapted documentation (illustration through images, photos, drawings)
- adapted signage
- adapted activities
- educational workshops
- adapted room cards
- specific tours
- floor-level pathways
- adapted opening hours (morning performances)
- children's programme
- childcare service
- family tariffs/free admission for children
- secure and closed establishment
- large lockers or left luggage lockers for pushchairs
- possibility to leave pushchairs at the cloakroom
- floor-level establishment
- baby carrier loan
- pushchair loan
- toilet facilities suitable for children (toilet seat and washbasin height)
- changing table
- children's/family applications for the tour
- audioguides with a children's circuit
- children's visit booklets/games
- pushchairs accepted for the tour
- visioguides with a children's circuit
- floor-level pathways
- pets accepted on site and during guided tours
- reception desk easily identifiable and accessible
- reception/information desk equipped with a sound amplification system
- cloakroom
- documentation in enlarged characters
- floor-level establishment
- wheelchair loan
- magnifying glass loan
- cane wheelchair loan
- seated areas available (several spread out across the entire site)
- horizontal support rail
- diagonal support rail to enable the seated person to raise themselves up easily
- communal staircase adapted for secure movement
- private staircase adapted for secure movement
- stairs compensated for by a lift or an elevator
- audioguides equipped with a volume control device
- audioguides equipped with induction loops
- Specific accessible information plates (large characters)
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