The church of Saint-Pierre in Firminy, by Jose Oubrerie and Le Corbusier

Abstract

When Le Corbusier saw the land of Firminy and the problem was clearly revealed, he returned with determination to the spatial device he had developed in the church of Tremblay, 1929. All part of this concept: "turn around" a vertical prism square base and place the altar on the axis. This creates a unique atmosphere. Le Corbusier begins to investigate with the same aesthetic vision that he had been developing continuously since the thirties. But although the functional problem is present, in almost all its projects the problem of the discovery of the object is completed by means of that revolving around said object; all the elevations of the project are linked in this way, and finally we enter inside, towards the second discovery, that of the internal space.