The space below the house functions to allow a car to drop its passengers directly in front of the door. Although one enters on a central axis, Le Corbusier's ideas of asymmetry ring loud throughout the interior and the exterior of the house. To reach the floors above Le Corbusier uses a gradually sloping ramp that passes between the grid of pilotis. With the ramp as the spine of the idea, Le Corbusier gives the impression that the spaces above are growing larger as one ascends. Le Corbusier creates these large open spaces with his ideas of the free plan. The free plan idea allows for the load-bearing columns to be separate from the walls allowing large open spaces free of restrictions of load-bearing walls. With the columns separate from the walls Le Corbusier expressed his ideas of free fazade. The free fazade allows Le Corbusier to create walls that are made almost entirely of glass. Every outer-wall of the house contains a long, continuous band of windows that stretch the entirety of the fazade. The strip windows reinforce Le Corbusier's ideas of letting natural light flow into the spaces of the house. The idea of free plan with few interior walls allows the light to penetrate deep into the rooms. To aid in the flow of natural light and give a sense of fresh air, Le Corbusier uses his idea of a roof garden. The roof garden, according to Kenneth Frampton, is, " restoring, supposedly, the area of the ground covered by the house-(157). It is a said to also be related to the themes of health, fresh air, sunlight and intellectual clarity. (Curtis, 279) Rising from the roof above the spiral staircase stands a large tubular stack and lining the ramp leading up to the roof garden is a white tubular-steel railing both adding to Le Corbusier's interest in ocean-liners. The Villa Savoye is a culmination of Le Corbusier's ideas on architecture as they developed over his years of designing houses.
