Glossary · F
Free plan
Also called plan libre
A plan in which partitions are placed independently of the structure, because columns rather than walls carry the floors.
See also: Open plan
Rules that use the word
The five points of a new architecture. With a concrete frame, a house should stand on pilotis, have a free plan and a free façade, be lit by horizontal ribbon windows, and carry a garden on its flat roof.
The free plan. Since columns carry the floors, partitions can be placed wherever the use requires, independent of the structure and different on every storey.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement, The Contemporary.
A feature of Modernism architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Form-finding · Four-centred arch · Four-iwan plan · Free façade · Frequency · Frieze · Functionalism · Fusuma