The villa is full of details that have influenced architects all over the world. Rectangles of different sizes set up a rhythm across the front wall, held in balance with the simple outline of the building. At the top the fa ade is punctured by an opening, suggesting the roof garden behind. The lowest level has a variety of openings cut into it, including a servants' entrance under a tiny balcony and the main entrance surmounted by a canopy. The garden fa ade is broken up by a terrace set back into the closed box.
Curved forms introduce a counterpoint to the strict geometry.
By an intelligent composition of the villa, a complex arrangment of rooms is molded into a unity. For the Villa was designed again as a unit in a repetitive block of 'superimposed villas', and built on a narrow site. The device of leaving the short end walls of his buildings blank grew out of Corbusier's conviction that he was designing and building 'vertical slices' of some bigger unit rather than independent houses in the landscape.