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The chapel sits on the Bourlémont hilltop, dominating the &#;Belfort gap&#; between the Vosges and Jura mountain ranges. Like most of the neighbouring heights, the hill is wooded, except at its summit, which is relatively flat.  In compromising with the horizon, Le Corbusier took into account the curtains of trees that  meet the eye and the glimpses of distant prospects.

The general ground plan of the chapel was drawn in a few days: an asymmetrical plan with curved walls surmounted by a roof shaped like a crab shell. This plan consisting of a single space, without collaterals or transept and abandoning the symbolic form of the cross, nonetheless still faces east.
The facades are independent yet echo each other. The western wall turns in on itself, at each end isolating two chapels bathed in soft light from a tower-shaped skylight. A third chapel set into the north wall echoes the two preceding ones by framing, and thus magnifying, a secondary entranc Style of le corbusier ronchamp la tourette.