Manisha-21

Sainath-23
Sharanya-27
Gayathri-29
Akshay-31
Madhavi-40

PRESENTED BY:
RAHUL KANODIA
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 (March 2, 1917 – April 1, 2007) British-born Indian
architect

 He went to India in 1945 in part as a missionary and

since then lived and worked in India for over 50
years

 . He obtained Indian citizenship in 1989 and resided in

Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala.

 In 1990, the Government of India awarded him with

the Padma Shri in recognition of his meritorious
service in the field of architecture.
 Baker studied architecture in
Birmingham and graduated in 1937,
aged 20, in a period of political unrest
for Europe.

 During the Second World War, he

served in the Friends Ambulance Unit
in China and Burma.
 worked as an architect for an
international and interdenominational
Mission dedicated to the care of those
suffering from leprosy.

 focused on converting or replacing

asylums once used to house the ostracized
sufferers of the disease - "lepers".

 Used indigenous architecture and methods

of these places as means to deal with his
once daunting problems.
 Baker lived in Kerala with Doctor P.J.
Chandy,

 He received great encouragement and

later married his sister

 while Laurie continued his

architectural work and research
accommodating the medical needs of the
community through his constructions of
various hospitals and clinics.
 Baker sought to enrich the culture in
which he participated by promoting
simplicity and home-grown quality in
his buildings.
 His emphasis on cost-conscious
construction,
 An ideal that the Mahatma expressed
as the only means to revitalize and
liberate an impoverished India
PRINCIPLES FOLLOWED BY
BAKER THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE
 Designing and building low cost,
high quality, beautiful homes
 Suited to or built for lower-middle
to lower class clients.
 Irregular, pyramid-like structures on
roofs, with one side left open and
tilting into the wind.
 Brick jali walls, a
perforated brick screen
which utilises natural
air movement to cool the
home's interior and
create intricate
patterns of light and
shadow
 Baker's designs invariably have
traditional Indian sloping roofs and
terracotta Mangalore tile shingling
with gables and vents allowing rising
hot air to escape.

 Curved walls to enclose more volume

at lower material cost than straight
walls,
 Baker was often seen rummaging through
salvage heaps looking for suitable building
materials, door and window frames.

 Baker's architectural method is of

improvisation.

 Initial drawings have only an idealistic link to

the final construction, with most of the
accommodations and design choices being made
on-site by the architect himself
 His respect for nature led him to let
the idiosyncrasies of a site inform his
architectural improvisations, rarely is
a topography line marred or a tree
uprooted.

 This saves construction cost as well,

since working around difficult site
conditions is much more cost-effective
than clear-cutting
 Baker created a cooling system by
placing a high, latticed, brick wall
near a pond that uses air pressure
differences to draw cool air through
the building

 . His responsiveness to never-identical

site conditions quite obviously
allowed for the variegation that
permeates his work.
 Advantages
20-35% Less materials
Decorative,
Filler slab Economical & Reduced
self-load
Almost maintenance
free
25-30% Cost Reduction

Advantages
Energy saving & Eco-
Jack Arch Friendly compressive
roofing.
Decorative & Highly
Economical
Maintenance free
•Masonry Dome
Advantages
•Energy saving eco-friendly compressive roof.
•Decorative & Highly Economical for larges spans.
•Maintenance free

Funnicular shell
Advantages
•Energy saving eco-friendly compressive roof.
•Decorative & Economical
•Maintenance free
 •Masonry Arches
Advantages
•Traditional spanning sytem.
•Highly decorative & economical
•Less energy requirement.
• 1981: D.Litt conferred by the Royal
University of Netherlands for
outstanding work in the Third World
• 1983: Order of the British Empire, MBE
• 1987: Received the first Indian
National Habitat Award
• 1988: Received Indian Citizenship
• 1989: Indian Institute of Architects
Outstanding Architect of the Year
• 1990: Received the Padma Sri
• 1990: Great Master Architect of the
• 1993: Sir Robert Matthew Prize for
Improvement of Human Settlements
• 1994: People of the Year Award
• 1995: Awarded Doctorate from the
University of Central England
• 1998: Awarded Doctorate from Sri
Venkateshwara University
• 2001: Coinpar MR Kurup Endowment
Award
• 2003: Basheer Puraskaram
• 2003: D.Litt from the Kerala University
• 2005: Kerala Government Certificate of
Appreciation
• 2006: L-Ramp Award of Excellence
• Key features of his house are:
 All the walls are made of mud bricks.
 Timber salvaged from an old boat
jetty
 One of the other signature elements
of his design includes the use of
circular walls, which use far less
brick than rectangular walls.
 In addition, when he does use
concrete for a roof, he embeds
chipped or broken terra cotta
roofing tiles into the mixture.
 These tiles, which normally would be
thrown away, contribute to the strength
of the roof, allow less of the expensive
concrete to be used, and reduce the
structural load of the building.
 He used broken tiles for the outer paved
area of his garden.
 The living room, An integration of new
building and salvaged timber from
traditional buildings that were being
demolished.
 Baker's innovative use of discarded
bottles, inset in the walls giving a very
good effect of light and creating an
illusion of stained glass.
GROUND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR
 A VIEW FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE

STEPS LEADING UP
TO FRONT DOOR
STEPS DIRECTLY CUT IN
ROCK

ENTRANCE HAS SMALL SITTING

AREA FOR GUESTS
THE WALL IS
DECORATED FROM
BROKEN POTTERY,
PENS, GLASS
 A MORNING AT HEMLET

A CALLING BELL
FOR
VISITORS TO
ANNOUNCE
THEIR PRESENCE
USE OF NATURAL LIGHT
NEVER CUT TREES INSTEAD
ADAPTED HIS DESIGN
ACCORDINGLY
Pitched roof
made of manglore
tiles
Louvered window typical
of baker’s type
WATER
TANK FOR
STORING
RAIN
HARVESTE
D WATER
Requirements:-
• Meeting place.
• working place (training).
• Open spaces.
• Classroom & dormitories.
 The main house is formed by a simple
three-floor stacking of the pentagon
on nine-inch-thick brick walls

 internally each floor divides into the

bedroom, bath and landing

 The additional segment on the ground,

forming the living/dining and kitchen, is
structured with bays of half-brick
thickness, alternating wall and wall
and door
Ground floor plan
1st Floor Plan

2 Floor Plan
nd
 Built
furniture of
bricks
 Jali window.

Sun light merging

inwards.

2nd floor bedroom

CHALLENGES:
 Severity of environment in which the
tribal's live.
 Limitation of resources
 Conventional architects stayed away from
these projects
 Dealing with large insular groups, with set
ideas and traditions.
 Dealing with cyclones
Area of each unit : 25 sqm
 Construction
 Exposed brickwork and structure
 Sloped concrete roof
 Openness in design and individual units
offset each other
 Continuous latticework
 in the exposed walls
 Dealing With Cyclones:

 Low sloped roofs and courts serve as

wind catchers
 Open walls function to dispel it

 Long row of housing replaced by even

staggering

 Fronting courts catch the breeze and

also get view of sea
 Open Spaces

 Little private rectangle of land in

between houses for drying nets , kids
play,

 Provides sleeping lofts within and

adequate space outside for mending
nets and cleaning and drying fish
PLAN
Challenges :

Solution of Computer
Centre Design Problems

Fitting in naturally and

harmoniously with the
elevations of the twenty
five year old institution

elevation
• Using principle of lattice wall planning,
breezeways and built of natural brick and
stone keeping in consideration the
electronic sophistication

• He proposed a double walled building with

an outer surface of intersecting circles of
brick jails

• Internal shell fulfilled the constraints

and controls necessary for a computer
laboratory.

• Space between the two walls

accommodated the secondary requirements
for offices and storage areas.
 plan

External lattice

Two storeyed outer wall is stiffened by a series of intersecting circles,

THANKU