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ABOUT
• Professor Balkrishna Doshi, also known as B. V. Doshi, has been an architect, urban planner, and
educator for 70 years.
• Born in Pune in 1927, Doshi attended the Sir J.J. School of Architecture Bombay, in 1950.
• He worked for four years with Le Corbusier as senior designer (1 951 -54) in Paris.
• In 1956 he established a private practice in Vastu-Shilpa, Ahmedabad and in 1962 he established
the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Environmental Design.
• Doshi worked closely with Louis khan and Anant Raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the
Indian Institute of Management.
• Doshi has been a member of the Jury for several international and national competitions
including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
• He was presented in 1995, Aga Khan Award for Architecture , for the Aranya Community
Housing in Indore , India.
• ARANYA LOW COST HOUSING Sketch of the entrance under the south façade
create a balanced community of various socio-economic groups" – enabled
high-income buyers to subsidize loans for the lower-income properties.
Their research led to the "site and services" approach.
• According to him Architecture of a building is conceived not as a container of specific activities but as a place to be inhabited , as a place to facilitate the
course of human environment
• Doshi's work has consistently revolved around the interrelationship of indoor and outdoor space , an appropriate and honest approach to materials,
proper climatic response and observance of hierarchy and order that has always been present in the best modern architecture .
• The success of any project depends on effective construction, contracting, logistic planning and coordination.
• An essential part of the philosophy is the construction of scale models and of full scale mockups to make decisions jointly with the client about the
building.
PLANNING
• The built form starts with a pair of parallel walls. The basic component of the buildings
of the CEPT is a derivate of load-bearing walls, supporting a flat floor slabs. The
repeated occurrence of parallel walled structures can be seen in the CEPT campus.
• The overall planning has been done around the central court with built masses on sides
and green on one side which gives the campus noise protection
• The whole building is very simple and architectural elements are expressive of their
functions.
• The building has simple horizontal lines and merges beautifully with the site
• The building is two-storied with a split level basement
• The building design incorporates the thermal comfort and natural sensibly.
The long side of the L- shaped plan is exposed to
the prevailing wind.
DESIGN FEATURES
• All buildings are oriented in the north-south direction
• Open spaces on the north and south side respectively allow fresh air to ventilate
the built structures.
• Institute complex presents the shortest , solid elevations to the hottest east west
axis . The longer class room wing extends to the south and delineates one edge
of harder surfaced plaza on the opposite side of studio wing , which draws cool
air contained in the green area through the open , shaded rooms below.
• The studio are high and airy, with north light from angled glass monitors, and
wide doors which serve more as panels hinged at the third point , giving
unhindered visual access to outside and allowing a free flow of air .
LANDSCAPE
• The campus is full of Neem trees, which were planted over the
years since the initial phase makes hot Ahmadabad climate
cooler
• There are many interconnecting pathways with brick paving
and terracotta tiling
• The steps in fact become external activity hubs with students
Covered streets, shaded passages and outdoor rooms using the levels for reading, organizing informal discussions,
performances.
VENTILATION
• The parallel walls, forming an open tube of space are predominantly
aligned north south ,effectively close to east and west sides
• North side is heightened to allow more light in while the south side is kept
low to shield from direct radiation
DESIGN FEATURES
• The underground gallery is approached by a partially hidden staircase
which leads to a circular door that opens into the cave-like space.
• the cave has no straight walls. Soap bubble like openings have been left out as
• the curved dome structure which extends down to the floor. skylights, which add to the mystical charm.
• The domes are supported by irregularly shaped inclined columns, Tree trunk like structures are used as support for
similar to those found in natural caves. They are also said to resemble the roof.
the trunks of trees.
• The entire design is made up of circles and ellipses.
• Light enters though snouts, creating spots of light on the floor which
move around as the day progresses, intended to create a mystic
atmosphere.
SAWAI GANDHARV