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Contemporary Architecture

Architects covered:
Ar. Joseph Allen Stein
Ar. Anant D. Raje
Ar. Raj Rewal
Submitted by:
Sooraj Sharma
Abhishek Yadav

Joseph Allen Stein

An American Architect
who made India his
home.

Joseph Allen Stein

Born in 1912 in USA
Studied Architecture at the
University of Illinois.
He worked with the great architect
Richard Neutra.
A major figure in the
establishment of a regional
modern architecture in the San
Francisco Bay area in the 1940s
and 1950s during the early days
of Environmental design.

Joseph Allen Stein

J.A.Stein moved to Calcutta to
be a professor at the Bengal
engineering college in 1952.
He moved to Delhi later on
where he did his major works.
His buildings represent the
best of post-independence
construction in Delhi.

Philosophy
Integrating
Man-made
construction
with
Natures
expressivene
ss.

J.A.Stein
Philosophy
J.A.Stein took
Mughalart of garden
monuments to another
level aptly titled as
Building in the
Garden.

J.A.Stein

Philosophy
Designs were
modernistic but
inspired by Indias
past.

J.A.Stein
Building Characteristics
He typically designed
3 to 4 storied
buildings that fused
with the surrounding
trees, gardens and
ponds.

J.A.Stein

Building Characteristics
Flowers cascading down the their walls in what
Stein called Vertical Gardens
Most of Steins Buildings had the Indian
traditional jalis.

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Building Materials
J.A.Stein was good at working with local materials, be it granite or glazed tiles,
both influences of Tughlaq architecture.

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Contributions
J.A.Steins increasing
concern with protection
of natural landscape
and the development of
an environmentally
friendly architectural
style led him to
campaign actively
against deforestation of
Himalayas.

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J.A.Stein

Contributions
Brought in California
modernism to several
buildings he designed
in Delhi.

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J.A.Stein.

Popular Buildings

American
international school
Gandhi-King Plaza
Triveni Kala Sangam.
Indian express tower
Lodhi Estate.

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J.A.Stein.
Ford foundation head
quarters
UNICEF building
India international
centre
India Habitat centre

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GANDHI LABOUR
INSTITUTE

Architect: B V Doshi & J.A.

Stein
Location: Ahmedabad

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Gandhi Labour Institute

Gandhi Labour Institute was
established by Gujarat Government
in 1984 to provide for education,
training, study and research in
labour and related subjects. The
institution has been designed by
architect B V Doshi and it reuses
many elements from Sangath, his
office

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Gandhi labour Institute

The concrete vaults covered
in white china mosaic, the
faceted terraces, earth
mounds, greet plaster on
external walls and an
amphitheatre; all these
elements form a language
which was also explored in
Sangath

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The building is approached at the first

floor with a forecourt and wide steps
flanked by a pool. One enters under a
transversal vault which then feeds
laterally into the various departments as
well as the hostel block. This transversal
vault, to me, is the most powerful space in
the entire institution and gives this place,
a unique identity.

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Triveni Kala Sangam

Cultural and arts centre in New Delhi
Contains four art galleries, a chamber theatre, outdoor theatre and an open
air sculpture gallery.

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Triveni Kala Sangam

Cafeteria

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India international
center
Serves as a meeting place for various cultural and social
gatherings the city has to offer.

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India international center

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INDIA INTERNATIONAL
CENTRE

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India international center

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Indian Habitat center

Joseph Allen Stein decided

to radically change the
traditional image of an
office building as an
architectural project and
transformed it into an
urban design project

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Indian Habitat center

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Indian Habitat center

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Indian Habitat Center

The space was designed to permit the members of the Centre to

share services both inside and outside the building with
multiple courtyards, common meeting rooms, shared parking
area, library, restaurants, museum, and hotels, some of which
are open to the general public. Constructed on nine acres in an
urban area, the building eschewed traditional building
materials and techniques

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List of organizations
Sharing a common concern for habitat, the
following organizations have come together to
participate in institution-building, evolving a
synergy within the India Habitat Centre
complex.
Association of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers
All India Brick & Tile Manufacturers Federation
All India Housing Development Association
Building Materials & Technology Promotion
Council
Central Building Research Institute
Centre for Development Studies & Activities
(CDSA)
Centre for Science & Environment
Centre for Science & Technology of the NonAligned & Other Developing Countries
Confederation of Indian Industry
Consultancy Development Centre
Council for Advancement of People's Action &
Rural Technology
Council of Architecture
Delhi Management Association
Delhi Policy Group
Delhi Urban Art Commission
Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His
Holiness The Dalai Lama

Housing & Urban Development Corporation Ltd.

Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd.
Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency
Ltd.
Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of
Advanced Research
Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd.
Institute of Social Studies Trust
International Labour Organisation
MacArthur Foundation
MCD Slum & JJ Department
National Foundation for India
National Capital Region - Planning Board
National Housing Bank
National Institute of Design
University of Pennsylvania Institute for the
Advanced Study of India
Vikram Sarabhai Foundation

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Extensive use of jali by stein is his signature style .

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Front Facade

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Use of stone across the building

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Sections

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Kashmir Conference Centre,

Srinagar

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Gandhi-King Plaza

An Open air
memorial in
Indian
international
center

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Gandhi-King Plaza

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The Joseph Stein Lane

Joseph stein lane is the

only road in Delhi
named after the
architect.
The Lodhi Estate is
nicknamed after
Mr.Stein as Steinabad
as a tribute to the great
architects contributions
to the city of Delhi.

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Anant D. Raje

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ANANT DAMODAR RAJE

Born :September 1929 in Bombay.
1954:Graduated in Architecture, Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Bombay,
1957-1960 :Professional practice with Mr. B.V. Doshi, Architect in
Ahmedabad working on Housing for the Textile Industry workers and
Housing for Low-Income group, Gujarat University Science Laboratories
and Textile Pavilion for Indian Industrial Exposition in New Delhi.

1961-1964 :Professional work in Ahmedabad.

1964-1968 :In the office of Prof. Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia.
1969- 1971 :Working on construction of the Indian Institute of
Business Management Building complex with Louis . Kahn, as his
representative to develop design details and organize site office unit and
construction work in Ahmedabad
He is Honorary Director of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad.

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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Work of Anant Raje With Louis Kahn

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Established:1961
Type: Education and Research Institution
Location : Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Campus : Urban, 100 acres (0.40 km)

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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

The campus of IIMA is
dominated by the baked brick
style favored by its chief
architect, the famous Louis
Kahn from Philadelphia.
All the structures are designed
to be part of a whole and create
a red-brick mini-cityscape that
attracts many architecture
students.
Other architects who
collaborated on the campus
include the renowned B. V.
Doshi and Anant Raje.

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Indian Institute of Management

Ahmedabad
Designed by Louis Kahn,campus of
the Institute has it all:
a blend of austerity and majesty;
spaces for casual interaction;
frequently changing perspectives;
and a balance between modernity
and tradition that captures the
spirit of contemporary India.
It stimulates the imagination and
creativity of the students, who are
clearly the best in the country,
coming as they do after one of the
most rigorous selection process."

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Kahn's architecture is notable

for its simple, platonic forms
and compositions.
Kahn design of buildings,
characterized by powerful,
massive forms, made him one
of the most discussed
architects to emerge after
World War II.
Through the use of brick and
poured-in place concrete
masonry, he developed a
contemporary and
monumental architecture that
maintained sympathy for the
site.

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Anant Damodar Raje

Designed a number of private and public projects in
many Indian cities including
Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters
M.A.F.C.O. Wholesale Market built in 1975.
Galbabhai Training Institute
Institute for Forest Management

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Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters

LOCATION :Bhopal, India

Client: Bhopal Development Authority
Date:1988
Building Type: Government
Building Usage: Type: Government office

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BHOPAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS

Even though the entire plot is covered by the building to get the
maximum land utilization, it has enough open space for terraces
built and integrated in the composition of the layout.

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SECTIONS

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TERRACES

PLANS

Besides the ground level designed for the movement of

vehicles, the elevated terrace levels keep the pedestrian
movement isolated from the vehicular traffic.

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Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters

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All openings are integrated with the structure in such a way that they
create a pocket of shadow within which the windows fall offering a
complete freedom to the design and form of the windows.

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To Raje, , light does not merely have the

significance of a functional signal

He says-my work, is like taking light in the form that
is brought to us, in the sense of the plan and the choice
of material , where you have these gradations of light
which become evocative of certain kinds of uses.
When I'm talking about dark spaces, I don't mean to
say absolutely black or anything like that, because nothing is really black; even night is not really black if
you look up into the sky, there is a little luminous
glow.

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BALCONIES PROVIDED

RECESSES IN THE WALL

The building works with the climate shading the internal

spaces from the hot summer sun.

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Bhopal
Development
Authority
Headquarter
s

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M.A.F.C.O. WHOLESALE MARKET IN MUMBAI

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PLAN

Its an outward looking informal structure

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PLAN AND
SECTION OF
TRADING CELLS

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The project layout limits transit vehicular

movement and enhances pedestrian circulation
within the commercial complex.
Covered walkways and pedestrian streets are
provided.
The different facilities are arranged around three
courts, with the wholesale market at the center and
the trading cells, banks and post office buildings
on the periphery.

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GALBABHAI TRAINING INSTITUTE

PALANPUR, INDIA

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The buildings are based on the repetition of 4.5

meter wide structural bays roofed with a barrel
vault concrete shell.
This standardization allowed for a rapid and
economical construction process.
The project also features an auction hall with raised
platform for loading and unloading produce.

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PLAN

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SECTIONS

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The series of loggias making up the dormitories do

not open on the courtyard placed in their center in
order to achieve maximum privacy
The compound is enclosed by stone walls, and the
buildings' openings are spanned by concrete lintels
and are deeply recessed to provide additional shade.

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The exposed stone

facades and
arched lintels
used throughout
convey a visual
unity to the
overall design.

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The complex, built in the midst of wheat fields,

consists of two distinct clusters respectively
housing the school and residential units.
The former group of structures, accessed by a
courtyard, is designed as a house, with several
courts and rooms where people can gather, and a
verandah used as a dining space.
Indoor and outdoor areas are clearly defined so as to
reflect the villagers' perception of space and
seclusion.

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INSTITUTE OF FOREST
MANAGEMENT, BHOPAL

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Location: Bhopal,
India
Architect/Planner:
Anant Damodar Raje
Client: Indian Institute
of Forest Management
Date: 1984

Type: educational
Building
Usage: training
Center

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PLAN

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The project restates time

tested premises of the court
and garden, fundamental
to most Islamic architecture
in India. The land stradles
two hills with outcrops of
slate. The natural
vegetation is wild grass,
which has been allowed to
grow, augmented by rows
and clumps of trees. The
rooms, arcade and porch,
are made from a simple
vocabulary of trabeated and
arcuated construction, with
the walls clad with stone
screed in shades of green
and yellow grey that
establishes a close rapport
with the site.

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Demonstrating rigours and

containing faiths so necessary,
and yet elusive in practice. The
IIFM building has become a
touchstone for the professional,
especially the young.
Humanism & Urbanism: Using
primarily Enlightenment
design methods, and developing
a particular variant of technique
or the mode of knowing best
represented by the school of
Louis Kahn, Anant Raje
constructs an ideogrammatic
representation of architecture

Main plaza

Main
approach

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Main faade

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View to side faade

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Faade loggias

Stone
staircase

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Detail of stone loadbearing faade

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The chaotic metropolis of Bombay

deeply influences Raje and he infact
proclaims himself an "urban man"
contrary to Doshi who although from
the same school, looks to village life.

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Anant rajes Stress is placed on

integration of culture and spiritual
wellbeing and efforts as designer are
aimed at process of integration of man,
the space around him and the elements
making up the space.

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RAJ REWAL

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RAJ REWAL
RAJ REWAL WAS BORN IN HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB IN 1934 AND WAS
AMONG THOSE WHO FIRST ENCOUNTERED THE APPLICATION OF
ADVANCED WESTERN THEORIES OF URBAN AND BUILDING
TECHNOLOGIES IN OUR COUNTRY.
HE WAS AN ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH
ARCHITECTS, LONDON.
HE WORKED IN THE OFFICES OF MICHEL ECOCHARD, ARCHITECT, PARIS. IN
1962 HE RETURNED TO NEW DELHI TO SET UP HIS OWN ARCHITECTURAL
PRACTICE.
HIS HUMANIST APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE RESPONDS TO THE
COMPLEXITIES OF RAPID URBANIZATION, THE DEMAND OF CLIMATE,
CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND BUILDING CRAFTS AND TECHNOLOGIES.
HIS WORKS COMPRISES A WIDE RANGE OF BUILDING TYPE : NEHRU
PAVILION, THE SCOPE OFFICE COMPLEX, THE CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOG, THE WORLD BANK BUILDING, ECT...

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RAJ REWAL
ACCORDING TO HIM A FUNCTIONAL DESIGN SHOULD BE INVOLVED
WITH A SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL FLAVOUR OR POETIC MOOD. THIS HE
REFERRED TO AS THE RASA OF THE BUILDING.

HE WAS AWARDED GOLD MEDAL BY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF

ARCHITECTS.
ALSO ROBERT MATHEW AWARD BY COMMONWEALTH ASSOCIATION
OF ARCHITECTS.
IN 1993, HE WAS HONORED BY MEXICAN ASSOCIATION OF
ARCHITECTS.

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ASIAD VILLAGE HOUSING

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ASIAD VILLAGE HOUSING

HOUSING COMMISSIONED AND BUILT FOR THE GUESTS OF ASIAN
OLYMPIC GAMES HELD IN INDIAN IN 1982 BUT LATER ON SOLD TO
PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.

THERE ARE 510 HOUSING UNITS, COMPRISING 200 INDIVIDUAL TOWN

HOUSES AND 300 APARTMENTS IN TWO STOREY TO FOUR STOREY
WALK UPS WITH OVERALL DENSITY OF 50 UNITS PER HECTARE.
THE CONCEPT IS BASED UPON A SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES LINKED
BY NARROW, SHADED PEDESTRIAN STREETS CONTAINING
RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES.
THE PASSAGEWAYS AND LANES ARE INTERRUPTED BY UNITS
WHICH SPAN THEM OVERHEAD TO PRODUCE GATEWAY LIKE
ENTRANCE.

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ASIAD VILLAGE HOUSING

INSPIRATION FROM TRADITIONAL STREET SCALE CAN BE SEEN
IN NARROW STREETS LINKING THE HOUSING UNITS.
PERIPHERAL ROADS ARE CONNECTED TO CUL-DE-SAC PARKING
AREAS WHICH IN TURN GIVES ACCESS TO INDIVIDUAL GARAGES
OR CAR PORCHES ATTACHED TO HOUSES OR APARTMENT
BLOCKS.
VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT IS SEGREGATED .
DINING COMPLEX FOR THOSE PARTICIPATING IN GAMES WAS
CENTRALLY LOCATED AND NOW SERVES AS A RECREATIONAL
AND COMMERCIAL CENTRE .

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SITE PLAN

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SITE
VIEW
INTERIOR
VIEW

VIEW OF THE
COMMON
COURT YARD
AND GATEWAY

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FIRST COURT ADJOINS THE MPS READING ROOM AND

BPST COMMITTEE ROOM SYMBOLISING THE LIBERTY OF
THOUGHT, EXPRESSION, BELIEF, FAITH AND WORSHIP.
SECOND COURT IS ENCLOSED BY THE M.P.S DINING
HALL CLUB ROOM AND THE AUDITORIUM. THE
COURTYARD HAS A BIG TREE SYMBOLIZING JUSTICESOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL.
THIRD COURT SURROUNDED BY THE MUSEUM AND
AUDITORIUM AND ITS SPACE CAN BE UTILIZED FOR
OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS AROUND THE WATER WHICH
REPRESENTS EQUALITY STATUS AND OPPORTUNITY.
THE COMPLEX IS DEMARCATED IN THREE ZONES
ENSURING PRIVACY AND SECURITY FOR THE VIPS AND
SEGREGATION OF THE SCHOLARS AREA OF BPST FROM
PUBLIC ACTIVITY AREAS OF THE MUSEUM AND THE
AUDITORIUM.

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THE FOUR STORY COMPONENT OF THE BUILDING HAS TWO

BASEMENTS FOR LIBRARY STACKS ABOVE THE GROUND TO
BE USED FOR RESEARCH AND AS WORK SPACES. THE UPPER
FLOORS HAVE PUBLIC ROOMS AND ATRIUM SPACES.
STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENT FOR LOWER FLOORS IS
BASED ON A DIAGRID OF PREFABRICATED
CONCRETE,ENCASEDINSANDSTONE.
THE MAJOR PUBLIC AREAS HAVE LARGER SPANS AND ARE
COVERED WITH SHALLOW DOMES OF LIGHT-WEIGHT
CONCRETE SUPPORTED BY A PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF A
VARIETY OF STEEL LATTICES

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SECTIONS

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PLAN

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The Permanent Exhibition Complex

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The Permanent Exhibition Complex

Building Type Exhibition
Year - 1972
The Permanent Exhibition
Complex is designed to
form the focus of 130 acres
of Exhibition ground
designed by Raj Rewal in
New Delhi.

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The Permanent Exhibition Complex

The design was evolved to meet the constraints of
time, availability of materials and labour, but above
all, to reflect symbolically and technologically,
India's intermediate technology in the 25th year of
its independence.

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The Permanent Exhibition Complex

The depth of the structural
system was utilized as a
Sun breaker and conceived
of in terms of the
traditional 'jali', a
geometrical pattern of
perforation that serves to
obstruct directs rays of the
harsh Sun while
permitting air circulation.

 Main pavilion of the Hall of Nations has a clear span of 105

78 meters and a height varying from three meters to 21
meters, thereby providing a vast capacity for items to be
exhibited, from books to bulldozers.

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Plan

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Sections

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The building is the first

major office to be
constructed within the
Bhikaji Cama Bazaar
area. The aim was to
create an air-conditioned
office space which would
have the least possible
initial outlay and
subsequently minimum
running expanses

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Engineers India Limited

The form of the building is derived with the aim of saving
energy. The service cores are designed in such a manner
that they also cut down harsh glare from the south-west,
The stepping of floors within the cores and extending
different floors to the east and west ends of the building,
creates a zone of surface under shadow, thus reducing
temperatures.

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The structural cores along with the extended floors form a

giant sunbreaker.

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The primary function of the

institute is scientific research.
The programme contains
laboratories, study rooms, a
library, auditorium, a
director's house and lodgings
for professors with families,
married assistants and
unmarried researchers

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Each of these dwellings is in its own cluster close to the entrance of the
site. The central building also acts as a gateway and its axis
corresponds with the main spine of the scheme.

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PLAN

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Ranjit Sabikhi
Ranjit Sabikhi is a Delhi based
Architect.
He studied in J.J college of architecture,
Bombay.
Among most of his contemporary
projects , the most famous project is
Mughal Sheraton Hotel

Amrapali Spring Medows,

Plan

The Orris City Mall, Noida

The Emaar Housing, Gurgoan

Housing for Ireo, Mohali

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