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Doshi’s architecture provides one of the most important models for modern Indian architecture.
FAMOUS WORKS
• INSTITUTE OF INDOLOGY AHMEDABAD(1957-62)
• SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AHMEDABAD 1968
• INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE (1977-85)
• MADHYA PRADESH ELECTRICITY BOARD JABALPUR (1979-89)
• SANGATH AHMEDABAD (1979-89)
• ARANYA LOW-COST HOUSING INDORE (1983-86)
• HUSAIN-DOSHI GUFFA (1992-95)
• NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY NEW DELHI (1997)
• GANDHI LABOUR INSTITUTE
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Doshi's work has consistently revolved around:
• The interrelationship of indoor and outdoor space
• An appropriate and honest approach to materials,
• Climatic response
• Observance of hierarchy
• Doshi belief in the ‘Mythical Sense’ of space often evident in traditional architecture which is not simply confined to open or closed
areas. According to him space can be modified according to the desire of the perceiver and is never static.
• 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 made an intensive and sustained study of traditional Indian philosophy and ancient architectural texts, while maintaining a deep
commitment to modernism.
• The architectonic scale and massing, the clear sense of space and an attraction towards materials remain thematically strong
throughout his works.
• The idea of flexibility leads him to a principle, of incorporating “symbolism”. He believes that it can only be accommodated by mixture
of structural systems. Symbolically charged space must be designed as receptacle for human activity.
IIM-B 1. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
The Indian Institute of Management with 54,000 square meters of built up area is located in south of Bangalore city.
Organizational principles:
• Interlocking courts
• Pavilions
• Terraced gardens
• Connections
IIM-B
Planning:
• The main grouping of the campus, which contains
administration offices, classrooms, laboratories and a
library is arranged as a datum in a ladder-like plan
along a longitudinal axis with student dormitories a
short distance away, organized in interlocking
squares at an angle to this axis.
• To make important buildings like the lecture halls or
the library stand out in sharp relief, the architect
varied the scale of fenestration and sometimes used
symmetry to display a beauty that has strangeness in
proportion.
• The interlocking courtyards are scaled to suit the
functions located around them.
IIM-B
Planning:
• The administrative block is
placed on the north – eastern
side.
• The “open office” planning
in this block provides
flexibility for reorganization
of interior spaces.
• Faculty offices with their
garden courts are located to
the north – west and south –
west.
• Planned to accommodate 600
students, the dormitory
blocks are linked together
by walkways and
verandahs.
• Each block has four wings of
residential rooms which are
arranged around a central
court, creating a community
feeling and a sense of
security.
IIM-B
Elements of design:
IIM-B
Class Room Fatehpur Sikri
Block
Elements of design:
Covered streets
are the spine of
the campus
Concept development
Planning
An underground art
gallery in Ahmedabad as
a joint collaboration
between M. F. Hussain &
B.V. Doshi.
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
Concept:
• The idea for an underground structure
– something that had never been
tried before.
• Create a unique space that Husain will
have to rise up and match the quality of
the space with his art.
• Climatologically appropriate building
form for withstanding the scorching
heat of Ahmedabad
• The reference for the gufa (cave) is
elemental and primeval; it emerged from
the Buddhist stupa and karli and Ajanta.
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
Planning:
• Set adjacent to the CEPT University, the museum spaces are all underground with only the domed
roof shells protruding above the ground level.
• The construction of the Gufa was finally dependent upon the knowledge & skill of builders who had
to translate highly sophisticated diagrams into reality.
• Structure is in form of skeletal skin & wire mesh sandwiched on each side by layers of cement.
• The concrete is then covered with a compacted layer of vermiculite followed by mosaic of pieces of
broken china, complete with a black serpentine imagery snaking across the surfaces.
• White tiles reflect the sun rays helps to keep the interior cool.
• One enters the space through a staircase which is partly hidden, through a circular door
• The plan is evolved from the intersecting circles and ellipse
• The spaces formed within are continuous and amorphous through inclined planes of domes,
curvilinear planes of vaults, undulating floors and non rectilinear leaning columns
• Light comes in as shafts through a few circular openings in the dome, the diffused light adding to the
mystic ambience.
• Spots of light on the floor, from the circular skylights, change location according to the time of the
day, adding to the mystery of the space.
• Husain painted the walls, ceilings; decided to relate it with the primordial tortoise and the cobra.
• The inclined columns in the interiors act as a perfect setting for various shaped metal sculptures.
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
• The structure is in form of skeletal skin
& wire mesh sandwiched on each side
by layers of cement over which is
mosaic of pieces of broken china .
White tiles reflects the sun rays, helps
to keep the interior cool.
• The structure is specifically oriented to
let in the maximum amount of heat &
light to give the interior a golden glow .
To enhance the cave like feeling of
gallery, the contours of the site were
retained, rather than being leveled.
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
• The entrance is approached down a flight of steps in to
the cave like interior . Some shells consists appeared
snouts with apertures (hole), used to capture fresh air &
light.
• The central hall is supported by 2 rows of columns
which divide the interior in to a wider centre aisle & 2
side aisle . The columns have octagonal shafts wider at
base & tapered at capital.
Gufa 3. Hussain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad