HUMAYUN’S TOMB

Location :Mathura Road,

Nizamuddin East, Delhi,
India

Architectural Style :
Mughal (combination of
Indian and Persian
architecture )

Architect : Mirak Mirza

Ghiyath

SUBJECT : INTRODUCTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND BASIC DESIGN By :

PIYUSH PATEL
ASSIGNMENT : MONUMENT ALALYSIS 2021UAR1198
B.ARCH 1ST SEM
 Introduction
• Humayun’s tomb is the tomb of Mughal Emperor
Humayun, commissioned by his wife Hamida Banu
Begum.
• Was the first garden tomb in India.
• It was built under the patronage of Humayun’s son,
the great Emperor Akbar.
• The garden is divided into four parts by two bisecting
wayer channels with paved walkways.
• The garden design of Humayun’s Tomb has inspired
the construction of many monuments, including the
iconic Taj Mahal.
• It is also called the ‘dormitory of the Mughals’ as in
the cells are buried over 150 Mughal family members.
 TIME PERIOD
1558 1565-1572 1857 1993

Colonial preservation efforts

Death of Humayun
of the ASI under the aegis of
the British imperial powers

The time period of Humayun’s Tomb was

construction of declared a UNESCO World
Humayun’s tomb Heritage site and extensive
conservation work has been
carried out since.
Materiality And Oranmentation
The tomb built on “Double- layered “
rubble masonary dome, has the outer
and red sandstone, layer of white marbel
exterior, inner part
uses white marbel
made of up white and
as a cladding and
black marbel and
also for the flooring. yellow sandstone
detailing. Rubble built
enclose are inlet
between the double
layer dome.

The dome of the tomb acts as a marker in the structure

because of its white colour and of bulbous shape of the
dome.
 Ornamental and continuous arches
the six-pointed stars
serve to symbolize on plinth of Humayun’s tomb
both Humayun and his
descendants.
Beautiful ceiling with
windows and ornaments

The main
chamber
carries the
symbolic
elements, a
mihrab
Arab script around the design over
small side door to the central
The most striking visual feature of the tomb is its size ,its
Humayun’s Tomb marbel Jaali.
garden setting (Charbagh) and symmetrical plan.
COLOUR AND TEXTURE
The texture of the tomb is combination of
rough of sandstone and the soft of white
marble.

Because of use of red sandstone and white

marbel the colour of the entire structure is
red and white. Somewhere yellow and
black due to yellow sandstone and black
marbel for detailing.
 2 storied vaulted chamber

Rubble masonry White marbeles

Red sandstone

Jaali openings

56 cell houses
 EMBEDDED GEOMETRIES 2D
It has an irregular octagon plan with four long sides
and chamfered edges. It is surmounted by a 42.5 m high
double dome clad with marble flanked by pillared kiosks
(chhatris) and the domes of the central chhatris are
adorned with glazed ceramic tiles.
In the tomb
mostly octagon
shape is used.

The shape of tomb looks like

square which is cut down
from corners to give it the
shape of irregular octagon.

The octagon at centre is

regular octagon
EMBEDDED GEOMETRIES 3D

The tomb contains three levels (platform,

plinth, and main tomb) and the outer view of
all are similar to the irregular octagonal prism
whose length of four faces are very large as
compare to other four faces.
Here also it looks like a cuboid is cut vertically
from the four corner edges at angle of 45
degree with its corresponding faces.
And the double layered dome stand on the
base of cylinder like structure.

All the arches are of similar pattern even of

windows.
DIMENSIONS
1 V = 1vitasti = 0.21156 meter
nspired by Persian Architecture; the tomb
reaches a height of 47 metres (154 ft) and
the plinth is 91 metres (299 ft) wide, and
was the first Indian building to use the
Persian double dome on a high neck drum,
and measures 42.5 metres (139 ft), and is
topped by 6 metres (20 ft) high brass
final ending in a crescent , common in
Timurid tombs.