JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA , JAIPUR RAJASTHAN

-CHARLES CORREA
CONCEPT Jawahar kala Kendra is an arts and crafts centre in the city of Jaipur.
The centre is an analogue of the original city plan VASTU PURUSHA MANDALA The centre was built I the year 1986 and the construction complete in 1992.
of Jaipur drawn up by the Maharaja, a scholar, The centre was launched by the state government to provide space to the cultural and
mathematician and astronomer, Jai Singh the spiritual values of India and display the rich craft heritage.
Second, in the mid-17th century. His city plan, The centre in contemporary types is also venue of theatrical and musical performance
guided by the Shilpa Shastras, was based on the
ancient Vedic mandala of nine squares or houses NAVAGRAH MANDALA -The centre has been made in the nine blocks housing museums,
which represent the nine planets (including two theatres, library, arts display room, cafeteria, administration and studio.
imaginary ones Ketu and Rahu). Due to the -The centre has been designed by talking the plan of city of Jaipur as a
presence of a hill one of the squares was reference which was based on the myth of nangraha man- dala i.e. the
transposed to the east and two of the squares were mandala of the nine planets - ketu, budh,chandra, Shani, Surya,
amalgamated to house the palace mangal, rahu, guru,s hukra
.-The centre is double-coded like the city of jaipur, a contemporary
bulding based on an archaic notion of the cosmos-the very same as the
Navagraha mandala, with one of its squares moved aside.
-Each unit is different from the other with the use of different materials
-SCALE OF UNIT RELATABLE TO HUMANS AS IT DOES NOT and the presence each of the planets is expressed by its traditional
OVERPOWER US AND ALSO MAKES THE GROUND SPACES symbol inlaid in white marble
FEEL LARGER AND NOT CLAUSTROPHOBIC

RESPONSE TO CLIMATE
-Material: red sandstone and white marble.
-Vaastu symbols on facade o each unit.
-Small punctures on walls for ventilations.
-Light shafts have step profiles with marble capping
-Smaller openings
-Light shafts at corner of each unit
-Central court to bring in light and air

TYPICAL PLAN

Correa's plan for the Kendra

invokes directly the original
Navagraha or nine house
rnandala. One of the squares is
pivoted to recall the original city
plan and also to create the
entrance.

The plan of Jaipur city based on

the nine square Yantra in which
one square is displaced and two
central squares combined. the
squares is defined by 8m high
wall, symbolic of the fortification
wall along the Jaipur old city.
KETU BUDH CHANDRA SHUKRA

DEFINE SPACE ACCORDING TO USAGE

RAHU SHANI SURYA MANGAL GURU