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Iit Kanpur: by - Achuyt Kanvinde
Iit Kanpur: by - Achuyt Kanvinde
BY - ACHUYT KANVINDE
1916-2002
ABOUT ARCHITECT
NAME
ACHUYT KANVINDE
DATED
1916-2002
BIRTH PLACE
GRADUATION(b.arch)
HAVARD UNIVERSITY
UNDER WALTER GROPIUS.
CONTEXT
BACKGROUND
PARENTS: His mother died when he was two and his father was an
arts teacher in Mumbai. Kanvinde was also influenced by his father,
who was portrait and landscape painter.
Career: When he returned to India in 1948 he joined the council for
Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1985, he
was the winner of IIA Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal.
HIS WORKS
DESIGN PHILOSPY
FUNCTIONALIST STYLE OF DESIGN
FUNCTIONALISM WAS AN APPROACH TO DESSIGN AS PER THE
CONCEPT THAT THE SPACE AND FORM OF A BUILDING SHOULD
EMERGE OUT OF THE LOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF SPACE INSIDE
AND NOT FROM ANY PREDETERMINED IDEA LIKE SYMMETRY.
FUNCTIONALIST BELIVED A BUILDING SHOULD ONLY HAVE
FEATURES THAT WERE FUNCTIONALLY NECESSARY AND NO NON-FUNCTIONAL
DECORATION.THEY LEAD TO HUMANE SPACE THAT IS SPACE WHERE YOU FELT
WELCOME AND COMFORTABLE. HE USED LASTEST TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS LIKE DOOR AND WINDOWS AND RCC.
LOGIC OF LIGHTNESS
THE COMPLETE FOCUS ON THE MATERIALS TO BE USED IN
CONSTRUCTION KANVINDE ALWAYS TRY TO DEVELOP SUCH
AN ATHESTIC FOR A HAVEY MASS
CONSTRUCTION THAT LOOKS LIGHT.
NATIONAL INSURANCE
ACADEMY AT PUNE
DESIGN PHILOSPY
RATIONALIST
KANVINDE REVEAL THE INTERNAL FUNCTIONAL
IN A BUILDING AS SEPARATE MASSES AND THEN
ARRANGED IN A WAYS THAT WERE FUNCTIONAL
FROM INSIDE AND ELEGANT FROM OUTSIDE
IIT
KANPUR
SENSE OF SPACE
HUMANESS IS ALL ABOUT SIZE AND SCALE,
KANVINDE ALWAYS TRIED TO BRING DOWN
BUILDINGS TO HUMANE SCALE AND A CONNECTION TO THE BUILT
HERITAGE IN A LOCALITY.
KANVIDE WAS AN ARCHITECT OF SECOND GENERATION OF
CONTEMPRY INDIAN ARCHITECTURE ( 1950 - 1980) .
DURING THIS ERA MODERNISM WAS ATTRACTIVE TO DEVELOPING
SOCIETIES TRYING TO BREAK FROM THE MEMORIES OF EUROPEAN
COLONIALISM THAT THE OLDER STYLE STILL CARRIED.
KANVIDE INTRODUCE MODERN ARCHITECTURE TO HUMANE PATH AND
INNOVATIVELY BLEND TECHNOLOGY AND ATHESTICS
NIBM
Brick
Cement
PRINCIPLES
DESIGN CONCEPT
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
Kanvinde plays with space and forms. His designs are slender, balanced, proportionate,
neat and well crafted.
The building is important but most important is the gate of the user.
Example is ISKCON Temple. He gave much importance to natural light. He gave such
a form to the building that it can solve the problem of ventilation as
well as excessive heat.
He also believed in Vernacular
Architecture.
Both inherent values and
Historical influences contributed
towards good architecture.
IIT KANPUR
IITK
FEATURES
Academic Area
Structural design
Of library
Connecting corridors
P.K. Kelkar library
IIT-K
The residential campus is planned and landscaped with a
hope for environmental freedom.
Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community
buildings surround the central academic area to provide
flexibility in movement and communication.
Taking into consideration the reality that research work in
the present time is a collaborative work of varied
disciplines, curriculum of studies is worked out, with that
goal in mind.
HALL OF RESIDENCE
IIT KANPUR
Elevated pedestrian
walkway
Sheltered and yet openness
Protection from hot sun yet
allowing breezes
VISUAL EXPRESSION OF
THE STRUCTURE RATHER
THAN HIDING ITS
STRUCTURAL
COMPONENTS
ORIENTATION
VISITORS HOSTEL
LIBRARY
STUDY OF BUILDINGS
VIEW
COMPUTER CENTER
SECTION
IITK
The Bauhaus influence in
Kanvindes style is
clearly visible in the
buildings of IIT Kanpur.
cubic shapes
smooth, flat plain,
undecorated surfaces
complete elimination of
all mouldings and
ornament
flat roofs
IITK
Reveals the internal functions in a building as separate
masses.
Arranged in ways that were functional from inside and
elegant from outside.
Kanvinde strongly believed that the elevation of a
structure should be defined by the functions inside.
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Terrace
MATERIALS
bricks
CONCLUSION
His works are generally raw and unemotional. Yet he
managed to make his designs appealing and welcoming.
His designs were distinct and unique yet having one thing
similar- functionalism.
His designs appear to be built with a large amount of thought
having been given to making them functionally efficient and
practically feasible.
Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated
islands of departments.
Activities which students and faculties share are designed to
encourage meeting and interaction.
THANK YOU
BY
YESHASWINI