cRiTiCaL rEgIoNaLiSm Architecture

Kadambari S
S5-19
Thejus College of Architecture
CRITICAL REGIONALISM IS AN
APPROACH
aRcHiTeCt’S philosophy
TO ARCHITECTURE THAT
STRIVES TO COUNTER THE • HIGHLY PERSONAL IN HIS APPROACH, EVOKING THE PLEASURES OF
PLACELESSNESS AND LACK OF THE SENSES THAT GO HAND IN HAND WITH THE CLIMATE,
IDENTITY OF LANDSCAPE, AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT CEYLON(PRESENT DAY SRI
THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE, LANKA).
BUT ALSO REJECTS THE • BRINGS TOGETHER AN APPRECIATION OF THE WESTERN HUMANIST
WHIMSICAL INDIVIDUALISM TRADITION IN ARCHITECTURE WITH NEEDS AND LIFESTYLES OF HIS
OWN COUNTRY.
AND ORNAMENTATION
• THE PRINCIPAL FORCE BEHIND TROPICAL MODERNISM.
OF POSTMODERN WORK WITH A SENSITIVITY TO SITE AND CONTEXT.
ARCHITECTURE.
PAUL RICOUR: "HOW TO BE • HIS DESIGNS BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS BETWEEN INSIDE AND
MODERN AND TO CONTINUE OUTSIDE, BETWEEN INTERIOR DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE
THE TRADITION, HOW TO ARCHITECTURE.
REVIVE AN OLD DORMANT
• HE REDUCED BUILDINGS TO A SERIES OF SCENOGRAPHICALLY
CIVILIZATION AS PART OF CONCEIVED SPACES SEPARATED BY COURTYARDS AND GARDENS.
UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION."
•
AR. GEOFFREY
university
HIS IDEAS ARE PROVIDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE
rUhUnU FUTURE, A MIRROR IN WHICH ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN OBTAIN A
CLEARER IMAGE OF THEIR OWN EVOLVING CULTURE
BAWA
(23 July 1919 – 27 May 2003)
•LOCATION: Matara, Sri Lanka SRI LANKAN ARCHITECT
•BAWA’S DESIGN DEPLOYED OVER DESHMANYA
FIFTY SEPARATE PAVILIONS LINKED
BY A SYSTEM OF COVERED LOGGIAS GEOFFERY MANNING
ON A PREDOMINANTLY BAWA
ORTHOGONAL GRID AND USED A EDUCATION: HE WAS A LAWYER
LIMITED VOCABULARY OF FORMS AND LATER STUDIED
AND MATERIALS BORROWED FROM ARCHITECTURE IN
THE PORTO-SINHALESE BUILDING ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION,
TRADITIONS OF THE LATE MEDIEVAL LONDON IN 1956.
PERIOD, BUT IT EXPLOITED THE IN 1957, AT AGE OF 38, RETURNED
CHANGING TOPOGRAPHY OF THE TO SRI LANKA QUALIFIED AS AN
SITE TO CREATE AN EVER VARYING ARCHITECT TO TAKE OVER
SEQUENCE OF COURTS AND REID’S
IN PRACTICE.
TOWARDS A CRITICAL
VERANDAHS, VISTAS AND
REGIONALISM: SIX POINTS FOR
CLOSURES. THE RESULT WAS A
AN ARCHITECTURE OF
MODERN CAMPUS, VAST IN SIZE BUT
RESISTANCE, FRAMPTON
HUMAN IN SCALE.
kAnDaLaMa hotel RECALLS PAUL RICOEUR'S "HOW
TO BECOME MODERN AND TO
RETURN TO SOURCES; HOW TO
CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 1992-
REVIVE AN OLD, DORMANT
1995 ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF
CIVILIZATION AND TAKE PART
DAMBULLA, SRI LANKA.
IN UNIVERSAL CIVILIZATION“-
HIS VISION WAS TO CREATE A
LIVING SPACE THAT EXISTED
KENNETH FRAMPTON
HARMONOUSLY WITH THE CRITICAL REGIONALISM
NATURAL WORLD AROUND IT. SHOULD ADOPT MODERN
THE HOTEL IS BUILT AROUND ARCHITECTURE, CRITICALLY,
AROCK FACE, AND IS NEARLY FOR ITS UNIVERSAL
INVISIBLE FROM THE SMALL PROGRESSIVE QUALITIES BUT
WATER TANK BELOW. AT THE SAME TIME VALUE
SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT OF
cRiTiCaL rEgIoNaLiSm Architecture THE BUILDING
 aRcHiTeCt’S philosophy

• ECOLIGICAL, BIOCLIMATIC,
AND ENERGY EFFICIENT
ARCHITECTURE.
• INTEGRATION OF BUILDING
WITH SURROUNDING
ENVIRONMENT.
• MAINTAIN SENSITIVE ECO
BALANCE.
• ACCORDING TO CLIMATE AN
AESTHETIC DIMENSION IS
DEVELOPED.
• VERTICAL LANDSCAPING
KEN YEANG'S PRACTICE TWO PRINCIPLES:
•THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE SCARCITY AR. KENNETH YEANG
SoLaRiS, fusionopolis OF BOTH NATURAL RESOURCES AND TIME, AS (6 October 1948)
WELL THE EXTENSIVE DEGRADATION OF AN ARCHITECT, ECOLOGIST, PLANNER
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THAT CANNOT AND AUTHOR FROM MALAYSIA
PRINCIPLE OF "A VERTICAL SPIRAL OF
CONTINUE IF FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE TO
BOUNDLESS DIMENSIONS“ THE BUILDING FORM SERVES AS A
HAVE APPROPRIATE ACCESS TO NATURAL
RESEARCH COMPLEX DIAGRAM OF THE VARIOUS PASSIVE
RESOURCES
A MASSIVE TEST-BED FOR NEW SOLAR AND NATURAL
•THE BELIEF THAT ALL THOSE CONCERNED
TECHNOLOGIES, PHASE 2A IS DESIGNED VENTILATION PRINCIPLES THAT
WITH BUILDING DESIGN CAN, WITH THE
TO HOUSE DRY AND WET LABORATORIES, INFORMED THE DESIGN. THE
APPLICATION OF ECOLOGICAL
CLEAN ROOMS AND VIBRATION STRUCTURE OF THE CIRCULAR TOWER
PRINCIPLES, MAKE A SIGNIFICANT
SENSITIVE TEST-BEDDING FACILITIES. IS SUPPORTED BY EIGHT COLUMNS JUST
CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE
PHASE 2A FEATURES SINGAPORE'S OUTSIDE THE BUILDING ENVELOPE,
FUTURE THROUGH 'GREEN' APPROACH THAT
LARGEST R&D CLEAN ROOM FACILITY ALLOWING MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY ON
EVOLVED FROM A COMPREHENSIVE METHOD.
AND PROVIDES 103,635 SQUARE METRES THE INTERIOR. THE NATURALLY
OF BUSINESS PARK AND R&D SPACE
WHEN IT IS COMPLETED IN 2014.
MeSiNiAgA tower VENTILATED ELEVATOR

PHASE 2B, IS DESIGNED BY RENOWNED

‘GREEN’ ARCHITECT, DR KEN YEANG, AS A
SUSTAINABLE, MULTI-TENANTED
DEVELOPMENT AND HAS BEEN NAMED
SOLARIS. IT WAS COMPLETED IN 2010 AND
PROVIDES 50,000 SQUARE METRES OF
BUSINESS PARK AND LABORATORY SPACE
TO HOUSE BOTH PUBLIC AGENCIES AND
PRIVATE COMPANIES, TO FORM
SYNERGISTIC COLLABORATIONS WITH
THOSE FROM PHASES 1 AND 2A.

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