Regionalist projects realised in India since 1947:

• Kala Academy, Goa

• Houses of Goa Museum
• Indian institute of forest management
• Ashwini Kumar crematorium
• Gandhi labour institute, Ahmedabad

Keithy Gandhi
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KALA ACADEMY, GOA
Charles Mark Correa was an India
architect, urban planner and activist. India’s
most iconic modern architect Charles Correa
had a prolific career, having designed almost
100 buildings in India alone during his lifetime,
but whether it was low-income housing or luxury
condos, Correa maintained a universal
approach that respected the local conditions,
met the practical needs of its inhabitants and
acknowledged the spiritual nature and beauty
of his country.

Gandhi Ashram Jawahar Kala Kendra Champalimaud Ismaili Center

Centre
Location Situated at
Campal, Panaji
along the banks of
river Mandovi.

Land Use A military hospital

across the road, a
cricket ground and
a park on either
side.
Building Institution
Type

Site Area 6.3 acres

Kala Academy (Academy of the Arts) is
a prominent cultural centre run by
the Government of Goa. It is registered
as a society, and was started in
February 1970. It plays the role of being
an "apex body to develop music,
dance, drama, fine art, folk art,
literature, etc. and thereby promote
cultural unity of Goa.
Funded by the Government of Goa,
the centre offers training through its
faculty, and also organizes festivals,
competitions, exhibitions, workshops,
seminars, and other programs related
to various forms of the local arts.
Kala academy an epicenter for
performing and non performing art
forms, Marks the entry of
Contemporary architecture in Goa, a
building that is an Art in itself, inspired
from a sand dune with contrasting
sharp lines fusing harmonically into the
climb of two floors.
There are three public entries and one
service entry which eases movement
of incoming and outgoing crowd. The
place is fully fledged with library
overlooking a beautifully tall fully
flowered bougainvillea plant that has
grown as big as a tree. The broken
mosaic tiles adorn almost all of the
open spaces, contained within a thick
pathway of Natural stone flooring. The
obsession with natural stone is clearly
visible looking at the rise and run of
seating area as well as on the stairs
servicing the area. So far they have
sustained the beating of the Goan
rain fairly well. One must admire the
round columns all along the building,
for a sharp edged architecture like
this, a well cogitated design for public
places with heavy footfall.
The use of Parapet walls on upper floors
discreetly blends in the non ending sky.
A well laid out pergola at the main
entrance provides well ventilated
extension to the auditorium and
illuminates the waiting lobby. Sky lights
placed intelligently at various points
adds to the openness of the premises.

Air Conditioned auditorium follows the

same roof theme that merges into the
roof of the stage and has a seating
capacity of 1000 people. The layout of
the seating and the roof height is
perfectly engineered to give audience
perfect visibility along with audibility. The
walls of the Auditorium are painted with
characters inspired from Mario Miranda
paintings, looking towards the
performance stage; I personally believe
this adds a sense of relaxation and
humor in the dim lit auditorium.
There is a mini Open air theatre
with the view of the Mandovi
River at the expanse, which
accommodates 300 people,
often used for small gatherings
of students learning art. The
sitting is in a right angle shape
and serves the purpose given
quite adequately given the size
of audience it would usually
gather purposefully hid at the
outer extension of the
Muktangan.
This place was later equipped
with a private jetty to ferry
important IFFI guests during the
IFFI festival held in Goa.
The soul of the building
convinces you to embrace the
openness, as Kala Academy
brings the best in a artist.
Houses of Goa Museum
Gerard da Cunha is an Indian architect based in Goa. He
is the founder and principal architect of the architecture
firm Architecture Autonomous. An alumnus of the School
of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, he is known for
utilizing locally available materials and traditional
construction techniques in harmony with its ecosystem.
Gerard's projects mostly portray the use of natural
material.

Nisha's Play School Shiksha Niketan School Library of Hampi Goa State Central Library
Kannada university
Location Situated at
Pilerne Industrial
Estate, Pilerne,
Bardez, Goa,

Land Use The Museum is built

as a (traffic island)
partition of road in
Torda.

Building Museum
Type

Site Area acres

House of Goa is a unique museum
encounter produced a
culture and architecture which is
unique.
This museum showcases the houses
which were the prime expression of the
Goan identity.
Strangely enough it is in the shape of a
triangle and resembles a ship. Viewed
from the outside it is a mystery, but as
you begin your visit, it slowly unfolds its
pockets.

A triangular shaped structure 4 storey

built to enhance and illuminate the
beauty of Goan houses through
pictures, drawings , videos etc .. a
spiral staircase in the middle and
around it is the exhibits.
Made up with the locally available brick and
completed on 1997, Shaped like a boat,
nothing can’t be as significant as this to
exhibit the Goan architecture. Most of the
elements are made out of waste and
executed with local labour.
The overhangs supported by the M.S
members, the openings are in brick, the roof
overhang , all this built on an extremely steep
site.
On the first floor, it has a depiction of Goa in the
context of the world as well as wealth of Goan
architecture.
On the second floor, Gerard da Cunha delves
into the details of Goan architecture with a
painstaking collection of doors, windows, a rare
hat stand, old French doors from a house in
Margao built in 1917 as well as rare postcards of
Goa dating back to 1900, giving an exclusive
picture of what Goa and its cities looked like a
century ago.
The panels on the walls showing important
Goan monuments such as the Se Cathedral as
well as other world monuments that were built
at the same time in other parts of the world.
Climb the winding steps to the theatre upstairs
and you can see a slide show presentation, with
an adaptable screen, conducted by Da Cunha
himself and taking you on an architectural tour
back to the earliest mud house.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF
FOREST MANAGEMENT
Anant Raje was an India architect, He was a
revered architect, teacher, intellectual and
perfectionist. It will not be exaggerated to call
him Louis Kahn of India. Anant Raje was invited
by Louis Kahn personally to work in his office in
Philadelphia. Raje worked there from 1964 to
1969 in close association with the master
architect. He uses bold materials and very clean
geometric shapes and forms in his buildings.
Blend of exteriors to the interiors was his
archirctural principles.

Galbabhai Training Development Authority Indian Institute of

Institute Headquarters Forest Management
Location Nehru Nagar,
Bhopal

Building Institutional
Type

Site Area 65 Acers

Year 1984
The design of Indian Institute of Forest
Management (IIFM), Bhopal was
inspired by the concept of
continuity. Institutions are self–
contained entities, whose growth is
nurtured by a process of self-renewal
through the various stages of their
development. it saw the integration
of interior and exteriors spaces, the
neat geometry the buildings afford,
and the sense of repose that could
only come from an innate
centeredness in the architect.
• The natural vegetation is wild
grass, which has been allowed
to grow, augmented by rows
and clumps of trees.
• The rooms, arcade and porch,
are made from a simple
construction, with the walls clad
with stone screed in shades of
green and yellow grey that
establishes a close rapport with
the site.
• Built in concrete, the building
interiors interact with the
exteriors through a medium of
concrete arched skin that
seems to wrap around, standing
lightly along the periphery giving
the overall building a certain
lightness of form.
• The magnificence of the clear
sky is brilliantly framed through
the circular rings supported on
the arches, as carefully and
precisely as one would stack
cards.
• Instead of concrete being
rendered into a monolith, the
façade displays a variety of
textures in concrete and stone.
• The internal corridors, larger than
small number of users tend to
hold the building together
formally, tying down its ends
and making way for the spaces
such as the landscaped
courtyards to breathe out
towards the open.
ASHWINI KUMAR
CREMATORIUM
Gurjit Singh Matharoo founded Matharoo
Associates in Ahmedabad, India in 1992. Gurjit’s
own signature is evident in every project that he
designs. By remodelling structural elements and
playing around with materials and techniques,
Gurjit breathes life into each of these built
spaces.

Prathama Blood Parents Moving Landscape The House with

Centre House Balls
Location Surat, Gujarat

Building Crematorium
Type

Site Area 1.3 Acers

Year 1999
This crematorium is located at
Ashwinkumar Ghat on the banks of the
river Tapti in Surat. It was to house five
gas furnaces with supporting activities
such as the registration and
administrative offices, storage, and
large tracts of non-specified space.
The first gesture of the design
was to re-articulate the
essential identity of the
crematorium in the context of
its urban setting. This was done
by creating a large clearing.
This plane was isolated from the
surrounding building and road
by structures incorporating all
auxiliary functions. The site thus
became introvert, looking only
in the direction of the river. On
this plane were then arranged
the functions that would fulfill
the essential rites of cremation
the basic lines that structured
the building being drawn from
the skewed angles of the site.
On one side, the chambers open into
a landscaped courtyard where the
gathering can spill over. The
landscaping is sparse and
maintenance free, lawns defined by
brick paving, and gathering areas
interspersed with large trees that
blossom in during the passing season.
On completion of a ceremony, the
relatives and friends leave the
grounds not by returning along the
entrance, but by climbing down the
ramp on the riverside, sometimes
taking a dip in the river, and climbing
back on to the road from the bank
before returning homewards, thereby
traversing the cycle symbolic of life.
This is also the place where one sees
the building for the first time – so far
the building has always formed the
‘backdrop’ of the events it holds and
can therefore only be experienced,
never ‘seen’.
GANDHI LABOUR
INSTITUTE, AHMEDABAD
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect.
He is considered to be an important figure of
Indian architecture and noted for his
contributions to the evolution of architectural
discourse in India.He is a pioneer
of Modernist and Brutalist architecture in India.
Doshi is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British
Architects and has been on the selection
committee for the Pritzker Prize, the Indira
Gandhi National Centre for Arts, and the Aga
Khan Award for Architecture. He is also a Fellow
of the Indian Institute of Architects.

CEPT University NIFT Delhi IIM Banglore

Location Near Manav
Mandir, Drive-in
Road, Memnagar,
Ahmedabad,

Land Use A metro station is

near by,a
commercial
complex opposite
site area
Building Institution
Type

Site Area 11,500 sq. mtrs

Gandhi Labour Institute was established on
15th September, 1979 by the Government of
Gujarat as an autonomous society under the
Societies Registration Act, 1860 to provide for
education, training, study and research in
labour.
Doshi refuses to think of functions as being
discrete: the institute's activities flow freely
into one another in a way that is deliberately
ambiguous. The composition is distinguished
by its studied contrast of regularity and
irregularity.
Axes are implied, denied, then rediscovered.
The approach is along a diagonal which
traverses the forecourt prior to mounting a
shallow flight of steps flanked by a pool. The
institution is 'de-monumentalised' to make it
feel accessible to the public. One enters at
the first floor under a transversal vault which
then feeds laterally into the various
departments by means of a lofty interior
gallery. The interior route involves twists,
turns and unexpected vistas, and is perhaps a
metaphor of the Mahatma's past.
The vaults brings the indirect light
through the ends and keeps the linearity
of the space, which visually connects the
spaces with different functions, the
staircase with the opposite axis makes a
unique transition through the one spaxe
to another.