RAJ REWAL

INTRODUCTION
• BORN : 1934, HOSHIYALAPUR, PUNJAB, INDIA
• SCHOOLING : HARCOURT BUTLER SECONDARY SCHOOL, SHIMLA (1939-1951)
• GRADUATION : DELHI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, NEW DELHI (1951-1954)
• HE COMPLETED HIS FORMAL PROFESSIONSAL TRAINING AT BRIXTON SCHOOL OF
BUILDING, LONDON.

WORKING LIFE
• HE WORKED AS AN ARCHITECTURAL ASST. IN VARIOUS PRACTICES IN LONDON AND
THEATRE SCENERY DESIGNER IN THE EVENINGS
• 1961-1962 : WORKED IN THE OFFICES OF MICHEL ECOCHARD, ARCHITECTS, PARIS
• 1962 : RETURNED TO NEW DELHI TO SET UP HIS OWN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
• 1963-1972 : TAUGHT AT DELHI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
• 1974 : OPENED A SECOND OFFICE IN TEHRA, IRAN
• 1985 : FOUNDED THE ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH CELL WITH RAM SHARMA
• 1986 : CONDUCTED AN EXHIBITION IN PARIS FOR INDIA “TRADITIONAL
ARCHITECTURE IN INDIA”
 PHILOSOPHY AND FEATURES
• BUILDINGS SHOULD RESPOND TO COMPLEX DEMANDS OF RAPID URBANISATION,
CLIMATE AND CULTURE.
• HIS CONCEPT IS THAT THE BASE OF DESIGNING HOUSING IS TRADITIONAL
ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA AND A DUAL CONCERN FOR A BUILDING’S
EXPRESSIVENESS BY MEANS OF INCORPORATING HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS AND
URBAN DESIGN.
• THE STREETS
HERE ARE
NARROW,
SHADED,
BROKEN UP INTO
SMALL UNITS
CREATING
PAUSES, POINTS
OF REST AND
• WINDOW OPENINGS CONSTITUTE A CHANGING. • ALLOW FOR A CHANGE AND CONTAIN
• MODERN INTERPRETATION OF CARVED A CONTINUITY, BRIDGES FORMED BY
• JALIS IN ANCIENT BUILDINS. LINKING TWO NEIGHBOURING HOUSES
• SCATTER OF • COURTYARDS
TERRACES PROVIDING
PERMITTING PUBLIC SPACE
YET ANOTHER WITHIN THE
SET OF BUILDING.
ACTIVITIES.

MATERIALS USED
• CLUSTERING
OF • SANDSTONE : GIVES TRADITIONAL
BUILDINGS. YET MODERN LOOK (USED IN PUBLIC
BUILDINGS)
• CONCRETE (HOUSING)
• BRICK CLADDING (RESIDENCE)
ATE TRADING CORPORATION

• LOCATION : NEW DELHI • INTERRELAT

• DATE : 1976 ED AREAS
• BUILDING TYPE : OFFICE FOR OFFICE
BUILDING AND
• CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : COMMERCE
VERTICAL STRUCTURAL
CORESSUPPORT GIRDERS
BETWEEN ALTERNATE FLOORS
• MATERIAL : BEIGE AND RED
SANDSTONE PANNELS
• PLAN –
STRUCTURE • OCTOGON
OF GIRDERS AL
BETWEEN OPENINGS
STRUCTURA ARE DEEP
L CORES AND
SUPPORTING PROVIDE
FLOOR SHADE
 • ATRIUM OF
COTTAGE
INDUSTRY
EMPORIUM JALIS
IN CONCRETE.

• THE PERPENDICULAR HIGH RISE

BLOCKS RISE TO DIFFERENT HEIGHTS. • SKYLIGHTS ALLOW
THE TALLEST FORMING THE JUNCTION
FOR NATURAL
OF THE LOWER TWO.
LIGHTING FOR THE
• THE LOW 3 STOREY VOLUME
DISPLAY AREAS.
PARTIALLY FILLS THE SPACE CREATED
BY THE L-SHAPED PLAN OF ADJOINING
TOWERS.
• THE OFFICE FLOORS HAVE 15M SPAN
FREE OF INTERNAL COLUMNS. • THESE FEATURES TOGETHER WITH STONE
• REPEATITION OF OCTOGONAL CLADDING CONTRIBUTE TO THE BUILDINGS
OPENINGS IN THE BRIDGE LIKE UNIQUE EXPRESSIVE FORCE AS A SKY
GIRDERS BETWEEN THE VERTICAL SCRAPPER.
ASIAN GAMES VILLAGE

SITE PLAN

• LOACTION : NEW DELHI

• DATE : 1980 • PURPOSE – HOUSING WAS BUILT BY PUBLIC
• BUILDING TYPE : AUTHORITY TO ACCOPMODATE THE TEMPORARY
HOUSING INFLUX GUEST AND LATER ON WOULD BE SOLD OFF
• CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : TO PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.
STRUCTURE HAS BEEN
EMBEDDED IN AN • CONCEPT – BASED ON SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES
ARTIFICIAL EARTH MOUND LINKED BY NARROW, SHAPED PEDESTRIAN STREETS
• STYLE : CONTEMPORARY AND CONTAINING BOTH RECREATIONAL AND
ARCHITECTURE COMMERCIAL PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS.
 • THERE ARE 510 HOUSING
UNITS – 200 INDIVIDUAL AND
300 APARTMENTS IN 2
STOREY AND 3 STOREY
“WALK – UPS.”
• DENSITY OF 50 UNITS PER
HECTARE.

• FLOOR PLAN OF TYPE C HOUSIN

APPART UNITS TO CREATE UNITS

• TYPE OF APARTMENTS (FLOOR PLANS)

 • TERRACES ON UPPER LEVEL ARE
JOINED OVERHEAD TO CREATE
GATEWAY LIKE ENTERANCES
THROUGH WALKWAYS.
• WALLS/PARAPETS – NARROW
SLITS (JALIS FOR BOTH PRIVACY
AND VENTILATION)
• INTERIOR VIEW
SHOWING SPLIT
LEVEL
ARRANGEMENT OF • THE
SPACES. HOUSING
UNITS
• MATERIAL USED – REINFORCED BENEFIT
CONCRETE POSTS AND BEAMS, FROM LARGE
COVERED WITH ROUGH CAST AND LANDSCAPE
PLASTER. AREAS AS
• THIS NOW SERVES THE LOCAL WELL AS
COMMUNITY AS A RECREATIONAL FROM SMALL
AND COMMERCIAL CENTER. COURTS.
ANANT
RAJE (ANAN
T
DAMODAR
RAJE)
ANANT RAJE (ANANT
DAMODAR
EARLY LIFE RAJE)
 He was born on September 1929 in Bombay.
 In 1954 he graduated in Architecture, Sir J.J. School of fine
arts.
  1957-1960: Professional practice with Mr. B.V. Doshi. 
  He did his professional work in Ahmedabad from the year
1961-1964.
 1964-1968 : in the office of prof. Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia. 

 1969-1971: Working on construction of the Indian Institute of

Business Management Building complex with Louis Kahn , as his
representative to develop design details and organize site office unit
and construction work in Ahmedabad.
 He is honorary director of the School of Architecture , Ahmedabad.
 ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES
 Use of bold materials and very clean geometric shapes and forms
 Blend of exteriors to the interiors.
 An experience using the play of textures on the external facades. 
 Attended to issues of light and ventilation DESIGN CONCEPT.

DESIGN CONCEPTS
 His works exhibit integrity between purpose and expression, building and
landscape, part and whole, and the ultimate quality of all good architects
through time – a sense of repose.
  His works had an excellent understanding of the elements of building,
and the law of construction, that it gave the sense of ordering presence .
  yet it is an order to enrich by the patina of materials he chooses and
sensitivity of light 
  His works had indeed a softness and quality of transcendence.
PHILOSOPHIES 
 He always stressed on integration of culture and spiritual well being 
 His works always aimed at simplicity and honesty 
  His efforts ad designer aimed at process of integration of man, the
space around him and the elements making up the space

ACHIEVEMENTS
  Distinguished
professor’s Award from the centre for environmental
Planning and Technology(CEPT) 
  The Indian Institute of Architects(IIA) 
  BaburaoMhatre Gold Medal for Architecture in 1993
  The Master Award for lifetime Contribution in Architecture from J.K
Industries,India in 2000.
 ANANT RAJE DESIGNED A NUMBER OF
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PROJECTS IN MANY
INDIAN CITIES INCLUDING 
  Executive
Management Centre at the Indian Institute of
Management in Ahmedabad, India 
 Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal, India 
 The Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi.
  Museum Of Minerals, Nagpur. (unbuilt).
  Galbabhai Farmers' Training Institute in Banaskantha, Gujarat .
  MAFCO wholesale market, Mumbai, India.
 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST
MANAGEMENT BHOPAL, INDIA
 ARCHITECT
  : ANANT RAJE

 PLACE : BHOPAL 

 YEAR : 1989

  BUILDING : INSTITUTIONAL

  AREA :650000 SQ.M 

  ARCHITECTURAL STYLE :
MODERN
 CONCEPT
The design was inspired by the concept of continuity
 Located in Nehru Nagar, in the southern west corner of Bhopal
 Situated on a hill that overlooks the Bhadbhada barriage
 The spillway of Bhadbada tails around IIFM hill, giving it a scenic location
 The inspiration of this project came from the historical town of Mandu
 The natural vegetation here is wild grass, which has been allowed to grow in
rows and clumps of trees
 A. Accounts office
B. Administrative
W office
C. Faculty research
A F
offices
D. Seminar rooms
B E. Class rooms
C F. Library and
D G computer center
G. Auditorium
W. Overhead water
tank
 External load bearing walls are
constructed of brick masonry
• EXTERIOR MASONRY WALL SURFACES ARE
PLASTERED WITH STONE­WASHED AGGREGATE GRIT.
• INTERNAL FRAME STRUCTURE
CONSTRUCTED OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

The magnificence of the clear sky is brilliantly

framed throughout the circular rings
supported on arches as carefully and
precisely
• Openable windows are recessed
into shadow pockets
• In areas around light openings,
walls are cladded with stone in
shades of green and yellow grey.
• The courts in between buildings will either
be paved with stone or landscaped
1. The 65 hectares of site is open and rises
approximately 50 metres from the lower road level
on a hill plateau
2. The plan focuses on the faculty and research
offices
3. Individual set back lobbies are provided instead of
long narrow corridors to serve as stop-off meeting
places
4. The core area is composed of the auditorium,
library and the academic court.
5. No building, except the library, is expected to be
more than two stories high.
6. The Amphitheatre, has a capacity of 750
7. Seminar rooms vary in size to accommodate 15-40
students
8. Spaces are provided for green rooms, a switch
gear room and chair storage.
9. The living zone consists of student dormitories,
kitchen, dining areas and other spaces for group
meetings.
10.All dormitories are oriented towards the lakes and
in close proximity to the library in the academic
 GALBABHAI TRAINING
INSTITUTE, PALAMPUR 
Ø The complex, built in the midst of
wheat fields, consists of two distinct
clusters respectively housing the school
and residential units.
Ø The former group of structures, accessed
by a courtyard, is designed as a house,
with several courts and rooms where
people can gather, and a verandah used as
a dining space.
Ø Indoor and outdoor areas are clearly
defined so as to reflect the villagers'
perception of space and seclusion.
Ø The compound is enclosed by stone
walls, and the buildings' openings are
spanned by concrete lintels
Plan
• The buildings are
based on the
repetition of 4.5m
wide structural bays
roofed with a barrel
vault concrete shell

• The project also

features an
auction hall with
raised platform
for loading and
unloading
produce
 • The series of
loggias
making up the
dormitories
do not open
on the
courtyard
placed in the
center in
order to
• The exposed
achieve
stone façade
maximum
and arched
privacy
lintels used
throughout
convey a visual
unity to the
• The compound is enclosed by stone walls, and the
buildings’ openings are spanned by concrete lintels
and are deeply recessed to provide additional shade
Cross sections