"Different Institutes operate in different ways because they believe in different worldviews, in other words they have different DNA"
This is the main concept of the first project in design three. Each of the student will get one case study of a institute and we all have do the deep research about the philosophy and design concept of the building, at the same time as define the DNA of the specific building to compare with other buildings and allow the further design in the next phase.
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
Baslkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect who fascinated about nature and society and culture. All of his work has the concept of defining the quality of life. Doshi had a chance to work with two famous architects, Le corbusier and Loius Kahn that is the reason why some of his work are influenced by them.
“CEPT” the centre for environmental planning and technology university in Ahmedabad is one of his very first own architectural design and a famous one. In this project CEPT is my case study and I focus on the building of faculty of architecture. Doshi applied two main concepts to his work which is first, "diffuse the boundary of learning and defining the quality of life by the learning does not always happen in the classroom, however, learning can happen everywhere by interaction and communication to create a society".
Secondly, the building was constructed to stay as close to the nature as the architect believed that
"student of architecture must surrounded by the beauty of art and nature,
these will help them to develop to be a creative person"
matrix
The final nine plates show the idea of CEPT architecture building and the DNA that linked to another number of architectures which has the identical design concept and philosophy. The first three plates on the top row present the information about the CEPT building which are "structure", "circulation" and "material and lighting" in order. The second row portrays the same information however, in the different buildings from Doshi. And the last row illustrates the different building from different architect but has the same DNA.
The first plate is talking about the structure of the building as the unique point for the structure is there is no door in the building as the architect wanted to emphasise the use of public space so most of the space are connected without any obstacle. The right side of the plate shows the three plans on three different levels of the building, starting from the ground floor which connects to the landscape of the area with the building, the loads bearing wall acts as the main structure that collect all the weight of the building. Centre courtyard, exhibition room and some of the classroom are located on this floor. The first floor of the building also using the same load bearing wall, this floor has the studio space which is the main space to learning or doing workshop for architecture's student, this space is double height connected to the second floor. Veranda and office are located on this floor. The second floor has a special design of roof which allow light to pass in the studio as same as a long space of library and variety of working spaces.
The left side of the plate show the three main structure of the specific element. The structure of roof that allow light to pass through, the veranda that can be called as the only private space in the building apart from the toilet. As when you close the big wooden door of the veranda you can stay individually with yourself and nature. Creating the small private space from the infinity public space in the building. However, if you open the wooden door you connect this private space to the public space inside, forming the bigger space. The last one is the stairs structure which in this case is the main vertical circulation in the building and it is the iconic spot in the building that connect interior to exterior and the starting point of the circulation of this society.
The bottom of the plate shows the section and the landscape of the building at the same time as the scale of it.
The second plate presents in a smaller perspective which is the "circulation", this system is very important in the design because this will allow the interaction and communication to occur. As the concept of “education institute is a public society and the best way to create a society starts from communicating and participating that can happen inside the circulation”. The circulation in this building is easy and simple however, as the freedom of the structure this allows the
route and journey to be completed.
The exploded axon on the left side of the panel explains how each of the level connect together as same as the circulation in the building by using a graphic of people to show the pathway and movement. The vertical circulation in this building is only the staircase in two different position, in contrasts the horizontal circulation happened around area of the faculty.
Different colour of the human graphic represents the density of the people in the area. As you can see majority of the people is participate in the middle of the ground floor, which is the centre courtyard. The centre courtyard is in the middle of the faculty moreover, it is known as the heart of CEPT as this courtyard is also in the centre of the whole university. This space is used for diversity of activities. Every circulation link to this courtyard.
On the right side of the plate shows the five perspective views and environment that due with number of people.
The last plate is talking more specific about some interesting detail in this building. Starting with the material, variety of materials have been used in the design as "the different materials create different textures, allow the experiencing of change in perspectives" that Doshi believe that this can advance creativity of student at the same time as creating the aesthetic of texture. In addition, Doshi chose only the local material as he concerned about the cost and the skill of labours. Using the local material has many benefits only "brick", "wood" and "concrete" are used in the design. Doshi aimed to use only these three because it has the property of changing through out time with similar to his concept of "the architecture will become part of the land when the time pass". The timeline on top show the change of colour, texture and the growth of plant when time passed. And series of picture below and the labels show the different material and the location that it is taken place in the building.
Another factor is the lighting, which is very important in this case especially the natural light. Most of the light passing through the roof structure that having the right angle to allow the reflection to occur. Apart from that light can also come in the building by the veranda and gap between the load bearing wall which is the same way as the ventilation. From the series of picture we can see that "natural light in the building not only come in the building to create diversity of shade and shadow but it also leads the way” this again emphasise the important of the circulation and society.
Institute of Indology
Doshi's own house
These three plates reflect the similarity of the philosophy and the design concept of another two building from the same architect BV doshi.
The first one is the Institute of Indonlogy which is the museum that collect the historical information and object of ancient India so that the building need to have a good system of controlling temperature, light and humidity.
Doshi again using the underground space and angle of reflecting as a tool to control those factors. Moreover, for the interior space Doshi focus about the ventilation and the "breathing room" which is creating a public space and allow wind to flow. Structure and circulation as same as material are nearly the same as the CEPT.
The second example of the building is his own house, for this one he create the concept of "flexible room" which is turning private space to the public space or another word is forming the bigger space for smaller unit to joining the activity inside the family.
The left plate shows the plan of each architecture with the label of usage and zoning, second plate on the right show circulation of the people by the perspective views. The last one is the lighting and material that some how related to each other and also the analysis of each different materials.
rolex centre
-sanaa-
sarabhai house
- le corbusier -
indian institute of management
- louis kahn -
These three plates reflect the similarity of the philosophy and the design concept of another three architect with three architecture.
The first one is the rolex centre in Switzerland, it is a laboratory of learning with the concept of "seamless" network of services, libraries, information gathering, social space, space to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor space.
All the architecture is one surface area connected together in with gentle curve slope and terrace with the curving roof'
The same idea as CEPT that wanted people to stay together without boundaries even though in this building you can also have the private space. This architecture has unique form comparing to others same as different materials have been used but stay in the same concept and same objective to other buildings.
The second one is the Sarabhai House by Le Corbusier which is the private residential complex. Architect mainly focus on the environment and aesthetic of landscape, design to solve the problem of climate change and at the same time balancing the universal and tradition. Material in this design is the same as CEPT as Le Corbusier also using the local material as well.
The last one is the design from Louis Kahn which is the institute of management in India, "hierarchical organization" as the design concept, the architect separated the space in to three space from the most public to the most private by using different form and level of landscape as the divider. In the school area at the public space Louis kahn adding the idea of learning without boundaries like Doshi does however, Louis Kahn is the professional of experimenting about light so he used the glare wall to control the light and temperature that approach the interior part.
The left plate shows the plan of each architecture with the label of usage and zoning, second plate on the right show circulation of the people by the perspective views. The last one is the lighting and material that some how related to each other and also the analysis of each different materials.
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