RELATION OF LA CONGIUNTA TO
NAROSHANKAR TEMPLE
• LA CONGIUNTA
• BY AR.PETER MAKRALI IN 1995
• EXHIBITION SPACE FOR SCULPTURES OF HANS JOSEPHSON
• LOCATED IN SWITZERLAND
• CLOSE TO VILLAGE
• STRUCTURE IS AT NORTH
SIDE OF VILLAGE
• NO ELECTRICITY
N
PLAN
SECTION
A C B
ENTRAN
CE
ARDHAMANDAP SECTION
AM
SABHAMANDAP
AM
GARBAGRIHA
AMBULATI
N ON
CONSIDERATION OF
TEMPLESPACES
CIRCULATION PLAN
SPACE TO PERSUE THE STRUCTURE
COVERED SPACES
SEMI COVERED
SPACE
CIRCULATION
SPACES
ACTS AS A HIGH COMPOUND WALL
RELATION OF HORNSBERGS STRANDPARK TO
NAROSHANKAR TEMPLE
• LOCATION: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
• PROJECT YEAR : 2012
• ARCHITECT: NYRENS ARKITEKTKONTOR
PLAN
TRANSITION OF SPACES
CONNECTING
SPACE OPEN
SPACES
DENSE SPACES
PATHWAY TOWARDS SITTING AREA
CIRCULATIO
N FROM
DIFFERENT
SPACES.
DENSE
TREES
BLOCK THE
VIEW
WOODEN
DOCKS GIVES
SURROUNDIN
G VIEW.
VAST WATER
BODY
INNER AND
OUTER
WORLD
RELATING WITH THE FEEL OF SPACES
OPENING
COMPARED WITH
TWO WINDOWS
COMPARED WITH
GARBHA GRUHA
ENTRANCE OPENING NEAR CROSS OPENING OPENINGS IN
ENTRANCE NAVE
NAVE OF CHURCH VIEW TOWARDS
ALTAR
RELATION OF BRITISH COUNCIL BUILDING TO
NAROSHANKAR TEMPLE
MAKING
• AR. DHARLES CORREA’S CHALLENGE WAS TO EXPRESS THE THREE CULTURAL IDENTITIES
THATMHAVE CONTEMPORARY INDIA.
• HE CREATED A SERIES OF THREE COURTYARDS REPRESENTING THE THREE COSMIC FOCAL
POINTS.
• AS INDIAN TEMPLES HAS AT ENTRANCE ARDH MANDAP, SABHA MANDAP, GARBH GRIHA.
• IT WAS OPENED IN 1993 THE LIBRARY BUILDING DISPLAYS A UNIQUE MURAL BY HOWARD
HODGKIN ON THE FAÇADE SYMBOLISING A BANYAN TREE ALONG WITH A SCULPTURE BY
STEPEHN COX CALLED THE ‘DESENT OF THE GANGES’.
• THIS PLACES ONE THE FEW PLACES WHERE ONE CAN READ BOOKS IN COMFORT AND SILENCE.
• MATERIALS : WALLS RED SANDSTONE, SCULPTURES BLACK ROCK QUERRIED FROM
MAHABALIPURAM.
This is second node of the plan which shows
sabha mandap.
Entrance This is
As temple entrance third
shows connection node
between heaven which
and earth same this shows
plan shows, Ardh grabh
mandap. griha.
Char bagh
offices
library
Entrance
Underground parking
Services
Front facade
Sculpture at end of
Second courtyard Third courtyard structure
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