5 POINTS OF ARCHITECTURE

FAMOUS QUOTE
LE MODULAR

GOLDEN RATIO
CONCRETE & COLOURS:
• LOCALLY AVAILABLE
• BRUTE AESTHETICS
•MOLTEN ROCK OF THE 20th CENTURY
•MOTIF DESIGNS
•BOLD PRIMARY COLORS
•PROTECTION FROM HOT SUMMER
•RULE OF LAW AND JUSTICE
•HYPERBOLIC PARABOLOID DOME
•GREEN, YELLOW AND PINK SALMON
•ACROPOLIS LIKE SANCTITY
•RELATION TI NATURE
•SPACE DEFINING
•COLOUR HARMONIES AS POLYCROME
ARCHITECTURAL, WITH COLOUR
KEYBOARDS AS AN ANALOGY TO MUSICAL
HARMONIESC
THREE BANDS OF COLOURS
•SOUND ABSORBING ACOUSTICS TILES
•RED PAINTED WALL
•YELLOW CARPEL
•THE AREA OF THE GREATEST SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE IN
CHANDIGARH WAS THE CAPITOL COMPLEX , WHICH IN ITS
FINAL FORM WAS BASED ON THE DESIGN OF A GRAET CROSS
AXIS
•THE MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF THE BUILDINGS
CONSTITUTING THE CAPITOL- RIGHT, THE PARLIAMENT, LEFT,IN
THE BACKGROUND, THE SECRETARIAT
•IN THE FOREGROUND, THE POOL OF THE PALACE OF JUSTICE
•THE ARTIFICIAL HILLS IN THE FRONT OF THE SECRETARIAT HAVE
NOT BEEN CREATED AND LAID OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
COEBUSIER;S CONCEPTIONS
•ALTHOUGH THE SCENE IS HARMONIUS IN EFFECT, THERE ARE
STILL MISSING THE BUILDINGS THAT BELONG HERE ,SUCH AS ,
FOR INSTANCE, THE TOWERS OF SHADOWS
 OPEN HAND
• SECRETARIAT BUILDING IS
TREATED AS HORIZONTAL
PLATFORM GOVERNOR,S PALACE
• INTERLACED ARRAYS OF SUN
BREAKERS (RESPONSE TO SUN)
HIGH COURT
• INSPIRATION FROM UNITE
• SHIVAIK HILL AND ARTIFICIAL
LAKE ASSEMBLY
• GOVERNERS PALACE WAS
PROPOSED SITE LATER
DISMANTELLED SECRETARIAT
• PEDESTRIAN PLAZZA
• NO EXPANSION DESIGN
• RECTILINEAR STRUCTURE
• MONUMENTAL PORTICO FACING PLAZZA.
• SOLID AND WALLS.
• LARGE CHAMBERS
• HYPERBOLIC FORM OF COOLING TOWER (THICKNESS OF 15CM)
• 128FT IN DIAMETER
• THE NATURAL LIGHT VENTILATION AND PROPER ACOUSTIC
• SEPARATE GALLERIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN
• INDIVIDUAL ENTRANCE
HIGH COURT :
• A GREAT ARCHITECTURE VENTURE
MADE UP OF POOR MATERIALS AND A
LABOUR FORCE QUITE UNUSED
• DOUBLE ROOF
• ROW OF ARCHES
• RECTILINEAR FRAMES
• UNITY
• NORTWEST ORENTATION
• BRAISE SOLICE
• DEPICTED AS A TALL THIN
SLAB DIVIDED BY A
CENTRAL HORIZONTAL
BAND.
• LONGEST BUILDING IN
CHANDIGARH
• 254 METER LONG, 42 METER
HIGH
• IT HAS 6 EIGHT STOREY
BLOCKS
 HT OF 2
STOREYS
RAMP ENCLOCURE
LEFT
OPEN
SQUARE WINDOWS
ROUGH CONCRETE
FINISH

PROJECTED PORTICOS
FREE FACADE COLUMNS
SUPPORTING
SMALL ENTRANCE 1 ½ BLOCK

BIG ENTRANCE
 ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
PARASOL ROOF
FORMING ARCHES

DOUBLE ROOF
GAP LEFT BETWEEN
TWO ROOFS

COLOURED MASSIVE PILLARS

FULL HT ENTRANCE

ROUGH CONCRETE
FINISHED RAMP

APPROACHED
THROUGH ROADS

REAR VIEW DOUBLE ROOF

MILL OWNER
•Brutalist Architecture, with its outer surface made of concrete stucco.
•Surface looks dull due to the moss and many critiques of Brutalist architecture
•have argued that it does not age well.
•This is particularly true for this building, because it is situated next the river
•Sabarmati on Ashram Road where it is likely to be moist.
•The moisture is accentuated with the growth of plants along the facade, which obviously needs
watering.
•There is a rail among the plants which acts like a drainage, which has done little to prevent the
mossiest Architecture
HEADQUATERS - INDIAN COTTON MILLOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS.
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER AND A MEETING AND A CEREMONIAL CENTER.
CLUB, THE SOCIAL RITUAL - STRONGLY EXPRESSED IN ITS DESIGN.
CLIMATE CONTROL
EXPRESSION OF MATERIALS.
THE EAST AND WEST FACADES, OF ROUGH-SHUTTERED EXPOSED CONCRETE ARE MADE UP OF SUN-BREAKERS, CAREFULLY
DESIGNED TO SHIELD THE INTERIOR.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES, ALMOST UNBROKEN ARE OF ROUGH BRICKWORK.
INTERIOR-PREVAILING WINDS.
ROOF-BAR FOR EVENING ENTERTAINMENT.
THE ASSEMBLY HALL IS CONSTRUCTED OF DOUBLE THIN BRICK WALLS PANELLED IN WOOD.
EITHER RANDOM OR CONCRETE SEATING 2 VERTICAL TAPESTRIES ARE SUSPENDED FROM THE CEILING FOR ACOUSTICAL
PURPOSES.
THE HALL IS INDIRECTLY LIGHTED BY REFLECTIONS FROM THE CURVED CEILING, WHICH IN TURN IS KEPT COOL BY 2 GARDENS AND
A WATER BASIN ON THE ROOF.
CIRCULATION
FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL TO THE ROOF 2 ELEVATORS SERVE ALL THE FLOORS.
A LONG RAMP PROVIDES PEDESTRIAN ACCESS FROM THE MAIN OFFICE TO THE PARKING LOT.
THE FLOORING IS OF DELHI STONE AND ALSO SERVES AS A STONE TAPESTRY.
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