CENTRE FOR INDIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE, AHMEDABAD Pragya kabra Guide: N.S Rathore Aayojan School of Architecture.
SITE ANALYSIS
Integrating traffic, prioritizing pedestrian and bicycles.
Providing trees and greenery within site provides shades areas and seating spaces.
Take down the volume and adopt an inclusive approach by integrating activities on site.
Open ground floor will create porosity to the site and more inflow of public.
Defying various creating legibility.
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DEFYING STRATEGIES
Open courtyard spaces
Green and Grey
Waterbody
Amphitheatre
Strong geometry
Commemoration
Talking about the relationship of the building to the sky with the use of courtyards and semi open spaces.
Meandering through the rough coloumns and smooth walls to open the visitors to the amphithetare which could be centrally located.
Play of landscape in green and grey pavements, as in greenscape and softscape to ensure less heating during summer.
Creating a linear built mass in order to achieve a strong geometry with respect to the site context.
Essential architectural element in Indian architecture that promotes evaporative cooling.
Commemorating the demolished in order to showcase the imporatnce of the structure that was once there.
Sculpture park
Temporary exhibits making life nearby informative and exciting.
Walkway
The aggregation of these walkways within the site intends to achieve the coordination system with the building.
Entrance Plaza
It allows porosity and more inflow of the public inside the building.
DROP-OFF
Integrating traffic with pedestrian and bicycle.
Commemoration
A thread to reactivate the demolished in the country and creating spaces for people.
Amphitheatre
Celebrates the culture and everyday city life by facilitating active fluxes in motion through architecture.
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Conceptual diagram showcasing the two main spaces and their segregation through the servive core provided between them.
Diagram showcasing the entrance inside the building allowig pororsity and more inflow of the public inside the building from informal to formal spaces.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
MEZZANINE PLAN
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SECTION THROUGH THE ENTRANCE PLAZA
Hey Arjun, lets go and visit the exhibition befor going to library.
Ashima, lets wait for everybody at the entrance plaza.
Karan, lets go to the office to know the details of this building.
These are pretty interesting galleries. Lets take the stairs up to the Mezzanine, Ashish.
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SECTION THROUGH GALLERIES
Arjun, is this symbol to commemorate the demolished?
The phototgraphs in the foyer are pretty interesting. Aren’t they, Ashima?
Ashish, these galleries are informative here.You can document it for your research.
Arun, these panels gives the idea of the timeline being followed.
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SECTION THROUGH AMPHITHEATRE
The foyer has really interesting photographs and maps, Aditi.
Abhimanyu, I think this amphithetare has enough space to oraganise interactive sessions.
Lets catch up tomorrow after the even, Ashish. Will meet you at the foyer.
Trees and greenery here provides a lot of shaded areas to sit and chat.
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SECTION THROUGH AUDITORIUM
Hey Aditya, will you be attending the seminar tomorrow as well?
Aren’t these sculptures in different foyers descriptive?
Ashima, I am going to the silent zone on the mezzanine floor to read.
Hey Avani, there are a lot of books about history of architecture here. You can come here and have a look.
Gypsum false ceiling
Track lighting for display
Flooring with 20thk kota stone on 75thk cement concrete on 3mm thk polymeric felt.
Brick pattern detail
Terrazzo stone fragments
WALL DETAIL
FRONT ELEVATION A
Built of Bricks, concrete and an earthen coloured terrazzo stone fragments, the building blends harmoniously with its surroundings.
The terrazzo used for the facade is made using a combination of local stone and marble which has a high thermal mass calculation.
The facade of the building appears as an intersection of cubes with a lacelike covering of bricks, creating various patterns on it.
FRONT ELEVATION B
BACK ELEVATION