PHILOSOPHY AND WORKS
OF NARI GANDHI
Early life and education
• Nariman (Nari) Dossabhai Gandhi was born in 1934 in Surat to a Zoroastrian Parsi
family from Bombay.
• Nari completed his schooling DDFF at St. Xavier's High School, Fort, Mumbai, and
studied architecture at Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai for five years in
the early 1950s
Career
• He also briefly worked for the American Architect
Warren Weber.
• Nari returned to India in the early 1960s
• He passionately worked on as many as 30 projects over a
period of as many years.
Nari Gandhi's Philosophy of Design
• Organic architecture responding to climate, context and
deeply rooted to the site and its surroundings.
• His work displayed highly skilled craftsmanship and
structural ingenuity
• Was influenced by Wright’s idea of ‘flowing space’ Korlai Bungalow, Alibaug
• Geometry was the underlying discipline of the structure.
• Sunlight and wind were the main protagonists that
animated the built space.
• Extensive use of brick arches, stone masonry and
buttresses.
Jain Bungalow, Lonavala
Nari Gandhi- 5 Iconic Projects
1. GOBHAI MOUNTAIN 2. KORLAI 3. JAIN BUNGLOW,
LODGE, LONAVALA BUNGALOW, ALIBAUG LONAVALA
4. REVDANDA HOUSE, 5. BEACH HOUSE,
REVDANDA MADH ISLAND
JAIN BUNGLOW, LONAVALA
• Located on a sloping site, this house is
designed to blend with the terraced
gardens that begin above the entry level
and slope downwards, following the
stepped sectional profile of the house
itself.
• These terraces are planted with numerous
varieties of local plants and trees.
•Radiating struts shoot up from the
• A single large roof plane, dotted with dormer
ground level to support these deep
windows and covered with Mangalore tiles,
roof overhangs; other metal trusses
has deep overhangs and creates a stepped
emerge from the masonry walls to
profile that is accentuated by the mountainous support the massive roof.
backdrop.
• The Jain bungalow has a total of 9 rooms: a prayer room, a
living room, a card room, a kitchen, a dining area, and four
bedrooms.
• Situated at a lower elevation than the site boundary, the
entry level houses a double-height living room, a kitchen
and an arcuated prayer hall.
• One can enter the other areas of the house using the 600
mm wide straight-flight staircase that originates in the
living room and runs centrally through the house, dividing
it in two parts with rooms flanking each side on different
levels.
• Internal courts on different levels are covered in
transparent corrugated roofing sheets; these courts bind
the stepped and disconnected arrangement of
independent rooms together.
• Dormer windows overlooking the landscape around the
bungalow also serve to visually unify these rooms.
• The structure consists of stone masonry walls of
varying sizes and colours, composed of igneous
rocks from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
• The masonry walls are integrated with steel
struts and trusses which then support the
sloping roof.
• Walls of the internal courtyards are embellished
with small chips of stones, similar to those of
another Nari Gandhi work, the Moon Dust house
in Versova. •The house not only attempts to
• These courts also have planter beds built into blend with nature through its
the masonry walls that are covered with foliage apertures, but also imitates
during monsoon season. natural forms in its structure
• Openings throughout the house follow a semi- through deep overhangs, radiating
circular profile (for windows) and inclined steel struts and the massive
parallelograms (for doors). boulder walls.
PHILOSOPHY AND WORKS OF LAURIE BAKER
Introduction
• Name: Laurie Baker
• Born: March 2, 1917, Birmingham,
United Kingdom
• Died: April 1, 2007,
thiruvananthapuram
• Education: Birmingham Institute of I don't think I've ever been inspired
Art and design by what other architects have
• Awards: padma shri, order of the done but moreby what ordinary
craftsmenhave created.
British Empire
- Laurie Baker
3.Minimum use of energy-
PRINCIPLES OF BAKER: intensive materials
1.Respect for nature 2.cost effectiveness.
•Use of locally manufactured
material like red brick,
• placement of •Use of locally Mangalore tile.
water body to cool available materials . •Minimum use of glass
down the breeze E.g. Brick, wood,scrap wherever necessary.
• Use of Brick jali for the •Made maximum
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air movement which utilization of Used 4.wastage minimilisation,
comforts the inner materials. using local techniques
environment. •Reduction of and materials
• Made use of contour unwanted structural
during planning rather elements
than cutting text •create cost effective and
beautiful buildings
WORKS OF LAURIE BAKER
• School of Drama & Fine Arts Theatre (Thrissur),
• Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum),
• The Indian Coffee House (Trivandrum),
• Chitralekha Film Studio (Aakulam)
• Literacy Village (Lucknow),
• Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum),Tourist Centre
(Ponmudi),
Design
THE INDIAN COFFEE HOUSE
DESIGN STYLE:
His design principles revolve around sustainability
and usage of locally sourced materials, allowing
his buildings to make the most of their site and
DESIGN:
climate conditions.
Shaped like a spiral, the
CONCEPT: flooring winds its way around
a central core like a ramp. To
The building was planned on a relatively small maintain the proportion and
urban site, and the walls were curved to fulfill the the stability of the building,
programmatic requirements within the given the ramp gets smaller as it
goes to the top, forming an
space. imperfect but balanced
cylinder.
MATERIALS:
Concrete slabs are fitted in the walls as tables which are supported by a
brick arch at the end that is not connected to the wall. Bricks are used
for the seatings with a slab of block-oxide on top, the same material
used for the backrest as well.
PHILOSOPHY AND WORKS
OF RAJ REWAL
INTRODUCTION:
Born :24 Nov 1934
Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India
Nationality:Indian
Occupation:Architect
Buildings: Hall of Nations, Asiad
Village, Parliament Library, State
Trading Corporation Building, New
Delhi
Philosophy | Raj Rewal
• Structures designed by him include pure structural expression and
cubic masses
• The design provides a certain honesty with the surrounding.
• They speak towards sensitive climatic changes.
• Beautifully crafted with geometric forms and grid pattern Raj Rewal
speak for the Indians.
• He always attempts to blend traditional architecture with
contemporary concepts.
• He has been influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier and
Louis Khan.
The National Institute of Immunology
The National Institute of Immunology
part of the Jawaharlal Nehru University
complex is a research-oriented
institute spread over 19 acres on the
site of south Delhi. The building
contains laboratories, study rooms, a
library, an auditorium, a director’s
house, and lodgings for professors with
families, married assistants, and
unmarried researchers. The central
part of the building also acts as the
gateway and its axis corresponds with
the main spine of the scheme.
The route climbs towards the laboratories which are
occupied by the highest point on the site. The
traditional court resembles the Indians in this structure
creating interactive space to enhance the interior space
with relation outside world. The building is covered
with washed grit finish containing beige and pink
sandstone pebbles. With its primary and secondary
axes, its fine proportion creates spaces small pockets of
interaction.
USE OF SAND STONE:
The ability of low porosity of this stone makes it our
personal favorite as this stone doesn’t absorb. Even if
the water is spilled on its surface it will automatically
leave fewer stains. They say the color of the sandstone
stays as it is for decades. The blend of sandstone pink
The ultimate beauty which is achieved in
this design is the use of materials and
pockets of spaces. Interactive and
charming as it displays Raj Rewal truly
achieved his traditional resemblance in
this. Embarking the grid system as well
the geometry of the spaces he has made
a benchmark in the design philosophy.
The subtleness and calmness throughout
the interior are brilliantly maintained.
