Architect balakrishna v Doshi history nd buildings

Doshi wrks

1. MAJOR
Works of Architect
B.V. DoshiB.V. Doshi

2. Biography
One of the pioneer architect of
independent India, He worked under
Le Corbusier as a senior designer at
his Paris design studio(1951-1954).
He started his practice from Paris in
1954.
He was also an associate architect
with Louis Kahn at the
IIM,Ahmedabad.

3. About Him
His many faceted personality and interests; Architecture,
Planning, Urban Design, Education, Visual Art,
Technology, Low Cost Housing, with holistic perception
has earned him international reputation.
He has been awarded the Padamshree in 1976.
Pritzker- 2018
French “Officer of the order of arts and letters” in 2011
6
th
Aga Khan award for Aranya Housing.
Padmabhushan in 2020
He appeared as himself in Mani Ratnam's
 
O Kadhal
Kanmani, and Shaad Ali's
 
Ok Jaanu, playing himself

4. His Works
School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (CEPT)
Indian institute of management, Bangalore
Sangath, Ahmedabad
Aranya: low cost housing, Indore
Husain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
ECIL Township, Hyderabad (1969-71)
NIFT Delhi, 1989
IFFCO Township, Kalol
Sawai Gandharva, Pune
Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad
Tagore Memorial Hall, Ahmedabad
Vidyadhar Nagar, Jaipur
IIM Lucknow
Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad
IIM Udaipur

5. His Works

6. CEPT, Ahmedabad

7. CEPT, Ahmedabad
“…an open space with hardly any doors-no feeling of
restriction to the exchange of ideas”.
One of the most effortless of plan forms, two parallel
walls completely open from south and north; the
south side having deep balconies and windows like
doors and in the north, the sky light allows ample
light without glare for the double height studio
spaces.
The section derived from the plan is as
uncomplicated-exposed brick walls and over hanging
slabs and verandahs.

8. Main Block

9. Site Plan
Doshi’s use of existing contours, brick
paved planes gradually going to lowest
levels, thus creating an ambience of
uniformity.
Many other institute that were added to the
campus were the Visual Art Centre (VAC),
the School of Building Science and
Technology (SBST), School of Interior
Design(SID), Hussain-Doshi gufa etc.

10. IIM, Bangalore

11. IIM , Bangalore
The program was much similar to
IIM-A, but IIM-B has been described
as the “critique” of Kahn’s IIM-A.
Purity of material
Play of light
Demarcated movement pattern, this
is an interesting feature of the
project, often as high as three
storeys with perbola structure.

13. IIM-B Campus

14. Concept
Doshi considered that Bangalore is the
garden city and hence he conceived the
classrooms as set in gardens, interlinked
with semi covered and shaded courtyards
through pergolas.
The criteria for campus was, ”flexibility,
growth, adoption and scale”.

15. SANGATH, Ahmedabad

16. SANGATH, Ahmedabad
Its architect’s own office, which uses vaults
as a real feature of the site.
These vaults with different technology &
juxtaposition of several other supportive
elements; like side thick walls to take the
thrust, the two shorter sides open for light.
The water channels running through the
site and over the building with gargoyles
make up for the remaining elevation of the
project.

17. Site PLan

18. Form
This design was an urge to find an
appropriate style for the country; ”an
Indian style”.
It lead Doshi to experiment on these forms,
no exposed concrete, no brise-soliel, or
followings of Le Corbusier’s five principles.
The same is used in Gandhi Labor Institute,
where vaults were used as roof over two
storey buildings.

19. View

20. Husain-Doshi Gufa

21. Husain-Doshi Gufa
It is a permanent gallery for the
artist’s-MF Husain-work at the CEPT
campus.
This project is his constant endeavor
to the Indian traditional architecture-
caves of Ajanta, Ellora and even the
Buddhist stupas.

22. LOOKING INSIDE
The light is taken by puncturing the 25mm
thick ferro-cement shell.
The slanted columns that support the outer
shell and others for making the hollow
space more richer.
The form of such a structure was is derived
from sequential process of modeling- with a
chain net was adopted as a method to
develop the profiles of the gufa roof.

23. Further reading…..
https://www.slideshare.net/Rakeshkumar2010/bv-doshi-design