Charles Correa 1b3k2p

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He is Indian architect and urban planner.

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Born :1st September,1930 in Secunderabad , India.

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Greatly influenced by Buckminster Fueller & Le Corbusier for the use of striking concrete forms.

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He is known for the sensitivity to the need of urban poor & for his use of traditional methods & materials.

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Develop new forms of modernism appropriate to Indian culture, producing designs that reflect a sensitive understanding of local climate and living patterns.

SUBMITTED BY : KANCHAN SINGH ABHISHEK BHARTI

• worked on an organic & topographic scale like mahatma Gandhi memorial museum, Ahmadabad & handloom pavilion, Delhi. • For residential, he designed “tube house”, a narrow house form designed to conserve energy . Can be seen in ramkrishna & parekh house, ahmedabad , kanchanjunga appt. , bombay, etc. • also in response to climate, he employed large oversailing shade, seen in engineering consultant india limited complex, hyderabad. •After that he began his career as urban planner creating new Bombay (navi Mumbai). He designed low rise building avoiding high rise building in combination with common space & facilities, emphasized human scale. •His later work include : jawahar kala kendra, jaipur ;surya kund, delhi.

Common themes in the design of Charles Correa are efficient use of precious space, careful attention to natural ventilation, and comfortable accommodation to crowded life styles.  View of buildings, showing social and circulation spaces  The area per family is very small but must provide a room, cooking area, and bathroom. 

• LOCATION : the Gandhi Memorial Centre , Ahmadabad. • BUILDING TYPE : A study centre & museum on the site of ashram where Mahatma Gandhi lived in 1917-30.

•CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : tiled roof, brick walls, stone floor, & wooden doors with rcc frame, exemplifies Correa's transformation of modern architecture in relation to local building traditions. • No glass windows are used in building ; Light and ventilation by operable wooden louvers.

•PHILOSOPHY : Successfully shows the life of Gandhi ji. Low cost Material Contemporary architecture Open spaces

WATER COURT

MEETING

PHOTOGRAPHS & PAINTINGS

LETTERS

OFFICE

PRAYER PLATFORM ENTRANCE COURTYARD

SEMI-ENCLOSED

SABARMATI RIVER

ENCLOSED

ENCLOSED UNITS

COURTYARD

SEMI-ENCLOSED

SPACES  Five interior rooms with 6 msq. area contain the collection of the museum.  Rooms are enclosed by brick walls & wooden louvered screens.  Ashram houses a museum, library, auditorium and photo galleries.  Correa uses a network of interconnected opento-sky spaces landscaped in different themes, to recreate the Gandhian ideal of a selfsufficient village community.  Correa’s use of natural light in conjunction with semi-open spaces.

INTERIOR VIEW

VIEW OF COURTS

CONSTRUCTION  museum uses simple but delicately detailed post and beam structure.  Load bearing brick columns concrete channels, which are both the wooden roof and direct rainwater.  The foundation is concrete & is raised about a foot from ground.  structure was monumental & archetype.  Wooden doors, stone floors, ceramic tile roofs, and brick columns were used.  Designed with modular pavilions grouped asymmetrically around a central water court in a manner analogous to an Indian village.  Some pavilions are open & others closed, with wooden-louvred unglazed openings.  The pyramidal roofs reflect the traditional overhead canopy of the chatri.  Building is climatically sound & energy-efficient, uses low-cost material & finishes.

MUSEUM

WATER COURT

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LOCATION : Cumballa Hill in Bombay.

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CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : concrete.

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STYLE : modern architecture.

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BUILDING TYPE : skyscraper multifamily

housing, apartment tower with 27 floors & 85m height. 

PLAN : square, 21m x 21m.

32 luxury aptts. of 4 types located south-west. varying bedroom with larger flats formed by addition of another half level. cuboid tower with cross ventilation. •

CONCEPT : Verandah/buffer zone around

main living space converted into a garden and becomes the main ordering element.

SITE PLAN

The central core is composed of lifts & provides main structural element for resisting lateral loads. The central core was constructed ahead of the main structure by slip method of construction. This technique was used for the first time in India for a multistory building. the garden terraces of the Kanchanjunga Apartments are actually a modern interpretation of a feature of the traditional Indian bungalow: the veranda. 

• 2 floor height Terrace gardens at corners. • Service core in the centre constructed first.

Service core

Terrace gardens

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Section shows continuous variation in internal space – as expressed in elevations formed by shear walls on north – south faces of building.

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Along east – west faces unit is protected by verandahs, bathrooms, & large terrace garden which forms the focus of whole apartment.

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Due to orientation of tower there is continuous cross ventilation specially on terrace garden, throughout the year.

LOCATION : outer circle, Connaught Place.  12 storied building with area 63000 sqm.  2 lower floors - Shopping deck & Restaurants  10 Upper floors- Offices in 2 wings with pergola connecting the two as seen on façade.  Height – 45m.  BUILDING TYPE : high rise building. 

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MATERIAL :  Red Sandstone cladding on the external walls  Façade-Glass

PERGOLA  Acts as gateway to building.  Connects office wings.  It is 98 m long.  Space frame ed by piers at either ends and a column in the centre PERGOLA

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A massive space frame structure to define the entrance space. There is a large flight of steps on the front side, further emphasizing the monumental scale of the building. 12 story whose faceted glass surface reflects the buildings and trees around . It is a stone & mirror glass building under a steel framed parasol standing on a podium.

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LOCATION : Ahmadabad

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CONCEPT : Based on the tube house prototype with further exploration in of summer and winter sections.

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PLAN : consists of three bays: summer section in the centre flanked by the winter section and the service core on either sides.  SUMMER SECTION: Pyramidical Central interior space closing off the sky, minimizing heat input,usable for hot summer afternoons  WINTER SECTION : Inverted Pyramidical space opening to the sky and usable in cold season and summer evenings. North facing and east west orientation along its major axis

MATERIALS :  Brick load bearing walls  Concrete slabs. Pergola covered terrace.

Two pyramidal sections from housing types developed for Cablenagar  Summer section – to be used during daytime; protects interior from heat  Winter section – to be used in early mornings and evenings; opens up the terraces to the sky  Since site faces east-west, house consists of 3 bays  Summer section sandwiched between winter section and service bay (for circulation, kitchen and toilets)  Bearing walls made brick . 