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1st Gen Indian Masters

Charles Correa
ARL 251 History of Architecture
Presentation by Ar Shreya Sable, AAPP. VNIT

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 Charles Correa: Jawahar Kala Kendra

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 Charles Correa: Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya
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Great deal of transparency has been achieved by the use of largs
opening and terrace garden on every floor. Beacuse of Americar
training. Correa has rarely been tempted to import Western ldeas
into India. Like most architects of his generation he has been in
fluenced by Le Corbusier, but by his response to the Mediterra
nean sun with his "great sculptural decisions (the over-hangs, the
doubie-heights). placed facing the elements'
 Charles Correa: Bharat Bhavan Bhopal

Use of slope/gradient, ritualistic pathway,connecting courtyards, stepped terraces

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 Use of siopel gradient, ritualistic pathway. connecting courtyards, stepped terraces

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 Charles Correa: Kanchanjunga Apartments
STRUCTURE MATERIALS&coLOURS
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 Charles Correa: Parekh House
Machine for the living: Energy conscious building
Summer section to be used during daytime: protects in
Winter be used in early morningS and
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terraces to the sky
Since site faces east-west. house consists of 3 bays
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 Charles Correa: Navi Mumbai Plan NO

To avoid a Mumbai like situation of activity concentration,

caused bya monocentric development model, the
planners adopted a polycentric nodal pattern model of
development
The polycentric approach based on principle of
decentralisation
It avoids concentration of activities and population in a
particular area insteads adopts decentralising and
balanced distribution of residential areas, job centers,
wholesale markets, non-polluting industries and
population density in different nodes/ areas of the city
The 12 self-contained nodal townships are strung along
mass-rapid transport corridors, designed to minimise
travel times

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 Charles Correa: Kovalam Beach Resort

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Concept was a large mass, sioping towards the sea ensuring each room had a frame to the
breathtaking view that lay in front of each room and a trame to the breathtaking view that
lay in tront.

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 Charles Correa: Bharat Bhavan Bhopal

Open-to-sky spaces. sunken courtyards and raised terraces.concrete shells to allowlight and ventilation, empty
spacesas contemplativevoids-conceptof non-building
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 Charles Correa: ECIL Offices Hyderabad

the ECIL Offhces (1965-68) in Hyderabad, tries to develop a workspace in which the very pattern of the builtform itself creates a special micro- climate. Through
reseRAai.kE y: Ar. Shreya Sable this and other similar efforts. gradually a kit-of-parts came into existence: the section which facilitates convection currents. the internal zone of micro-climate
the stepped terraces. the pergola root.
 Charles Correa: Navi Mumbai Plan & Belapur Housing

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Belapur housing makes a statement which combines the principles that Correa believed to be most important in housing: incrementality. open-to-sky spaces.
equity and a strong sense of community. The movement within the development is entirely pedestrian, with parking spaces allotted on the fringes The open 15
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spaces flow from small court to large community space with ease.
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 Charles Correa: Kala Academy Goa, Cidade De Goa

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