B.V.

DOSHI
INTRODUCTION

•  Bal krishna Doshi, in full Bal krishna

Vithaldas Doshi, also called B.V. Doshi.
• Born in Pune, India on 26 August 1927.
• He did his bachelors from J. J. School
of Architecture, Bombay in 1950.
• He worked for four years with Le
Corbusier as senior designer in Paris.
 ACHIEVEMENTS
• Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2018
• Padma Shri, Government of
India,1976
• Honorary doctorate from the
University of Pennsylvania.
• France’s highest honour for arts
the ‘Officer of the Order of Arts
and Letters, 2011.
• 6th Aga Khan Award for
Architecture.
 PHILOSOPHIES
• Appreciative of Le Corbusier’s ability “to
create a soft light that makes people’s faces
glow,” Doshi included slanted skylights and
sliding doors to manipulate light and to
regulate temperature.
• Ever mindful of India’s heat, he included
recessed plazas shaded by leafy trees
throughout the campus to offer spaces where
students could meet in comfort. 
• Doshi’s work has consistently revolved around the interrelationship of indoor and
outdoor space, an appropriate and honest approach to materials, proper climatic
response and observance of hierarchy and order that has always been present in
the best modern architecture.
• It is this so called ‘filter’ between contemporary and traditional architecture
which Doshi has masterfully brought in.
• The success of any project depends on effective construction, contracting, logistic
planning and co-ordination.
 Famous works

SANGATH, AHMEDABAD CEPT, AHMEDABAD

ARANYA HOUSING,INDORE IIM BANGALORE

 ARANYA
HOUSING,INDORE
 INTRODUCTION
• Designer: Ar. B.V. Doshi
• Client: Indore Development
• Location- Indore
• Year:1989
• Site area:220 acre
• Built up area :100,000 sq.m
• Project : Community centre
• No. of plots- 6500
• Award : Aga khan award for architecture in 1956
 OBJECTIVE
• To improve and upgrade the existing slum area.
• To provide serviced sites for new housing developments instead of building
complete houses.
• To provide for 6,500 residential plots ranging in size from 35m² for EWS to
475m² for high income groups.
• Create a township with a sense of continuity and fundamental values of security in
a good living environment.
• Achieve a community character by establishing harmony between the built
environment and the people.
• Create a balanced community of various socio economic groups to evolve a
framework through design
SITE PLANNING
•The site is divided into
six parts by the
Clusters , community
spaces, a set of road
networks and services
and green spaces
•Each sector has
residential clusters of
majorly 4 types of
housing groups:
1. EWS
2. LIG
3. MIG
4. HIG
• The central spine
area is meant for the
commercial and
institutional land use.
 DISTRIBUTION OF SPACES
The master plan was divided into 6 sectors with a central spine
area of commercial and institutional land use.

The town centre in the middle of the spine consisted of four

clusters of shopping, residential and office complexes.

At the end of the spine, two more clusters of social functions

were located. This was a mixed-use zone with a five storey
building.
 STREET LEVEL PLANNING
At the community/ street level, the aim was to produce a design
linking the scale of the built form and the human scale by
incorporating a street life with plugged cluster houses,
sympathetic and aesthetically complimenting each other and a
socio cultural life of community interaction of families in the
"otta" (outdoor platform). An important feature of the Indian/
home, at the service space between house, community spaces and
the cul-de-sac. The street corner spaces are formed by the
alternating arrangement of the road, the green space, and the
pedestrian pathway
HEIARCHY OF ROADS
 ROADS
• Segregation of vehicular and
pedestrian traffic.

• Offsets break visual monotony.

• Hierarchy is based on the volume of

the traffic and activities

• The roads suit human scale

• Use of cul-de-sacs to avoid traffic

HOUSING FOR EWS GROUP

The house basically consists of 2 rooms, verandah ,kitchen and the main service
core-toilet and the bathroom.
The types only differ by no. of floors and no. of stairs.
PLANNING OF UNITS

•The major house plans included a

verandah(otla),a living room, followed by a
kitchen. The toilets were provided at back of
the house.
•Most houses were provided with an additional
access at the back, that allowed them to keep
animals, a vehicle or even renting out that part
of the house for income.
•ten houses formed a cluster that opened into
a street..
•The courtyard at the back opened into the
open space of the cluster and was used as a
play area and service area.
PLANNING OF CLUSTERS

Each cluster consists of 9-10 housing units

and each has different types of house plan
within the same plot area.
ELEVATIONS

NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION
 INCREMENTAL HOUSING

Increment housing is a step by step process.

It starts with a starter core shelter which could be a multi purpose room with kitchen
and other bathing facilities.
 • The clusters are so designed that the Users have the
flexibility to choose how they wish to design their spaces.
They can increase their spaces by constructing another floor
thus the space of the house can accommodate more people
and activities as per the users need.
• SERVICE SLOTS- The service slots provided can be used for
the children to play and can also be used as a space for
temples or platforms for small gatherings.
 SERVICES
•A conventional sewage system was
developed for the township, the
natural slope of the site was in north
west direction.
•A cluster of 9 - 10 houses were
connected to 1 inspection chamber
and18-20 houses to one septic tank.
•A well and a lift station were provided
near the final manhole that discharges
the waste water into the treatment
plant.
• An oxidation pond on the north west
corner of the site where the natural
slope helped in collecting the sewage
and was suitable for the predominant
south west wind direction to avoid
odour pollution.
PLAN OF 4 CLUSTER SHOWING
SEWER SYSTEM
The system adopted for storm water
drainage was a combination of an
underground storm water system in wider
roads and surface drainage on internal
roads where ground slopes were effectively
used. The road section dropped. below
ground level by six inches, allowing it to act
as the drain.
ELECTRIC SUPPLY:HIG and MIG were
provided with overhead cables. LOW
PILFERAGE WAS installed in EWS and LIG
areas
CLIMATE RESPONSIVE
FEATURES
Each house has minimum surface exposure .This
reduces the heat gain during the hot summer.

N
The houses are oriented with longer
side in north-south axis in order to
reduce the solar gain.

The buildings are close to each other so

that they shade the public spaces in
S between the houses.

PLAN
 SECTION

The streets remain half shaded thus help in reducing the heat gain and
provides shaded common spaces.
The openings at the front and back of the houses helps for maximum air flow thus
improving the ventilation. They also use jaalis for air flow.
SANGATH
 INTRODUCTION
•Location : - Ahmedabad, Gujarat
•Date : - 1979-1981
•Building type : - Architecture
Office
•Construction System : - Concrete
•Site area : - 2346 sqm
•Total build up area : - 585 sqm
 FUNCTION AREAS
•At Sangath, the architect’s design studio
• it’s include reception area, office spaces, workshop, library,
conference room, and other ancillary space.
SITE PLAN
• In Ahmedabad, the
summer temperature
reaches 45°c and the
heat is very intense.
• Natural comfort
conditions can be
achieved by protecting
spaces form the heat
and glare of the sun
Minimizing solar radiation on south and west side : - the structure is closely integrated
with the outdoor spaces. Vegetation on site is almost left to grow into wilderness. The west
and south façade is shaded by dense trees

Maximizing wind flow: - wind from west and south – west side is taken in by juxta
positioning structures so as to create a central open space through which wind can flow
unobstructed.
 THE STRUCTURE
• The vaulted roof is of
locally – made clay fuses
VAULT over the concrete slab
which provide a non-
conducting layer
• The structure is closely
integrated with the
outdoor space

• The roof form creates

an efficient surface
volume/ratio optimizing
material
• Provides for hot air
pockets due to
convective currents that
keep lower volumes
relatively cool
 STACK EFFECT
Ventilating windows at upper volume releases the accumulated hot
air through pressure difference.
 STACK EFFECT
There are three ways by which
natural light is drawn within.

1. By upper-level large opening

towards north direction,
which is cool, and consistent
light is reflected off the clouds
2. Skylight, which are projected
masses from the roof, reflect
the light on the white inner
wall surface, which further
radiates light into the room
 INSULATION
The building is largely buried under the ground to use earth masses for
natural insulation.
External walls of the building are nearly a meter deep but have been
hollowed out as alcoves to provide that becomes an insulative wall with
efficiency of spaces.
LIGHTING
• Upper level large opening-facing north.
• Skylight as projected masses from the
roof.
• Small cut-outs on roof slab filled with
hollow glass blocks.
 LANDSCAPING
WATER CHANNELS

Pond
Rainwater and overflow of pumped water
from the roof tank are harnessed through
roof channels that run through a series of
cascading tanks and water channels to
finally culminate in a pond from where it is
recycled back or used for irrigating
vegetation TERRACOTA POTS AND SCULPTURE
 CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE
Locally made clay fuses over the
concrete slab to form a non
conductive layer.
the clay fuses entrap air known
as sandwich vault.
• 3.5 cm thick RCC
• 8 cm ceramic fuses
• 3.5 cm thick RCC
• 6 cm thick water proofing
• 1 cm thick broken China masaic
finish
FINISHES
The concrete of slabs and wall
surfaces are kept bare (unplastered)
as final visual finishes which saves
on finishing material quantily.
China mosaic glazed tiles enhances
insulation. Retard heat transmission
as they are made up of clay

USE OF WASTE
MATERIAL
Paving material is a stone chip waste
while roof surface is glazed tiles
waste.
They have been carefully
handcrafted and integrated into the
design by fully using the waste
products, which also promotes
craftsmen and traditional heritage.
WATER CHANNELS

Rainwater and overflow of pumped

water from the roof tank are
harnessed through roof channels
that run through a series of
cascading tanks and water channels
to finally culminate in a pond form
which it is recycled back or used for
irrigating vegetation.
Water is a major modifier of the microclimate. Rainwater and overflow of roof
tank are harnessed through roof channels and reused. Water also moderates the
harsh ambient conditions near the building.
PERFORMANCE

• A temperature difference of about 8 c

• Time lag for heat transfer is nearly 6 hours

• 30% to 50% reduction in cooling energy

PERFORMANCE

• Waste material reuse

• Water recycling

• 10% saving in cost through lack of finishes.

CEPT, AHMEDABAD
 CEPT, AHMEDABAD
• Location : Gujarat
university area, Ahmedabad
• Architect : B.V. Doshi
• Area of site : 12.5 acre
 MASTER PLAN
• Approach
1. Main access on the northern side.
2. Two entrances on the southern side
3. Two entrances on the western side.
• Site
1. The site is located in the Kasturibhai lalbhai campus in navarangapura,
Ahemdabad , Gujarat.
2. There are two types of buildings in CEPT campus - Wide spanning, multiple
storied usually in transverse groupings Narrower spanning, single storied,
vaulted, usually not combined.
 FEATURES
• The Buiding is setback of 100FT from the main road and is covered by trees
to create the cool atmosphere inside the campus and is hardly visible from
the main road….
• Create of a proper working environment facilitating faculty and students to
have free scope to learn and teach anywhere…..
• Exposed local materials for low cost , easy expansion and maintainece …..
POSITIONINING OF BUILDINGS
• The Buildings Are Placed Orthogonally With Respect To The Sides Of The
Site And Hence Along The Cardial Points.
• Keen Observation In Plan Reveals That Buildings Are Oriented In Such A
Passion That To Avoid The Harsh Sunlight.
• It Only Allows The Light But Not The Hot Sun To The Interiors During Mid
Day When The Sun Is High.
• As We See, The Buildings Are Placed According To The Sun Direction,the
South Faced Of The Buildings Has Long Projections And On The North
Faced Of The Buildings Has Small Projections….
 ROLE OF ENVIRONMENT
• The buildings are placed away from the main road with trees at the midst of
road and building site.
• They are acting as barriers that reduce the noice pollution from the road.
• These trees cover the view of the building from outside .
ARCHITECTURE BLOCK
SIMPLE OPEN INTERECTIVE
• SIMPLE:-They achieved aesthetics
without using heavy ornamental eliments
.
• OPEN:- Lot Of Large Open Spaces Are
Provided For Better Circulation And Good
Interection.
• Interection:-They Bought The Interection
Between The Spaces They Are Created.
 PLANNING
• The Built Form Starts With A Pair Of Parallel Walls , the Basic Components Of The
Building Of The CEPT Is a Derivate Of Load-bearing Walls ,supporting A Flat Floors
Slab.
• The Overall Planning Has Been Done Around The Central Court With Built Masses
On Sides Nd Green On One Side Which Gives The Camus Noise Protection……
PLANNING
• The basic component of the
buildings of CEPT is a derivative of
a pair of parallel, load-bearing
walls, supporting a flat floor-slab.
• The planning has been done
around the central court with built
masses on sides and green on one
side which gives the campus noise
protection from traffic.
• Architect has included uneven
contours into the plan.
• The spaces created by volumes
and voids are visually exciting.
• The building is two-storeyed with
a split level basement.
 DESIGN FEATURES
• All building are oriented in north-south direction……….
• Open spaces on the south side respectively allow air to ventilate the built
structures.
• The open spaces is linked to the office area workshop and canteen……
• The areas are very lively and dynamic…….
ENTRANCE
• The entry to the complex is through
a long axis which ends up in facing a
blank wall.
• The main administrative block is
approached by an informal and
indirect approach thus emphasizing
the change in direction and the
informal nature of the campus.
• There are small structures of the
wood workshop and the TV room.
• The building forms are arranged
around a courtyard which can be
accessed from all the sides with
open spaces flowing into each other.
• The entry to the individual buildings
provided from the common court
around which the buildings are
arranged.
 BASEMENT

• The basement is a multipurpose space.

• On one side of the basement rising contours can be seen, and on the other side
steps towards the central courtyard. Thus the north and south walls have been
avoided.
• Numerous activities are performed here like cultural programs, fests and
exhibitions, indoor games etc.
 CENTRAL COURTYARD

• The central court is a combination of paved and unpaved areas, shaded by trees
in certain areas.
• All entrances are linked to the courtyard by pedestrian pathways.
• Hence the courtyard is an area of heavy circulation and interaction.
• Cultural activities, reading, games, meetings etc. all happen here.
STUDIOS
• The studios have large openings
which open into the greenery
outside.
• Panels at the sides help the students
to put up the important and useful
sheets.
• All the studios are above one
another, along with the adjacent
lecture rooms.
• The building section and double
height studios are well conceived to
facilitate air flow.
• The building is oriented along the E-
W axis with openings on N and S and
thick walls are provided on the east
and west to keep off the hot sun.
 VENTILATION
• The parallel walls,forming an open tube of space are predominently
aligned north-south,effectively close to east and west sides…..
• North side is heightened to allow more light in while the south side is kept
low to shiels from direct radiation……
 INDOOR CIRCULATION
• The circulation within the building is
very complicated with lots of level changes
and staircases at different level.
• The corridors are less and short length.

OUTDOOR CIRCULATION
• The circulation with in this campus is
pedestrianized.
• The vehicular access is restricted
along the periphery of the campus.
 LANDSCAPING

• The campus is full of neem trees, which makes hot Ahmedabad climate
cooler.
• The trees provide a perpetual changing pattern of light and shade.
• There are many interconnecting pathways with brick paving and terracotta
tiling.
• There are also small plants within the building and plotted plants at places.
LIGHT ANALYSIS

BLUE-DIRECT SUN LIGHT

RED-DARK AREA(NO SUN
LIGHT)
GREEN-SUNLIGHT SHADE
LIGHT ANALYSIS

BLUE-DIRECT SUN LIGHT

RED-DARK AREA(NO SUN
LIGHT)
GREEN-SUNLIGHT SHADE
LIGHT ANALYSIS SHOWING THE
NORTH FAÇADE OF CEPT
UNIVERSITY

BLUE-DIRECT SUN LIGHT

RED-DARK AREA(NO SUN
LIGHT)
GREEN-SUNLIGHT SHADE
 IIM,
BANGALORE
IIM
BANGALORE
• Date of establishment-1971
• Location-site is in hilly area in south
Bangalore on Banerghatta.
• Context-urban setting, linked by a
highway.
• Site area-102 acres
• Topography-undulating terrain with
gentle slope
• Climate-temperature arid climate.
• Vegetation-lush green belt of tropical
rain forest, beautifully landscaped and
maintained.
 DESIGN
CONCEPT

Fatehpur Sikri's courtyards and the gardens of Bangalore merged in BV

Doshi's mind's eye. He picked up the gardens and put them in the
courtyards, and the vision for a global campus was born. Instead of
courtyards that are dry and rigid, he made green corridors, which allow for
academic exchanges to be carried beyond the classroom.
 DESIGN CONCEPT

FATEHPUR SIKRI IIM BANGALORE

FATEHPUR SIKRI IIM BANGALORE

 ACTIVITY C
O
R
•
PATTERN
Day time activity is concentrated in
R
I
academic and administration
D
areas. More use of interaction and
O
transition area like, corridors,
R
galleries and courts and foyers
S
through out the campus.
• Activities tend to flow between
classrooms, library, computer
center, canteens and students
dormitories.
• Night time activity shifts to library
and hostel blocks and to the
courtyards.
COMPUTER CENTER
 PRINCIPLE OF ORGANISATION
• Pattern of indoor and outdoor spaces of
plan echoes intermingling spaces of
Fatehpur Sikri, and its reconstruction
into modern structural system and
arrangement.
• Academic block conceived as collection
of courts and terraces, interlocked and
linked together by corridors and
verandahs at various levels.
• Angular forms of dormitories are
wrapped around the courts, connected
through walkways.
• Entire campus is a fabric of intersecting
planes, pergolas, and trellis work
creating a textural effect by regulating
light, casting shadows and allowing
glimpses of the sky.
 CIRCULATION PATTERN
• Vehicular movement is well integrated with zoning of various activities.
• Pedestrian movement dominating within academic complex and student's
dormitories.
• Achieved by adopting a network of corridors linking together all volumes,
courtyards, and external spaces.
• Three entrances, from first main entrance access to staff housing and
educational spaces. Second, a small entrance to staff housing alone. Third one,
service entry from southern side road.
PLAN
FACULITY
BLOCK
 CLASS ROOM
• Classrooms are organized in cluster of two or three around open courts and
semi open spaces, interlinking them.
• Gains an informal character encouraging students to use as an interactive
space to hold discussion and socialize.
• Never accessed directly from movement spines or corridors. Instead there
is a common space between classrooms, acting as pause point before.
entering classroom activity.
• These in-between spaces are having inbuilt seating spaces and noticeboard
which causes students to linger a while.
CLASSROOMS ARE MAINLY OF TWO TYPES
One,156.6sqm in area, capacity of 70 persons.
Second, accommodate 40 persons.
• Designed as mini amphitheaters with semicircular steps increasing eye
contact and eye vision.
• All class rooms are provided with tack boards, blackboards, OHP, computer
projection facilities etc.
PLAN OF CLASS
ROOM
 ADMINISTRATION
• Provision of separate stairs for effective vertical circulation.
• Vertical slits on walls and roof brings in daylight.
• Centrally located toilets on each floor.
• Director's secretariat is placed uniquely with its back to
central
• pergola, and accessed through a narrow ramp.
• Administration offices take up an area of 631sqm in each
floor.
PLAN ADMINISTRATION
 FACULTY WING
• Designed as finger like projecting structures, from main axis. Three storied in
height connected by open stairs.
• Located close to seminar halls and classrooms.
• Each wing covers 162.5 sqm.
• Cabin for each faculty, with enough seclusion for an undisturbed interaction or
discussion.
• Courtyards are major elements of its visual quality.
• Act as interactive spaces and much needed natural lighting and ventilation
shafts.
PLAN FACULTY CABIN
 COMPUTER CENTRE
• Within walkable distance from all
points in the campus and holds the
central place adjacent to library
Located in the basement leaving above
space for future expansion.
• Forms the activity node or focal point
of the campus.
• Area-5610
• Terminals-350
• Area per terminal- 150 sqm / computer
 LIBRARY BLOCK
• Library is a focal point of
campus being most active
space.
• Centrally placed, easily
accessible, within walk able
reach.24 hrs caters to students,
faculty and researchers.
• Library space is organized
around an atrium, which brings
in light and imparts a feeling of
openness.
• Service spaces; staircases,
offices, corridors placed around
atrium.
• Area-55000 sq.ft
• SEATING CAPACITY - 250
 DORMITARIES
• Hostels are located away from the
classrooms, with in few minutes walk.
• The blocks respond to two types of
courts one - internal court shared by
inmates of a particular block ,other
external court shared by other blocks.
• Courtyards are very much interactive
spaces Internal as well as the external
for certain functions.
• Dining courts is busy by virtue of its
position in front of mess.
• Courtyards are also a source of light
and ventilation.
• Each floor is a community of 12
persons.
• A dining hall of 350 persons caters to
inmates here.
PLAN DORMITARIES
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