INTRODUCTION CONCEPT:

• Jawahar Kala Kendra is an arts and crafts centre located in the city of Jaipur.
• The centre is important not because of the nomenclature but its close
association with the city of Jaipur itself.
• The centre was built in the year 1986 and the construction completed in
1991.
• The centre was launched by the state government to provide space to the
cultural and spiritual values of India and display the rich craft heritage.
• The centre is dedicated to the late prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
• This cultural centre for the city of Jaipur, is dedicated to the memory of
India's great leader Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Ideas for the building, sited in an open field near the university in a new
part of the city, formed in Correa's mind; but it was not until 1986 that the
concept for the building was finalized.
• The centre is an analogue of the original city pIan of Jaipur drawn up by the Maharaja,
a scholar, mathematician and astronomer, Jai Singh the Second, in the mid-17th
century.
• His city plan, guided by the Shipla Shastras, was based on the ancient Vedic madala of
nine squares or houses which represent the nine planets (including two imaginary ones
Ketu and Rahu).
• Due to the presence of a hill one of the squares was transposed to the east and two of
the squares were amalgamated to house the palace.
KETU BUDH CHANDRA

SHANI MANGAL

ARCHITECT’S SKETCH OF THE ENTRANCE FACADE

SITE LOCATION:
MAP OF JAIPUR AS PRECEDENT
RAHU GURU
SHUKRA

TYPICAL PLAN
Architect :Charles Correa • Correa's plan for the kendra invokes directly the original navagraha or nine house
Construction time :6 years rnandala.
Constructed by :PWD • One of the squares is pivoted to recall the original city plan and also to create the
Site area :9.5 acres entrance.
• The plan of jaipur city based on the nine square yantra in which one
square is displaced and two central squares combined.
• The squares is defined by 8m high wall, symbolic of the fortification wall
along the jaipur old city

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 FACILITIES:
• Library
• Print making studio
• Scupture studio
• Alankar museum
• Sudhershan terracotta gallery
• Chaturdik gallery, running wall space 485 ft
• • Sukriti gallery running wall space 160 ft
A volumetric model each dimension
• Surekh gallery running wall space 160 ft
is 30x30x8m
• Parijat-1 gallery running wall space 60 ft Dome over the entrance plaza
PLANNING: • Parijat-2 gallery running wall space 88ft
The ceiling which depicts animals ,
• Srajan workshops
• Defined space mountains , rivers and animals in a
• Satkar cafeteria
according to usage traditional Indian cosmology, it
• Guest house and dormitory
shows how well Correa was able to
• Madhyavarthi-open theatre
Museum/ meld the traditional with the
• Rangayan,krishnayan,director theatre
gallery contemporary.
A A • Shilpgram
Learning space

Administration

Recreational
spaces
The central courtyard can be viewed from all the galleries

Alankar Art galleriesMadhyavarthi Entrance plaza RESPONSE TO CLIMATE:

museum
• Material:red sand stone and white
marble
• Vastu symbols on façade of each unit
• Small punctures on walls for
SECTION-AA ventillations.
• Light shafts have step profiles with
marble capping
• Smaller openings
• Light shafts at corner of each unit
• Central courtyard bring in
light and air

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1 2 3

4 5 6

INDEX:
1.SANDARBH LIBRARY/DIR.DOCUMENT
–G.F 5.SUDARSHAN SUKRATHI -G.F
7 8 ENTRANCE
AUDIO VISUAL READING -F.F SUREKH -G,F
9 2.SPHATIC ART GALLERY -G.F CHATURDIC ART GALLERY -F.F
DIR.MUSIC AND DANCE -G.F 6.SATKAR CAFETERIA -G.F
SPHATIC ART GALLERY -F.F GUEST HOUSE AND DORMITORY -F.F
3.PARIJAT-1 -G.F 7.ADMIN BLOCK RECEPTION -G.F
PLAN PARIJAT-2 -G.F CONFERENCE,CASHIER -G.F
SRAJAN WORKSHOPS -G.F 8.MADHYAVARTHI OPENTHEATRE
SRAJAN PHOTO WORKSHOP - 9.RANGAYAN KRISHNAYAN -G.F
1 2 3 F.F DIRECTOR THEATRE -F.F
4.ALANKAR MUSEUM -G.F
CURATOR -F.F
CIRCULATION:
Internal circulation

4 5 6 External circulation

• Grid iron planning

• Central courtyard
• Inward looking
• 2 major axis

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SHILPGRAM COMPLEX: DURGAPUR HUT
• Rectangular mud hut with atone
foundation
DURGAPUR • Façade painted with white
CANTEEN HUT limestone
• Adjoining the main building of the
• Roofing-clay plates and pots.
jawahar kala kendra is shilpgram- a
rural complex with six huts
PLAN
symbolizing the rural ambience of
various regions of Rajasthan. KOTA HUT:
KOTA • These are - marwar, braj,
HUT shekhawati, tribal, desert land and
hadoti from the districts namely
bharatpur , kota , durgapur , barmer ,
sikar and Jaipur
JAIPUR • Apart from routine based art-culture
TOILETS
HUT BARMER oriented activities a mega annual
HUT festival named “lokrang" is held in
the month of october – november to PLAN ELEVATION
celebrate the enigmatic and
vivacious folk art and cultural JAIPUR HUT: BHARATHPUR HUT:
BHARATPUR HUT tradition of India.
SIKAR HUT • The ‘‘lok rang’’ or say ‘‘national
folk festival’’ comprises national
WELL handicraft fair and national dance
festival.

POND
ELEVATION
PLAN VIEW PLAN
CANTEEN
SIKAR HUT

PLAN INTERIOR EXTERIOR

• Rectangular mud house with central courtyard and raised platform
around.
• The central court was used for dining and the raised platform had PLAN ELEVATION
preparation area.
• Country tile roof

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BARMER HUT
PROGRAMMATIC DENSITY:

PLAN ELEVATION

CRITICAL ANALYSIS:
• Response to program: A volumetric module which is very well defined
• Response to context: going with traditions
• Circulation and planning: grid iron planning with connectivity
• Density :specially even, programmatic density varies
• Hierarchy :well defined, based on programme it occupies
• Community space: mixture of formal and informal space
• Response to climate: central court, small openings

• Scale of unit relatable to humans as it does not overpower us and also

makes the ground spaces feel larger and not claustrophobic.

MORE ACTIVE

LESS ACTIVE

The planning as a whole was in monumental scale and it was like a no man’s
• Negligence in maintenance of the entire complex leading to detrioration
land . The two active spaces were central courtyard and cafteria.
of spaces eg:shilpgram had lot of commercial activites going on and the
huts were occupied by workers