Aalto and Charles Correa

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The Theory Of

Architecture

Presentation Includesstyle of Alvar alto

Alvar alto as a bio-architect

town hall of saynatsalo

library of viipuri

Architecture is and remains a wonderful process o

synthesis in which thousands of human component

are involved:

it is always architecture. Further, its mission is to

harmonize world with life.


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Alvar Aalto, whose architectonic production gave aconsiderable contribution to the development of the rational and

organic

architecture, has always kept in mind human demands. In this

sense, it is useful to remember the S.Giedons way of thinking:

We cant speak about Aalto as an architect without speaking

about Aalto as a man: men have as much importance asarchitecture.Aaltos interest is to everybody, to each desire and

experience, without exclusion of origins or social classes ... He

approached beings directly and without inhibitions; in the same

way he approached wood as an organic material.

The Library At Viipuri

Alvar As A Bio-ArchitectThe Town Hall, Saynatsalo


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The bases of Aaltos planning are nature and biology.According to Aalto, architecture must involve all the aspects of human life; so

designers task is to put technology into mens

service. Architecture, in particular, must always serve life and so must defence

giving humanity to the our life of machines.

According to him, in fact, standardization must be natural; in other words it ha

considered as a system based on infinitesimal elements, that allows a continvariability of shapes which grow organically. Standardization in architecture m

scour the same course of the biological pattern which affects the life of shape

Architecture needs scientific researches in order to understand new demands

take society into an efficient system, where everybody can live in suitable biol

conditions and where sun, air and light represent their essence.

Aalto And Architecture The Library At Viipuri

The Town Hall, Saynatsalo


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Alvar As A Bio-Architect

The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architeand the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from whi

Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name

his original competition entry entitled "Curia." While the main program of the

building is housed within a heavy brick envelope, the courtyard is bordered by

glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcad

bordered Piazza.The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space whic

capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. It is approached from the ma

entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower stru

under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.


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Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accentedtimber and copper. Though Aalto practiced at the same time as Modernist

Architects Le Corbusier and others, he rejected the Machine Aesthetic for the

majority of his architecture. Instead, he saw his buildings as organisms made

of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building ma

such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly o

to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition.The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the

of timber columns which evoke Syntsalo's setting in a heavily forested area

Another distinctive feature at Syntsalo is the grass stairs which compliment

regular set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers.




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Aalto And Architecture


Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg (Viipuri

Library), which was designed by Alvar Aalto

and completed in 1935, is a masterpiece of

International Modernism in both European

and global terms. At the time of its

completion, the town of Viipuri was part of

Finland, but was ceded to the Soviet Union

after the Second World War. Alvar Aalto won

the design competition for Viipuri Library in

1927 with a proposal that was strongly

marked by Nordic Classicism.


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Charles Correa

Presentation Includes

Style Of Charles CorreaKanchanjunga Apartments,

Mumbai

Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

The Third World; Its not the way they want, its

the way they need.


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Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai

Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

Correa's work in India shows a careful development, understanding and adapt

Modernism to a non-western culture. Correa's early works attempt to explore a

vernacular within a modern environment. Correa's land-use planning and com

projects continually try to go beyond typical solutions to third world problems.

He is the only architect from india to win an ALVAR AALTO MEDAL for his sign

piece of in the field of modernism. He has a different way for designing. Each o

buildings are made with an aroma of west but compliment the local indianenvironment. Thus he is also said to be the man who transformed the architec

india. He is particularly noted for his senstivity for urban poor and the use of

traditional materials and methods. He was inspired by Le Corbusiers striking

concrete forms.


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Architecture Of CorreaJawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

This 28-story tower, with its concrete construction and large

areas of white panel, bears a strong resemblance tomodern buildings in West. However, the garden terraces

used are actually a modern interpretation of a feature of the

traditional bungalow the verandah.In a bungalow,

verandah wraps the main living area to protect it from the

hot sun and monsoon rains.

Correa provided each of his apartments with a deep, twostory-high garden terrace that is oriented away from the sun

in order to protect them from sun. The tower has proportion

of 1:4 (21 meter square, and 84 meters high.


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The whole structure is made of reinforced concrete. It is a 32-storey

reinforced concrete structure with 6.3 m cantilevered open terraces.

The central core of 7.8 m x 6.9 m houses lifts and other services and

also provides the main structural element for resisting lateral loads.

Solid-Void relationship by removing cubes from the initial form and

using certain corner spaces and different levels as terraces, structure

holds voids within a solid outline.

In Bombay a building has to be oriented east-west to catch theprevailing sea-breezes and to open up the best views in the city, theArabian Sea on one side and the harbor on the other side.Unfortunately, these are also the directions of the hot sun and the

heavy monsoon rains.


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A great deal of transparency has been achieved by the

use of large openings and terrace gardens on every

floor.

Double height terraces on each unit help achieve huge

amount of natural light and air in all the living spaces.

Almost the whole structure is all the way transparent


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Architecture Of CorreaKanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai

Maharaja Jai Singh, who built the fabled

pink city of Jaipur, was moved by twoseemingly conflicting sets of mythic

ideas and images. On the one hand

there was the ancient Navgraha (the

mandala of the nine planets) and on the

other, the newest myths of Science and

Progress. Thus the city of Jaipur,

double-coded like Jai Singh himself, is

truly astonishing for its synthesis of past

and future, of the material and

metaphysical worlds.

In this, Jai Singh is indeed analogou

another man, born more than 2 cent

later; India's first Prime Minister Jaw

Nehru.

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Thus this Art Centre, dedicated to Nehru, is really a metaphor for both men - a

Jaipur itself. Like them and like the city, it's double-coded: a contemporary builbased on an archaic notion of the Cosmos; the very same Navgaraha mandala

one of the squares moved aside, to recall the gesture that created the original

for Jaipur.

Jawahar Kala Kendra is planned in an area of 900 sq mts.The basic planning is based on a grid of 30mts X 30mts. There are a total of 9

squares each measuring 30mts X 30mts. Each square houses a different func

Out of the nine squares, one square is tilted to create the entrance and houses

theatre. The complex also houses a craft centre which in itself represents an

interesting contrast on the site. To satisfy the needs of hot and dry climate,cou

planning is adopted in certain blocks.

K h j A t t M b i


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Genesis Of Jaipur

K h j A t t M b i


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Kanchanjunga Apartments Mumbai


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