AR. BAALKRISHN

VITHALDASDOS

HI

Life history

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was born in Pune, India in 1927.

He did his bachelors from J. J. School of Art, Bombay in 1950.

He worked for four years with Le Corbusier as senior designer (1951-54) in Paris.

In 1956 he established a private practice in Vastu-Shilpa, Ahmedabad and in 1962 he established the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Environmental Design.

Life historyDoshi has been a member of the

Jury for several international and national competitions including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

He was presented in 1995,Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for the Aranya Community Housing in Indore, India.

Doshi's architecture provides one of the most important models for modern Indian architecture

Life historyHe also founded and designed the

School of Architecture and Planning in Ahmedabad. Doshi has worked in partnership as Stein, Doshi & Bhalla since 1977.

Doshi worked closely with Louis khan and Anant raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the Indian Institute of Management.

In 1958 he was a fellow at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

PRINCIPLES

1. Transformation of Energy between the building and people using the space for functional use. The Energy takes place between the walls, columns and space of the building. 2. Doshi has persisted a deep belief in importance of ‘Human Institutions’, just as Louis-i-Kahn did before him. This belief, is amplified by his own deep cultural experience and popular evolution of new institutions.

PRINCIPLES

3. A more specific principle is to follow ‘flexible rather than rigid approach to the structure’. This is how transformation of space from the mere static container ; to a place where people actually feel a psychic interchange is best achieved. 4. The idea of flexibility leads him to a principle, of incorporating “symbolism”. He believes that it can only be accommodated by mixture of structural systems.

Some of his famous worksAranya Community Housing Indore

Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology

Ahmedabad

Husain-Doshi Gufa Art Gallery Ahmedabad

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Institute of Indology Ahmedabad

National Institute of Fashion Technology

New Delhi

Sangath Ahmedabad

Udayan - The Condoville Kolkata

his major works

ARANYA LOW-COST HOUSING TOWNSHIP

• INDORE , (1983-86)

The space between cluster house encourages social Interaction, like as in a traditional narrow Street of typical urban district.

The main street , at the centre of the plan , zig –zags from top to bottom break the asymmetrical,Irregular grid. zoned housing is arranged in cluster around the main service cores.

SITE PLAN

Streets of Aranya low-cost housing-indore

Husain-Doshi Gufa*It’s a mixed work by architect BV Doshi and indian artist MF Husain.*It’s a art gallery for exhibition of artist’s work.*Doshi took stupa as a concept.*The difference between stupa and the Gufa is the 25-millimetre thin ferrocement shell that has been used as the structure of Doshi’s museum ,as well as the sloping*Columns that has been used internally.

IIM BANGALORE* The Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore is one of four Institutes commissioned by government soon after independence.* Louis Kahn’s IIM Ahmedabad,kahn built an envelope around a unit and pierced it with wide openings to provide a ventilated insulating layer.* Doshi adopted this technique

Master plan

*Corridors with sufficient Space for casual sitting Eating and a good Interaction space.

Left-windows shaded by concrete eaves Opposite strated light effect makes dramatic vistas. Corridors of column beneath concrete pargolas create a rhythmic progration of light and shadow.

Below-staircase, showing doshi’s dramatic use of modern materials to create an effectThat is simultaneously monumental, airy and light.

Thank you

Submitted by-

Anand SwaroopJaichandran B.Arch 2nd yr. iv-sem