Indian Summary: A recent addition to Ahmedabad continues that city's most distinguished tradition of fine modern academic buildings.Ahmedabad is one of the finest centres of learning and modern architecture in India. Here are Kahn's internationally renowned (for both its buildings and its teaching) Indian Institute The Indian Institute in central Oxford, England is located at the north end of Catte Street on the corner with Holywell Street and faching down Broad Street from the east.[1] of Management, and Corbusier's Mill Owners' building. HCP's building for the Ahmedabad Management Association The Ahmedabad Management Association or AMA is located in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat, India. It is an approved Institution for Management Training by Government of Gujarat. draws on both masters. The Association is a non-profit making non-profit making adj (organization) → gemeinnützig organization that offers courses, training and education for the management people of over 400 firms in the city. The building's parti is simple and clear. Its ground floor is largely devoted to teaching, with classrooms and a bookshop. On the upper floor is a 250-seat auditorium, a library and exhibition space. In some ways, the disposition seems almost perverse, but it is clearly influenced by Corb's Mill Owner's organization, where the main public rooms are on the first floor, approached by a processional ramp. It continues the pedestrian promenade from the main gate, through a row of very fine existing Neem trees to the ceremonial entrance. The trees shade the street-side front, which in the evenings and at night (when the building is most used) is lit from inside, acting as a sort of advertisement for the institution. The Management Association's site is much more restricted in depth than that of the Mill Owners', so that the ramp cranks in a dog-leg from a double-height portico portico (pôr`tĭkō), roofed space using columns or posts, generally included between a wall and a row of columns or between two rows of columns. carved into the long slab, which is made of 180mm thick reinforced concrete reinforced concrete Concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete to provide thermal mass Thermal mass, in the most general sense, is any mass that absorbs and holds heat. In the architectural sense, it is any mass that absorbs and stores heat during sunny periods when the heat is not desirable in the living space of a building, and then releases the heat during . Buildings do not weather too well in Ahmedabad's climate (until its recent restoration, Corb's building was in a terrible state), so the whole exterior is treated with silicon-based fungal repellent. Frames of the fenestration fenestration /fen·es·tra·tion/ (fen?es-tra´shun) 1. the act of perforating or condition of being perforated. 2. are of mild steel, and made on site -- the long vistas down the circular Kahn-like windows which can be obtained across the portico are a triumph of local craftsmanship. We were very impressed by the whole quality of building in a country where, though labour is cheap, standards are difficult to maintain. And by the simplicity and response to site and people in interpreting what could have been a very dreary programme. |
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