This large

residence, built for

one of
Ahmadabad's mill
owners, is based on
the spatial and
climatic concepts
developed in the
Tube House and
the Hindustan
Lever Pavilion.
The plan sets up a
series of parallel
bearing walls,
punctuated by
interior courts
and "canon",
climaxing in the
living room which
opens out onto the
RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE, main garden to
Shahibhag, Ahmedabad the south.
1962- 1964 The house is
placed at the
This "tube" house was
first prize winner in an
All-India competition
for low-cost housing
organised by the Gujarat
Housing Board. Though
the programme
specified walk-up
apartments, these row-
houses provided the
same density and
larger living space per
family.
The section is shaped so
that the hot air rises
and escapes form the
top, setting up a
convection currents of
natural ventilation.
Inside the units there
CONCEPT
are almost no doors;
-Tubebeing
privacy housecreated by
the various levels
CONCEPT
-Tube house
 The circulation pattern is
similar, of the earlier
Handloom Pavilion(, but
the form has
metamorphosed due to the
long narrow site, and
because of the structural
system used: random-
folded RCC plates, gunited
in-situ, encasing ramps
and platforms below and
creating huge "cannons"
which set up convection
The plate form provides both spatial
currents of air through the
and visual interest. Here the top light
fractured, scaleless spaces.
"cannon" openings are used to set up
air convection currents - again a
feature of the Ramakrishana house
and the late Bharat Bhavan.

CONCEPT
-The Hindustan Lever Pavillion
"... the rectangle is something very basic to us. The Vedic's .. .knew the Earth was
round, but they represented it as a square. So when you go into a five-sided room
for the first time it's exciting, but if you do it repeatedly you destroy the surprise":
This is not just a practical matter, but to do with the ways that buildings carry
meanings ("the wellspring of theimagination comes from climate"). "A great
example is the Pantheon in Rome, just stunning, so brilliant", where a large circular
hole is placed at the top of the dome, which lets out smoke and lets in a thick shaft
of sunlight. It's not something you woulddo somewhere wetter or colder, but here
it also represents "the axis mundi, the sky hitting the Earth there are so many
layers . Correa was ahead of his time in other ways. HisHindustan-Lever pavilion,
for the 1961 international trade fair in Delhi, was a multifaceted structure
resembling a piece of crumpled paper that seems to foreshadow the work of Frank
Gehry. It wasn't a line he pursued further, however, and after making due
recognition that Gehry is not just about funny shapes, he explains: "We understand
space in four directions, and the rectangle is something very basic to us.
TheVedics, for example, knew that the Earth was round, but they represented it as
a square. So when you go into a five-sided room for the first time it's exciting, but if
you do it repeatedly you destroy the surprise. The more you change things, the
more they stay the same."

CONCEPT
-The Hindustan Lever Pavillion
RELATING IT TO RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-The concept
RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-Plans and Layouts
 Maximum
Light from the opening in
shading has
the roof
been
provided
for the
direct and
reflected
sunlight.

Interior
lighting

RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-analysis of the building
 Exposure of large
exterior surface has
been avoided.
Ventilation
has been
provided by
regulated air
movements
and small
openings.

RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-analysis of the building
RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-analysis of the building
RAMAKRISHNA HOUSE
-analysis of the building