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Topic: louis I. kahn

(D.A.A.)

AR .Louis Kahn

Born : 20 -02 – 1901Died : 17 – 03 – 1974

(Aged : 73)Nationality : American

Buildings :1- Indian Institute Of Management ,

Ahmedabad.2 – Kimbell Art Museum

3 – Salk Institute4-Yale university art museum

5- First Unitarian Church of Rochester

Awards : AIA Gold Medal RIBA Gold Medal

Education

• From his childhood he was interested in art, and he used to earn money by selling sketches;

pencil made from charcoal.

• Kahn trained at the University of Pennsylvania in a rigorous Beaux-Arts tradition.

• After completing his Bachelor of Architect in 1924,Kahn worked as senior draftsman in the office of the city architect, John Molitor.

Kimbell Art Muesum• Main attraction:The south

wing of the museum showing a portico and five vaulted galleries.

• Established : 1972• Location : Fort Worth

,texas,USA.• Type : Art Muesum• Material: reinforced

concrete• Context: urban setting

north

Air ducts and other mechanical services are located in the flat channels between the vaults.Approching the main entrance past a lawn edged by pools with running water, the visitor enters a courtyard through a grove of Yaopon holly trees. The sound of footsteps on the gravel walkway echoes from the walls on either side of the courtyard and is magnified under the curved ceiling of the entry porch. After that subtle preparation, the visitor enters the hushed museum with silvery light spread across its ceiling.

entry

Slot for natural light

• The museum is composed of 16 parallel vaults that are each 100 feet (30.6 m) long, 20 feet (6 m) high and 20 feet (6 m) wide

(internal measurements).• The low channels separate the

vaults are grouped into three wings vaults.• The

The north and south wings, each have six vaults, with the western one open as a portico.

• The central space has four vaults, with the western one open as an entry porch facing a courtyard partially enclosed by the two

outside wings.

Upper floor plan

Elevations

North elevation East elevation

Salk InstituteLocaton: La Jolla, California

Date:1959 to 1966

Building TypeResearch laboratories and offices

Construction System reinforced concrete

Context seaside

construction

Cluster

Meeting place residence

Laboratory

Salk institute

• Salk institute is in the form of cluster of lab, residences and meeting place.

• Jonas Salk ,who founded the polio vaccine propesed the plan of salk ins.

• Salk’s humanitarian vision “that medical research does not belong entirely to medicine or the physical science,It belongs to population.”

• Kahn to believe his client could understand his architectural envisions and endeavours.

• Courtyard fountain is the main attraction of laboratory, it captures our eye vison , inherted from mughal gardens, india.

• Rcc,mix to be used, which is the major material for the laboratory complex, Kahn researched the components used in roman pozzolana, in order to

achieve similar reddish hue.

Details

• The need for mechanical services (air ducts, pipes, etc.) was so extensive that Kahn decided to create a separate service floor for them above each laboratory floor to make it easier for individual laboratories in the future without disrupting neighbouring spaces.

• He also designed each laboratory floor to be entirely free of internal support columns, making laboratory configuration easier.

• trusses that make this arrangement possible. These pre-stressed concrete trusses are about 62 feet (19 m) long, spanning the full width of each floor and extending from the bottom of each service floor to the top. They are supported by steel cables embedded in the concrete in a curve.