SL-Theory of Design_Alvar Aalto and Charles Correa

The Theory Of Design

Presentation IncludesStyle Of Alvar AltoAlvar Alto As A Bio-ArchitectTown Hall Of SaynatsaloLibrary Of Viipuri

“Architecture is and remains a wonderful process of synthesis in which thousands of human components are involved:it is always architecture. Further, its mission is to harmonize world with life”.

SArthak ShukLa BhaVnA VaRshney MAnish ShivAanshh Lipi AgarwaL UTkarsh Verma - GrOup

Alvar Aalto, whose architectonic production gave a considerable contribution to the development of the rational and organicarchitecture, has always kept in mind human demands. In this sense, it is useful to remember the S.Giedon’s way of thinking: “We can’t speak about Aalto as an architect without speaking about Aalto as a man: men have as much importance as architecture. Aalto’s 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”.

Aalto And Architecture The Library At Viipuri

Alvar As A Bio-ArchitectThe Town Hall, Saynatsalo

The bases of Aalto’s planning are “nature and biology”.According to Aalto, architecture must involve all the aspects of human life; so the designer’s task is to put technology into men’sservice. Architecture, in particular, must always serve life and so must defence men, giving humanity to the our life of machines”.According to him, in fact, standardization must be natural; in other words it has to be considered as a “system based on infinitesimal elements, that allows a continuous variability of shapes which grow organically”. Standardization in architecture must scour the same course of the biological pattern which affects the “life of shapes”. Architecture needs scientific researches in order to understand new demands and to take society into an efficient system, where everybody can live in suitable biological conditions and where sun, air and light represent their essence.







The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architecture and the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from which Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name of 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 a glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcade-bordered Piazza.The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space which is capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. It is approached from the main entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower structure under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.

Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accented by timber 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 up of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building materials such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly off-line to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition.The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the form of timber columns which evoke Säynätsalo's setting in a heavily forested area. Another distinctive feature at Säynätsalo is the grass stairs which compliment a regular set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers.













Aalto And Architecture The Library At ViipuriAlvar As A Bio-ArchitectThe Town Hall, Saynatsalo


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 IncludesStyle Of Charles CorreaKanchanjunga Apartments, MumbaiJawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

The Third World; Its not the way they want, it’s the way they need.

Sarthak Shukla Bhavna Varshney Manish Shivaanshh Lipi Agarwal Utkarsh Verma - Group

Architecture Of CorreaKanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai

Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

Correa's work in India shows a careful development, understanding and adaptation of Modernism to a non-western culture. Correa's early works attempt to explore a local vernacular within a modern environment. Correa's land-use planning and community 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 significant piece of in the field of modernism. He has a different way for designing. Each of his buildings are made with an aroma of west but compliment the local indian environment. Thus he is also said to be the man who transformed the architecture of india. He is particularly noted for his senstivity for urban poor and the use of traditional materials and methods. He was inspired by Le Corbusier’s striking concrete forms.




This 28-story tower, with its concrete construction and large areas of white panel, bears a strong resemblance to modern 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, two story-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.




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 the prevailing sea-breezes and to open up the best views in the city, the Arabian 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.




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










Maharaja Jai Singh, who built the fabled pink city of Jaipur, was moved by two seemingly 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 analogous of another man, born more than 2 centuries later; India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.




Thus this Art Centre, dedicated to Nehru, is really a metaphor for both men - and for Jaipur itself. Like them and like the city, it's double-coded: a contemporary building based on an archaic notion of the Cosmos; the very same Navgaraha mandala, with one of the squares moved aside, to recall the gesture that created the original plan 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 function. Out of the nine squares, one square is tilted to create the entrance and houses the 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,courtyard planning is adopted in certain blocks.




Genesis Of Jaipur













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