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    Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian architect who graduated from Sir J.J. School of Arts in 1942. He further studied at Harvard under Walter Gropius and was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Kanvinde designed the National Science Centre in Delhi using a functionalist approach with elements of Brutalism. The building rises in vertical volumes around a landscaped courtyard and features large exhibition spaces lit by natural light. Kanvinde emphasized understanding local climate and culture and used vernacular styles and materials appropriately in his designs.

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    Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian architect who graduated from Sir J.J. School of Arts in 1942. He further studied at Harvard under Walter Gropius and was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Kanvinde designed the National Science Centre in Delhi using a functionalist approach with elements of Brutalism. The building rises in vertical volumes around a landscaped courtyard and features large exhibition spaces lit by natural light. Kanvinde emphasized understanding local climate and culture and used vernacular styles and materials appropriately in his designs.

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    Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian architect who graduated from Sir J.J. School of Arts in 1942. He further studied at Harvard under Walter Gropius and was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Kanvinde designed the National Science Centre in Delhi using a functionalist approach with elements of Brutalism. The building rises in vertical volumes around a landscaped courtyard and features large exhibition spaces lit by natural light. Kanvinde emphasized understanding local climate and culture and used vernacular styles and materials appropriately in his designs.

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    Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian architect who graduated from Sir J.J. School of Arts in 1942. He further studied at Harvard under Walter Gropius and was influenced by the Bauhaus movement. Kanvinde designed the National Science Centre in Delhi using a functionalist approach with elements of Brutalism. The building rises in vertical volumes around a landscaped courtyard and features large exhibition spaces lit by natural light. Kanvinde emphasized understanding local climate and culture and used vernacular styles and materials appropriately in his designs.

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    NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE,DELHI

    Architect
    A P Kanvinde

    By,
    Pramati Kulkarni
    EDUCATION

    Kanvinde graduated in architecture from Sir J.J.


    School of Arts, Mumbai in 1942.
    He was then sent by the Government of India to
    study at Harvard where he worked under Walter
    Gropius and was influenced by his thinking and
    teaching . The European masters of the Bauhaus –
    Albert Bayer, Moholy Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and the
    Swiss-American architectural historian Siegfried
    Giedion also had a great impact.
    PHILOSOPHY of architect

    Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde was an Indian


    architect who worked in functionalist approaches
    with elements of Brutalist architecture.
    Kanvinde played with space and forms.
    He realized that no meaningful architecture
    could ever be built without understanding the
    climate & geography of the region as well as
    the pattern of society.
    He championed the cause of vernacular
    architecture. He believed that values and historical
    influences contributed towards good architecture.
    His designs are slender , balanced , proportionate
    , neat and well crafted.
    He gave great importance to natural light.
    The form of the building is such that the problem
    of ventilation as well as excessive heat is beautifully
    solved.
    He believed in vernacular architecture.
    According to him architecture is not a
    museum of materials.
    He used bricks, stones, concrete &
    aggregate plaster with equal finess and
    was always on the look out for different
    materials where demanded by the climatic
    context.
    He carried out consistently good buildings
    on small scale budgets all around the
    country.
    HIS DESIGN CONCEPTS

    He believed that a grid of columns forming


    a matrix giving structural and spatial aspect
    would turn a design more sophisticated
    and faceted.
    He believed in the science of
    Vaastushastra.
    An art can be to nourish the senses. Art is
    purely an aesthetic exercise.
    National science centre
    ,Delhi
    This project is located in the heart of
    the Delhi city.
    The building is standing on a piece of
    land measuring about 7000sq.m with
    a total built up area 14000 sq.m.
    A set of vertical volumes rise
    gradually.This building is visually
    appealing, and unimposing. It has a
    large grand flight of steps on its
    entrance.
    The entry plaza to the Centre welcomes
    its visitors with a huge exhibit spanning
    four floors, one of the largest exhibits in
    the world.
     The building consisted of
     A. Auditorium
     B. Seminar hall
     C. Lecture hall
     D. Cafeteria
     In addition to it laboratories,depositories
    work,etc.
     The shape of the site is in the form of trapezium.
     The building is multilevelled one,need for indoor
    and outdoor exhibits created a systemmatic
    terraces and vertical shafts for services.
    PLAN
     The visitors first enter the main atrium at the second
    storey level through landscaping.
     Then escalator takes them to fourth storey atrium.
     The exhibits are exhibited here ; the observer now
    slowly descends to lower storey.
     The ground level consists of lecture hall , conference
    hall, and common facilities like cafeteria.
     This is the last stage from there the visitors can
    depart.
     Site location and view was kept in mind during the
    designing of project.
     The site is surrounded by historical surroundings.
     The purana kila is in the vicinity of the building.
     Terraces have been introduced at different levels.
     It has done in order to get relief from movement
    within closed places and see outdoor exhibits.
     Since the site has an association with historical
    surroundings of the city,an element form of
    heritage plaza at the point of entry has been
    proposed depicting certain outstanding elements
    associated with past,from where people could
    enter the building inorder to help them orient to
    the past with present.
    Terrace garden also became a part of design
    philosophy and form.
    They tend to present cascading green planters
    supported by vertical tower shaft system in the
    form,expression and design.
    His other works…

    IIT KANPUR
    DUDHSAGAR DAIRY
    NEHRU SCIENCE CENTRE,MUMBAI
    ISCKON TEMPLE,DELHI
    THANK YOU…

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