Post Independence Architects

1. Humanities
-Post Independence Architects

2. Ar.Sheila Sri Prakash.
“My sensitivity to space comes from dance.In dance a notional space
and characters are created.In architecture,one creates the ambience and
elements that give expression to the residents dream.”

3.  Graduated from School of Architecture And Planning in Madras University 1977.
 First woman in India to have started and operated her own Architectural firm
 She has designed over 1000 completed architectural projects during her career in
the last 35 years.
 She is regarded as the founding practitioner researcher that identified and defined
the field of spaciology.

4.  Inspired by Frank L Wright
“the way he handled space and nature inspired me and how he built into nature
without striking out”
 Visionary Architecture
 True visionary in making an impact on the socio-economically underprivileged, through
architecture and urban design.
 Cost effective
 Sustainable Architecture
 Designs are Spartan and aesthetic.

5. Global Design Studio
Chennai,India

6. Mahindra world city,
Chennai.

7. “If the consumption of resources in
what is accepted as sustainable
architecture in so called developed
countries, the resources wouldn’t
suffice.
If that is so, the standards set for
sustainable development need to be
reviewed”

8. Principles.
 “When I started out, this jargon din’t exist. Architecture has to be sustainable. How
can it be otherwise?”
 practice demonstrates a strong focus on material research
 We all are different, we are all unique and its very strange that we have to be
adjusting ourselves continuously to standard products.
 sustainable architecture supported by extensive research and experimentation from
the development of building technologies
 capacity to focus to material research with a view of reducing the environmental
impact of building technology.

9. VOLONTARIAT
HOMES
– Pondicherry,
India
 This project was built using a rare technology which consists of baking a mud house
insitu
 A fired house or a fire-stabilised
 mud house is in principle
 This highly experimental project is an example of radical thinking that is being
explored to approach the problem of affordability of housing for all, and more over
integrally sustainable in all its aspects.

10. Plan

13.  The housing project demonstrates an example for low density development that is
urban in character.
 Streets are created on upper levels that are connected through external stairways
to achieve connectivity and community.
URBAN ECO-COMMUNITY – Auroville,
India

14. Plan

15. WALL HOUSE , Auroville
 This project is a research into fired clay and its potential in architecture in the way it
extends its application in walls, floors as well as roof construction.
 Demonstrating a range of innovative technologies that utilize geometry and
structural efficiency to shape architecture.
 Reduces resource consumption drastically while improving socio-economic
conditions locally.

18. AR. EUGENE PANDALA

19.  DID HIS MASTERS IN URBAN DESIGN FROM SCHOOL OF
PLANING AND ARCHITECTURE, NEW DELHI.
 GREEN BUILDINGS/SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS IS A FIELD
WHERE PANDALA HAS EXCELLED.
 LALIT KALA ACADEMY AWARDED HIM THE FIRST LAURIE
BAKER AWARD.
 IN 1999 FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDING “BODHI” PANDALA
WAS GIVEN, A COMMENDATION AWARD, BY J.K
FOUNDATIONS,ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR AWARD.
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20. ONLY USES ECONOMICAL MATERIALS SUCH AS..
MUD
WOOD
BRICKS
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HASSAN FATHY.
HOUSE IN GOURNA-

21. ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN IN
HIS WORK
LINE- FROM THE USE OF MUD BRICKS.
TEXTURE- BECAUSE BUILDINGS HAVE A ROUGH SURFACE.
SHAPE-MADE BY THE DOMED ROOFS.
UNITY- BECAUSE HIS BUILDINGS LOOK COMPLETE AND
CONNECTED.
SADSAT REST HOUSE

22. W
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S HAS APPEARANCE LIKE A MUSHROOM
MUD WALLS WITH FERRO CEMENT ROOF.
HIS WORK IS CHARACTERIZED NY ORGANIC FORMS AND FREE-
FLOWINGSTRUCUTRES.
CONCEPT -To build a mud house, which would invite wind, air
and other elements of nature. The structure needed to blend in
with the topography of the region and be ORGANIC.

23. HE HAS DEVISED HIS OWN TECHNIQUE CALLED THE “RIB AND
SKIN ROOF”USING EXTREMELY MALLEABLE AND LIGHT WEIGHT
FERRO CEMENT TOPPED BY A LAYER OF POTTER TILES TO MAKE
IT DURABLE.

24. THE THREE
COURTYARD
S
ARE THE
CROWINING
GLORY OF
THE
PROJECT.
THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN BUILT FROM THE MUD DUG OUT FROM THE
SITE IT SELF, AND THE PIT FORMED HAS BEEN CONVERTED INTO A
WATER HARVESTING ZONE.
PANDALA USED MUD WITH 20% CLAY, 5% CEMENT AND WATER AS
THE MATERIAL FOR THE WALLS

25. THIS STRUCTURES ARE
CURVEOUSES
ASA THIS WALL
THE PERFORATION ON
THEM
BRINGS MORE
LIGHT AND AIR.
INSIDE OUTSIDE
CONNECTIVITY IS BALANCED
THROUGH OPEN ARCHES
FLANKED BY MUD COLUMS
AND TEAKWOOD CLAD
WINDOWS
MANMADE POND
CRUSTED WITH
WATERLILIES.
DESIGN DETAILS SUCH
AS- SNAKE HOOD
SHAPED WALL
CRAFTED OUT OF MUD.

26. THIS RESORT BUILT ENTIRELY OF MUD SCOOPED OUT OF THE SAME
PRPOERTY IS NOW VERY POPULAR IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
BANASURA HILL

27. THE RESORT HAS DERIVED ITS NAME AS IT IS LOCATED AT THE FOOT OF
BANASURA HILLS
THIS RESORT IS UNIQUE BECAUSE OF THE KIND OF ARCHITECTURE USED
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENT BUILDINGS IN THE COMPLEX

28. THE MAIN BUILDING IS ENTIRELY MADE UPOF MUD, WITH A ROOF
OF BAMBOO AND COCONUT PALM FRONDS.
IT IS PROBABLY THE LARGEST EARTH RESORT IN INDIA.

29. RAMMED EARTH
WAS USED FOR
CONSTRUCTION
THE CORRIDORS
OF THE RESORT

30. THANKYOU
 NIKITA PARAB
 ANDREA QUINNEY
 ALEFIYA .B
 KAJAL SINGH