Eg Cost Effective PPT Centre For Development. Studies

NTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIE
 BUILDING: CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT

STUDIES
 LOCATION: TRIVANDRUM
 ARCHITECT: LAURIE BAKERTRIVANDRUM
 The campus for the research
institute, Centre for Development
Studies, is one of Laurie Baker’s
best campus designs, located in a
residential area on the northern
outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.
 The 10 acre campus stretching
across a heavily wooded site houses
the Library, Computer center,
Auditorium, hostels, guesthouses
and residential units for the staff.
STRUCTURE AND FORM
 The design is a response to the
sloping contoured site and seems
to grow out of it.
 There is hardly a straight line with
each structure curling in waves,
semicircles and arcs.
 Baker pays careful attention to the
contours on the site
 and also the location of trees.
 The forms of the buildings also
follow the site with curved walls
and building forms along the
contour.
 Often, when trees are obstructing
the building, Baker simply moulds
his walls around the trees so as not
COURTYARDS
 There are little courtyards in
between buildings, often acting as
an extension of the building itself
and also pools of water which help in
microclimatic control through
evaporative cooling.
ROOFS
 The roofs had often interesting shapes
with funny openings at certain location.
 These openings were Baker’s
interpretation of the gables which were
tilted into the wind direction funneling it
into the space.
 The main administrative building is the focus
of the campus, with the 6 storey circular
library tower behind.
 The main entrance is majestic, sloping up
towards the sky with the side walls
welcomingly sloping outwards towards a
wide set of steps.
 Baker has symbolically not provided a front
door.
 The building is totally open, symbolic of an
institution whose aim is to promote research
into helping the poor.
LIBRARY
 The library tower is a circular tower with an
external jaali wall which encloses a circular
staircase in the center.
 The staircase winds around a circular shaft which
runs from the bottom level all the way till the top.
 Baker has used this shaft to provide forced
ventilation inside the spaces.
 There are small openings in this shaft at each
floor level.
 The air is forced through these openings and
escapes through the open top of the shaft,
maintaining a good flow all around. This shaft is
based on the simple principle of Stack effect.
 The perforated jaali wall on the external side
allows plenty of diffused natural light inside and
creates a beautiful ambience for reading.
EXTERIOR
 The language is typically that of Baker, his
interpretation of a vocabulary unique to Kerala.
 Exposed brick walls in beautiful patterns and
bonds, exposed concrete sloping roofs with filler
slabs of Mangalore tiles forming beautiful
patterns and jaalis in the brick walls of
numerous designs creating amazing patterns of
light and shade inside the buildings while at the
same time letting in wind and light.
 The plinths of the buildings are all of exposed
random rubble granite, the white contrasting
with the red of the brick.
 Baker has used lime mortar for his walls,
making the lime in the site itself by burning sea
shells (from the beach a few miles away) and
grinding it
 The flooring is in red oxide which imparts
a cool comfortable base to walk on while
complementing the earthy materials of
the walls and the roof
 There are external pavements in concrete,
inset with granite aggregates in the shape
of flowers and leafs. Baker often gave
freedom to the masons and the workers
to experiment and play and bring out
their creativity.
 To keep the interiors of the computer
building cool, Baker has devised the
imaginative use of a false external jaali
screen wall which acts as a skin.
 The air trapped in between acts as
insulation and keeps the interiors cool.
 All the buildings in the campus are
climatically so efficient that even fans are
not required.
 The interiors are cool and comfortable.
 The CDS campus is a complete demonstration of
ways in which brick can manipulated and utilized
for various purposes
 Brick has been used for structural walls, as form
work for concrete columns, brick-jalis that give
Baker’s work a unique identity, for built-in
furniture, as outdoor paving, as arches for lintels
and even as street light poles
 . Most of the buildings at this campus have double
Entrance to the central block &
skin, where outer layer comprises of brick jalis that internal court
cuts down glare and allows cross-ventilation, so
crucial in this climate.
 Almost all possible ways in which a jali-wall can be
made, using brick, have been demonstrated at this
campus.
 All the bricks used for the project were made close
to the site. The material palette of this campus
comprises of exposed bricks, exposed concrete,
random rubble stone masonry, filler slab, wood for
the openings, and red-oxide for flooring. Canteen block with an internal court.

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