Ar. Achyut Kanvinde

AR.

ACHYUT KANVINDE

Guided by-
Ar. Pratik Mehta
Ar. Imran Shaikh

Presented by-
Saurabh Petkar
Shweta Pawar
Omkar Pawar
Vrushali Rajmane
Snehal Patil
Introduction
 Achyut Purshottam Kanvinde (1916-2002)
practiced for a period of 55 years.
 He was from Achara, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra.
 He studied B.Arch from J.J. College of Arts, Mumbai
 In 1945 he was sent by Govt. Of India to study at
Harvard University under Walter Gropius (German
Architect, Bahaus Style)
 Along with his partner Shaukat Rai he opened firm
named ‘Kanvinde & Rai’ in New Delhi.
 Currently it is run by Sanjay Kanvinde, B.K. Tanuja &
Murad Chowdhary.
Lifetime Achievements
 Awarded Padma Shree in1976
 President IIA (1974-75)
 Co-authored book “Campus Design in India”.
 Won IIA’s Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal for lifetime
achievement in 1985
 Won Great Master Award from J.K Indusrty ltd. in
1993.
 Also was jury on the competition for designing of
‘The Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts’.
Design Philosophy
 Functionalism
 Modern Achitecture and Brutalism (Blockism)
 Regionalism
 Used flat roof’s & liked asymmetry.
 Focused on Natural ventilation & light.
 He used ‘vastushastra’ while designing the buildings.
Campus
The site is flat with a canal on one side & transportation route on other side.
Academic area is at the center and is connected to all the buildings
Some of his notable work
 CIDCO Complex, Navi Mumbai
 Nehru Science Center, Mumbai
Intro
 Occupies a space of 1055 acre area and the
academic complex is located at the centre of site
free from traffic noise .
 There are 13 departments, P.K Kelkar library,
computer centres ,laboratories, administrative
buildings, sports complex, faculty housing,10
boys hostels & 2 girls hostels.
 There is a total of 108 buildings housing around
7000 students, 1000 staff members & 300
faculties around with their families.
 Pedestrian & Vehicular traffic is segregated.
 The residential campus is planned & landscaped
with a hope for environmental freedom.
 The Bauhaus influence in Kanvinde’s style is clearly
visible in the buildings of IIT Kanpur.
 cubic shapes,smooth, flat plain, undecorated surfaces,
complete elimination of all mouldings and ornament &‘flat’
roofs
Focusing on regionalism
 In Kanpur, the local
availability of high quality
brick and the prevalent
labour and construction
practices made Kanvinde
go for reinforced
concrete for structural
frames and brick as
infill's .
 reinforced-concrete post-
and-slab construction, with
a series of flat slab-floors
and a flat roof-slab carried
on concrete columns or
posts
Orientation
• Reveals the internal

functions in a building as
separate masses.
• Arranged in
ways that were
functional from
inside and Housing Academic
elegant from Complexes Buildings
outside.
P.K. Kelkar
• Kanvinde strongly Library
believed that the
elevation of a structure
Housing
should be defined by the Complexes
functions inside.
•His work was variously
interpreted as "an architectural
expression that reflected the
culture and aspirations“.
•In retrospect, that style shows a
remarkable similarity with the
brute morphology of vernacular
architecture in parts of India.
•Expressed Concrete structure in
combination with brick became the
dynamic determinant of form and
order.
Academic buildings
Housing Complexes
 The residential campus is
planned and landscaped with
a hope for environmental
freedom.
 Halls of residence, faculty
and staff houses and
community buildings surround
the central academic area to
provide flexibility in movement
and communication.
 Taking into consideration
the reality that research work
in the present time is a
collaborative work of varied
disciplines, curriculum of
studies is worked out, with
that goal in mind.
P.K. Kelkar Library
 The library forms an

important part of the
whole complex. It is
a framed structure
based on grid.
 The whole building is
built in R.C.C with a
brick facade.
Features
• Monstrous and raw & the form is very rough
and blocky
• Cold character & Fortress like structure
• One of the first outburts of kanvinde’s
brutalism
• The natural slope of the site utilized to
advantage of a multi level processing
system
• Milk receiving is done at the first level
• Processing is done at the second level
• The third and the lower most level
accommodate the worker’s amenities
• ventilation points are expressed as large
shafts that rise above the roof level
• They evacuate the hot air by natural
convection eliminating the need for
mechanical exhaust system
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