Museum at Ahmedabad
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 | Museum at Ahmedabad |
| Designer | Le Corbusier |
| Location | Ahmedabad, India |
| Date | 1953 to 1957 |
| Building Type | museum |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
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| Notes | Powerful block massing on columns, with internal ramps and courtyards. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Museum_at_Ahmedabad.html |
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Commentary
"The museum is on pilotis through which the building is entered into an open court from which a ramp, similarly opened to the sky, leads to the exhibition levels. One enters the main level in a nave of spiral squares 14 metres wide, consisting of 7x7 m structural bays. All precautions are taken against the excessive temperature of the day. It is assumed that visits to the museum will be made particularly in the evening and night-time; they will wind up on the roof which will offer a wonderfully flowered surface formed by more than 45 basins, of 50 square meters each, all filled with water to a depth of 40 cm."
— Hans Girsberger, ed. Le Corbusier 1910-60. p226.
Details
The piloti height is 3.40 meters, while the width between pilotis is 2.50 meters. The ceiling height is 3.40 meters, and the building sides are 50x50 meters.
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References
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. ISBN 0-442-21668-8. LC 84-3543. NA2750.C55 1984. pinwheel geometry diagram, p193. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Hans Girsberger, ed. Le Corbusier 1910-60. New York: George Wittenborn, 1959. NA1053.J4A48. p226-7.
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