•CHARLES CORREA WAS BORN IN HYDERABAD, INDIA IN 1930

•BORN INTO A MIDDLE-CLASS CATHOLIC FAMILY IN BOMBAY

•BECAME FASCINATED WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN AS A CHILD

•AT MICHIGAN TWO PROFESSORS WHO INFLUENCED HIM THE MOST – WALTER SALDERS AND BUCKMINISTER FULLER.

•KEVIN LYNCH , THEN IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING HIS THEMES FOR IMAGE OF THE CITY TRIGGERED CORREA’S INTEREST IN URBAN ISSUES•—ARCHITECT, PLANNER, ACTIVIST AND THEORETICIAN, AN INTERNATIONAL LECTURER AND TRAVELER.

EDUCATION HE STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AND MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AFTER WHICH HE ESTABLISHED A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN BOMBAY IN1958.

• 1946-1948 INTER-SCIENCE. ST. XAVIER’S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF BOMBAY

• 1949-1955 B.ARCH., UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

• 1956-19578M.ARCH., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.

EXPERINCES

•1955-1958 PARTNER WITH G.M. BHUTA ASSOCIATES

•1964-1965 PREPARED MASTER PLAN PROPOSING TWIN CITY ACROSS THE HARBOR FROM BOMBAY.

•1969-1971 INVITED BY THE GOVT. OF PERU

•1971-1975 CHIEF ARCHITECT TO CIDCO

•1975-1976 CONSULTANT TO UN SECRETORY-GENERAL FOR HABITAT

SHADY INNER COURTYARDS AND HUGE ARBORES.(E.G. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF ELECTRONICS CORPORATION OF INDIA ECIL, 1965 -68, IN HYDERABAD)

• CORREA WORKS INTENSIVELY ON THE CONCEPTION OF CITY DISTRICTS AND WHOLE CITIES, ESPECIALLY FOR FAMILIES WITH A LOW INCOME.

•CORREA REJECTS THE ANONYMOUS HIGH-RISE HOUSING SCHEMES IN FAVORS OF LOWER, CLEVERLY DESIGNED COMPLEX SPLIT-LEVEL HOUSES ALLOW FOR INTENSIFIED UTILIZATION OF SPACE AT THE SAME TIME.

• SHOWS NEW WAYS TO COUNTRIES WITH INCREASING DENSITY OF POPULATION.

•CHARLES CORREA IS A MAJOR FIGURE IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AROUND THE WORLD.

• ALL OF HIS WORK - FROM THE CAREFULLY DETAILED MEMORIAL MAHATMA GANDHI MEMORIAL MUSEUM AT THE SABARMATI ASHRAM IN AHMEDABAD TO CONGITIVE SCIENCE CENTRE IN BOSTON.

•PIONEER IN FESIGNING LOW COST SHELTER HOUSES.

•IN 1984, HE FOUNDED THE PRESTIGIOUS URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN BOMBAY WHICH TO THIS DAY IS DEDICATED TO THE PROTECTION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF URBAN COMMUNITIES.

•THE BUILDINGS ARE GROUPED AROUND A TERRACE AND ITS CENTRAL WATER BASIN IN VARYING RECTANGULAR FORMS - THE OPEN MIDDLE.

IMPORTANT THAT THE HOUSES ARE OPEN TO THE SKY.

PHILOSOPHIES

FEW PHILOSOPHIES IN HIS VAST BODY OF WORK:• INCREMENTALLY• PLURALISM• PARTICIPATION• INCOME GENERATION• EQUITY• OPEN-TO-SKY SPACE• DISAGGREGATION.

CONCLUSION FROM HIS PHILOSIPIES • CHARLES CORREA THUS BELIEVES THAT ARCHITECTURE IS NOT JUST A REINFORCEMENT OF EXISTING VALUES BUT

SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL.

• ARCHITECTURE VARIES DEPENDING UPON THE NEEDS OF THE INHABITANTS AS WELL AS POPULATION DENSITY.

• CLIMATIC CONDITIONS HAVE A DIRECT EFFECT ON THE TECHNICAL DESIGN OF HIS BUILDINGS , THUS SHOULD BEACCORDINGLY DESIGNED.

CORREA AS AN ARCHITECT:-INTRODUCTION:-

BELAPUR HOUSING BEINGTHE ONE PROJECT WHEREHE HAS LITERALLY USEDTHESE PRINCIPALS.

FAMOUS WORKS IN IN INDIA

•In Bombay – Salvacao Church at Dadar ; Kanchanjunga Apartments

•In Goa for the Cidade de Goa Hotel and the Kala Academy,

•In Ahmedabad – Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya ; Ramkrishna House

•Delhi – The LIC Centre; British Council Building

•Kerala – Kovalam Beach Resort Hotel

•Andamans – Bay Island Hotel in Port Blair

• THE BUILDING HAD TO BE ORIENTED EAST –WEST TO CAPTURE PREVAILING SEA BREEZE AND VIEWS TO THE CITY. BUT ALSO THE ORIENTATION FOR HOT SUN AND HEAVY RAINS.

• SOLUTION IN OLD BUNGALOWS – WRAPPING A PROTECTIVE LAYER OF VERANDAS AROUND THE MAIN LIVING AREAS

• KANCHENJUNGA AN ATTEMPT TO APPLY THESE PRINCIPLES TO A HIGH-RISE BUILDING

• THIS BUILDING HAS 32 DIFFERENT APARTMENTS WITH 4 TYPES OF FLATS VARYING FROM 3 TO 6 BEDROOMS.

INTERLOCKING OF THESE VARIATIONS EXPRESSED EXTERNALLY BY SHEAR END WALLS THAT HOLD UP THE CANTILEVERS

• MINIMALIST SURFACES CUT AWAY TO OPEN UP DOUBLE-HEIGHT TERRACE GARDENS AT THE CORNERS

• COMPLEX SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF LIVING SPACES

• SUPERFICIALLY, THIS 28-STORY TOWER, WITH ITS CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION AND LARGE AREAS OF WHITE PANELS, BEARS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO MODERN APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN THE WEST

• GARDEN TERRACES ACTUALLY A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF A FEATURE OF THE TRADITIONAL INDIAN BUNGALOW: THE VERANDA

• EACH APARTMENT PROVIDED WITH A DEEP, TWO-STORY-HIGH GARDEN TERRACE THAT IS ORIENTED AWAY FROM THE SUN SO AS TO AFFORD PROTECTION FROM THE ELEMENTS

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BHARAT BHAVAN IS MULTI ART CENTRE SET UP TO CREATE AN INTERACTIVE PROXIMITY BETWEEN THE VERBAL, VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS.

BHARAT BHAVAN SEEKS TO PROVIDE A CREATIVE AND THOUGHT PROVOKING MILIEU TO THOSE WHO WISH TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING NEW AND MEANINGFUL, IN CONTEMPORARY SCENE IN THE FINE ARTS, LITERATURE, THEATRE, CINEMA, DANCE AND MUSIC.

CHARLES CORREA THE ARCHITECT FOUND HERE THE POSSIBILITIES OF A SERIES OF TERRACED GARDENS, WHICH WOULD BE SEEN CASCADING DOWN TO THE LAKE.

THE VISITORS ENTER AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND WALK DOWN A PEDESTRIAN SPINE, FLANKED BY A PATTERN OF COURTYARDS, TO REACH THE VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COMPLEX.

EACH CURVE AND SPACE DEFINES ITSELF. EACH OF THE PART OF THE BUILDING IS DISTINCT YET FLOWS EASILY ONE ANOTHER, LINKED BY MEANDERING PATHS. THE TOTAL EFFECT IS ONE OF THE SURPRISE AND PLEASURE. THERE IS ALWAYS A MOMENT WHEN THE EYE CAN REST AND THE MIND CONTEMPLATES.