An account of critical regionalism in diverse building types in postcolonial Indian architecture

Bahga, Sanyam; Raheja, Gaurav

doi:10.1016/j.foar.2018.09.001

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“…An interview approach with practitioners of architectural regionalism in India highlights how taking a regional approach to urban planning and building bye-laws result in a cohesive architectural fabric that promotes contextual harmony in our built environment. [20]. Cremers et al, in their study, claimed that the new interpretation of very compact courtyard buildings allows for significantly higher densities and more privacy compared to traditional typologies along with many more benefits such as a high level of design quality, low energy demand, very high interior comfort, and flexibility and also very high resource efficiency.…”

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“…India claims rich architectural traditions which have evolved over centuries in response to its climate, culture, and resources. As India experiences a predominantly hot climate in the majority of its geographical area, therefore major concern is to create spaces with mutual shading and thermal comfort, as a result, habitable rooms in India have customarily been organized around courtyards and verandas which act as microclimate modifiers [20]. The central courtyard, which is at the core of most built forms, serves as an outdoor living area while also providing light and ventilation to the surrounding rooms.…”

Section: Challenges In Adopting Courtyard Typology In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Modern architects and designers who advocate traditional architecture are often in a misperception to choose from two competing types of housing -courtyard housing and detached housing. The limited understanding of 'function' offered by modernist architecture seemed insufficient to certain architects who make serious efforts to fulfill the social and cultural aspirations of their Indian clientele [20].…”

Section: Challenges In Adopting Courtyard Typology In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Courtyard: A Look at the Relevance of Courtyard Space in Contemporary Houses

Gupta¹,

Joshi²

2021

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Courtyard: A Look at the Relevance of Courtyard Space in Contemporary Houses

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Joshi²

2021

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“…For example, the Youth Centre facility in Magelang is designed with a critical regionalism approach to express the younger generation spirit (Arifah, Singgih, & Marsudi, 2017). Moreover, the experience in India shows the ability of this concept to produce architectural works with a strong character (Bahga & Raheja, 2018) due to the capability of the critical regionalism to raise the opportunity and universality values in the works produced at the same time (Maria I Hidayatun, Prijotomo, & Rachmawati, 2013) as a counterweight to universalization in the globalization era (Crinson, 2008).…”

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The Symbolic Regionalism on The Architectural Expression Design of Kupang Town-Hall

Purbadi¹,

Lake²,

Arinto³

2020

JDBE

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This study aimed to explain the synthesis design approach of the architectural expression in the Town Hall building of Kupang city. This is necessary due to the need for Town Halls, as public facilities, to reflect technically correct building standards, environment, and the aspects of political symbolism. Kupang Town Hall design uses the roof image expression of the Timor, Flores, and Sumba ethnic architecture in a harmonious composition and this means it is an example of an ethnic architectural synthesis in a modern building which represents a function, meaning, modernity, and local cultural identity. This research employed the social semiotics method to examine the design in relation to the surrounding social life context and the design was found to be produced from the symbolic regionalism approach which involved mixing the architectural images of Timorese, Flores, and Sumba ethnicities to modernize and conserve ethnic architecture and represent the cultural identity of East Nusa Tenggara. This, therefore, means architectural synthesis methods which are established on the symbolic regionalism approach have the potential to be used in designing public facilities in different places of Indonesia to reveal local cultural identities in modern buildings through symbolism based on an ethnic architectural image.

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“…In different countries during this period, the tendencies of using national and regional traditions in the design, their comprehension and adaptation were formed. In particular, one can consider such theoretical directions as critical regionalism [3,4], symbiotic architecture [5]. In both cases, the use of traditional motifs in modern architecture is not limited only to copying single elements, but is perceived as a complex representation of the entire object, including its role in the urban environment, spatial composition, detailing of the facade, interior design, social and cultural and symbolic significance of the object, etc.…”

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The architecture of spectacular buildings in the city of Kazan in the context of national and regional traditions

Kinosyan

Bashirova

2021

E3S Web Conf.

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The specificity of the formation of facade and spatial solutions of large spectacular buildings in Kazan is considered in the context of national and regional traditions. Ornamental and decorative systems, adapted to the architectural and artistic styles that existed in this period were identified. The main approaches to the design of large spectacular buildings in the context of national and regional traditions in the architectural practice of Kazan in the middle and the end of the XX century were identified as follows: - based on the use of the dominant styles in the considered periods (classics with the ideological concept of socialism, modernism, postmodernism), adapted to the architectural traditions of the decorative system of the Middle Volga region; - based on the use of modern finishing materials – ceramics, majolica, natural stone, which has references to the traditions of facing the facades of Bulgar buildings with limestone and glazed tiles. The architects of the middle and the end of the XX century laid the foundations of modern regional-national architecture and the methodology for the formation of a decorative-artistic system that combines the stylistic techniques of classicism, modernism, postmodernism with techniques which had references to the Bulgar-Tatar traditions.

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An account of critical regionalism in diverse building types in postcolonial Indian architecture

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Courtyard: A Look at the Relevance of Courtyard Space in Contemporary Houses

Courtyard: A Look at the Relevance of Courtyard Space in Contemporary Houses

The Symbolic Regionalism on The Architectural Expression Design of Kupang Town-Hall

The architecture of spectacular buildings in the city of Kazan in the context of national and regional traditions

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