The document summarizes the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, designed by architect Charles Correa. Some key points: - Originally established in 1915 and shifted in 1917 to the banks of the Sabarmati River, where Gandhi lived from 1917-1930 and began the salt march. - After independence, it was converted into a memorial designed by Charles Correa and inaugurated in 1963 by Prime Minister Nehru. - Correa's design followed the casual, winding layout of villages. The five interior rooms containing the museum collection are arranged around an open courtyard, using local materials like brick, wood, and stone in a contemporary regional style.

1. SABARMATI ASHRAM
AHMEDABAD, GUJRAT, INDIA
Architect – Charles Correa
Name :- Siddhi S. Pande
Class :- Third Year Architecture
Roll No. :- 309115
Subject :- Contemporary Architecture
College :- J.N.E.C., Aurangabad

2. How it established?
• Originally established in the Kochrab area of Ahmedabad on 25 May 1915.
• Then shifted on 17 June 1917 to a banks of the river Sabarmati
where Gandhi lived from 1917 to1930.
• He began salt march (Satyagrah) in 1930 from ashram.
• Post-independence, the Ashram was converted into a
memorial designed by architect Charles
Correa.
• Inaugurated in 1963 by the then prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru.
Ar. Charles Correa

3. Design Concept
• The main concept is that each building group in casual mandearing pattern, creating pathways along
which visitors progresses towards the centrality of water cortyard.
• Charles Correa has took the words of Mahatma Gandi,
“I don’t want my house to be walled on four sides and and
my windows to be stuffed. I want cultures of all the
land to be blown about my houses as freely as possible
but I refuse to be blown off my feet by any of them”.
• Planning is similar to houses found in villages.

4. •Sabarmati Ashram is a remarkable building demonstrating the essence of architecture in the Indian
context — open and simple, yet expandable, adjustable and humane.
•Housing his books, letters and photographs, this modest and humanly scaled memorial uses brick piers,
stone floors, wooden louvered windows and tiled roofs to find a contemporary expression for the spirit
of swadeshi which take this building under the ism namely, “CRITICAL REGIONALISM”.
•Critical regionalism is not simply regionalism
in the sense of vernacular architecture.
It is a progressive approach to design that seeks
to mediate between the global and the local
languages of architecture.

5. SPACES
• The site on the Sabarmati River bank is the
part of larger ashram complex and and it
integrated into its gardens.
• Five interior rooms contains the collection
of the museum.
• The rooms are enclosed by brick walls and
wooden louvered screens.
• All five rooms are part of 6sq mt module.
Correa’s subtle changes of the enclosure
allow for variety in the module’s lighting,
temperature and visual permeability.
• A square, uncovered, shallow pool is
located between the five rooms.
SITE PLAN

6. ROOF PLAN
FLOOR PLAN
SECTIONAL ELEVATIONS

7. CONSTRUCTION
• Material used:- Tiled Roofs, Wooden Doors, Stone Flooring and
Brick Walls.
• RCC Channels used which act as beams and as rainfall conduits and
which permit additional construction to be added in future.
• No glass windows are used; light and ventilation being provide by operable wooden
louvers.
• Simple but delicately detailed post and beam structure.
• Load bearing brick columns support concrete channels, which are both
support the wooden roof and direct rainwater.
• Boards are nailed underneath the joist and tiles are placed at top joist.
• The foundation is concrete and is raised about foot from the ground.

8. ACCORDING TO VAASTU
1. Square grid :- Square is the sacred shape
and is used wherever Vaastu is applied.
Various other shapes can be derived from
square like rectangle(from two squares),
circles (rotating square to the infinity).
Distorted 11X11 grid is used and each square
measures 6X6m.
2. Courtyard :- As in Vaastu Purusha Mandala
Lord Brahma resides and that is why
courtyard or water body is provided in
centre of he building.

9. 1. North East – Books as a symbol of positive energy are
placed in north east direction, Light reaches at around
3am-6am. This time is well suited fir jobs like meditation
and concentration. Best suited for pooja, yoga, study
room. This part is under the region of Ishana.
2. North West and West – This is the house of wind and
water god that’s why toilets is provided in this region
and open gallery and louvered windows are provided in
this direction.
3. East – This direction is ruled by Sun god and as
Sabarmati river flows in east and south east and is
believed the morning sun purifies water and water is
germ free that’s why building placement is according.
4. South East – Dedicated to god of fire and snack shop is
proposed in this portion.
5. South – Office portion is in this portion south monsoon
provides excellent ventilation.

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