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CONSTRUCTION
TECHNIQUES
PROPOSED
TECHNIQUES
&
LITERATURE STUDIES
FUNICULAR ROOF
A GRADUATE SCHOOL
DEDICATED TO UTILIZING
THE STUDY OF ECONOMICS
TO HELP THE POOR.
MAIN FEATURES OF THIS BUILDING:
• HE DESIGNED THE BUILDINGS AT
THE CENTRE TO PRACTICALLY
COOL THEM.
• HE RENDERS JALIS, A PERFORATED
WOODEN SCREEN FOUND IN
TRADITIONAL INDIAN
ARCHITECTURE, IN BRICK;
• THE OPEN GRILLWORK ALLOWS
COOL BREEZES TO WAFT INTO THE
INTERIOR WHILE FILTERING HARSH,
DIRECT SUNLIGHT.
• SOME BUILDINGS INCLUDE A
SERIES OF SMALL COURTYARDS
CONTAINING SHALLOW POOLS IN
THE CENTER, WHOSE
EVAPORATION HELPS COOL THE
AIR.
• PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE
EXISTING SITE AS HE BEGAN TO
DESIGN THE PROJECT, BAKER LEFT
AS MANY COCONUT PALM TREES
IN PLACE AS POSSIBLE TO CAST
COOLING SHADE ONTO THE
CAMPUS.
• THE COMPUTER CENTRE AT THE
CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT
STUDIES,
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. HERE
BAKER EVOLVED AN
INNOVATIVE SYSTEM OF
CURVED DOUBLE WALLS TO
SAVE ON COST AND TO
CONSERVE THE ENERGY .
• IN EVALUATING THE CAMPUS
FOR THE CENTRE, BAKER
PLANNED ROADS ALONG THE
LOWER, WHILE FOOTPATHS
WERE ROUTED ALONG
NATURALLY OCCURRING
ELEVATED AREAS; FOLLOWING
THE NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY
HELPS TO LIMIT EROSION AND
DESPOILMENT OF THE
ENVIRONMENT.
• BRICKWALLS WERE LEFT
UNPLASTERED AND BRICK
CORBELLING WAS USED
RATHER THAN MORE
EXPENSIVE CONCRETE
LINTELS.
• WITH HIS MASTERY OVER HIS
MEDIUM, BAKER CREATES A
VARIETY OF TEXTURES AND
PATTERNS BY SIMPLE
MANIPULATION OF THE WAY
IN WHICH BRICKS ARE
PLACED IN THE WALL.
• THE ARCHITECTURE OF THIS
ACADEMIC COMPLEX WAS
CONCEIVED AS A
DEMONSTRATION OF
ECONOMICALLY
RESPONSIBLE BUILDING
PRACTICES.
BAKER’S HOUSE “THE HAMLET”
MUD BRICKS.
TIMBER SALVAGED FROM AN OLD
BOAT JETTY.
• ONE OF THE OTHER
SIGNATURE ELEMENTS OF HIS
DESIGN INCLUDES THE USE
OF CIRCULAR WALLS, WHICH
USE FAR LESS BRICK THAN
RECTANGULAR WALLS.
• IN ADDITION, WHEN HE DOES
USE CONCRETE FOR A ROOF,
HE EMBEDS CHIPPED OR
BROKEN TERRA COTTA
ROOFING TILES INTO THE
MIXTURE.
• THESE TILES, WHICH
NORMALLY WOULD BE
THROWN AWAY,
CONTRIBUTE TO THE
STRENGTH OF THE ROOF,
ALLOW LESS OF THE
EXPENSIVE CONCRETE TO BE
USED, AND REDUCE THE
STRUCTURAL LOAD OF THE
BUILDING.
• HE USED BROKEN TILES FOR
THE OUTER PAVED AREA OF
HIS GARDEN.
• HE MADE AN EXTENSIVE USE
OF TIMBER IN HIS HOUSE, LIKE
IN THE LIVING ROOM OF
HOUSE, THE DETAILING IN
WOOD AND MUD BRICKS ARE
WONDERFUL.
• THE LIVING ROOM, AN
INTEGRATION OF NEW
BUILDING AND SALVAGED
TIMBER FROM TRADITIONAL
BUILDINGS THAT WERE BEING
DEMOLISHED.
• BAKER'S INNOVATIVE USE OF
DISCARDED BOTTLES, INSET IN
THE WALLS GIVING A VERY
GOOD EFFECT OF LIGHT AND
CREATING AN ILLUSION OF
STAINED GLASS.