A ppt on the architecture style of raj rewal and the parliament library.

1. Parliament Library, New Delhi
Aniruddh Jain 10110006
Jha Ashutosh S. 10110029

2. Project Details
 Client: Lok Sabha Secretariat, GOI
 Architect: Raj Rewal Associates, New Delhi
 Structural Engineer: CPWD, GOI
 Contractor: L&T Ltd., ECC Construction
Division
 Built Area: 60’460 m²
 Cost: INR 270 crore
 Design 1993 - 1994
 Completed 2003

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• Raj Rewal was born in Hoshiarpur, Punjab in1934.
• School of arts in Delhi for 6 months before joining School of
Architecture in Delhi.
• AA London for post graduation.
• Gold medallist IIA ’89 | Robert Mathew Award by CWAA

4. Philosophy
• Le Corbusier Inspired.
• Inspired by the Rasa theory.

5. • Raj Rewal believes that contemporary architecture should
take advantage of all the most advanced technologies that
modernity has to offer. However this does not stop him
from taking from traditional everything that can hold value.

6. History
• 1921 small library constructed in Central Legislative
Assembly
• Parliament building an appendage as earlier Viceroys house
was the authority center

7. Design Requirements
• The Library was expected to be ‘apt for the 21st century’ (Eapen
2002, 144) while also complementing the majestic heritage
from the British.

8. How were the architects chosen?
• A limited competition for the new addition to India’s
Parliament was organised by the government in 1989
• The winner, announced in 1991, was the renowned architect
Raj Rewal, author of many prominent works throughout India
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9. Functional requirements
Library functions – a main reading; AV library, research and computer
divisions; conservation laboratory; archival room with temperature below
freezing point
Parliamentary functions – the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and
Training (BPST), Library Committee Room, Parliament Museum; Media,
press briefing room
Meeting halls - 1,100-seat auditorium

10. Surroundings

11. Parliament
• NeoColonial Indian Architecture
• Designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker in the first
half of the 20th century, the city plan includes India Gate
(War Memorial), Rajpath (parade route), and the
Rashtrapati Bhavan

14. Architectural influences
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur

15. Architectural influences
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur

16. Architectural influences
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur
• Mandalas

17. Architectural influences
• Datia Palace, MP
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur
• Mandalas

18. Architectural influences
• Datia Palace, MP
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur
• Mandalas
• Taj Mahal

19. Architectural influences
• Datia Palace, MP
• Adinath Temple, Ranakpur
• Mandalas
• Taj Mahal
• FINALLY

20. • The sub-structure of the Library makes use of innovative foundation
systems based on diaphragm walls that go to a depth of 14 metres below
ground.
Structures

21. • The structure of standard floors is a reinforced concrete frame system with
coffered concrete slabs, supported by circular reinforced concrete columns
Structures

22. • There are five types of structural lattice, each designed to carry a cluster of
shallow bubble domes made of lightweight concrete. Spanning five metres
each (less in the auditorium), these domes are precast shell structures in
fibro-cement, termed ‘fibre-reinforced concrete’ (FRC)
Structures

23. Columns are mostly concrete, except for the detached steel columns around the
building’s periphery. The basic infill materials are brick and glass brick
Structural lattices are essentially made of tubular elements, with a combination of
steel tubes, solid and hollow steel castings. Volumetric space lattices on larger
spaces have high tensile bars in addition
Materials

24. The ingredients of the FRC shell domes, all precast on site, include steel fibres,
cement,aggregate, reinforced steel, micro-silica fumes, blast furnace slag, super
plasticiser and water
The glass dome over the Focal Centre is made of stainless steel pipes of different
diameter and curvatures.
Materials

25. Planning

26. Planning

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29. South-west courtyard with amphitheatre, surfaces clad in red and white sandstone.

30. South-west courtyard with amphitheatre, surfaces clad in red and white sandstone.

31. South-east courtyard, view
towards the dome of the
VIP entrance facing the
Parliament’s colonnade.

32. Design Aspects

33. Lights

34. Jalis
Use of handcrafted stone
grills, or jalis. In precolonial
Indian architecture, jalis
were used for decoration
and to separate the outside
from the inside, to diffuse
the harsh sunlight, and to
visually and audibly connect
two spaces while physically
separating them.

35. Jalis

36. Roofing

37. Roofing

38. Continuity and Change

39. Continuity and Change

40. Interiors

42. Comparison
JFK Library - 1979

43. Comparison
US Library of Congress

44. Comparison
Salt Lake City Public Library - 2003

45. Comparison
Stockholm Public Library - 1928

46. Comparison
Vancouver Public Libraries

47. Critiques
Fissures on a Toad’s back!
Light Changes are annoying.
Grand Atrium causes noise pollution from inside.

48. Analysis
Everything Copied

49. Analysis
Objects don’t fit in together