Jawahar Kala Kendra is an arts center located in Jaipur, India built between 1986-1991. The center's design is based on the original nine square plan of Jaipur city. Each square represents a planet and contains programs related to that planet's mythological representation, such as the library being in the square of Mercury who represents knowledge. The external walls are made of red sandstone and engraved with the astrological symbols of each planet.

2. JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA
JAIPUR

3.  Jawahar Kala Kendra is an arts and crafts centre
located in the city of Jaipur. The centre is
important not because of the nomenclature but its
close association with the city of Jaipur itself. The
centre was built in the year 1986 and the
construction completed in 1991.
 The place has an amazing interplay of light
, shadow and colors, evoking emotions in the user
and invite him to move further.
 The high walls with no fenestration in the façade
makes the building enclosed and it does not open
up to the city.

4.  The centre is an analogue of the original city pIan
of Jaipur drawn up by the Maharaja.
 Correa's plan for the Kendra invokes directly the
original navagraha or nine house Randal. One of
the squares is pivoted to recall the original city
plan and also to create the entrance.
 The plan of Jaipur city based on the nine square
Yantra in which one square is displaced and two
central squares combined. the squares is defined
by 8m high wall, symbolic of the fortification wall
along the Jaipur old city

6. SKETCHED ENTERANCE BY CHARLES CORREA

7. PLAN

8. The first planets enters is MANGAL which
Corresponds to jupiter.Since this symbol
Symbolizes power it was decided to house the
Director and administrative offices here.
This planet becomes the entry point to whole
Complex – so along the walls of mangal
Mahal is an explanation of navgraha and on the
Ceiling is painted a jain cosmograph depicting
All the rivers, mountains, animals and vegetatio
Of manifest world around us.

9.  The external walls of the building are clad in
red Agra sandstone, topped by a coping of
beige dholpur sandstone.
 On these external surfaces, the presence of each
of the planets is expressed by its traditional
symbol inlaid in white marble with polished
black granite and mica slate recalling the
surfaces of astronomical instruments at jantar
mantar.

10.  The building program has been "disaggregated" into eight
separate groupings corresponding to the myths
represented by that particular planet:
 for instance, the library is located ill the square of the
planet Mercury which traditionally represents knowledge,
 the theatres are in the house of Venus, representing the
arts.
 The central square, as specified in the Vedic Shastras, is
avoid: representing the Nothing which is Everything. The
flooring pattern in this square is a diagram of the lotus
representing the sun. City Palace, Jaipur.
 The astrological symbol of each planet is directly
expressed in a cut-out opening dong its external wall.
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