Odharia Jay Maheshbhai

AR2004

Ahmedabad Art Museum

The project Tallin Art Museum was a competition entry project by Alvar Aalto. Reimagining and introducing the idea of forest and nature in the Ahmedabad context to bind the people with the art exhibits. The museum is imagined to be a center in Ahmedabad which has a collection of local arts and it also introduces world art to the City. Materials create spatial qualities and wood is used to get the warmth in spaces. The overall museum is a frame structure. Aalto’s nature has always been experimenting through the buildings and indulges with human emotions by contrasting with surroundings. Experimenting with steel and timber as a primary Structural elements to dematerialize the structure and dry way of construction to set an example in Ahmedabad Context.


Report Content

Ex. 1 Deconstructing the Making (Individual work) | Ex. 2 Matter of Materials - Timber (Group Work) a) 1:1 Physical Model b) History of Wood - Timeline

Ex.3 Reading the Architectonics - Faculty of Performing Arts, Vadodara - Measured Drawings

Ex. 4 Architect's Study - ALVAR AALTO | Ex. 5 Site Study | Ex. 6 Program Study - Tallin Art Museum

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Design Concepts and Site Plan

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Ground Floor Plan and First Floor Plan

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Sections and Elevations

Ahmedabad Art Museum -Wall Section & Axonometric Drawing (The Painting Exhibition- World Art To the City)

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Axonometric Drawing (The Stone Building part - The Local Art Exhibition Space- Folk Museum)

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Openings and Fenestration

Ahmedabad Art Museum - Visualizing the spaces