Pande Sanjana Adesh Niti

HR4000

Revealing Building Anatomy

'Revealing Building Anatomy: Reading Interior-Exterior Separation Through Structure, Envelope, and Ornament at the BDA Headquarters' investigates Anant Raje’s Bhopal Development Authority building through the lens of Michael Cadwell’s Strange Details. This research examines how Raje’s tectonic choices articulate spatial boundaries, using drawing, archival study, and comparative analysis. Focusing on three scales—masterplan, building, and detail—it reveals how deviations from typical practices and local/global typologies manifest in programmatic separations, material contrasts, and construction thresholds. By closely reading these ‘strange details,’ the project shows how structure, envelope, and ornament together choreograph the separation between interior and exterior, shaping user experience.

View Additional Work

Report Content

Revealing Building Anatomy : Analyzing BDA through its 'Strange Details'

Introduction : The Plaza as a Binder, with Spatial Isolation from the Street

Drawing a Comparison within Indian and Global Contexts

Sectional Perspective showing the building construction, experiential quality and details

Raje's and Kahn's approach to the plan as a 'Society of Rooms'

The shell and the skeleton. Axonometric drawings showing building structure

Analyzing the relationship between structure and ornamentation

The Lightwells : Exterior Invisibility Through Inward Facing Windows

Windows Concealing the Inner Structure of the Building

Diagram showing the various frameworks of anlalysis showing the separation of Interior and Exterior at the BDA