Chandigarh Architecture Guide
The Chandigarh Architecture Guide by Vikramaditya Prakash is now available…..check it out! Chandigarh Architecture Guide http://www.altrim.net/en/altrim-publishers/#obres [...]
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Aditya Prakash Archives
The list of documents available at the Aditya Prakash Archive is now online. Check it out…. [...]
Analytic model of the Chandigarh Assembly building
This is a video showing the dis-assembly of a model made by students of University of Washington of Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Assembly building. I have matched it to Sheila Chandra’s Om [...]
Kaimbwala-Sukhna Ecological Zone
A part of the CUL2014 proposal, an interdisciplinary group of students from Urban Design and Planning and Architecture developed a proposal for an ecological zone centered on Chandigarh’s [...]
Deruralization studies: Patiali-ki-Rao, an intermittent river at the edge of Chandigarh
Here is some amazing work done by the CCA students Mahavir Singh and Divya Khurana (CUL2014), on the Patiali-ki-Rao, one of the two intermittent rivers that naturally defined the East and West edges [...]
Elements of Deruralization – Roads
The road networks are indexed to the conditions of density. They also disclose the lines of transformation, where the rural is aspiring to the urban. As such, they are also the leading indicators of [...]
Elements of Deruralization – Green cover
The finer grains of the green cover disclose a condition in which the peripheral lands are steadily losing their greens that, paradoxically, are preserved in the city [...]
Figure Ground of the Capitol
The figure-ground discloses three conditions – 1. At the center is the extremely low footprint of the Capitol Complex. This figure ground is, however, deceptive in part, because the Secreteriat [...]
The Conditions of Deruralization
The current green cover and land uses clearly show the distinction between the lands of the Capitol Complex and its adjacencies (i.e Sector 1), and the rural hinterland to its North. While the former [...]
Hydrology IIIa
Before the creation of Chandigarh, the local villages of the northern periphery were located right at the edge of the Shivalik Hills, or upstream in the river valleys on the meander terraces of the [...]
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