TY - RPRT T1 - Bhadra Square Redevelopment Plan Y1 - 1975 A1 - Balkrishna V Doshi KW - Ahmedabad KW - Bhadra Square Redevelopment Plan KW - Modernist Architecture in India KW - Urban Proposal AB -

... Located on the bank of the river, this area included the Azam Khan Palace and the Bhadrakali Temple. Opposite this place was the central open area and on the axis leading to the east are the three gates, ... In between the Palace and the gates was the Great Maidan. This Maidan was gradually encroached upon by shopping activities and bazaar and in due course housing were also added.

PB - Vastu Shilpa CY - Ahmedabad N1 -

It must have been during those dozen or so years that it took Doshi to realize Premabhai Hall, that he seems to have come to terms with a different spatial conception. The final version, is not one of his best works, though it does recognize and, acknowledge, albeit tentatively, the presence of the city around it. This recognition of the city is evident in Doshi's subsequent scheme for the redevelopment of the Bhadra Square in front of the building. It is a recognition of the reciprocity between the individual and the community.

 

Indian cities show a highly developed sense of urban space. Rejecting the freedom of the individual at the cost of the public domain, Indian builders have preferred a reciprocity between the private and the public whereby the validity of the former depend upon its ability to shape the latter. Jaimini Mehta, 1988

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