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APPROACH:

Focuses on ecology and architecture.

Employs local resources in an optimized way.

Considers the natural elements, passively and

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Considers the natural elements, passively and actively.

The impact of construction positive, improving lifestyle quality of the doers and the users.

ECO RESORT

RAMMED EARTH

CONSTRUCTION:

•Mud is the major component of her design.

•Earth in the form of compressed stabilized blocks and stabilized rammed earth is used for load bearing structure, arches, vaults and domes.

•Alternative systems and energies are also used: wastewater treatment MS, SUSHMA’S RESIDENCEalso used: wastewater treatment system, grey water recycling system, rainwater harvesting, solar and wind energy generation system.

•They are designed and integrated to complete buildings as sustainable systems - economically, socially and ecologically. These buildings can attract local plants and birds, so as to create unique and comfortable spaces.

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PROF. RAJAGOPALAN’S HOUSE

KINDERGARTEN

MR. RUSTAM VANIA’S HOUSE

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DINESH AND SARITA’S HOUSE

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• A Brazilian architect specialized in international modern architecture.

•Established as one of Modernism's greatest luminaries.

•He reshaped Brazil’s identity in the popular imagination and mesmerized architects around the globe.

•Pioneer in exploring the formal possibilities •Pioneer in exploring the formal possibilities of reinforced concrete solely for their aesthetic impact

•Home to the headquarters of the Latin American

•It is at the heart of current cultural, political and economic negotiations.

•The center includes a library an exhibition pavilion, a museum and an auditorium.

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The "big hand" sculpture, pays tribute Latin America's many hard-fought battles for freedom.

•The Auditrio Ibirapuera contains many different faces:. One side looks like a rectangle; the profile, a triangle; the entrance, which is dominated by a red "labareda" ("flame") that weaves through the building before finally spitting out into the park, looks like a modern version of a pharaoh's palace.

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•The interior contains artwork by Tomie Ohtake and LusAntnio Vallandro Keating, as well as an 800-seat concert hall.

•The Auditrio can be used for both indoor and outdoor shows: a 65-foot-wide door opens at the back of the stage so that Ibirapuera Park provides a beautiful live provides a beautiful live backdrop—or allows for an audience of approximately fifteen thousand people.

•Forty storey's high and wide but thin at the sides, the undulating rhythm of this skyscraper's horizontal lines turn it into an optical spectacle.

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•Planned in 1951 at the booming city center, it was an experiment in living: one of the first urban complexes to pack everything into one building—shops, restaurants, a church, a hotel and so on.

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