ANALYSIS

OF

TAJ MAHALBY:JYOTI AHLAWATTSERINGSAJIDAAASTHAMADHUR

ASSIGNMENT-4

PRIMARY ELEMENTS : POINT,LINE,PLANE

A POINT MARKS A POSITION IN SPACE.

IN THIS PLAN ITS MARKING THE INTERSECTION OF TWO LINES.

HERE POINT IS STABLE AND AT REST, ORGANIZING SURROUNDING ELEMENTS ABOUT ITSELF AND DOMINATING ITS FIELD.

THESE POINTS CONNECTED BY LINES ARE FORMING A BASE PLANE FOR THE TOMB.

HERE IN THE COMPLEX TWO POINTS ARE CREATING AN AXIS LINE.

MASOULEUM PLAN

VERTICAL LINEAR ELEMENTS (IN THIS CASE MINARETS) ARE DEFINING A TRANSPARENT VOLUME OF SPACE. IN THE EXAMPLE FOUR MINARET TOWERS OUTLINE A SPATIAL FIELD FROM WHERE DOME RISE.

USE OF DIFFERENT WALL PLANES ARE CREATING VOLUMETRIC ELEMENTS.

LINES CREATINGCENTRAL DOME AREA PLANE

ADDITIVE FORM OF TRIANGLE AND RECTANGLE AND OCTAGONAL AND SQAURE RES.

CENTRALIZED FORM

• A NO. OF SECONDARY FORMS CLUSTERED ABOUT A DOMINANT , CENTRAL PARENT- FORM

• VISUAL DOMINANCE OF A GEOMETRICALLY REGULAR, CENTRALLY LOCATED FORM

• IN THE CASE OF TAJ MAHAL, IT CONSIST OF SHAPES SUCH AS TRINGLE , RECTANGLE AND LINEAR

• LINEAR FORM IN TAJ MAHAL IS MANIPULATED TO ENCLOSE A PORTION OF SPACE.

• GRID HAS BEEN ROTATED FOR SOME ELEMENTS AND OCTAGONAL FORMS IN PLANNING.

• TEXTURE AND COLOR TOGETHER AFFECT THE VISUAL WEIGHT AND SCALE OF A PLANE AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH IT ABSORBS OR REFLECTS LIGHT AND SOUND

ELEMENTS OF KNOWN SIZE WITHIN THE VISUAL CONTEXT OF A PLANE CAN AID OUR PERCEPTION OF ITS SIZE AND SCALE.

TRIANGLE

LINEAR

RECTANGLE

OCTAGONAL

SQUARE

FORMS AND SHAPES :

ORGANISATION: CENTRALLY ORGANISED

•A CENTRALIZED ORGANIZATION IS A STABLE, CONCENTRATED COMPOSITION THAT CONSISTS OF A NUMBER OF SECONDARY SPACES GROUPED AROUND A LARGE, DOMINANT, CENTRAL SPACE.

•THE CENTRAL, UNIFYING SPACE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS GENERALLY REGULAR IN FORM AND LARGE ENOUGH IN SIZE TO GATHER A NUMBER OF SECONDARY SPACES ABOUT ITS PERIMETER.

•THE SECONDARY SPACES OF THE ORGANIZATION MAY BE EQUIVALENT TO ONE ANOTHER IN FUNCTION, FORM, AND SIZE, AND CREATE AN OVERALL CONFIGURATION THAT IS GEOMETRICALLY REGULAR AND SYMMETRICAL ABOUT TWO OR MORE AXES.

•THE SECONDARY SPACES MAY DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER IN FORM OR SIZE IN ORDER TO RESPOND TO INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS OF FUNCTION, EXPRESS THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE, OR ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

•THIS DIFFERENTIATION AMONG THE SECONDARY SPACES ALSO ALLOWS THE FORM OF A CENTRALIZED ORGA- NIZATION TO RESPOND TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF ITS SITE.

SPACES LINKED BY COMMON SPACES

2.8X

X

1.6X

X/4 X/2

PROPORTION AND SCALE A NUMBER OF THEORIES OF “DESIRABLE” PROPORTIONS

HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE COURSE OF HISTORY.

OUT OF WHICH TAJ MAHAL FOLLOW :

GOLDEN SECTION RATIO ALL RECTANGLES USED IN THE TOMB BUILDING AND ITS

MAIN ARCH ARE ALL GOLDEN RECTANGLE WITH HEIGHT TO WIDTH RATIO EQUAL TO 0.618.

THE MAIN TOMB ELEVATION IS IN 12:12 PROPORTION.

GOLDEN RECTANGLES IN TOMB AND ITS FRONT VAULT.

USE OF DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS IN THE TOMB.

25

12

X

X/2

X/4

PLINTH AND MATERIAL SCALE IN COMPARISON TO HUMAN SCALE IN MINARET.

USE OF DIFFERENT SCALES

X5X

36X

3X

10X

X

COMPARISON OF HUMAN SCALE TO MINARET.

USE OF HUMAN AND MONUMENTAL SCALE IN DEIGN OF TOMB FRONT VAULT AND ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO COMPLEX

8X

X3X

ORDERING PRINCIPLES

USE OF VARIOUS AXISES PRODUCING SYMMETRY

VIEW OF ENTRANCE GATEWAY FROM THE TOMB.

VISUAL AXIS CREATED BY LINEAR PLANNING OF WATER BODY.

THERE IS A CONCEPT OF SERIAL VISION WHICH IS FOLLOWED.

VISUAL AXES AND CONCEPT OF SERIAL VISION

EXTERIOR VIEW OF ENTRANCE GATEWATY.

VIEW FROM INSIDE OF ENTRANCE GATEWAY

VIEW FROM OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE GATEWAY

SERIAL VISIONS CREATED ALONG AN AXIS.

AT ENTRANCE WE CAN SEE ONLY THE CENTRAL TOMB PART.AFTER GOING OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE GATEWAY WE CAN SEE THE WHOLE MAUSOLEUM.

AXIS OF SYMMETRY IN TOMB

APPROACH

THIS IS THE FIRST PHASE OF THE CIRCULATION SYSTEM, DURING WHICH WE ARE PREPARED TO SEE, EXPERIENCE, AND USE THE SPACES WITHIN A BUILDING.

FRONTAL A FRONTAL APPROACH LEADS DIRECTLY TO THE ENTRANCE OF A BUILDING ALONG A STRAIGHT, AXIAL PATH.

ENTRANCE

CONFIGURATION OF THE PATH

GRID A GRID CONFIGURATION CONSISTS OF TWO SETS OF PARALLEL PATHS THAT INTERSECT AT REGULAR INTERVALS AND CREATE SQUARE RECTANGULAR FIELDS OF SPACE.

THE FOUR MAIN SECTIONS ARE SEPARATED BY TWO WATER CHANNELS WHICH BISECT AT RIGHT ANGLES. EACH OF THESE SECTIONS, ARE IN TURN, DIVIDED INTO QUARTERS BY SANDSTONE PATHS. THE ADDITION OF WATER COURSES IS ENDEMIC TO THE CHAHAR-BAGH DESIGN. RADIAL

A RADIAL CONFIGURATION HAS LINEAR PATHS EXTENDING FROM OR TERMINATING AT A CENTRAL, COMMON POINT.

THE INTERIOR FLOOR PLAN OF TAJ MAHAL CLEARLY SHOWS THE RADIAL LAYOUT.

PATH–SPACE RELATIONSHIP

PASS THROUGHY THE SPACES• THE PATH IS THROUGH A SPACE

AXIALLY.• IN CUTTING THROUGH A SPACE, THE

PATH CREATES PATTERNS OF THE REST AND MOVEMENT WITHIN IT.

THE TAJ MAHAL IS LOCATED AT THE END OF THE PATH, THE PATH RUNS FROM THE MAIN GATE TILL THE END WHERE TAJ MAHAL IS LOCATED, PASSING THROUGH THE CHAR BAGH WHICH CREATES A PATTERNS OF GRID.

IN TERMS OF LOCATION, THIS ENTRANCE IS WITHIN THE FRONTAL PLAN OF A BUILDING.THE LOCATION OF THE ENTRANCE DETERMINE THE CONFIGURATION OF THE PATH AND THE PATTERN OF THE ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE SPACE.

CIRCULATION