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Photo © Charles Correa Associates, courtesy The British Architectural Library, RIBA
Photo © Charles Correa Associates
One of Correa’s first works –
and one of his latestTHEN & NOW
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1958-63
Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya, Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad
This memorial museum is sited at the Sabarmati Ashram, where Mahatma Gandhi resided from 1917 to 1930. Built in homage to Gandhi and intended to propagate his ideas, the museum houses letters, photographs, and other documents that trace the freedom movement that he launched. Whilst most of the materials used in the construction are similar to the other buildings in the ashram – tiled roofs, brick walls, stone floors and wooden doors – a clear exception are the large reinforced concrete channels, which distinctively cap the main structure, acting as both beams and rainfall conduits. These graphically mark the grid-like plan of the museum, one which allows for additional bays to be added in the future. No glass windows are used anywhere in the building, instead light and ventilation are modulated by adjustable wooden louvres.
Photos © Charles Correa Associates
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2007-10
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
When planning this new research centre for bio-medical science, Correa was inspired by the history of the site, where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set out on his 1497 voyage during which he reached India. Correa also drew on his experience of designing for a very different location – the MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex in Boston – by ensuring that a social space forms the centre of the complex: a large near-enclosed terraced garden, an “open-to-sky-space,” giving doctors and scientists a place to relax and reflect. Of the three units that constitute the project, the largest is for the research and patient rooms, the second contains the theatre, exhibition hall, and offices, and the third is an open-air amphitheatre for the city. They have been arranged to create a 125-metre-long pathway that leads diagonally across the site towards the open sea – and the horizon beyond.
(rgw)Photo © Charles Correa Associates
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