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LOUIS I. KAHN TROPHY
Temple documentation and analysis work
TYPE : College competition | Group project
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YEAR : 2019 | 2nd Yr of B.Arch
LOCATION : Lepakshi temple,Anantapur, India
The brief of this competition was to do a documentation about a historical and culturally strrong building that would fit into the theme of “Architecture of the semi sacred” which Intends to relook at the architecture located between the civic and sacred spaces. For this brief intervention . we have chosen the Lepakshi temple of Anantapur . that would come under civic and sacred spaces and we have conducted documentation along with measured drawings of the chosen site and to see how the building got translated into a built form and to see the Interface between civic and sacred spaces.
SOCIO ECONOMIC UPLIFTMENT
The kalyana mandapa increased the socio-economic upliftment of the period
COST EFFICIENT
The permenant space could cut down the expense of creating a temperory space that was required during the occurence of every wedding in the vicinity
SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
This tends to support social welfare services within the temple complex
The plan of the temple complex is angled due to the projection in the west wall that accomodate a gate and what was once a free-standing mandapa. A colonnade runs around the inner face of the outer enclosure, interrupted only by the gateway on the north, east and west.
The kalyanamandapa is raised on a basement, visible on the north and the east only. The mouldings comprise a sequence of padma with jewelled undulating profile, jeweled and ribbed kumuda, and petalled kapota with foliated kudus. The mouldings are interrupted in the middle of the north side by flights of steps and on the east.
These eight capitals are used interchangeably in Kalynam mandapam. Panchangashrosmom and Yagnashalo and Dhormasholo. Capitals 3.4,6.7,8 ore used in Kalyanom Mandapam. Capitals 2,3,4.7,8 are used in Dharmoshola. Capitals 1.3 ore used in Yagnashalo. Capitals 2.8 are used in Panchangoshrovnam • Capitals found in Kolyanam Mondopom ond Dharmashold Ore more ornamented than the capitals found in Yagnashala and Panchaga mandapa.
