NEW IIMA CAMPUS
The plain, hard and grey concrete surfaces enforce one to maintain a certain distance from the walls. Here, the corridor spaces become transparent and live while reflecting trees and sunlight coming from the array of openings. The plain surfaces of concrete remain dull. The walls become live when the sunlight coming within the space renders the concrete walls with an orange tint. An array of openings brings the natural light and the flooring creates the reflection of trees creating transparent spaces within thin walls. On the first floors, the thin structure brings a huge amount of light through wide openings whereas on the ground floor this transparency is lost and the walls feel bulky due to its scale and proportion where it creates comparatively dark grey volumes due to fewer openings.
The large openings in the thin walls create transparent and flowing spaces whereas in the areas where there are fewer openings it creates small dark grey spaces which restrict the movement. The material has allowed creating free-flowing spaces of large span without any distraction of structural member and the openness of the spaces connect a person with outer natural elements. The construction technique allows creating openings of varied size and shape but the variation of the opening is limited to its size and shape.
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