Archiving Allahabad
Type: Academic
School: KRVIA, University of Mumbai
Year: 2014-15 Advisor: Abhijit Ekbote, Apurv Parikh, Hussain Z Indorewala, Kimaya Keluskar, Mayuri Sisodia, Rohan Shivkumar, Shirish Joshi & Vikram Pawar
Team: Adhish Parkar, Sameedha Mahajan & Priyanka Wakchaure
Software: Photoshop, Illustrator & Illustrator
Allahabad, India
Project Description
The city of Allahabad is at the very tip of the Doab where two rivers Ganga and Jamuna meet- (and is said also to be the meeting point of a third river underground - the Saraswati. As a result, this city has been one of the most important religious centres of the Hindu religion- being the site where the Kumbh mela is held every 4 years. Subsequent developments include the Mughal Emperor Akbar establishing a fort and a larger settlement on the banks of the Yamuna. Later colonial development took place to the North of this older city separated by the railway line. This area is starkly different from the rest of the city. As an important colonial centre the government of the time established all the important institutions of the colonial government in the own-including a high court and a university. It was only in the post-independence era that Allahabad began to be marginalised as a centre of learning. Today, as we see a dramatic increase in the urbanisation of the country, the city of Allahabad too is experiencing the pressures of sudden growth. This growth is often unregulated and is rarely mindful of the historical narrative that has given the city it’s a unique character.
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- Rohan Shivkumar
Dean, KRVIA, University of Mumbai
Sectional Axonometric
St. Mary's Convent
St. Mary’s Convent, located in the Civil Lines area of Allahabad, is a 148 years old building built in the Colonial Style. The plan is C-shaped, consisting of a central courtyard surrounded by classrooms. The ground floor of the structure is done in brick masonry, and the first floor is a recent extension built in RCC. All the corridors are lined with arches and are open, keeping the school airy and well-lit.
Plans, Sections & Elevation Drawings
Kamirekar House
The Kamirekar house, belonging to the Kamirekar family, is 200 years old and is located in the Daraganj area of Allahabad. It is a masonry, load-bearing and timber structure. The house is accessed through a narrow entrance that further leads into a courtyard, which is open to the sky. It is a single storey house with many rooms on the ground floor no longer being used by the family.
Sectional Axonometric
Plans, Sections & Elevation Drawings
Construction Exploration Model
ARCHIVING ALLAHABAD Exhibition
The Second year students had put together an exhibition “Archiving Allahabad” for which they began preparation from last week of November to the 26th of January when the exhibition was inaugurated.
As a part of the exhibition, the students had put together the drawings, a relief model, a website and construction models. The relief model was a scaled model of Allahabad which had the marker of the building documented in a way of a small model. The website had all the drawings put up along with the information of each building along with photos.
The exhibition was inaugurated by Riteish Deshmukh. The exhibition was put up from the 26th of January to 9th of February.
Exhibition Poster
