TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dave, Jeny (UA0612)
AU  - Pandya, Yatin (Guide)
TI  - Building facade : Its role and expression, a study of facade as reflection of context in space and time(case study institution buildings Ahmedabad) (Softcopy is also available)
U1  - A TH-1267 
PY  - 2017///
N1  - CONTENTS
Introduction       9
Aim      11
Objective    11
Methodology      11
Scope and limitation   12
Chapter 1: Facade   13
1.1 Facade the phenomenon  13
Facade as an envelope - negotiator between outside and inside  14
1.2 Experience of the facade  15
1.3 Roles/responsibility of the facade  15
1.3.1 Facade as a primary first element to encounter (its responsibility to
expression)  16
1.4 Attributes  18
1.4.1 Envelope  18
1.4.1.1 Facade as form   18
1.4.1.2 Spatial enclosure     19
Enclosure to the interior environment     19
Enclosure to the exterior environment    19
1.4.2 Barrier value         20
1.4.2.1 Facade as a barrier to site context      20
1.4.2.2 Facade as barrier value in terms of structural responsibilities    21
1.4.2.3 Facade as barrier value as a shell to protection from climate:
(waterproof, thermally efficient, airtight, condensation proof)         21
1.4.2.4 Security and privacy    23
1.4.3 Communication value     24
1.4.3.1 Facade relation with inside outside    25
1.4.3.2 Transition and continuity (abrupt connection, spatial connection,
spatial continuity)         25
1.4.3.3 Transparency        28
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1.4.3.4 Light   29
1.4.3.5 Activities come immediate or in the facade    29
1.4.3.6 Accessibility    30
1.4.4 Tectonic value    31
1.4.4.1 Symbolic value      31
1.4.4.2 Imageability       31
1.4.4.3 Identity          32
1.4.5 Association value    33
1.4.5.1 A measure of its meaningfulness:   33
1.4.5.2 Facade and conceptual values to the building           33
1.5 Facade and components    35
1.5.1 Composition and order:  37
1.5.2 Scale and proportion       40
1.5.3 Decoration (ornamentation)    40
1.6 Attributing factors that affect the designing of the facade    41
1.6.1 Facade and functions    41
1.6.2 Facade and culture        43
1.6.3 Influence of material and technology        44
1.6.3.1 Structure:     45
1.6.3.2 Texture:      46
1.6.3.3 Color:     46
1.6.4 Facade and environment factor     48
1.6.4.1 Physical aspects of nature    48
1.6.4.2 Nonphysical aspects:     49
1.6.5 Facade and economic factors     51
1.6.6 Facade and political factors       52
1.6.7 Facade and religion       53
1.6.8 Facade and time period/era    54
1.7 Facade and stylization general historic approaches of the facade expression   55
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Chapter 2 Institution buildings (reason as collective thoughts/ sentiments of that
time)     59
2.1 Ahmedabad          59
2.2 Institution buildings:   60
2.3 Facade speaking about rulers, architecture style, and time era classification   61
Ahmedabad facade speaking about openings and climate    68
Ahmedabad facade speaking about material    70
2.4 Case study selecting criteria      71
2.5 Frame work of analysis    71
Chapter 3 Case study analysis    72
Case Study 1 Rani Sipri Masjid        72
Case Study 2 Vanita Vishram School     80
Case Study 3 I.P.Mission    88
Case Study 4 ATMA    96
Case Study 5 L.D. Indian Institute Of Indology      104
Case Study 6 Ahmedabad Management Association         113
Chapter 4 Conclusion:     121
Bibliography:  124
Illustration credit   128

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