Location: Ahmedabad
Architect: Bimal Patel (HCPDPM)
The Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) is a non-profit organization of over 400 industries in the city. It provides management training as well as space for scientific and industrial research. The building portrayed here houses various activities of this institution and it is designed by architect Bimal Patel (HCPDPM). This building has become a landmark of the city in a very short span
entrance porch
ramp
The building has a long bar-like plan with a corridor in the centre. This corridor serves various functions on both the floors and it gets lit with verandahs and courts at intervals. On the ground floor building comprises of classrooms, a bookshop and offices; whereas on the first floor it houses an auditorium, a library and an exhibition space. The most dramatic of all spaces is its entrance porch that cuts the linearity of the plan and creates another axis. The ramp on the other side accentuates this axis. The building’s material palette comprises of exposed reinforced concrete, mild steel for fenestration and kotah stone for floor. The AMA building won the World Architecture Award in 2001 and an ar+d High Commendation the same year.
