Changing light, dramatic spaces and Le Corbusier’s masterful compositions in space frames the Ahmedabad Textile Millowners’ Association building in its many moods.

A wedge of light washes the curved plywood in the auditorium – a concrete enclosure free of structural configuration of the building

The many layers of the built composition – each unique in its own, each part of the same whole.

Dramatic shadows of dramatic forms keep rapidly changing especially in the fast-setting winter sun.

Free forms and free façade – the complexity of the built revealed in the simplicity of moving light.

The screen – permeates very little and very carefully.

The beautiful complexity of space and the simplicity of a monolithic structure.

Free forms and free façade – the complexity of the built revealed in the simplicity of moving light.

The structure reveals itself in its many layers.

Sharp wedges – the architecture of the building allows for surprises and fluid movements.

The forms of shuttering plates render a unique texture to each surface.

And slowly, the twilight approaches.

The east façade allows light while the west forbids it.

Many layers, many forms, many ideas in one structural whole.

Juxtaposed with the built.

Winter Light in Ahmedabad is smooth, crisp and as evident from these images – beautiful. The east façade of the Milowners’ Building in Ahmedabad is designed to protect from the harsh west sun. But on rare days in December, January and February, the late sun washes the concrete walls and stone floors of the building with a uniform layer of light.

This light is moderated by the detached screen – a ‘free façade’ that is anchored to the building but independent of the same. The curves, straight lines, double walls, free columns and dramatic mezzanines of the building cast complex shadows. Corbusier’s concrete – formed in many incredible casts arrests the light and reflects the right amount in the tight intensity. Slowly, the golden hour passes and everything becomes dark.