Amdavad ni Gufa, once called Husain-Doshi ni Gufa, is an underground art gallery in Ahmedabad. B. V. Doshi's firm Vastu Shilpa Consultants designed it for the painter M. F. Husain, who also painted the interior. Construction began in 1992 and it was completed in 1995. The article describes the style as modern and blobitecture, which is not an atlas style.
Domes covered in a mosaic of broken ceramic crockery and waste tiles sit above the ground. The walls and domes are ferrocement about 1 inch thick. Irregular, inclined columns like trees support the domes. There are no straight walls, and light enters through openings called snouts. Unskilled tribal laborers built it with hand tools.
The largest mural, the Sheshnag serpent, is 100 feet (30 m) long. The gallery is open daily except Mondays and public holidays, from 4 to 8 p.m.
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