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IIT Jodhpur Campus

“IIT Campus prescribes a new design vocabulary in campus architecture” The design of the IIT, Jodhpur campus was conceptualized to establish an international brand and reinforce IIT’s reputation as a world education leader. The Campus Master Plan sets out to build a totally self-sufficient, green “oasis” and fountain of knowledge in the middle of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert. Careful attention has been paid to the principles of shading, orientation and as well as water flow. The plan is compact, dense and low rise. Buildings shade each other, shade pathways, streets and courtyards shade themselves with overhangs, louvers and jaalis. “The architects aspired to create a campus that acts as a living laboratory so that the students can learn various practices of sustainability while walking and being part of the campus.”

Site Area – 850 Acres Built-up Area – 8,07,518 Sq.m. Cost of project – 3660 Crores ( Four Phases ) URBAN DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR THE CAMPUS The overarching planning concept is a radiating geometry that emanates from the central step-well amphitheatre at the very heart of the campus. This aims at linking the entire campus in a unifying gesture. A specific geometry is planned for the network of radiating streets and ring road. The intersection of this street system establishes five sectors. Located within the boundaries of the sector are the courtyard building typologies for both the academic programme and hostel programme (hostels, faculty, and staff), each with their own unique architectural requirements in terms of massing, functionality, planning and elevation. The courtyard provides shade and a semi-private open space for relaxation, play and study. The special organization is achieved by a logical, repetitive and integrated system of buildings, streets and open space each with their own system, interconnected by the spaces that they define. The streets define the sectors for the location of the building and the buildings define the courtyards and the open spaces. The buildings essentially draw inspiration from the historic models of Jodhpur. The building mass both contains and forms the shaded open spaces. The building blocks are a maximum three storey high (15 meters), with the plans and the elevations governed by their use. All of the housing is based on a shaded “green” courtyard typology with shared open space at the centre. For the hostel programme, male and female students are located in separate buildings. DEVELOPMENT PLAN The campus master plan is to be constructed in various development phases. Landscape phasing will be completed in parallel with the infrastructure and building construction. Since many projects will be completed simultaneously on the campus, the campus site and landscape phasing will include protecting the soils and vegetation, as well as work in concert with building construction, to reduce congestion during partial occupancy. The beauty of the master plan is that while it grows it retains its iconic and unique identity. The construction of the master plan is to be carried in four phases between the 2013 and 2025. NET POSITIVE CAMPUS The campus attains energy efficiency using passive, active and innovative design measures at both the building and master plan levels to provide even higher grades of efficiency, reduced energy footprint and improved occupant comfort to achieve a net positive energy campus. The approach to achieving a high performance design is attained through reduced energy demands of the building, meeting loads with high performance equipment and offsetting the energy consumption by using renewable energy. The architects aim to embrace the traditional concepts of Jodhpur and combine them with the current cutting edge energy reduction technologies. Importance has been given to reduce the energy demands of the campus and then meeting them with very high performance equipment. Onsite renewable energy technologies are the final step in offsetting this energy consumption to achieve a net zero energy campus. The hostel and residential zone of the campus is designed to maintain occupant comfort without the means of any active conditioning strategies. Air movement is induced through thermal labyrinths, which are located below the building, to provide cooler air to the hostels using passive cooling strategies. The education, administration and supportive zone of the campus is a fully conditioned zone which employs all of the passive design strategies, along with active HVAC measures to meet the higher cooling demand. These buildings will have high performance HVAC controls of temperature resets, outdoor air flow monitoring, and heat recovery among other strategies, to have a considerably lower footprint than a conventional building. ARCHITECTURAL STRATEGIES The academic zone The academic zone buildings are designed and sized to provide a variety of spaces according to the program including classrooms and labs of varying sizes and proportions, faculty offices, meeting rooms and lounges. The interconnected stairs are extra wide to promote chance meetings and are located at the corners to maximize flexibility and efficiency. All three- storey high buildings contain a basement. Central courtyards for all building zones are one meter below street grade to allow light to penetrate into the basement level. The building’s basements are designed for lab use where daylight is not required, storage, mechanical rooms and labyrinth. Rooms are no greater than ten meters from a window to maximize daylight. The buildings are designed to allow for natural ventilation. Jaalis have been traditionally used for light and air. Locally made precast concrete jaali screens will be used on the East-West facades of the academic building. Adjustable smart louvers are provided to screen the south façade of the academic building. All south facades facing the courtyard have a two meter overhang to allow for additional shading. The hostel zone The hostel buildings are designed with a double loaded corridor, with North-South facing rooms. The double loaded corridors also allow maintaining air circulation and service efficiency. The common spaces on various floors allow for interaction among students. The services are positioned amongst the East-West axis. The Residential Zone The housing is designed as a row housing typology where two units on each level share a common staircase and the other two share a common wall and a air shaft. Each building allows for a maximum of six units on each side of the courtyard. Each unit has a individual wind catcher that circulates cool air from the labyrinth beneath, during the day and extract hot air out at night. The windows are also staggered to provide for maximum shading and unit natural cooling. Double glazed windows are used for all three blocks for both natural ventilation and views towards landscaped courtyard, plazas and parks. LANDSCAPING The landscape and architectural components of the campus are based on capturing, storing and using every drop of water from the monsoon. An integrated approach of the very latest innovative systems creates sustainable open spaces that in harmony with the setting, seasonal interest and microclimate. The strategy aims high optimization of de-desertification to produce high agricultural production and support a diversity of plant, livestock and wildlife. As the landscape evolves, and the hydrological regime improves, the campus may be able to support species, not normally found in desert climates. Within the academic sector and residential “villages” of the campus, there are narrow shaded pedestrian streets for electric buses and bicycles. Specific courtyards and gathering spaces are designed to be served as outdoor classrooms. A variety of shaded building courtyards pocket “oasis-like” gardens and demonstration bio-filtration areas for the students. The academic sectors, the hostels, the faculty and staff housing “villages” utilize recycled grey and black water. Specific courtyards and gathering spaces are designed to be served as outdoor classrooms. Locally sourced materials, appropriate for desert climate such as Jodhpur sandstone, granite and limestone are proposed for street paving. Hardscape materials are to be incorporated into custom landscape features, and different furnishings aim to distinguish different campus zones. The ecosystem restoration and performance of the landscape will be monitored using different systems. Storm water quality and quantity will be monitored using a data acquisition system by individually containing the drains, identifying a collection point and tipping area. On a macro scale, the same system can be used to study water use across the different landscape typologies.

Design team - Prof. Charanjit S Shah (Founding Principal), Mr. Gurpreet S shah (Principal Architect), Frederic Schwartz. Consultants – AECOM (MEP) Landscape Consultant - Andropogan

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Design Process of a Campus Plan: A Case Study of Duzce University Konuralp Campus

Humanity have always felt the need to alter the environment they inhabit. In our modern era, this desire continues to exhibit itself in more urban landscapes. As a microcosm of the cityscape, university campuses contribute many cultural and economic advantages to the urban population. Moreover they bring under control to the urban growth and generally provides open and green spaces to the city. In this paper, Düzce University Konuralp Campus, located north of the Düzce City, was considered as our study area. Here we describe the Konuralp campus design which was developed in "Duzce University Konuralp Campus Development Plan Urban Design Competition". The method of the study consist of three steps. Some analyses like location, topography (ecological wind corridors and the meeting point of the valleys), spatial zoning, design axes and circulation were performed at the first step. In the second step it has been tried to specify how to apply the steps for designing kind of these campus projects. The concept of the design was created and constructed for the project. In the last step the design was visualized with 3D aplications and presented here. The aim of the study is how to design a campus which is sustainable and accessible. Consequently, the campus design was realized which had some design principles based on pedestrian priority. Educational buildings were separated from social buildings, sports center and cultural centers by using a-pedestrian walkways. In the middle of the working area campus square was designed which contains some land uses such as ceremony area, student center, amphitheatre and library. Finally a sustainable and accessible campus design was developed for Duzce University.

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How campus design and architecture influence interaction among researchers

The MIT campus is built to connect people. Some structures, like the Stata Center, the Sloan building, or the Media Lab building, offer large lobbies, flexible labs, and common spaces to enhance collaboration. MIT's Infinite Corridor -- which is one-sixth of a mile long -- mixes thousands of people together daily. Aerial walkways connect campus research buildings.

Do all these design elements truly help people to work together? A study led by MIT scholars reveals new details about collaboration on the Institute's campus. Overall the study, which looks at email traffic between faculty, researchers, and staff on campus, confirms that physical proximity does matter for workplace collaboration, but it adds new wrinkles about how this happens.

People are more likely to communicate via email after running into each other at a campus eatery, for instance, than in a crowded corridor. The study also found that email exchanges occur more often among researchers whose workspaces are connected through indoor halls rather than outdoor paths. And greater physical proximity may not replace email communication among people who don't know each other well -- they are more likely to email each other even when working in close proximity.

"Studying how spatial relationships may influence social ties has been of interest to scholars of the built environment and sociologists alike for a long time," says Andres Sevtsuk, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and co-author of a new paper detailing the study's results. While past work often used survey data to account for interactions, here the campus email information added hard data to the research.

"We were interested in taking this idea of spatial relatedness further and examining its more nuanced aspects that have not been well-covered in prior research," Sevtsuk notes.

Those findings apply to not only MIT but other organizations as well.

"These ideas could be explored analogously in other work environments beyond MIT, such as companies, organizations, or even public sector institutions," says Bahij Chaucey, a researcher at the MIT City Form Lab and a co-author of the paper.

The paper, "Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus," was published in advance online form in March, by the journal Social Networks .

The authors are Chancey; Rounaq Basu, a doctoral candidate in DUSP; Martina Mazzarello, a postdoc at the MIT Senseable City Lab; and Sevtsuk, the Charles and Ann Spaulding Career Development Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning in DUSP and head of the MIT City Form Lab.

The Allen Curve and onward

A large body of scholarship has examined workplace interactions -- often influenced by the late Thomas Allen, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management whose interest in the subject was spurred in part by a stint working at Boeing. Allen's research in the 1970s and 1980s found that greater proximity has a strong relationship with greater collaboration among engineers, a phenomenon represented by the "Allen Curve."

To conduct this study, the researchers used anonymized email data collected by MIT's Information Systems and Technology group in February 2020, a month before the Covid-19 pandemic altered campus routines. The data track how many bilateral email exchanges occurred between research units on campus, such as departments or labs; the scholars examined the number of individuals in a unit to estimate the typical amount of person-to-person exchange.

The team then examined the spatial relationships between research units, to see how the built environment might interact with email patterns. Overall, the study spanned 33 different departments, labs, and research groups, and 1,455 office occupants.

The scholars also modeled the likely walking routes to the office or lab of MIT workers, based on MIT's 2018 Commute to Work survey, while also estimating the total foot traffic or crowdedness of each corridor and eating venue on campus. Sevtsuk's research has included extensive modeling of pedestrian routes in city settings using such methods.

More food for thought

Many specific, granular findings emerged from the study -- especially the idea that proximity matters along with the specifics of the built environment. For starters, other things being equal, workers in research units located near the same dining facilities are more likely to email and interact.

"Cafeterias are spaces where verbal and visual communication is an important part of eating culture, especially in a research environment like MIT," says Basu.

Not having to venture outside also influences behavior -- at least, it did during the wintery Massachusetts weather during the study period. For research units that are basically an equal distance apart, those linked by interior corridors tended to communicate more than those separated by outdoor space, even when that communication was in the form of email.

"We clearly saw that if people's offices are linked via the indoor Infinite Corridor system, they are more likely to engage in email exchange than if the logical connections between their offices require outdoor paths," Basu says.

As an added wrinkle, however, really busy corridors seem to generate brief greetings more than exchanges that lead to follow-up communication. "We found that if the corridor where person A may be walking past person B's office on the way to work tends to be more crowded, then it reduces the likelihood of A and B engaging in email exchange," Sevtsuk says.

However, this does not seem to be the case with very crowded cafeterias, which if anything seem to encourage more subsequent contact. "A more crowded cafeteria could provide more opportunities to engage in group conversations, where new social ties can emerge between people who are introduced by mutual connections," Sevtsuk observes.

Not least, the effects of physical proximity are themselves related to preexisting relationships. For people already familiar with each other, the research suggests, proximity leads to more face-to-face interactions; for those previously unfamiliar with each other, meeting people due to proximity tends to lead to a greater proportion of emails being exchanged, at first.

Many pathways ahead

The researchers believe their methodology could suggest ways to place new faculty or staff in useful spots where they would be able to interact easily with others.

"It is possible to use our findings to identify where such locations are within each department and school," Sevtsuk says.

Campus planners could also continue to build on ideas evident in the Stata Center and Sloan building, which have large ground-floor cafeterias and "strategically position social lounges or dining facilities at locations where access from surrounding offices, and the likelihood of passing [by] is highest," Sevtsuk adds.

In universities and tech-firm campuses, Sevtsuk suggests, when new building projects are being considered, it makes sense to "strategically evaluate their locations and circulation systems vis-a-vis spatial connectivity to surrounding departments with which they have the most potential for joint research."

Certainly, MIT, other universities, and large companies cannot always quickly reconfigure themselves. But over time, good planning and design can enhance interdisciplinary work, collaboration, and generate serendipitous meetings between people. Or, as the authors state in the paper, "Planning environments to encourage greater interaction across different groups may offer a pathway to bridge siloed social networks and encourage information exchange between otherwise unlikely parties."

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Case Study: When data meets design, shaping the future of the university campus

When data meets design: Shaping the future of the university campus EverSmart Space drives revolutionary change in campus design at a leading European University

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Working with a leading  European university, EverSmart Space from Microshare has been developed to deliver data such as people counting and occupancy monitoring, removing the reliance on manual methods and enabling real-time and historical data analysis.

The challenge

The pandemic has had a profound impact on how higher education is delivered.

Increased requirements to provide safe and healthy campuses has created an urgent need for education providers to have accurate data to understand how their spaces are being occupied and used.

Traditional manual methods of measuring footfall and occupancy are costly and unable to provide accurate, ongoing data. The sector needs a new approach.

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Use of easy to deploy, LoRaWAN® battery-powered people counting and occupancy sensors to obtain anonymous data from multiple entry and exit points around the campus.

No cameras are used and no personally identifying data is collected. The data is delivered from the Microshare platform in clear, easy to understand dashboards enabling the University to make real-time and future decisions about their buildings.

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This European university team now has accurate and consistent real-time and historical data on the usage of their spaces.

They now understand when spaces and buildings are busiest and have footfall data from around the campus for compliance with Health, Safety and Fire legislation.

They can provide data to support teaching plans and budgeting by demonstrating usage and occupancy.

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10 things to remember while designing a university campus

The cut-throat competition in today’s work industry pushes students to pursue an alma mater that makes them future-ready. The crucible of this process is the incubation space that the students spend most of their time at, aka the University campus. This makes us designers responsible for creating a collaborative environment that can mold and adapt itself to the changes of the century, thus guaranteeing a master plan for the entire community. There are several challenges to the design of such a large-scale project.

Here are ten things to keep in mind for an efficient and intelligent University campus design.

1. ADOPT URBAN PLANNING STRATEGIES

Designing a University campus is like planning a mini town. It is imperative to imagine the project’s scale for an urban public realm and design on an axis. As one of society’s most treasured assets, its planning also needs to be aligned with the pace of facility investments and uncertain funding streams so that the design is flexible and in tandem with future developments.

In a low, dense suburb, there are forty-four buildings that follow an open space design at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).  The pedestrian-friendly campus is axially planned, directing the movement and giving a sense of order and circulation. It also accommodates transitional and social activities in its open lawns.

2. DRAW ATTENTION AND PAINT AN IDENTITY

It is easy for newcomers to get lost in the maze of buildings and pathways at a University campus. A focus helps visually dominate a space acting as a landmark to help people navigate. This focus also has cultural and social significance and can be a center for recreational activities. It is an integral part of the design that draws eyes towards it.

At Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, the pedestrian plaza manifests the institute’s maple leaf history. The central sculptural element has panels of cut-weathering steel with ‘whispering maple’ figures with a low seating area. Subtle color-changing LED change the sculpture’s hues at night. These are guiding landmarks at the crossroads of the central plaza and create its unique identity.

3. PRACTICE PLACEMAKING & UTILIZE VARIETY OF SCALE

From large-scaled quadrangles to small-scaled connective spaces such as corridors, the campus has to serve multiple functions on a variety of scales. Architects need to decipher the correlation between activities so that the design promotes their inter-relatedness. It allows the seamless integration of core facilities such as places of social and cultural milieu with the academic blocks (research labs, lecture halls, studios, etc.).

As seen in the master plans for The University of Washington’s campus, the design facilitates an insightful experience that integrates all the stakeholders- administration, academia, and the industry. With divisional blocks and multiple places of social interaction, the campus brings about serendipitous learning.

4. CREATE THE DIGITAL REPOSITORY

Progressive digitalization has reduced our visits to the traditional silent sanctuaries of paper scrolls. But the quality environment a library offers is still popular among the students of the higher education arena. Thus, there is a need not for a repository of paperbacks but of contemporary multi-functional spaces that encourage learning by harnessing the technological innovations of the age.

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago’s campus is the epitome of a state-of-the-art reading nook. By shifting the book storage underground and incorporating an automated retrieval system, the designers have tapped into the potential of natural lighting through the clear glass dome. This has increased productivity and allowed sustainability to thrive.

5. USHER CREATIVITY WITH INCUBATION SPACES

With the start-up culture on the rise, dedicated pockets that spark discussions are required where students can experiment, fail, and start over. These spaces help forge connections of academia with the industry. In the advanced technological setting, it is an architect’s responsibility to create an environment that promotes a flexible learning environment and encourages the entrepreneurial spirit.

At the University of East London, Knowledge Dock caters to each user’s needs with a fluid work environment. The co-existence of active and focus spaces in layers, as seen in its plan along with adaptable collaboration areas, mobile writable screens, and bold graphics, makes this a bustling center of electricity and innovation.

6. THE CAMPUS LIFE EXPERIENCE

On-campus residency is an integral part of the whole college experience for the students. The design should cater to the array of housing needs of the students as well as the teachers. These living spaces should accommodate the contemporary student’s hectic lifestyles and provide all the necessary amenities.

The residential facility at Phoenix for students at Arizona State University is an example of world-class planning. Special care is taken to mold spaces such as dining halls with movable furniture and walls for video projection so that students can learn and create in the comforts of their residence halls, irrespective of the time of the day. The residence allows students to be seen yet offers them privacy.

7. BIOPHILIC NEED OF THE HOUR

Scientific studies have proven the therapeutic effect of biodiversity on stressed minds. Thus, tending to the campus landscape is essential because it offers a sense of retreat to the students dabbling with multiple deadlines. A lush green lawn is always a welcome sight for the people of any age group. Dotted with plants, these spaces generate a healthy mindset for the entire community.

The Espace Bienvenüe at Cité Descartes’ campus in Paris is an innovative project which focuses on ecology. Contrasting the flat site, the 200-meter-long, undulating landscaped gardens built over a concrete structure offer exuberant panoramic views. They bring fresh air to the dense complex, thus reinforcing a spirit of relaxation and peace.

8. DESIGN FOR ALL

The campus needs to have a barrier-free approach. The designer should ensure all areas, whether recreational or institutional, and all pedestrian routes should follow inclusive design guidelines. All paved walkways must have contrasting edge demarcations, provision of handrails, and curb cuts. There should be separate toilet stalls in public spaces for the disabled.

The University of Texas at Arlington has been a trailblazer in building an accessible campus. They have replaced every single door handle from a knob to a lever across the uni. By setting up an Adaptive Resource Center, UTA has sent across the message to the entire world that inclusive architecture isn’t about installing ramps in your design.

9. FOCUS ON SPORTS AND HEALTH

All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. Planning of sports grounds, gymnasium, and even rejuvenating spas are of immense importance for the University. These need to follow Olympic standards and guidelines. Medical health centers also need to be planned meticulously. This building block needs to be accessible to all at all times.

The gymnasium’s dynamic design at Shanghai University of Science and Technology lies at the starting point for the residential quarters for teachers and students. It is a dominant landmark whose scale and landscape harmonizes with the surroundings of towering dormitory buildings and encourages sporting fervor among the residents.

10. USE SUSTAINABILITY AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL

Campus design embodies visions and mirrors the goals of the University. Sustainability is one such core value that needs to reflect in the design as the carbon footprint of a large-scale project such as this can have a profound impact on the environment.

UC Merced’s buildings stand to realize its values of conservation and resource-efficiency. As a green building pioneer, all of its buildings have already met or are working to meet LEED standards. This future-oriented campus has aligned itself to the broader academic goals proving to be one of California’s best institutes.

Radhika Jhamaria, an Architecture undergrad at NIT Jaipur, loves to travel and explore the world as a design enthusiast. She believes that one should always follow their heart and she pours hers into literary escapades. You may occasionally find her strumming her beloved guitar.

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School of Architecture, Crescent University / architectureRED

• Curated by Paula Pintos
• Architects: architectureRED
• Area Area of this architecture project Area:  125000 ft²
• Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
• Photographs Photographs: Fazal Hussain, Lakshiminaraayanan, Smrithi M Kulkarni
• Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project Manufacturers:   AutoDesk , Porothem blocks , Trimble
• Lead Architects: Biju Kuriakose, Kishore Panikkar
• MEP Consultants : Air Treament Eng. (P)ltd.
• Landscape : architectureRED
• Structural Engineering : Somadev Nagesh Consultants
• Design Team:  Biju Kuriakose, Kishore Panikkar, Kani Pandian, Yasir Azami, Gero Rajan, Jagadesh, Chandana Ramesh, Reshma Chandrashekar, Syed Munavar, Shashank Muralidharan
• Clients:  Crescent University
• Collaborators, Client Team:  V.N.A Jalal, M.S Jagan, Shuja Ahmed, Jamal J
• City:  Vandalur
• Country:  India
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Text description provided by the architects. Distinctly identifiable by its stepped terraces and red striated facade, the Crescent School of Architecture occupies a relatively small lot of the 60-acre university campus, in Vandalur , Chennai. The project brief envisioned studio spaces along with lecture halls and administration areas – which we chose to augment with necessary ‘de-programmed’ spaces for collective working and gathering. This allowed for the exploration of redefining not only the nature of spaces found in an architecture school but also offering us the possibility to inform the future pedagogic program that it could accommodate. Typically, a school would house endless corridors with rooms on either side. Spaces offering opportunity for discussions and chance encounter is severely limited, which in turn confines its users to following a dreary routine.

Overturning this notion of conventional space-making in an institution by replacing it with spaces that can have transformative pedagogical implications becomes imperative; wherein collective creation is encouraged within the institution’s pedagogic program, by explicitly offering spaces that urge for learning outside of the confines of the classroom. With a program that is two-fold in nature, both extroverted and introverted, any architecture school requires spaces that allow its users to work in multiple ways. The ideal school should allow for an open-ended program. Through means of an unconventional spatial method, our architecture school presents its users with various options for inhabitation and use.

Extending the ground plane into the building became imperative because of the limited site allocated for the large program of the architecture school. We chose to eschew the need for a restricted entrance and instead chose to maximize the openness of the building’s connection to the ground – creating a large shared piazza that extends the urban structure of the university campus into the school, and flows through an open stilt area to the edge of the reserved forest. One is offered a multiple choice of accesses, including open yet shaded access to the first floor. Instead of merely vertically extruding a courtyard, here the ground plane is multiplied, staggered at each level and overlapped.

An additional ‘new ground’ is thus created at every floor level within the building – that stretches the piazza and the open stilt / free plinth upwards into the building volume. This continuous, stepped void created acts as a diagonal courtyard – offering, in this case, exhilarating vistas across the terraced-landscape-like formation, besides becoming the key congregational and social space for the school. These voids – in addition to making the building mass lighter, also perform the important task of creating an ‘outdoors-like’ experience – with the wind blowing through, the sun traversing across the spaces during the day, and the shaded spaces feeling connected to the elements and the campus (to which the building forms and urban edge) – with views across the reserved forest on the west side and the campus towards the east and south.

Each studio space opens onto its adjoining double-height terrace (shaded by the overhanging floors) through a set of large sliding folding doors – offering the possibility of open studio/workshop spaces and/or open exhibition and review spaces – that can be viewed together diagonally across, during ‘open-house’ days and common review days. Design studios that are placed adjacent to one another may be transformed into one large space hosting shared classes or studios between two different sections, avoiding complete isolation. Each design studio also accommodates a mezzanine level that houses its respective lecture hall.

The Crescent School of Architecture aims to deploy a spatial methodology to suggest possibilities in which different programs may be adapted through innovative infrastructural and spatial solutions and possibilities. With open spaces present at its base that offer the possibility of intense activity, gathering and socializing, a strong connection between the school building and the campus is reinforced. This connection infiltrates the structure enhancing its experience in the hope of giving birth to a new system where users can begin to take charge and re-configure spaces that adapt to changing needs and demands, tuned towards their own specific purposes, and as such the buildings posits a proposition for a sustainable institutional architecture that will adapt to its times.

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Address: vandalur, tamil nadu 600048, india.

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