CHRISTOPHER BENNINGER LOW COST ASSIGNMENT 1 SUBMITTED BY- PRABHJOT SINGH PHULLINTRODUCTION Nationality: American-Indian Bom: November 23, 1942 Place Of Birth: America Education: Urban Planning. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture, Harvard's Graduate School of Design Invited by B.V. Doshi shifted to India in 1971. Inspire: Josep lluis sert, Walter gropius, Buckminster fuller. Awands: Architect for the Decade Award, (2010) Best Public Building of the Year, (2007-10) Best Architectural Work in the City in 2009 (Pune) Golden Architect Award for Lifetime Achievement (2006) s YMCA International M. United World College Samundra Institute Of Suzlon One Earth Camp - Maritime Studies BUILDHIS WORKS *As an internationally known ‘design house’ Christopher Charles Benninger Architects create products ranging from capital cities and new towns; educational campuses and corporate headquarters; housing estates and complexes; hotels resorts and hospitals: down to the design of individual chairs and art works. *He has initiated many projects like- housing for poor families financed first time by government of India under HUDCO and innovated concept of ‘Site & Services 'to provide houses via developed small plots for poor people to construct homes according to their needs.*Aspiration to create something +Simple, Functional, Modern, Vernacular. vernacularly unique has compelled would be some aspects to describe the Benninger to get into modernity with buildings of Benninger. play of shapes and spaces. THR OPT RC PART PS BPI *His designs do have symmetrical forms *All his designs has pin-pointed into 1 and facades. use, nature care and blending with the context,1 2. 3, 4. 5. . ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, AHMEDABAD (1973-1976) CDSA, PUNE (1986-1989, 1999-2000) MAHINDRA UNITED WORLD COLLEGE, MAHARASHTRA (1997-2000), SAMUNDRA INSTITUTE, LONAVALA(2004-2007) . SUZLON ONE EARTH, PUNE (2006-2009)*Bold sculptural intensions found in Benninger's initial work, as well as his strong concern for context. G | +Classic modernist style is adopted | i +The use of a strict square grid pattern characterizes this structure which also fuses the structure with existing campus plan By use of informal courtyard. Structure is R.C.C. framed and WorTH brick construction 1. DIRECTOR ROOM 2.LIBRARY 3. EXHIBITION SPACE 4.ENTRANCE,‘Design is based on play and juxta-position of parallel walls. i + The open patterns of parallel walls draw Leal ] IH | i! in exterior spaces, integrating the 5: 1H) res St ae in structures with the landscape. | b fe, | Lee} +Stone is used as material and hip roofs oy Mi [i] face the strong westerly monsoon a FUN winds at 45 degree slopes.+Centred the plans of this highly diverse litle workd around a quadrangle with passages radiating out from it + Just as traditional villages of the area are divided into ccusters or wadis, so are the five faculty cottages with sequence of gardens, passages, stepped platforms, atria and orchards showing harmonious integration of the buit form into the natural topography. + Made oflocal stone and exposed concrete, with gently sloping masonry surfaces, terracotta tiles roof and square cut-outs in the walls for windows. Inspired ftom Saynatsalo building of AaltoAcademic quadrangle windows provide mountains at the backdrop. Sy NENG tin Pathways creating ‘The administrative hieratehy in the building reflects the building structure in architectural language the academic area, of the campus,+The campus includes a Science Centre, a Nautical Workshop, an Academic Complex, a Catering Centre, Atdlitorinm, Administration Centre, ete for 480 + Ship-in-campus” is a unique real ié fll scale engine room, deck and cabins, complete with all navigation and engineering — gues equipment, ) *All buildings have natural ilumination, cutting consumption of non-renewable energy. Solar panel provide the entire heated water requirement, using circular hot water tanks held above the circular stairs *Steel and glass materials create a maritime ambiance. The landscape is considered like a green carpet of ocean, rolling gently between the structures. Individual buildings are treated as sculptural objects floating within this garden sea,‘Hostel building is designed — with concept of ship as vertical stair moor like ship ‘mooring in a port. leet Rlaetele Ss EMP Abunimum louvers keep the bright sum off ‘of the fenestration and the tree Dining Halls 1 axe lass prisms facing north, with protective tladded concrete wall o the South and West ew «The administrative [Se a building reflects the ~ architectural language. of the campus as cleverly exploits northern light through its wavy glass atrium wall, while generating} electricity through the grand photovoltaic south-facing fagade “Photovoltaic panels facade allow natural light and make it energy efficientINFERENCES 1. The design is simple, symmetrical but strong expression of form, shapes with modernist style inspired from Buckminster Fuller. 2. Integration of landscape and structure is found as he is inspired from works of Frank lloyd wright. 3. Later works emphasis over sustainability of structure with use of solar panels, north light, lauvers, sloping roof ete. 4. Styk of using material with modemism concept make his projects unique and different from others in India, BIBLIOGRAPHY + enwikipedia.org + www.echa.in + wwwarehello.com * www.google.com