STUDIO-X

INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE

1. Introduction
A place where students enrol for 5 year of academic programme to learn architecture.
Students attend daily 6-8hr in the institute according to the academic time table. They learn
the art and science of designing building and structures, also taught to understand the
issues and different ways to solve it. Architectural learning requires research work, patience,
lots of concentration, Time management, and healthy student physically and mentally.

In the starting year of academics students are excited and have interest but after 1-2years it
is gradually decreasing which leads to missing lectures and divert in other activities.
Favourable environment is not provided to the students which is the major cause for not
focusing in the academics. There is less institutional campus fully dedicated to architecture
education. As an architecture student I have experienced that in education campus the
typical layout of studios, staffroom, library, a hall and classrooms decrease the exploration of
ideas and scope of creativity. So I m interested in learning the favourable environment for
architecture education through this thesis.

In architecture education students require more work space than any other profession. Many
students have problem of space and equipments to work at home or pg. Students can stay
and complete their work after the academic time and do other activities like arts, computer
applications, sports, fitness exercise. Monday to Friday stay in institute which will also save
time and energy used in travelling. Time to reach institute is also increasing because of
increase in traffic. Students can go home on weekend (Saturday-Sunday) to meet family &
friends without tension of submissions. Not going home regularly will also help to stay away
from family matters and Focus in their studies. Students will have same age group (collage
friends, classmates) for playing sports, doing art work, or learning any other activity.

2. The research question

What could be the favourable environment in the architecture education which helps
students to concentrate in architectural learning?

What kind of atmosphere, infrastructure, and amenities will be required for the students
coming to the institute?

3. Preliminary literature review / Theoretical Framework

Ten books on architecture – Vitruvius (27 BC)

 Let him be educated, skilful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much
history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have
some knowledge of medicine, know the opinion of the jurists, and be acquainted
with astronomy and the theory of heavens.
 In the midst of all the great variety of subjects, one individual cannot attain the
perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the
general theories of them.

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  Observe the nature of birds, fishes, and land animals, thus come to reflect upon
distinction of temperature.

Principles of Bauhaus school (1919)

 Means building house – founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius.

 Weimar 1919-1925, Dessau 1925-1932, Berlin 1932-1933.
 Gropius emphasized ideology as ‘a sober and pragmatic relation between art and
architecture of modern industry’.
 Education at Bauhaus school was diverse and hands-on, spanning building theory,
carpentry, ceramics, fine art, graphic printing, glass and mural painting, weaving,
geometry, mathematics, business administration, metal, photography, printing and
advertising, and plastic art, parties and stage decoration.
 It allows radical experiment in all the arts. Modify and improve the ways of merging
the craft tradition with modern technology in order to cater for the needs of the
system of mass-production.
 Bauhaus ideologist aspiration was to rebuild the present, to rewrite the world, and to
redesign the reality.
 A desirable state of mind was equated with that of a child who has no preconception
but can approach life with a fresh and uncontaminated look. “Child like form”.
 Future oriented approaches for the architecture schools- they see the greatest
challenge in remaining up to date at all time. In order to be able to react to changes,
architecture education therefore requires a certain degree of freedom.
 The idea of creating simple products, which would be fit for production, affordable
and which would break the eternal division between arts and crafts.

Letter to young architect – Christopher benninger (2011)

 Principle that guide design – context , scale, proportion, simplicity, nature, function,
motifs/decoration.
 Each school of architecture should run a workshop, sending students into towns,
villages, and hamlets to documents attitudes, components and elements which
define a regional architecture language.
 A graduate student should be able to prepare a crisp project document including an
outline of stresses, issues, problems, constraints and potential analysis, goals,
objectives, inputs, and outputs, budgets and cash flow. These specific methods
would focus on a number of specialization areas, but would be common in their
applicability.
 Gross national happiness, the essence of this is the balance in life, the balance
between humans and nature, balance between the built fabric we lay on this earth
and the natural terrain it lies on.

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AIM – To design an institute dedicated to architecture education with liberty to stay like
home campus after academic sessions.

OBJECTIVE – understand the ideology of architecture institute and translate it into built
form. Evolving an architecture vocabulary with form, materials, and scale of the project.

Providing architecture education in an environment of creativity and maximizing individual

potential.

Save time and energy used regular in travelling from home to institute and institute to home.

Give better activity options to stay in institute with friends and work together. After the
academic time work on personal interest, complete submissions, play sports, exercise
(yoga/gym).

4. Scope & Limitation

Focus in designing the institute of architecture to improve the lifestyle of students which
helps them for better growth and future.

Creating a suitable learning environment for a creative institute.

As this is academic project, project cost is neglected.

5. Proposed research methodology

 Analyse the issues in the existing architecture institutes by doing Case studies of
different architecture institute which are specially designed for this purpose.
 Not the buildings were architecture programme started by adjusting the council
requirements inside any building.
 By case studies, aim & objective programme will be made for this project.
 COA and bylaws rules and requirements will be considered during design process.
 Academic schedule according to COA will be followed in this institute.

6. Research plan
Background research - Case studies – analysis of issues and good things in the projects –
programme for this project - site selection – site analysis – conceptual – design process.

7. Research timetable
Data collection (3week)

Case studies (3week)

Site analysis (1week)

Design process (4week)

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8. List of references / Bibliography
Research report on school of planning and architecture at Aurangabad.

New Proposed school of architecture and planning in Bhopal

Architecture thesis by parth narula – 2015

Council of architecture necessary requirements for architecture institute

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