NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN

Overview
National Institute of Design was established in Ahmedabad in1961 by the Government of as
an autonomous national institution for advanced training, research and service in product
design, visual communication ,architecture, structure planning and allied fields.

Area: 63,848 sq.m

Architect: Giraben Sarabhai
&
Charles Eames

The aim is to provide an environment that will encourage and foster attitudes and behaviour consistent
with the fulfilment of the Institute’s educational purpose; and to have buildings that are “the most
unmonumental, anonymous, pleasant, unpretentious, workable and unshoddy.”

LOCATION
• National Institute of Design (NID) is a design school in Paldi, Ahmedabad ,Gujarat
• Area of the site: 20 acres approx.
• The site is located along the Sabarmati River. The site measures about 20 acres. In
its surrounding is the Tagore hall, the kite museum and opposite to the site is Diwan
Ballabhai high school.
• Main Access of the site is from the main road.
The site is on the west bank of the Sabarmati river. The ground level is 2.51 metres below the high
flood level recorded in 1875. Hence the entire building is on stilts, the main floor standing 3.24 metres
above the ground level. Thus 9570 sq. metres of floor space becomes available on the ground floor,
which is profitably utilized as public area, common-rooms for staff members and students, canteens,
and for the storage of raw materials such as logs of wood, iron, steel, etc. not likely to get damaged by
the occasional flood.

 All the workshops and laboratories, administrative offices and a showroom are located on
the ground floor.
 Each technology (such as wood, metal, plastics, ceramics and glass, printing and
photography) is assigned a separate wing connected to the central core (which can be used
for product assembly) but separated from each other by courts

 Drafting studios, seminar rooms and the library are on the mezzanine floor.

 A raised earth-platform on the west side gives direct access to workshops on the first floor

 9570 sq. metres of floor space becomes available on the ground floor