SITE INVENTORY CAMPUS LAYOUT BUBBLE DIAGRAM CIRCULATION PATTERN Circulation in IIM campus is through three major roads

▪ Location- Vastrapur, Ahmedabad Gujarat. ▪ Separate entries for institutional and residential complex. V
▪ Site acre- 106 acres ▪ Separate service entry.
▪ Climate- hot dry climate with high temperature and hasrsh sun. ▪ Academic and social activities have been integrated with students and staff living. I
▪ Topography- flat land form with negligible slope. ▪ Institutional building has been taken as the focal building PERIPHERALROADS INTERNAL ROADS SMALL INTERNALROADS
▪ Vegetation- sparse vegetation difficult to maintain. ▪ Auditorium is located at the main entry for easy access of visitors E
▪ Soil type- alluvial sandy loam ▪ Residential areas have been planned in hierarchical pattern.
▪ Campus Area: 66 acres (old campus) ▪ The scale and the massing gives the monumental feeling of the space. ACTIVITY W
▪ 40 acres(new campus) ▪ Academic building is planned around the court.
• Day time activity academic and VERTICAL CIRCULATION
FACILITIES
administration zones. "For easy access, new elevators have been installed
➢ SCHOOL • More use of interaction and transition including at the un derpass that connects the new
➢ DORMITORES area - corridors, galleries and courts and campus with the old. Elevators will be shortly
➢ FACULTY HOUSING foyers through out the campus. installed for reaching classrooms. Two ramps per
➢ COMMUNITY FACIITIES • Activities tend to flow between classroom have been built that take students
➢ KITCHEN AND DINNING classrooms, library , computer center, directly into the class.
➢ BLOCK canteens and students dormitories.
➢ MARRIED STUDENT HOUSING • Night time activities library and hostel
➢ STAFF HOUSING blocks and to the courtyards and foyers.
➢ SERVICE TOWER • Seasonal activities social gathering
happen in Louis Kahn plaza.
SITE ZONNING AND SITE ANALYSISS ▪ Staircases are mainly place in louis kahns plaza such that when students move from one floor to next
AUDITORIUM ADMINISTRATION
AUDITORIUM
floor they get the entire view of open green courtyard.
OPNE
ACADEMIC BLOCK DEVELOPMENT CENTER SPACES ▪ Spiral staircases are used to add more aesthetics in the design.
ACADEMIC BLOCK ▪ Staircase have sufficient amount of day light and ventilation by use of large windows and skylights
FACULTY HOUSING
STUDENT DORMITORIES ▪ No need of artificial lighting during day time
STUDENT DORMITORIES OLD CAMPUS

ADMINISTRATION ACADEMIC BLOCK DAYLIGHT AND VENTILATION

▪ Total students in classroom: 60 • Male toilet area(2): 50 sg.mts
1 OFFICE • Light invited through triangular light
GROUND 2 LIBRARY ▪ Carpet area: 132.2 sq.mts • No of urinals: 3
3 COURT well on the side of the rooms. Cuts off
4 CLASS ROOM ▪ Area/Student: 2.2 sq.mts • No of w.c : 2
DEVELOPMENT CENTER the
5 LOUIS KAHN PLAZA
▪ Built up area: 267 sq.mts • No of wash basins: 2
6 GROUND COURT • visual and acoustical disturbance.
CAFE 7 ENTR HALL ▪ No of floors: 3 • Female toilet area(2): 50 sq.mts
Windows are high to get glare free
NEW CAMPUS
8 RAISED LAWN
▪ Total built up area: 8091 sq.mts • No of wc : 2
9 DORMITORY light.
WIND ANALYSIS ▪ No of rooms per floor: 6 • No of wash basins: 2
CLASSROOM AND SEMINAR ROOMS
▪ Wind is blowing from South- West (SW) to North-East (NE).
Consists of 6 classrooms and 5 seminar rooms linked by a
ORIENTATION
wide passage with semi-open spaces in the old campus
▪ The diagonal. layout had the advantage of the building being oriented towards the south-west breeze. The semi-open spaces act as transition point between
▪ The orientation also helps to cut out the west sun reducing glare double height corridor
The corridors also have a sense of belonging, act as an
NEIGHBORHOODIIM
extension of classrooms by allowing discussion and FATHWAY FROM LIBRARY LIFT AND STAIRCASE
▪ It is about 10 km away from the railway station and about 15km away from the airport. The institution interaction. Kahn's concept of 'served and servant
lies near to other institutions namely Atira and Gujarat university. LOUIS KAHN PLAZA GROUND COURT
RAISED LAWN spaces'- segregation of toilet and stairs from classroom
block.
CONCEPT
Floors raked in 'C shape layout enhances formal
• Louis Kahn's architecture at IIM-A is an example of his interaction thus resulting in a better learning
imagination and optimism environment and providing strong position to the
• While Louis Kahn was designing the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh in 1962, he was CLASS ROOM COURT ENTRHALL LIBRARY teacher.
approached by BV.Doshi , to design the 60 acre campus of IIM Ahmedabad. Much like his project in
Bangladesh, he was faced with a culture enamored in tradition, as well as an arid desert climate. LOUIS I KAHN PLAZA FACULTY BLOCK • No of floors = 4
• For Kahn, the design of the institute was more than just efficient spatial planning of the • No of faculty 90
To facilitate interaction between students and faculty, the main academic block developed around the • Built up area = 7594 sg.mts
classrooms. plaza. The four wings faculty and administration block, library and classroom define the edge of plaza is • Total no of rooms 10
• His critical view at the methods of the educational system maintained by the sparsely punctured walls. • Corridor width: 3m
• influenced his design to no longer singularly focus on the It also acts as a transition space between classrooms. • Toilet=15 sq.mts CABIN LAYOUT
• classroom as the center of academic thought.
• The class room was just the formal setting for the beginning of learning; the hallways and Openings are vertically
Kahn's Plaza became new centers for learning. aligned creates harmony
to the design.
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• The plaza is a raised Louis I Khan plaza space used at the time of festivals and celebrations like Vertical wall offset projections
platform in the convocations, events, etc. Faculty blocks enclose space in
According to him its plan comes from his feeling of a monastery. He always wanted to give a solid and formal made shaded themselves from
between them, which Opening
look his buildings. He wanted to create a "FORTRESS IN BRICK" in keeping with this some of the features court, which is 120 the sunlight.
creates hare developed as a
feet wide serves the raised lawns.
function of a stage on
formal occasions with
All four blocks are joined The arched openings in
large gatherings. together by a corridor on each
ARCHED CORRIDORS DIAGONAL WALLS EXPOSED BRICKWORK EXPOSED CONCRETE CIRCULAR WINDOWS SHADOWS • Self shading of the corridors, adjacent to
floor the staircases act as
ACADEMIC BLOCK-Forma structure organized geometrical plan, definite axis and related scale To plaza,reflected adjacent blocks on
viewing galleries offering
in blank sparsely punctured brick walls rising 3 floors high plaza
NAME:- ROHIT SOHALE

2 IIM, AHMEDABAD SUMIT JADHAV

NEHA RANADE
RASHI PAGARIYA