ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN V

CASE STUDY – MULTISTOREYED MIXUSED BUILDING

INDIRA PARYAVARN
BHAWAN JOR BAGH, NEW DELHI

AAFTAB S. HASAN K. TAHA B. ZIAN J.

PROJECT DETAILS
Name : Indira Paryavaran Bhawan, New Delhi
Client : Ministry of Environment and Forests
Architect : CPWD
MEP : Spectral Services Consultants
Green Consultant : Deependra Prashad Architects
Year : 2014
Floor Area : 31,400 m2
Ground Coverage : 2,869 m2
Basement : 12675 m2
F.A.R. : 2.00
Certified : LEED and IGBC Platinum, GRIHA 5 Star Rating
Cost : 195 Crores

SITE DETAILS
Site Area : 9712.46 m2
Location : Jor Bagh Road, New Delhi
Coordinates : 28⁰ 35’N 77⁰ 13’ E
Elevation : 213.36m above sea level
Climatic Zone : Composite

PROXIMITIES TO SITE
Hospital : 0.25km
College : 0.45km
Metro Station : 0.50km
School : 1.00km
Railway Station : 7.00km
SITE LAYOUT PLAN
• Plot area : 9565 m2
• Built-up area : 32000 m2
• G+7 story and 3 basements
• Wider front setback – 22 meter to protect front tree line
• Emphasis on the north and south for optimal solar light.
• Priority for pedestrians in the front with vehicular access on the sides.
• Use of permanent, durable and local materials such as sand stone on
exterior face, low heat transmission glass, reflective roofing.
• Use of ECBC compliant design practices.
• Adoption of Universal design parameters to provide barrier free
movement for physically challenged.
• Plot Area = 9565 m2
• Preservation of the local ecology,
• Tree Cutting approvals for 46, but only 19 cut - 11 Trees Transplanted

DEVLOPING THE PLAN

• Excavated Soil reutilized at other construction sites and the Zoo

• Wider Front Setback (22m) to protect front tree line.

• Preserve the integrity of the green street.
• Emphasis on the North & South.
• Bringing the Greens in.
ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING – FORM DESIGN
• Effective ventilation by proper orientation E-W and by optimum integration with nature.
• Conservation of the natural area and trees to reduce adverse environmental impact.
• The building envelope has been designed to receive 75% of natural daylight to reduce
energy consumption.
• Projections into central space for shading + shading by passages.
• Cross-ventilation at micro level through openings.
• Barrier-free access to differently abled people.

Central courtyard helps in air

movement as natural ventilation
happens due to stack effect. Windows
and jaalis add to cross ventilation.

PRIORITY OF PEDESTRIAN
• Building form wrapped around a pedestrian friendly shaded green
open courtyard with dense plantation aimed at eco-park concept
• A continuous green axis from front of site across the atrium to the rear.
• Eco park within the courtyard shall contain a self sustaining low
requirement floor fed with rain water harvesting.
• Large openings in buildings in building form on South and North sides
to promote cross passage of air.

Plan developed for direct pedestrian axis to East, North and

West Entrance without crisscrossing vehicles
BASEMENT PLANS
• Three level underground parking is provided for 344
number of cars.
• First basement parking with Automated Parking below
helps reduce volume of parking / excavation /
embodied energy of structure.
• Automated parking with 19 m2 per car instead of 35m2
per car in manual parking.

UPPER BASEMENT

UPPER BASEMENT LOWER BASEMENT

Parking Circulation Services Parking Circulation Services

18%
24%

6%

6%

70%
76%

LOWER BASEMENTS 1 AND 2

BASEMENT PLANS
• Fully automated robotic parking
for 330 cars
• All bulk MEP services integrated
circuit
• A/C plant room 500 Ton of
Refrigeration
• Electrical substation and
transformers
• Firefighting pump house
• sewage treatment plant (30
KL/day)
• DG set 500 K VA and UPS
• Shuttle dolly system 2nd and 3rd
basement
• Puzzle parking system 1st
basement
• Column Sizes
1000 x1000 mm
1500 x 1000 mm
Placed at an average 7.7m c/c

LOWER BASEMENT – COLUMN GRID

AUTOMATED CAR PARKING SYSTEM
• Fully automated APS theoretically eliminate the need for parking attendants.
• Semi-automated APS also use a mechanical system of some type to move a car to its
parking space, however putting the car into and/or the operation of the system requires
some action by an attendant or the driver.

LIFT ENTRANCE LOBBY

SHUTTLE BAY

LIFT WELL SHUFFLE BAY

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR
Recreation Wet Commercial Circulation Services

7%

24%
43%

10%

16%
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Keeping service areas, staircases on
low light areas. Efficient usage of the
perimeter to maximize day lit areas
and views for the users

FIRST FLOOR
Wet Office Circulation Services

8%
13%

23%

56%
THIRD FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR
Wet Office Circulation Services

6% 8%

28%

58%
SEVENTH FLOOR PLAN

SEVENTH FLOOR
Wet Office Circulation Recreational

14% 11%

20%

55%
ROOF PLAN

Highest efficiency (20%) Solar PV

Panels in Grid Interactive System

Provision of Solar Photovoltaics

for Net Zero requirement also
shades the Roof

Solar PV System :
930KWp Capacity

Total area :
6000m2

Total Area of Panels :

4650m2

Annual Energy Generation :

14.3 Lakh Units
SECTIONS

• Superstructure : 19088 m2

• Basement area : 11826 m2

HEIGHT
• Total area : 30914 m2
WIDTH = HEIGHT

SECTION AA’

• The width of the courtyard has been

considered such that it is not over
shaded by the built-up mass and also
allows immense ventilation.
HEIGHT

• The vertical circulation is located

such that one can on-look the
activities or passer-byes on the
WIDTH = HEIGHT bridges that are strongly defining
horizontal circulation (bridge).

SECTION BB’
ELEVATIONS

Photovoltaics stepping towards the south side

Creating a strong agenda for the future of

urban buildings on limited site areas..

NORTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION
PASSIVE STRATEGIES
ORIENTATION
The structure is oriented north-south, with separate blocks connected by corridors and
a large central court yard. Heat infiltration is reduced by orienting the structure to the best
window-to-wall ratio And effective ventilation by orientating the building east-west..

DAYLIGHTING
Day lighting is
used to light 75% of
the building's floor
space, decreasing
the need for
artificial lighting.
Inner courtyard
serves as a light
well.

VENTILATION
Natural ventilation occurs due to the stack
effect in the central courtyard, which aids air
circulation. Cross ventilation is enhanced through
windows and jaalis
PASSIVE STRATEGIES
BUILDING ENVELOPE AND FENESTRATION
• Optimized Building Envelope – Window assembly
(U-Value 0.049 W/m2K),VLT 0.59, SHGC 0.32
• uPVC windows with hermetically sealed double
glazed using low heat transmittance index glass
• Rock wool insulation
• High efficiency glass
• Cool roofs: Use of high reflectance terrace tiles
for heat ingress, high strength, hard wearing.

MATERIALS

• Stone available in nearby area for

flooring
• Terrazzo flooring with locally
available stone materials.
• Fly ash brick.
• AAC blocks.
• Jute bamboo composite for door
frames. Cool Roofs with high SRI tiles-high strength, hard
• UPVC windows with hermetically Jute – Bamboo
wearing
sealed double using low heat composite door frame
transmittance index glass.
• Use of high reflectance terrace tiles
for low heat.
• Avoided aluminum as it has high
embedded. Terrazzo Flooring
• Sandstone Jalis, R.C.C. Lightshelf
• Stone and Ferrocement Jalis with reflective
Fly Ash Brick surface
 BIODIVERSITY
• Regenerative Architecture keeping the existing balance of nature to connect outdoor greens and the courtyard
greens.
• Showcase green bio diversity from Bio-climatic regions of Hot Dry, Composite, Warm Humid, Temperate, Cold Dry &
Cold Cloudy
• Developing Winter Southside sunspaces for office workers + Deciduous trees

The section describes the balance established

between nature & the built form, facilitated by
incorporating a varied form of biodiversity into the
built environment.

LANDSCAPING
The master plan elucidates the relationship defined within the site and the
environment.
• Courtyard greens
• Sunspaces for workers
• Outdoor green corridors
• Deciduous vegetation (shrubs, climbers, herbs, grasses, green canopies
More than 50% area outside the building is covered with plantation. Circulation roads
and pathways are soft paved to enable ground water recharge.
LANDSCAPING LAYOUT
Subtropical mixed evergreen forest
ecosystem :

Top canopy - Toona ciliata,

Dalbergia latifolia, Mitragyna
parvifolia, Syzygium cumini

Middle storey - Trewia nudiflora,

Artocarpus lakoocha, Cinnamomum
camphora, Shrub layer- Dillenia
indica, Coffea benghalensis,
Murraya paniculata, Bauhinia
malabarica

Herbs and Grasses- Barleria cristata,

Flemingia bracteata, Desmodium
triflorum

Climbers- Vigna capensis,

Combretum decandrum, Vitis
paniculatum
ACTIVE STRATEGIES
LIGHTING DESIGN
• Energy efficient lighting system ( LPD = 5 W/m2) , nearly 50% more efficient than Energy Conservation Building Code
2007 requirements ( LPD = 11 W/m2) reduces energy demand further
• Remaining lighting load supplied by building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV).
• Use of energy efficient lighting fixtures (T5 lamps).
• Use of lux level sensor to optimize operation of artificial lighting.
CHILLED BEAM SYSTEM/ VFD/ SCREW CHILLERS
Supply air flows through nozzles in small air
jets which induce room air to flow around the coil
& air gets cooled.
Design / Constructional / operational advantages
• Reduces power consumption
• Easy Installation
• No noise as no moving parts
• Easy Air balancing activity
• No filters maintenance
• Save architectural space height
• Chilled beams save AHU/FCU fan power
consumption by approximate 50 kW.
• Fresh supply air is pre cooled from toilet
exhaust air through sensible & latent heat
energy recovery wheel.
• Control of HVAC equipment & monitoring of all
systems through integrated building
management system.
• Functional zoning to reduce air conditioning
loads.
• Room temperature is maintained at 26 ±1 ° C
ACTIVE STRATEGIES
GEOTHERMAL HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM
• There are 180 vertical bores to the depth of 80 meter all
along the building premises. Minimum 3 meter distance is
maintained between any two bores.
• Each bore has HDPE pipe U-loop (32mm outer diameter)
and grouted with Bentonite Slurry. Each U-Loop is
connected to the condenser water pipe system in the
central air conditioning plant room.
• One U-Loop has 0.9 TR heat rejection capacity. Combined
together, 160 TR of heat rejection is obtained without
using a cooling tower.

WATER EFFICIENCY
• Use of curing compound
• Low discharge fixtures
• Dual Flushing cistern
• Drip irrigation
• Use of native species of shrubs
and trees having low water
demand in landscaping
• Low lawn area so as to reduce
water demand
• Waste water treatment
• Reuse of treated water for
irrigation and cooling towers for
HVAC
• Rain water Harvesting
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
NET ZERO DESIGN
• IPB reduces energy requirement by 70% overall vis-à-vis
conventional
• N-S Orientation – Limiting WWR – Insulation on wall &
roof– Extensive
• Greenery to reduce heat load
• Maximizing Day lighting to reduce lighting loads
• Extremely Low Lighting Power Density – 5w/sqm
• Planning to Minimize AC loads (Keeping open atrium for
cross
• ventilation, Non conditioned lobbies)
• Efficient HVAC with Screw Chillers, VFD’s, Chilled Beams
• Ground based heat exchange for Condenser Water
• Remote Computing - thin client servers ENERGY CONSUMPTION AT SITE
• Energy efficient appliances (5 star BEE)
• …. SPV’s for the remaining load
PROJECT SUMMARY
• Rectilinear form oriented in N-S direction to bring in maximum daylight and improve ventilation.
• Staggering indoor and outdoor areas creates a good interrelation of space.
• Automated puzzle parking system in basement optimizes parking space requirements and leaves efficient circulation
bays.
• Green spaces on bridges activate the horizontal circulation space between the two masses creating a pleasant journey of
migration from one building to another.
• Energy optimization through occupancy sensors, fire prevention and fighting and parking management.
• Generation of energy by deploying thin film transparent PV modules on space frame over the courtyard.
• Usage of high efficiency lighting fixtures, astronomical/ time switches and occupancy sensors.
• To provide Geo thermal technology for heat rejection of CHILLED BEAM AIR CONDITIONING system.
• The Building Envelope has been designed access Friendly to differently-abled persons.
• Out of total 79 trees existing on the site , only 19 were cut, and 11 transplanted.
• More than 50% area outside the building is soft with plantation and grassing.
• Circulation roads and pathways soft with grass paver blocks to enable ground water recharge
 Site Distribution Division of Activities

PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
Project Name Indira Paryavaran Bhawan
Location Jor Bagh, New Delhi
Site Area (sq m) 9,712.46
Building Footprint area(sq m) 2,869.00 Upper Basement Lower Basement

Coverage % 29.54%
No of Floors (floorplates) G+7
Typical floor area (sq m) 4,198.33
Built up area(sq m) 31,400 Parking Circulation Services Parking Circulation Services

FAR 2.00
Ground Floor
No of user per floor (avg) 80
Total No of Users (at a time) 650
Area per user(sq m) 35.86
No of levels in basement 3
Recreation Wet Commercial Circulation Services
Basement area (exempt of FAR) 12,675.00
Type of basement parking ( Regular / Mechanised) Mechanized First Floor

No of 4 wheelers in basement 344

No of 2 wheelers in basement -
Basement ramp gradient 1 : 10
Wet Office Circulation Services
Column grid (x & y centreline spacing) 7.7 x 7.7m c/c
No of 4 wheelers on ground - Third Floor
No of 2 wheelers on ground -
Service core area (sq m) 2,684.00
Height of Basement (m) 3.5
Typical Height of Office (m) 4.00 Wet Office Circulation Services

Typical Height of Commercial (m) 4.00

Seventh Floor
Total height of Building (m) 35.00
Net Zero Design
Extremely Low Lighting Power Density – 5W/m2
Unique Elements Ground based heat exchange for Condenser Water
Energy efficient appliances (5 star BEE)
Wet Office Circulation Recreational
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