IIM AHMEDABAD

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Introduction
Site Info
• Established: 1962.
• Design: 1963-1970
• Campus Area: 66 acres (old campus) +
40acres(new campus)
• Soil Type: Alluvial sandy
• Typology: Educational (including housing)
• Design by : Louis khan
• Located : Ahmedabad
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PLAN
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• CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE
• Being a monolithic masonry, bricks were laid
individually by hands and were used to build arches,
semi circles and squares sliced out of multiple halls,
pathways and other elements of architecture.
• There is no disturbance in classrooms from the
outsiders as an inner buffer space separates the
classrooms from the circulation space
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• BUILDING DESIGN.
• IIM Ahmedabad is designed keeping in mind the spatial
requirements for academic areas like lecture halls, seminar halls,
conference rooms, library, auditorium, dorms etc.
• The classrooms are hexagonal with high windows to get glare
free light.
• The auditorium is situated near the main entrance close to the
parking area. It has an asymmetrical folded plate roof which carries
the sound to the back row without the need of false ceiling and
plaster moulds.
• The large facade omissions are abstracted patterns found within the
Indian culture that were positioned to act as light wells and a natural
cooling system protecting the interior from India's harsh desert
climate. Even though the porous, geometric facade acts as filters for
sunlight and ventilation, the porosity allowed for the creation of new
spaces of gathering for the students and faculty to come together
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• BUILDING DESIGN
• Circulation within the campus has been planned in such a
manner so as to restrict the vehicular traffic away from the
academic zone.
• Vehicular Circulation: There are three entrances to the
campus.
1. Entry to the academic block
2. Entry to the residential sector
3. Service entry
• In the residential sector, internal roads give access to the
houses, they have been planned as a main circulation spine
with branched roads to incorporate more green spaces and
pedestrian pathways
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• MATERIALS USED
• Brick is the primary material used for the entire complex walls
and columns.
• Concrete has been used in foundation, floor slabs and ties for
the arch openings.
• Brick has been used as primary building material for the entire
complex walls.
• Brick arches have been used for wider spans.
• Concrete has been restricted to floor slabs, foundations and ties for
arches.
• The large facade omissions are abstracted patterns found within
the Indian culture that were positioned to act as light wells and a
natural cooling system protecting the interior from India's harsh
desert climate.
• Even though the porous, geometric facade acts as filters for
sunlight and ventilation, the porosity allowed for the creation of new
spaces of gathering for the students and faculty to come together
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• ENERGY EFFICIENCY
• IIM Ahmedabad favors renewable energy. New
campus buildings are fitted with rooftop solar panels.
• There are two high-tech composters where dry
leaves and kitchen waste goes in and nutrient-rich
fertilizer comes out.
Solar panels installed at IIM Ahmedabad
• DRAINAGE SYSTEM
• IIMA harvests every raindrop that falls on
the campus.
• Water harvesting system’s first
component is as old as the campus buildings.
• 60 years later, it is supplemented by 18
recharge bore wells and 1 recharge ponds.
• Each campus has its own sewage
treatment plants
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Inferences/Conclusion
• Design of spaces to encourage interaction - lobbies,
wide corridors etc. the Louis Kahn plaza is meeting
ground for the students and staff
• The planning of open spaces has been done with a
system of courts
• There is a absence of adequate covered pathways in
the campus.
• The complex is not legible enough as there is absence
of landmark within the complex.
• The institutional zones is separated from residential
ares with the vast green lawns.
“You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like
an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look, I want one, too, but arches are
expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.’ And then you say: ‘What do you
think of that, brick?’ Brick says: ‘I like an arch.”

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