MAHINDRA UNITED

WORLD COLLEGE PUNE

RAM RAVI HIRAMAN BARCH/10025/2015

RAM ROSHANKUMAR BARCH/10033/2015
NIRAJ KUMAR TUDU BARCH/10018/2015
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Concept..
•The building are a reflection of the mountains surrounding thecampus .
•A miniature model reflecting the jaggedcontours.
•Continuity and harmony achieved through consistency betweenthe
architectural language and environment.
•Architectural language evolved through the selection offunctional
components like door lintels, window shade boxes, ventilators and
waterspouts.

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Layout planning:
-The whole site is divided into two parts - ACADEMIC andRESIDENTIAL
connected by awalkway.
Continuity and homogenity between the buildings to be maintained.
Entries:
-One main entry, one residential entry, one service entry
Entrances must be segregated.
Proximity of main entry points to the academic block. This avoids confusion for the
users.

View:
-Nothng is seen from the main entry. Only after the huge opening door, the main
building is visible.
Block should stand as a landmark.
Proximity:
-CANTEEN  Closer proximity to academic block than dormitories.

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DESIGN FEATURES....
•The college campus nestled in the Sahayadri Hills, between two rivervalleys.
• Educational part is totally separated from the residences andhostels
• Separate guest houses provided for the visiting faculties andparents.
• The interconnectivity of each block is well maintained

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DESIGN FEATURES....
•Hierarchy of space played important role indesign.
•Used sequence of open, semi enclosed and closed spaces to create learning
environments.
•Climate ranges from hot-dry to cool-rainy to chilly-dry in annual cycle ; This is
exploited in design as all class rooms have verandas and extent into courtyards.
•Low covered walkways in teaching areas provide spaces for informal
gatherings.
•Covered porches act as pavilions for discussions, project meetings and
contemplation.

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•The academic wing can
be accessed from two
roads.
•By the main road at
entrance or by the
pedestrian walkway
linking the academicwing
to the residential wing.
•The building blocks are
placed correspondence to
the site slope in a
terraced, clustered,
arrangement.
•The academic wing and
residential wing are
physically separated by a
forest land which act as
the partition betweenthe
Areal view of academicblock
two worlds.

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Building units...
• Academic quadrangle • Entrance area
• Science centre • Multi purposehall
• Library • Service centres
• Medical centre • Amphitheatre
• Nurses quarters
• Guest house
• Headmasters bungalow
• Director’s house
• Residential clusters 1&2
• Road infrastructure
• Basic landscaping
• Sanitation blocks
• Administration building
• Student centre
• Arts centre
• Residential clusters 3&4
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Academic quadrangle....

•It encircles a gardencourt.

•Quadrangle and class rooms are linked by glass doors.
•So each classrooms thus connected to its own garden orcourtyard.
•The three corner rooms in the academic quadrangle are thefaculty
rooms for language, mathematics and social sciencerespectively.
•The quadrangle is linked by an encircling, low coveredwalkway
•This space is detached from the stone walls except where it connects
to classrooms
•The ceiling of the walkway cast witha ‘Sacred’ river mural running a
complete circle around the quadrangle.

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Student centre

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The academic quadrangle is connected tothe
other structures via walls, generating an
architectural fabric

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Catering centre...
•Is triangular waffle slab was
designed to avoidcolumns
•Verandas and service area
allow more variety in a
complex angular composition
•A sloping Mangalore tile roof
and a ventilation tower offer
visual accent to this complex
structure.

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Administration building
•Includes offices for the
headmaster, directors, a board
room, faculty room, and others.
•Asquare shape of board room reflects
the shape of the science
centre.
•The building uses sloped Mangalore
tile roofs, stone towers and basalt
masonry walls.

PLAN ADMINISTRATION
AND BANK

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Amphitheatre..
•Its a strong connecting element linking theAcademic
quadrangle with the Multipurpose hall.
•The stage like design ensure that physical beauty
proportionately with beautiful ideas in a place oflearning.

Amphitheatre
uses steps tolink
Multi Purpose
Hall to the
Academic
Quadrangle
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Multi PurposeHall...
•Covered by high ceiling composed
of 160 triangular coffers set within
10 larger triangles defined by
structural beams.
•There are 10 skylights in these
that generate ahierarchy.
•Four utility towers, slopedroofs
over verandas reflect the
landscape. And tie this large
structure in with thescale

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Coffered triangles span the 6000 sq m Multi Purpose Hall

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Library ..
•Triangular composition on two levels focussed in on a glassatrium.
•The lower floor of the reading room uses the natural gradient, thus it a
generous space.
•Parallel beams , aligned withthe main wall, alternately hold skylights
and fluorescent lights.
•The corners of the triangle form the reading room, computer centre and
stacks.
•Circular columns supporting the beams are used visually to demarcate
spaces
•Slit windows diffuse light into theinterior.

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The Library twists a light atrium into the centre ofthe structure.

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Glass wall in library lookinginto the central courtyard
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Art centre...
•The three studios of the art
centre fly out from a central
courtyard.
•Studios for multimedia worklike
a painting, printmaking, and
sketching.
•There is office room, store room,
a small pottery court and kiln
tucked into the composition.
•The studios are composed of
tandem walls sloping up to large
glass windows.
•These studios are joined to alow
veranda which wraps around a
planted courtyard, stepping down
to the mountainedge

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 North facing studio windowsprovide
light and views in the Artcentre.

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the Art CentreVeranda
 Student centre....

•Design of student centre

based on folded retaining wall.
•The wall folds into 6
vertical light shafts,
reaching up into the sky. Each shaft
holds a room, or a large activity
niche.
•Large sky lights are
cupped in the stone
shafts.

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Light towers define Activity Rooms in the Student Centre.

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