IIT KANPUR

BY – KARTHIKEYAN M.V
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 IIT KANPUR
IIT-Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 km west of Kanpur
•
City and measures close to 420hectares. This land was gifted by the
Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the Institute had
moved to its current location.
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SECTION
 FEATURES

• The IITK campus occupies a 1055 acre area.

• The Academic Complex is located centrally at the site and free from traffic
noise.
• Academic buildings: 13 departments, PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centres
faculty offices, laboratories and administrative buildings
• Around 7000 students, 390 faculty, and 1000 staff members (and their families)
reside on campus
• No. of buildings: 108
• 10 boys hostel and 2 girls hostel
• With Sports complex, Housing for faculty
• The site is flat with the canal on one side and transportation route on the other
side.
• Pedestrian and vehicular traffic are completely segregated.
 OBJECTIVES OF GREEN
BUILDING

OBJECTIVES OF GREEN BUILDING

• Low Impact
– Minimize impact on natural environment
• Energy Efficient
– Reduced Energy usage and Water usage
• Healthy
– Protect occupant health and increase productivity
• Minimize waste
– Designed and constructed in a manner that minimizes
waste, pollution, and environmental degradation
 CONCEPT AND GREEN IDEOLOGY

• The residential campus is planned and landscaped with a hope for

environmental freedom.
• Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community buildings surround
the central academic area to provide flexibility in movement and
communication.
• Core Pedestrian island which consist of lecture halls surrounded by
landscaping and water body forming the main focus of the
• campus.
The academic area is well connected by a long corridor which links all the
• major buildings
The academic area is set up in vicinity of Hostels to provide quick accessibility
• to students
Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated islands
• of departments
Activities which students and faculties share are designed to encourage
meeting and interaction
 ACADEMIC AREA
• Institute's Academic Area comprises academic buildings and facilities including
the PK Kelkar Library, Computer Centre, National Wind Tunnel Facility and
SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre. It also houses faculty offices,
laboratories and administrative buildings. The academic area is connected by a
long corridor which links all the major buildings.

SIDBI INNOVATION & INCUBATION CENTRE

 P.K. KELKAR LIBRARY

• Established in 1960 as Central Library. Established in 1960

as Central Library. „ Renamed as P.K. Kelkar Library in
2001. Renamed as P.K. Kelkar Library in 2001. „
• Four-storied building (covered area: 5730 sq. m.)
• Basement - 700 sq m
• Ground floor - 700 sq m
• First floor -1630 sq m
• Second floor - 2700 sq m
• Staff strength – 40
• Exposed brickwork:
reduces maintenance
costs and enhances
aesthetic appeal
 P.K. KELKAR LIBRARY

 The library forms an important part of the whole complex.

 It is a framed structure based on grid.
 The whole building is built in R.C.C with a brick facade.
Structural design
Of library Connecting corridors
P.K. Kelkar library
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• The residential campus is planned and landscaped with

a hope for environmental freedom.
• Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community
buildings surround the central academic area to provide
flexibility in movement and communication.
• Taking into consideration the reality that research work in
the present time is a collaborative work of varied
disciplines, curriculum of studies is worked out, with that
goal in mind.
HALL OF RESIDENCE
Kanvinde’s expressive architecture
was variously interpreted as "an
architectural expression that
reflected the culture and In retrospect, that style shows a
aspirations“.
remarkable similarity with the
brute morphology of vernacular
architecture in parts of India.

Expressed Concrete structure in

combination with brick became the
dynamic determinant of form and
order.
 SPLIT LEVEL CORRIDOR SYSTEM
•Minimize the walking distance, improving connectivity
•Create spatial expansion
•Give the impression of one large space hence space is used as a tool
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KANPUR

• Elevated pedestrian
walkway
• Sheltered and yet
openness
• Protection from hot
sun yet allowing
breezes
VISUAL EXPRESSION OF
THE STRUCTURE RATHER
THAN HIDING ITS
STRUCTURAL
COMPONENTS
 ORIENTATION

VISITORS HOSTEL
LIBRARY
STUDY OF BUILDINGS
 THE NATIONAL WIND TUNNEL FACILITY(NWTF)
OPEN AIR THEATER established in 1999 at IITK to meet the national needs in
areas of aeronautical and non -aeronautical R and D
activities, houses the most versatile and effective wind
tunnel in India. It has various simulation and
measurement systems, interchange able test sections
and is capable of testing at wind speed up to 80 m/s

VIEW
COMPUTER CENTER
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• Reveals the internal functions in a building as separate

masses.
• Arranged in ways that were functional from inside
and elegant from outside.
• Kanvinde strongly believed that the elevation of a
structure should be defined by the functions inside.

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 MATERIALS

• In Kanpur, the local availability of high quality brick and the

prevalent labour and construction practices made Kanvinde go for
reinforced concrete for structural frames and brick as infill's .
• reinforced-concrete post-and-slab construction, with a series of flat
slab-floors and a flat roof-slab carried on concrete columns or posts

bricks
 CONCLUSION

• His works are generally raw and unemotional. Yet he

managed to make his designs appealing and
• welcoming.
His designs were distinct and unique yet having one
• thing similar- functionalism.
His designs appear to be built with a large amount of
thought having been given to making them functionally
• efficient and practically feasible.
Conventional type of buildings were designed as
• isolated islands of departments.
Activities which students and faculties share are designed
to encourage meeting and interaction.
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