THESIS TOPIC

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF
FASHION
TECHNOLOGY
In Nagpur

MENTOR: Prof. Rashmi Dande

GUIDE: Prof. Manisha Yelne
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STUDY

NIFT, New Delhi NIFT, Chennai

(live case study)

• Site planning
For objectives (1) • Site planning
• Zoning
• Zoning
& (2) • Indoor & outdoor Circulation
• Indoor & outdoor Circulation
• Design consideration
• Design consideration
• Different academic spaces
• Different academic spaces
• Analysis of spaces
• Recreational spaces
• Recreational spaces
• Landscaping
• Landscaping
• Construction techniques &
Materials used • Construction techniques & Materials
used
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STUDY

Pearl Academy, Jaipur School of Planning & Centre for Environmental

Architecture, Vijaywada Planning and Technology,
Ahmedabad

• Concept • Concept (Brutalist Principle) • Concept

For objective (3)
• Climate analysis • Climate analysis • Design consideration
• Planning • Space analysis • Planning
• Passive cooling techniques • Planning • Basement (multi-functional
zone)
• Under belly ( multi-functional • Form analysis
program zone) • Landscaping
• Materials used
• Materials used • Material used
• Built-open relationship
• Built-open relationship • Built-open relationship
• Form analysis
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18 Screen, Lucknow Asian Game Village, Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s National Institute
New Delhi School, Jaisalmer of Immunology,
New Delhi

For • Planning • Concept • Concept • Concept

• Climate analysis • Climate analysis • Design consideration • Design consideration
objective • Passive cooling • Planning
• Planning • Planning
techniques
(4) •
• Architectural style • Architectural style • Form analysis
Architectural style (Traditional elements in ( Traditional +
(Traditional elements in modern form) Minimalism ) • Architectural style
modern form)
• Form analysis • Material used • Material used
• landscape
• Materials used • Sustainability • Built-open relationship
• Material used
• Built-open
relationship
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STUDY

The Street, GLU University,

IIM Ahmedabad Mathura
For objectives (5)
• Planning
• Planning
• Design strategies
• Design strategies
• Standards & parameters of the
• Standards & parameters design
• Arrangement of modules • Arrangement of modules
• Room layouts • Room layouts
• Form analysis • Form analysis
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Chitnavis Wada Vishrambaug Wada

For thrust/focus
• Concept • Concept
• Climate analysis • Climate analysis
• Planning • Planning
• Passive techniques • Passive techniques
• Architectural style (Traditional • Architectural style (Traditional
elements) elements)
• Form analysis • Form analysis
• Materials used • Materials used
• Built-open relationship • Built-open relationship
PEARL ACADEMY, JAIPUR
• The institute is located in a typical hot, dry, desert-type
climate on the outskirts of Jaipur in the soulless Kukas
industrial area, about 20km from the famous walled city.
• Its design needed to represent the seriousness of its
academic orientation through its formal geometry.
• Given the nature of an institute, budgetary constraints on the
project necessitated the use of cost-effective design solutions
to keep within the price points set by the client and yet be
able to achieve the desired functionality and effects.

LOCATION
PROJECT DETAILS

• Location –Click icon to add

Jaipur, picture
Rajasthan
• Year of completion – 2009
• Site area – 12150 sq.m.
• Total built-up area – 20,000 sq.m.
• No. of floors – 3 floors (UG, G, G+1)
 CONC
EPT
• The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur is a campus whose design is
graded towards creating an environmentally responsive passive
habitat.
• Institute creates interactive spaces for a highly creative student body
to work in multifunctional zones that blend the indoors with the
outdoors seamlessly.
• The radial architecture of the institute emerges from a fusion of the
rich traditional building knowledge bank and cutting-edge
contemporary architecture.

CLIMA
CIRCUL

TE
ATION

• The institute is located in a typically hot, dry, desert-

type climate on the outskirts of Jaipur in the soulless
Kukas industrial area.
• The advanced climate makes it a challenge to control
the micro-climate within the project thus incorporating
various passive climate control methods becomes a
necessity and also reduces the dependence on
mechanical environmental control measures which are
resource hunger.
 The architecture
of the academy
needed to be a
confluence of
modern
adaptations of
traditional Indo-
Islamic
architectural
elements and
passive cooling
strategies
prevalent in the
hot–dry desert
climate of
Rajasthan such
as an open
courtyard, water
body, a step-well
or baoli or jaalis.
Ground floor plan of Pearl Academy
 First-floor plan of Pearl Academy

Ground floor area chart

Underbelly plan of Pearl Academy

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G NING

• Ground level is partially sunk to

segregate access.
• The sunk ground floor also helps the
space protect itself from the desert
heat.
• Elongated features and the use of
white colors creates an illusion of extra
space.
• Short vertical mass as compared to
vertical mass
UNDERB
ELLY The ramp is multi-functional as a
runway during a fashion show.
Steps on the perimeter of The spatial flexibility allows ample
the underbelly double up Activity increases
room for growth.
as seats, making this ad- significantly during the
hoc performance venue evening and lunch
hours. The multi-functional area
for the student to spill out
of their classes to
socialize and interact.
The multi-functional
programming
allows for the
elimination of a
complete storey
which would
otherwise use
artificial techniques Informal interaction
of cooling hence
making the building
extremely efficient
in its energy
consumption.
The underbelly provides
functional spaces that
operate in a passive
environment, eliminating the
need for additional built
volume in the form of the
floor without jeopardizing
the program. Exhibition area
PASSIVE COOLING
TECHNIQUE
1) Green Strategies - Jaali
• Jaali acts as a second skin to the building, servicing the
function of 3 filters, light and privacy
• This building is wrapped in a double skin consisting of fritted
screens set 1.2m away from the inner wall and windows.
• The double skin acts as a thermal buffer between the building
and the surrounding, thereby reducing direct heat gain
through fenestrations, yet allowing for diffuse daylight.
Picture showing use of jaali facade

Section showing the use of jaali facade

2) EVAPORATIVE COOLING –
Courtyard & Stepwell • The scheme relies on self-shading sliver
courtyards to control the temperature of
internal spaces and open stepped wells
while allowing for sufficient daylight inside
studios and classrooms.
• The entire building rise above the ground
and a scooped-out underbelly form a natural
thermal sink which is cooled by water
bodies through evaporative cooling.

Section showing the effect of passive evaporative cooling through the courtyard over the water body

• This underbelly which is thermally banked on all sides

served as a large student recreation and exhibition zones
and forms the anchor for the entire project.

• During the night when the desert temperature drops this

floor slowly dissipates the heat to the surroundings keeping
the area thermally comfortable. This time lag suits the
staggered functioning of the institute.

Solar analysis of the building

3) Matka as an
Insulation
• Matka was placed
2.5cm apart, the Typical Section of matka insulation
gap filled with a
binding layer of
concrete. Matka, as shown in
the section below,
• The sandwich of was placed
trapped air is inverted along the
applied to terrace creating a
horizontal surfaces thermally insulating
that are exposed to roof.
the sun, becoming Picture from construction time
a barrier that limits
solar heat
transmission.
• The fill and the air
within the matkas
provide insulation.
Picture from
construction
times shoeing
use of Matka
AREA MATE INFERANC
ANALYSIS RIAL E
• The whole structure is enclosed within the 4
walls although it has landscaping inside the
USED
1. Jaali
building.
• It lacks the open spaces that a campus
2. Jaislmer stone needed.
3. Maatka • The institution doesn’t have hostel facilities
4. Kota stone within the campus premises.
• The campus doesn’t have OAT for large
gatherings.
• It is a merge of a traditional building with
contemporary architecture.
• Use of Traditional architectural elements in
modern form –
a) Jaali – screen
b) Courtyard
c) Stepwell (baoli) - underbelly
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NIFT , DELHI
LOCATION
SITE DETAILS
• The institute is
situated in the haus
khas institutional
zone. It lies on the
way to the Asian
games village from
the green park.
• Access is from north-
east and south -west PROJECT DETAILS
side of the campus.
• Location –Click
Delhi
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• Site is irregular in
shape and is • Year of completion – 1986
surrounded by
classical dance • Architect – B.V. Doshi
institute, hauz khas • Site area – 11,560 sq.m.
housing, gulmohar
park. • Total built-up area – 13,570 sq.m.
• No. of floors – 15 m of old block
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ZONING
SITE PLANNING
1. The site was flat land.
2. The kund and the levels are all architects’ creations that have
changed the overall site contour.
3. The landscape plannedned with no trace of any natural growth of
vegetation but the main focus has been given to the hard landscape
neglecting the effectiveness of the soft landscape.
4. The access is through a plot reserved for a zonal area now handled
by NIFT on the condition that of the building should be constructed
on this plot.
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AREA BREAKUP OF
RESOURCE CENTRE
• RECEPTION – 33sq.m.
• RESOURCE CENTRE –
355.49 sq.m.
• COMPUTER CENTRE –
112.5 sq.m.
• READING CARRELS –
64 sq.m.
ENTRY TO COMPLEX
• Entry to the site is through an inward-looking road with CENTRAL KUND
parking bays on either side. • The central ‘kund’ is
• The flooring pattern leads towards the entrance foyer. reminiscent of the
east while stepwells
and baolis.
• Earlier, there used
to be an actual title
water channel
which has been
covered up to
render the space
more usable.
• The kund acts as a
space for
congregation,
where students spill
out of their classes
to socialize and
interact.
• Activity increases
significantly during
the evening and
lunch hours.
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