building study report

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I sincerely thank Ar.Anant Mann and Ar.Siddhartha Wig , the principal architects at The Elements for their help, guidance, support and confidence which made working and learning at the firm an enriching and enlightening experience. I also thank the supporting team at the firm for helping me and guiding me to the minutes of all jobs assigned to me and helped me succeed in all my assignments to the satisfaction of my bosses. The work assigned during the tenure of training greatly helped me in learning about work culture in professional world, the importance of team work and a sense of responsibility for projects undertaken. I also thank our training co –coordinator Ar. Sunanda Kapoor and our Principal Ar. SS Bais who have been very patient and great support all this while. Surabhi Vashisht 91812067946 Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture

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ABOUT THE FIRM THE ELEMENTS

The Elements was started in July 1995 at New Delhi and subsequently shifted to Panchkula in Haryana.

The team aims at socially relevant, cost effective, energy efficient architecture. These concerns are reflected in

most of the projects. The projects are design and detail intensive and reflect a belief in a total design philosophy.

The 17 year old practice has led to exploration of solar passive architecture and alternate appropriate materials

for construction. Since the inception of the firm there has been a special interest in institutional design which

began with winning a Design Ideas Competition for an ideal Rural Primary School sponsored by HUDCO. Since

then the firm has been involved in a variety of initiatives in numerous school projects.

Having diversified into the field of retail and industrial architecture, The Elements has a number of

successfully finished projects showcasing their potential. Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management

happens to be another exemplary institutional project designed and executed by The Elements in continuation

to the formerly built structure in the campus.

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CONTENTS

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TITLE PAGE

1 INTRODUCTION 5

2 SITE AND SITE PLANNING 10

3 FLOOR PLANS 16

4 ELEVATIONS 36

5 SECTIONS 37

6 CONSTRUCTION DETAILS 40

7 BADMINTON COURT 48

8 SERVICES 56

9 ELEVATION DESIGN/ LANDSCAPE FEATURES 61

INTRODUCTION

PROJECT SELECTION

The project was selected upon other projects in the office for ;

• Being an institutional building, considering the importance of education and its role in the economy and

the study of environment conducive to maximum gain in terms of education.

• Simple and neat planning.

• Correlation to an existing building and overcoming the problems faced in former by the user.

• Features aiding to green building characteristics.

AIM AND SCOPE OF STUDY

The building study has been carried out on the basis of the following parameters

• Site planning

• Floor plans

• Functional details

• Structure

• Circulation

• Services

• Landscape / Elevation Design features

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTION Sri Aurobindo College of Commerce and Management is an exclusive Commerce and Management College based in Ludhiana which aims to contribute to the movement of nurturing the youth as leaders of tomorrow and for strengthening our economic and industrial progress. The building provides for a naturally ventilated and lit environment with optimum power back up and measures to ensure environmental sustainability.

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PROJECT DETAILS

INTRODUCTION

Building type Institutional

Location Village Jhande, P.O. Threeke, Ferozepur Road, ludhiana, punjab

Architect Structure consultants Electrical consultants

Ar. Siddhartha wig , Ar.Anant Mann Er.Pankaj Chopra Cadence design consultants

Owner Sh. S P Oswal

Site area 9.5acre (416083.686 sqft)

Total covered area 42956.45 sqft.

Permissible covered area (.4x 416083.686sqft)=166433.4744 sqft

Cost of project INR 6.2 cr app.

LOCATION The site is located in Ludhiana. Talking in terms of commerce and trade as the institute is dedicated to it’s studies; • Ludhiana is a major agri-products producer. It is a big centre for dairy product packaging. Ludhiana is also a major

trading hub for commodities for North India. It is a major consumer shopping centre with consumers coming from around parts of Punjab to do their big-ticket shopping.

• Ludhiana is also having Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) which is a non government, not-for-profit, industry lead and industry managed organization playing a proactive role in Punjab’s developmental process.

Thereby it is in the best interests of economy to have had such a college located in the city and so it is totally appreciable to have such an amenity. The architectural character of Ludhiana is as diverse as the services it offers to the economy, yet much of the language followed can be related to the style of buildings for government college of engineering for boys and punjab agricultural university, as shown below with an amalgamation of modern technological features.

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OTHER INSTITUTIONS IN THE VICINITY ARE: SCHOOLS • Don Bosco Global School •Government Model School • Kendriya Vidyala • Springdale Public School • Atam Public School

COLLEGES • Punjab College of Technical Education • PCTE College of Pharmacy

INTRODUCTION

EAST ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE

LOCATION The college is located 3.1km southwest from NH5 (also called Ferozepur road)preceding a railway crossing used seldom for military carriages, about 10km from the main city of ludhiana and falls amidst three small villages of Punjab; namely Jhande, Threeke and Baddowal.

NH5

FROM LUDHIANA

TOWARDS JHANDE

AUROBINDO CAMPUS

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INTRODUCTION

CONCEPT The building was proposed in continuation to a structure already built, however the design objectives included • Segregation of functions in planning so as to ensure better utility and prevent disturbances which was a concern

in the previously built structure. • Orienting the building east- west to cut down on glare unlike the previous structure which was oriented north-

south. • Optimization in size of rooms with reference to the guidelines of AICTE. • Flexibility in usage.

SOUTH WEST ELEVATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURE 9

SITE AND SITE PLANNING

LINK ROAD

CAMPUS EXTENSION

PARKING

SITE

EXISTING BLOCK RAILWAY LINE

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SITE AND SITE PLANNING SITE AND DESIGN CONSTRAINTS

• The site roughly measures 510’-0”x 433’-0”x 1150’-0”x 984’-0” • The total site area is 9.5acre (416083.686 sqft) approximately. • While N.B.C prescribes a minimum of 2ha area(4.9acre approximately) for institutes for professional courses

per intake of 250 students, AICTE allows for a maximum of 300 students per acre for all the management institutes.

PROPOSAL BLOCK DIAGRAM

The proposed block was characteristically oriented east-west (blocking the sides receiving maximum glare and large amount of openings on the northern and southern façade to; • Maximize the reception of natural light. • Maximize natural cross ventilation. (wind direction; north-east to south west)

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PROPOSED BLOCK

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SITE AND SITE PLANNING SITE PLAN AND CIRCULATION

• The site lies on one of the main district link road moving from NH5 towards JHANDE village . • The campus is entered into from a 20’-0” wide road from the north-east corner that radiates elliptically and

forms an internal paved path(20’-0” wide) within the campus reaching the Drop off porch of the main building.

SITE PLAN AND CIRCULATION

• the same path and formal geometry has been deviated along the ends to make a service road along the periphery of the site(also making way for a fire tender to reach the structures on the farther end in case of emergency- depicted in yellow).

• The concept intends to have a pollution free environment and hence emphasis has been made on pedestrian movement(currently usable paths depicted in orange).

• A similar elliptical formal geometry has been followed in the posterior court as in the fore court, Narrowing down towards the south west along the profile of the site.

• To the right side of the main entrance and the northern wall of the site lie the electrical substation and sewage treatment plant(depicted in green).

• To the left is a designated parking for four buses(depicted in blue).

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FLOOR PLANS BUILT UP AREA REQUIREMENTS As per the guidelines enlisted by the AICTE ,The institutional area shall be divided into; • Instructional area (INA) • Administrative area (ADA) • Amenities area (AMA) • Circulation area (CIA) = .25(INA+ADA+AMA) TOTAL BUILT UP AREA = CIA+INA+ADA+AMA

INSTRUCTIONAL AREA

Number of divisions(class of 30 students)

Duration of course

classrooms Tutorial rooms

Computer centre

Library and reading room

Seminar halls

Carpet area(square feet)

350 175 75 50 66

Number of rooms required

3 2 3 1 1 1 1

Total number of rooms

3 2 6 1 1 1 1

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ADMINISTRATIVE AREA

Particulars Area required per person(sqft) Total area (sqft)

Conference room(90 persons) 16 1440

Faculty rooms(18 persons) 90 1620

AMENITIES AREA

Toilets Cafeteria Gymnasium/ sports

club Auditorium/amphitheatre

Carpet area required for an institute with (sqft)

3767 1614 2152 4305

CIRCULATION An additional 25% of the total area mentioned above shall be added on for circulation.

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FLOOR PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 20420sqft

Characteristically the ground floor caters to the following functions:

• Badminton court/ auditorium 6400sqft

• circulation 4000sqft

TOTAL 20420sqft 16

FLOOR PLANS

• TOILETS

Males 268sqft

Females 268sqt

Staff (males/females) 77sqft x2= 154sqft

Handicapped 64sqft

• Conference room 1980sqft

• Computer room 2176sqft

• Student’s centre 1700sqft

• Cafeteria 2700sqft

• Kitchen 410sqft

GROUND FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 20420sqft

BADMINTON COURT

The features kept in mind while designing were; • Optimization of grid size. • Separation of classrooms from the comparably noisier sections as the classrooms and hence placed on the ground floor.

• Creation of staggered entrances to various rooms.

COMPUTER ROOMS

CONFERENCE ROOM

FOYER

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FLOOR PLANS

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ENTRANCE FOYER/ TOILETS

FLOOR PLANS GROUND FLOOR PLAN

CONFERENCE ROOM (67’-7”X 32’-3”)

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FLOOR PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

COMPUTER ROOM (67’-7”X 32’-3”)

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FLOOR PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

CANTEEN

SIT OUT

KITCHEN/STORE

CANTEEN (67’7”X 34’-9”)

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FLOOR PLANS GROUND FLOOR PLAN

STUDENT’S CENTRE

STUDENT’S CENTRE 67’-7”X 25’-0”

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FLOOR PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 13799.455sqft Division of areas

• Circulation 2288.506sqft

TOTAL 13799.455sqft

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Toilets

• Males 268sqft

• Females 268sqt

• Staff (males/females) 77sqft x2= 154sqft

• Store 150sqft

• Lecture halls (6) 709sqft X6=4254sqft

• Seminar halls (2) 1121.886sqft X2=2243.772sqft

• Faculty rooms (type-1) (6) 92.624sqft X6=555.744sqft +122sqft= 677.744sqft

• Faculty rooms (type-2) (12) 72.283sqft X12= 867.396sqft +66sqftX2 =999.39sqft

FLOOR PLANS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 13799.455sqft • Mainly comprising of the instructional areas such as the lecture and the seminar halls. • Faculty rooms to accompany and facilitate discursive learning with each faculty member allocated an individual room .

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FLOOR PLANS

TOILETS/STORE

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FLOOR PLANS FIRST FLOOR PLAN

LECTURE/ SEMINAR HALLS

• Each of the lecture halls can accommodate upto 48 students each made up into a stepped seating arrangement of 6” riser each.

• Each of the seminar halls can accommodate upto 70 students each and also made up into a stepped seating as described above.

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FLOOR PLANS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

FACULTY ROOMS The faculty rooms have majorly been categorized into two types; • SENIOR PROFESSORS: Considerably larger in size as compared to the latter, with each cabin measuring 10’-7”X 8’-10” roughly. • ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: Each room measuring 9’-0” X8’-2”.

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FLOOR PLANS FIRST FLOOR PLAN

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 8737sqft Division of areas

FLOOR PLANS

Toilets

• Males 268sqft

• Females 268sqt

• Staff (males/females) 77sqft x2= 154sqft

• Store 70sqft

• Librarian’s room 77.805sqft

• Common room for girls 709.212sqft

• library 5061.617sqft

• Circulation 1239.125sqft

TOTAL 8737sqft

SECOND FLOOR PLAN Covered area: 8737sqft • Mainly houses the library of the college along with a

room for the librarian and a store. • Also a common room for girls has been provided

along with.

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FLOOR PLANS

LIBRARY The furniture has been laid out as follows , dividing the room into three quarters; • Clear passageway through and

through. • Tables for reading and study. • Book cases laid along the periphery. • Reception and librarian’s room to one

end.

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FLOOR PLANS SECOND FLOOR PLAN

TERRACE FLOOR PLAN

The terrace plan mainly houses the mumty for staircase, water tanks, outlet for solar chimneys. Brick bat koba terracing employed. Finished with cool roof heat reflective paint which helps in reducing the interior temperature for RCC roofs till about 14 degrees Celsius and for powder coated sheets till upto 22 degrees celcius. 31

FLOOR PLANS

BRICK COBA TERRACING

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FLOOR PLANS

The technique for terracing involves the following steps: • Cleaning the roof surface with a wire brush to form a rugged surface to contain the rest of the materials. • Laying brick bats into 15-20mm th mortar joints (so as to form a sloping profile to the rain water outlet

locations. • Fibre mesh overlaid so as to prevent any cracks. • Finished with Cement rich plaster in 1:3 mortar .

ELEVATIONS

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SECTIONS/ SECTIONAL DETAILS

SECTION THROUGH THE CLASSROOMS 34

SECTIONS/ SECTIONAL DETAILS

SECTION THROUGH THE STAIRCASE 35

STRUCTURE The building employs a conventional R.C.C framed structure; • Column size: 1’-0”X2’-0” • Bay size: variable • Beam size: 1’-0” X 1’-9” • Slab depth : 9” • 9” structural walls and the main partition walls. • Inner partition walls 4.5” thick. A 2” wide expansion gap left between the college building and the badminton court.

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CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

EXPANSION JOINT DETAIL

INNER PARTITION WALL DETAIL 37


CENTRAL CORE The central core mainly consists of the foyer, electrical panel room with shaft , and health and sanitation facilities such as the drinking water coolers, staff toilets, common toilets , toilet for handicapped, staircase for vertical circulation and space and provision left for addition of elevators.

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STAIRCASE The stairwell measures 15’-6” X 23’-6” containing a dog legged staircase built as a tread riser type supported on the grid along the columns and beams.

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Surronded by a 9” th brick wall on three sides and the lateral side contains a PCC jali to facilitate filtered natural light and ventilation.

Each tread measures 7’-0” in width, 1’-0” in depth and each riser is 5.5” high.

ELECTRICAL PANEL ROOM

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The room for electricity distribution board measures 7’-6”X 12’-0” while the cables are carried through a shaft measuring 2’-4” X 9’-0” along cable trays and are accessible on each floor.

TOILET DETAILS All the toilets are naturally ventilated, each serviced through a shaft 1’-6”wide and variable in length accessible on each floor. The common toilets have three WCs and sinks each with additional urinals in the male’s toilet as per the standards.

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TOILET DETAILS

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BADMINTON COURT

• As briefed upon by the client, the following hall was designed with an intention to serve a dual purpose of one being a badminton court and being alternatively functional as an auditorium.

• The hall can be accessed either through an entrance common to the student’s centre or the one specially designed for the purpose towards the east.

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BADMINTON COURT

The badminton court measures 67’-6” X 83’-6”. It was characteristically divided into three parts; • STAGE:2’-6” high and 45’-

0” x 16’-7” in plan makes for an optimum size for occasional performances.

• GREEN ROOMS: 2 green rooms located at the rear end of the stage , each measuring 11’-0”x 8’-3”.

• CENTRAL ARENA: Measuring 67’-6”x 53’-0” makes for a badminton court and if required, can accommodate a seating of about 300 people.

• ELEVATED SEATING: each aisle 3’-0” deep and an elevation of 6” each accommodate a fixed seating for 90 spectators.

CENTRAL ARENA

STAGE

STEPS FOR SEATING

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FLOOR PLAN

STRUCTURE The structure of badminton court can be divided into two parts; • The conventional RCC framed structure forming the base with columns and beams measuring 1’-6” X1’-6” and

3’-0”wide RCC gutter running along the periphery . • Mild steel sections used to build the trusses as per the engineer’s specifications and details provided. • GI roofing sheets used to form the roof covering with patches cut-out with polycarbonate sheets laid under to

allow the sky light to enter in.

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BADMINTON COURT

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BADMINTON COURT

LONGITUDNAL SECTION

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BADMINTON COURT

CROSS SECTION

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SIDE ELEVATIONS

BADMINTON COURT

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FRONT ELEVATIONS

BADMINTON COURT

SERVICES WATER SUPPLY the system for water supply is quite conventional and simple. A prescribed underground water storage tank collecting water from the mains and transferred to the overhead tanks by means of pumps and distributed further under force of gravity.

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SPECIFICATIONS FOR WATER STORAGE: • 5000l capacity tank for fire fighting. • 3000l capacity tank each for girls and boys

toilet respectively. • 3000l capacity tank for drinking water supply

and kitchen. • 2000l capacity tank for staff toilets.

SERVICES

DETAILS The illustrations beside show the details of shafts that carry water supply and sewage pipes. • Water being transported through .5”, .75”,

1”,1.5”(for downward and horizontal distribution of water), 2.5”(for upward transportation mainly) dia G.I pipes.

• 3” dia pipes for soil waste from wall mount W.Cs and waste water disposal and 4” dia pipes for soil waste from Indian type W.Cs.

• 8” dia pipes used to connect G.Ts AND I.Cs (laid at a slope of 1:180.

• Three pipe system employed for sewage disposal.

• G.I. Pipe to be painted in two coats with bitumen paint where exposed to weather or embedded in wall.

• G.I. Pipe laid in/ under the floors and in open areas to be covered with hessian cloth after coats of paint.

• Size of gulley traps: 1’-0” x 1’-0” • Size of inspection chambers: 3’-0” x 2’-0”

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SERVICES FIRE FIGHTING

A 5000l capacity overhead water storage tank dedicated to the purpose of fire fighting. •water sprinkler system laid out at all floors. •access to a fire hose at every floor level from the shaft for fire fighting in the building core.

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SERVICES ELECTRICAL The calculations for power loads done in accordance to the guidelines laid by Punjab state power corporation suggested a requirement of • Transformer- 200KVA capacity • DG set – 200KVA All the cable carrying conduits have been concealed either in the slab casted or in the walls . • For an efficient electric supply, a well planned

electrical supply has been adopted. • The supply is received from city mains by an

electrical sub-station. • From there it is sent to a high voltage panel ,and

then to a step down transformer. • The cables are further diverted in conduits along

trays from the electrical panel room initially through the electrical shaft and further on through the conduits.

AIR CONDITIONING No air conditioning is required as such because of the ample natural ventilation but there had been split air conditioners proposed for the computer labs, conference room and library, the split units for which shall be contained on the western façade to maximize the effect.

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ELEVATION DESIGN / LANDSCAPE FEATURES

• A huge number of shafts running along the façade were employed in the design of elevation; while some were functional, a number of them were left as dummy shafts for future use and to maintain the symmetry in design.

• Besides, there were shafts made into solar chimneys on the southern façade. • The shafts also acted like vertical sun shades accompanying the horizontal projections designed optimally

keeping in mind the angle of sun rays during summers. • Planters cast in concrete designed to variable heights at the entrances , sit outs. • Trellises cast in concrete again to commemorate the entrances.

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MAIN ENTRANCE DESIGN DETAIL

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SOLAR CHIMNEYS on the southern façade to trap the short wave radiant heat through clear glass , accumulated on the inner black painted surface and the louvers opening into the building; the hot air thereby rising to the top and being expelled through exhaust fans at a height of about 3’-0” from the terrace level.

SUN PATH DURING SUMMERS

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SUN PATH DURING WINTERS

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