IIT KANPUR

CAMPUS DESIGN BY AR. ACHYUT KANVINDE

N AT I O N A L I N S T I T U T E O F T E C H N O L O G Y
H A M I R P U R

S U B M I T T E D T O : S U B M I T T E D B Y :

D R . I . P. S I N G H E K A N T S A P A Y A (15602)
D R . A M I TAVA S A R K A R A B H I N A V K U M A R (15610)
A R . K R I S H A N K AT TA R A R N A V D A S A U R (15631)
S H I V A N G I (15632)
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
M A Y A N K G U P T A (15636)
NIT HAMIRPUR B.ARCH, 4 TH YEAR, 7 TH SEMESTER

A c a m p u s m u s t b e d e s i g n e d t o t h e m e a s u r e o f m a n ~ A c h y u t K a n v i n d e
INTRODUCTION

L O C AT I O N : IIT Kanpur is located on the grand trunk

road, 15 km west of kanpur city.
AREA: 1000 acre
E S TA B L I S H E D : 1965
Residential STYLE: Heterogeneous campus
C L I M AT E : Warm and Temperate
Academic

5 minute walking
radius (1/2 mile)
Campus
Library Core

Academic 10 minute radius

(1 mile)

Residential C A PA C I T Y
DISTRIBUTION

INITIAL PRESENT PROJECTED

87.5% OPEN SPACE 84% OPEN SPACE 77.6% OPEN SPACE
8.8% CIRCULATION 10.4% CIRCULATION 13.9% CIRCULATION
HUMAN NEEDS 3.7% GROUND COVERAGE 5.6% GROUND COVERAGE 8.5% GROUND COVERAGE
PREVAILING
BREEZES
CONCEPT
FEATURES SPLIT LEVEL CORRIDOR SYSTEM
Organic growth adapting to changing Minimize walking diastance, improving
needs connectivity
Open ended/ heterogeneous campus Create spatial expansion
Decentralized plan Give impression of one large space

REGIONALISM

FUNCTIONALISM MODERNISM

CONCEPTS
OF OPEN PLAN
MODULARIZATION
KANVINDE CATEGORICAL
DIFFERENTIATION OF
MODULARIZATION SPACES INTO FUNCTIONAL
REJECTED SYMMETRY ZONES SPLIT LELEL CORRIDOR
LOCAL CLIMATE

FLOW OF SPACES
BUILDING MATERIALS
HETEROGENEOUSITY
VISUAL
EXPRESSION OF
SOCIAL CONDITIONS STRUCTURE

BAHAUS FEATURES Asymmetry LOGIC OF LIGHTNESS

SOUND
Cubic shapes By inserting gaps and shadows between
CLIMATOLOGICAL
Smooth, flat plain, undecorated surfaces The concrete and brick components,
PRINCIPLES
‘Flat’ roofs Kanvinde was able to make rough and
Adoption of steel-framed or reinforced heavy Materials look light.
HETEROGENEOUS CAMPUS MORDERNISM
concrete post-and-slab.
S E R V I C E A N A LY S I S D I S T R I B U T I O N PA T T E R N

WATER TANKS ACCESS

TO DELHI
SUBSTATIONS CIRCULATION

SEWAGE SYSTEM OXIDATION ZONING

POND
ANCILARY FLOW OF PEOPLE TOWARDS GATE
THE ACADEMIC AREA NANKARI
VILLAGE
OPEN SPACE DISTRIBUTION
2
SHOPPING C.
CHANDEL
GATE
PRADHAN GATE5
GATE

7 B
2 TO KANPUR
C
5 GATE4
3 GATE1A
1 4 1
2
GATE3 GATE2
MAIN
1 1 GATE

2 D
DR
3
6 6
1 BANK/ BANK+ATM
`E SHOPPING CENTERS
STUDENT TRAFFIC
3 2 RELIGIOUS BUILDING
3 TRUNK SEWERS ` A TARUN BOOK STORE
ACADEMIC
LANDSCAPED
B CENTRAL
STAFF
STORE AREAS
3 FOOD AND BEVERAGES UNUTILISED LAND
C CAMPUS STATIONARY
4 INDIAN OIL PETROL PUMP AND PROVISION
BRANCH SEWERS
D SHOPPING CENTER
OXIDATION POST OFFICE
POND 5 E NEW SHOPPING CENTER
OTHER SEWERS
6 HEALTH CENTRE BARASIROHI
VILLAGE
7 CENTRAL STORE
ACADEMIC CORE

ACADEMIC CORE:

• The academic complex located centrally in the campus and organised within a quadrangle
of 50 acres was completed within the first phase in 1966.
• With the university officials a new concept was evolved wherein individual departments
and disciplines were integrated. No separate department buildings were envisioned.
• The integration of sorts led to developing the central idea of his design in the form of
linkages.
• Broadly defined functions like laboratories and workshops, library, lecture halls,
computer centre, faculty and administration were grouped in buildings.
• Clusters linked by cross spines. Double level pathways or covered corridors.
• Internal circulation consists of pedestrian and bicycle friendly walkways in two levels.
• Vehicular movement restricted to the periphery of the quadrangle.
• Service tunnels run under the lower level walkways.

LABOPRATORIES: WORKSHOPS

• The laboratory building are • The workshop block is situated on the

distributed all along the academic western periphery on the academic
areas and are named as eastern labs, complex.
western labs, northern labs and the • From pedestrian movement
core labs. maintaining the integrity of the core
• The design is based on modules. as a pedestrian island.
• The laboratories are located on both • Provision of parking restricts the
CIRCULATION sides of a central corridor to make cross movement of traffic within the
design more than compact. academic complex.
LEGENDS: FACULTY BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION • The laboratory blocks are connected
WORKSHOPS with faculty building and the library
LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
except the northern & southern
LABORATORIES PLAZA DEPARTMENTAL BUILDINGS laboratories by means of corridors
LECTURE HALLS COMPUTER CENTRE and by bridges.
S W O T A N A LY S I S

STRENGTHS: WEAKNESS:

• Well segregation of academic staff and student traffic. • Master plan being heterogeneous and open ended in nature lacks proper integration.
• Pedestrian and vehicular traffic segregated to keep the academic complex free from traffic, • Lack of direct access to various departments due to typical grid like layout.
noise and conflict. • Ramps too steep and without handrails.
• Parking limited to the periphery along the boundary walls. • Huge amount of unutilized/under developed land.
• Dedicated bicycle and walking lanes. • Majorly direct water supply throughout the campus leads to wastage of resources.
• Juxtaposition of departmental blocks is appreciable giving illusion of a single mass. • Lack of signage and directions.
• Planning encourages meeting and interaction among students and faculty by grouping of all
activity nodes around the Academic core.
• Open building forms with linking corridor and spaces penetrating through, uniquely providing
shelter from the hot sun, yet allowing breezes.
• Energy efficiency and sustainability measures incorporated in most of the built mass.
• There is a sense of permanence and timelessness in the open ended heterogeneous campus.

OPPORTUNITIES: THREATS:

• Development of more congregation spaces could help integrate the masterplan and increase
land utilization.
• Very high expansion scope.
• Redensifiaction of existing development.
• Sufficient cultural and recreational spaces needed at key locations to aid overall campus
personality development and promote/ re-establish the sense of community.
• Creating peripheral road along the boundary could connect the existing villages thereby
curtaining through traffic within the campus.
• Kanvinde’s concepts being disregarded in new development paving way for a haphazard
disintegrated campus.
• Idea of pedestrian friendly academic core is getting diluted by the introduction of a number of
internal roads.
• Provision of singular acces point from the GT road chokes traffic and has genrated an
undesirable urban sprawl around it.
• Water supply system needs to be replanned providing two or three central underground water
reservoirs.
• Old buildings either outlived their lived their lives or not in good structural condition need to
be redeveloped.