27 Feb 2023
Industrial visit to IIHS Campus, Kengeri (Best Practices)
Organized by School of Architecture, REVA University, Bangalore, India.
Course Title: Architectural Design Studio V
Faculty Organisers: Ar Pooja Chandrashekhar Ugrani, Ar Gopisainath Grandhi.
Attended by: Students of B. Arch. 6th sem B Sec (28 Nos)
Date of the site visit: 27.02.2023
Venue: IIHS Campus, Kengeri
As part of the sixth semester Architectural Design Studio (B Section) the students are to design a multi-disciplinary campus. The studio aims to propose their design solutions at the visited sites, and hence the students were taken on a faculty accompanied visit to explore the existing situation in terms of the master plan, services, lighting and ventilation in interior spaces, safety and security measures etc., which will provide them with a better understanding to design their project in the studio in terms of various space standards. The following sites has been visited.
IIHS Campus, Kengeri
The proposed IIHS Institution of Eminence (IOE) takes urbanization as the core of a new knowledge paradigm for a new, interdisciplinary, 21st century university. Its structure is built around five interdisciplinary Schools (expanding to ten by 2025) that can institutionally break the limitations of the one-department-one-discipline model to create new cultures of teaching, research, and practice. The students were able to understand the context that exists in and around the site followed by the building construction techniques followed. A 2 km walk around the site had them witnesses the importance of biodiversity for the human well-being at all levels. It informed the students about how to handle and approach a large-scale sensitive project. Large underground ducts that are to house the service lines were shown. Cheetahs were monitored using cameras, bees, owls were provided houses, they grew their own vegetables for the kitchen powered by solar energy and have constructed large catchment areas that become successful in collecting over 8 million litres of water per tank. The hosts were generous enough to explain specific details related to architecture, especially related to the visitor student group. The entire process of experimentation is getting documented from which further construction decisions on site is getting informed.
Individual buildings such as the experimental centre and admin block are designed by Ar. Dharmesh Jadeja, Auroville, Site planning is done by Serie architects, London, Library designed by Arya architects, Ahmedabad. Ficus Landscape architects, Bangalore have designed the landscaping of the project. All of them focus on less embodied energy, trying to create a Net zero energy campus with IoT infrastructure and passive techniques.
