National institute of fashion technology - Bhopal (Undergraduate Thesis)

21. Student housing sections

22. Faculty housing site plan

23. Faculty housing floor plans

24. Technology and calculations

25. 3d views

About the institute

National Institute of Fashion Technology is a leader in fashion education with the ability to integrate knowledge, traditional arts, contemporary thought, academic freedom, innovations in design & technology and creative thinking to continuously upgrade its curriculum to address the changing needs of the industry. Its history of 30 years at the pinnacle of fashion education stands as a testimony to its focus on core values where academic excellence has been nurtured. The institute has stood as a beacon of industry-academia Engagement, a key enabler in developing competent professionals. National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), set up in 1986 under the guidance of Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, is a Statutory Institute Governed by the NIFT Act 2006. Bringing in a wide range of aesthetic & intellectual orientations, the early instructors included leading progressive scholars from Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA. During 2010, seven more centers were established in Rae Bareli, Shillong, Bhopal, Patna, Kannur, Jodhpur and Bhubneshwar in collaboration with the respective State Governments. So NIFT Bhopal is also proposed in collaboration with State Government. NIFT will help to put Bhopal as a fashion hub at national level.

Proposition

To Create an environment in an campus which is ecologically, culturally and mentally suited for the absorption of knowledge to be perceived and to bring the inner self and talent to the surface.

Aims

• To design a campus which helps students relate to the subject of their study and enhances the learning process and create spaces which inspire creativity amongst the students

• To make full use of the topography of the site

• To analyze interaction among the built mass, nature and the users with respect to climatic concerns of the region

Areas of research

NIFT Act 2006 published in the Gazette of India on 14th July, 2006 confers Statutory Status on the institute. The Act came into effect from 1st April, 2007. The President of India is the ‘Visitor’ of the institute under the Act. The Act empowers the institute to award Degrees and other distinctions. NIFT is the first premier institute in India to award its own Degrees in the field of fashion education. The Degrees awarded by the institute are recognized by the academia worldwide. The institute confers Degrees to the graduates in the Convocation Ceremony marking the occasion when the students leave the realms of the institute to take up key leadership positions in the industry.

Accreditation Nift Vision

The vision of the institute to emerge as a centre of excellence and innovation pro actively catalyzing growth of fashion business through leadership in professional education with concern for social and human values.

Understanding of Fashion and Craft cluster of bhopal DESIGNING ON SLOPES

Building on a sloping site offers many advantages. These advantages include opportunities for views and the capture of prevailing breezes. However building on a sloping site may require more site planning and design consideration to minimise the environmental, visual and amenity impact on neighbouring properties and surrounding landscape.

MATCHING BUILDING DESIGN TO SUIT THE DEGREE OF SLOPE

1.

FLAT TO SLIGHTLY SLOPING SITES

Single slab on ground construction is only suitable for a site slope up to seven per cent. Slopes between seven and 10 per cent, should accommodate some level change within the building footprint.

2. MODERATE SLOPE

Single slab on ground construction is only suitable for a site slope up to seven per cent. Slopes between seven and 10 per cent, should accommodate some level change within the building footprint.

3. STEEP SLOPE

For slopes between 20 and 33 per cent, post and beam construction should be used which steps with the site. This may include a lower part level with a concrete slab. Single slab on ground construction should not be used.

4.

EXTREME SLOPE

For slopes more than 33 per cent, suspended or pole construction techniques are required. This degree of slope is more suited to a downslope configuration. Driveway access is generally too difficult on steep upslope lots which require large batters/retaining walls and sometimes a curving driveway.

CUT AND FILL AS A SOLUTION

Bhopal City Cluster falls under Madhya Pradesh State in Bhopal district. The Bhopal City cluster is able to form 500 plus Artisans & 20 SHGs supporting the strong work force. The mobilisation gains momentum day by day.

Craft cluster of bhopal :

Understanding of Campus planning

EXTRACTS FROM CAMPUS DESIGN IN INDIA BY ACHYUT KANVINDE

IDEAL CAMPUS

The campus is the physical environment created when buildings are constructed to allow the university idea to flourish . A university campus has been compared to a city on a small scale because it provides most of the needs for the university community unlike a city, however, the university is non commercial and primarily a place of study the campus, therefore ought to be a closely knit, unified cluster of buildings with intimate pedestrian open spaces providing a unique environment for living and studying it should ideally be a quiet, comfortable oasis apart from the normally busy. noisy, consgested world. in this sense a campus should be more like a residential suburb or park than a city. it should not, however, be isolated from its surroundings. the university and the region in which it is situated will mututally benefit from proper interaction.

GROWTH AND CHANGE

Another important attribute of a campus is change. the university administrator seeks that degree of continuity and stability compatible with the progressive change required to maintain the institution’s leadership role. campus design must anticipate, as nearly as possible, the nature of probable growth and change. providing flexibility and indeterminancy, is perhaps the greatest challenge to the designer.

There are three main aspects to growth aspects to growth and change.

1. growth or expansion of facilities caused by increasing enrollment.

2. differential growth that occurs in various areas of the university along with overall growth.

3. internal flexibility required for changing uses of spaces and services., a kind of predesigned matrix or systems fabric that will insure order in future development, without being too restrictive.

SIZE

The ideal size for a university campus depends upon individual circumstances. the demands on the university, the location of the campus, the type of instruction, all influence the size. experience has shown that when an ultimate size was predetermined, the university often continued to grow beyond what was originally considered best. a major controlling factor is walking distance. Ten minutes from hostel to classroom is considered a maximum allowable walking distance . three to five minutes is optimum.

HUMAN NEEDS

In an ideal campus environment, regardless of size, classroom and living spaces should be related for the convenience of pedestrian occupants and closely linked to the qualities of the natural setting. since a campus is for people, it must be designed to measure of man himself, his physical dimensions, his senses, his habits, responses

Diagram of Ideal campus from Campus design in india by achyut kanvinde

PROJECT FACT FILE

Project title - Pearl academy of fashion

Location - jaipur, rajasthan

Architect - Morphogenesis

Site area - 12150 SQM

Built-up - 20, 000 SQM

Client - Little people Education society

No. of floors - 3 Floors ( UG + G + (G+1) )

F.A.R - 1.65

SITE PLANNING

Inward looking campus with scooped out underbelly. Orthogonal built focussed on peripheral around fluid central spaces.

PROJECT FACT FILE

Project title - National Institute of fashion Technology

Location - Chennai, Tamil nadu

Architect - Sanjay Mohe

Site area - 18,211 sqm

Client - Ministry of textiles

Built-up area - 14,548 SQM

No. of floors - G+2

F.A.R - 0.80

SITE PLANNING

Inward looking campus centralized around central court.

PROJECT FACT FILE

Project title - National Institute of Design

Location - Bhopal, Madhyapradesh

Architect - Gpm architects

Site area - 113,314 sqm

Client - NBCC

Built-up area - 21,200 SQM

No. of floors - G+2

F.A.R - 0.20

SITE PLANNING

Echoing the pretext, the ‘Creative Spine’ forms the key feature around which spatial planning of the entire campus has been developed, enable placement of built volumes to ensure minimal conflicts in the circulation patterns of different users.

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

CIRCULATION

Legend

Steps to underbelly

Vehicular circulation

Vehicular movement in NIFT chennai is kept separated for academics and hostels. For academics vehicular access is kept in the front with parking facilities. For hostels vehicular access is given from south side which is only catering to hostels.

Legend

Pedestrian

RESPONSE TO CLIMATE

Parking

Vehicular circulation

This building is wrapped in a double skin consisting of fritted screens set 1.2 metres away from inner walls and windows. the double skin acts as a thermal buffer between the building and surrounding, thereby reducing direct heat gain through fenestrations, yet allowing for diffused daylight.

Vehicular movement in NID BHOPAL is kept on periphery which goes on entire site creating loop. and pedestrian circulation is enrouraged within for movement from buildings to buildings.

Legend

Vehicular circulation

Pedestrian circulation

Matkas were placed 2.5 cm apart, the gap was filled with binding layer of concrete. the sandwich of trapped air is applied to horizontal surfaces that are exposed to the sun, becoming a barrier that limits solar heat transmission. the fill and the air within the mutkas provide insulation.

RESPONSE TO CLIMATE

The campus has been laid out that the building is separated by deep through fissures that serves as wind tunnels and light wells. The sea breeze makes its entry in places in the building, coming in through the narrow and tall gaps between the angular units on the seaward side of the building.

however, students complain of absence of proper cross ventilation in several classrooms. light floods into the heart of the building and bring a sense of layering by defining planes of varying light intensity. a heightened awareness of light, always a salient feature of sensitive architecture, is affected by a movement path that takes one through a progression of light and dark zones.

RESPONSE TO CLIMATE

Facade system is designed in such a way to provide shadow in corridor i.e always protected from direct sunlight. and academic block is divided into two blocks consist of workshops and classrooms. these two blocks are placed in such a way it provides shading in learning spine.

The juncton acts like service core area for the building and created a cross ventilated space for recreation. All windows in each building are north oriented 35 degrees avg temp for 8 months in a year with sun in the south .

STUDENT HOUSING - GLA

BY SANJAY PURI

ELEVATIONS

1. Entrance for hostel wings.

2. waiting lobby

3. staircase

4. Duct

5. Hostel rooms

6. Toilet

7. Corridor

Bhauri, is to become a hub of educational institutes, school of planning and architecture, iiser, police academy are some of the institutes apart from national institute of fashion technology are presently there. As per bhopal master plan 2031. The site surrounding consists mostly of residential plots, townships. While it shares a boundary with iiser on the west side. The presence of raja bhoj airport near the institute makes it a premium location in a city.

PROXIMITY OF SITE

Gandhinagar bus stand - 9 km

Railway station - 22 km

Raja bhoj airport - 13 km

Bhopal city - 12 km

DEVELOPMENT CONTROL AND BYE LAWS OF BHOPAL

Building type - institutional

Overall ground coverage - 25 %

Overall far - maximum 1.0

Maximum height - 24 metre

Setbacks -

Front - 15 m

Rear - 9 m

Sides - 9 m

The site is adjacent to state highway 18 and is half hour away from airport .

Proximity to educational institutes like SPA bhopal and IISER will accelerate student learnings, partnerships and may also attract similar infrastructural development.

WATER AND VEGETATION MAP

Water is called the city of lakes and for good reason. it has numerous lakes; both artificial and natural. the biggest is upper lake with an area of 31 sq.km and a catchment area os 361 sq.km. The context to the site, however, is have one small pond but there is lack of vegetation cover, as it was predominantly agriculture land before.

ROAD CONNECTIVITY

The site has relief on the wstern edge compared to the rest of the site, hnce naturally shading a portion of the site from west sun.

1/3rd part of the site has contours and construction and vehicular access there could be a challenge .

Site is located on the outskirts of the city. There is little built context to respond to via design.

(A) DISTANCE FROM RAILWAY STATION (b) DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT

Site is located away from the main city but it connected through NH8 and the airport is in close vicinity

The site is bereft of any context, hence the design has the opportunity to guide future constructions. The high relief on the site provides with the opportunity to create spaces with varying volumes.

The neighbouring area is mostly farmlands and given the long perimeter of the site, security could be an issue. Located on the outskirts, hence the insitute would be bereft of the culture of the city which could affect the desired academic outcome badly

DESIGN DETERMINANTS

ORIENTATION OF BUILDING

1.BUILDING ORIENTATION ACCORDING TO SUN

2.BUILDING ORIENTATION ACCORDING TO WIND DIRECTION.

SITE PLANNING AND MOVEMENT SYSTEM

1. POSSIBLE VEHICULAR ENTRY POINTS ON SITE

LEGEND

Building blocks are oriented towards north south direction to provide enough daylighting in all blocks especially in academic block labs, classroom as they requires good daylighting.

SITE PLANNING AND MOVEMENT SYSTEM

LEGEND BLOCKS

SUN PATH

As predominant wind direction is from west to south west hence creating corridors/spines on site and corridors/ fenestrations on west will allow the wind movement in building blocks.

BLOCKS

SUN PATH SITE SITE

Possible vehicular entrance on site is identified from north edge of site where bhopal-indore highway passes by and from east edge of site where road to fortune colony goes.

LEGEND

POSSIBLE VEHICULAR CIRCULATION

Identified public edge on site is south and east edge of the site because of the highway and road passing from there.

Vehicles passing from BHOPAL-INDORE highway can create noise disturbance inside campus so to tackle that green buffer can be provided to reduce noise coming from highway.

As 1/3rd of the site having slope so the identified gradient of slope varies from 1:8 to 1:20 (average) which is not much of a slope hence construction on slope can be done easily.

LEGEND

2.IDENTIFICATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDGES ON SITE

3.NOISE ASSESSMENT ON SITE

4.DIRECTIVES FROM SLOPE ON SITE

ZONING CONCEPT

Zoning of campus guided with three factors-

• Creation of corridors/spines to control space utilization and to give some open space to each functions.

• The segragation of public and private spaces.

• Contours on site and climate of bhopal.

SITE ZONING

Site blocks have been oriented towards three spines -

• Learning spine

• Activity spine

• Recreational spine

PLACEMENT OF BLOCKS ALONG SPINE-

Buildings blocks are placed along spines to control spaces utilization. Academic block consist of 8 departments are placed along learning spine in cluster of four departments on both sides of learning spine. Resourse centre is also placed on learning spine which connects all the departments together. Common facilities such as auditorium, Exhibition, canteen, shops and stationery are placed along Activity spine in center of site which binds academic and residence together.

Recreational spine consist of indoor sports, playfields separates Student housing and faculty housing from common facilities and gives Housing privacy.

VEHICULAR CIRCULATION ON SITE

FINAL INITIAL ZONING

All the concepts discussed earlier are presented in this fig.

LEGEND

Academic

Common facilities

Green

Student housing

Faculty housing

VISUAL CONNECTIVITY IN SITE PLANNING

Central spine created in site planning allows visual connectivity throughout the campus. along with visual connectivity central spine created will also allow wind movement throughout the campus.

LEGEND

BUILDING BLOCKS

VISUAL CONNECTIVITY

LEGEND

BUILDING BLOCKS

VEHICULAR CIRCULATION

Vehicular circulation is kept on periphery of the site to encourage pedestrian circulation within the campus.

SHADED SPACES CREATED BY BUILINGS BLOCKS

Building blocks oriented towards north - south direction will also provide the shaded green spaces which can be used as spill out spaces in campus.

LEGEND

BUILDING BLOCKS

SHADED SPACES

LEGENDS LEGENDS

ACADEMIC BLOCK

COMMON FACILITIES

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT HOUSING

FACULTY HOUSING

GREEN

VEHICULAR ACCESS

STRENGTHS STRENGTHS WEAKNESS WEAKNESS

• Overall zoning of functions shows good relation.

• Green spaces are coming good for all functions individually and also between different functions.

• Academic block shows good relation between different departments as each department have their small interaction spaces and large open air theatre in between for cross departmental interaction.

• Form of all functions are reading differently. there is no uniformity in forms of different functions.

• Vehicular circulation is not working as it is not reaching till academic block.

• Departments of academic block are too close to each other.

• No scope for growth in hostels

• Forms of all functions better than last iteration.

• Each Departments in academic block now have good space.

• Recreational spaces separating hostels and housing is good thing.

• Library placed near academic block is good thinking as it will mostly be used by students studying in academic block.

ACADEMIC BLOCK

COMMON FACILITIES

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT HOUSING

FACULTY HOUSING

GREEN

VEHICULAR ACCESS

• Students housing and faculty housing placed on most public edge on site. Overall functions may be mirrored to improve it.

• Vehicular circulation is still not reaching to all functions on site.

• There is no scope for growth in housings.

LEGENDS LEGENDS

ACADEMIC BLOCK

COMMON FACILITIES

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT HOUSING

FACULTY HOUSING

GREEN

VEHICULAR ACCESS

STRENGTHS STRENGTHS WEAKNESS WEAKNESS

• Now overall zoning of functions is better than last iterations as academic block is placed on public edge of site and residences on private edge with all common facilities on the centre to bind them all together.

• Auditorium and exhibition placed in front near main entrance is good because it will keep all the `crowd coming to auditorium and exhibitions separated from rest of campus.

• Recreational greens separating student housing and faculty housing from other functions is good.

• Student housing and faculty housing is reading different from other functions.

• Vehicular circulation is not reaching till student housing and faculty housing.

• Since the contours are not steep hence that part of the site is looking left out.

• Zoning is good

• Academic block looks resolved than earlier iterations

• Recreactional spaces are separating student housing andfaculty housing is good.

• Vehicular entrance one from front side and side of site

• is good. one can be kept for academic block and other

• one for housings.

ACADEMIC BLOCK

COMMON FACILITIES

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT HOUSING

FACULTY HOUSING

GREEN

VEHICULAR ACCESS

• All functions are looking scattered from each other.

• All site is covered hence no room for future growth.

• Student housing not making any sense.

• Vehicular circulation is not reaching till housing and hostels.

• Both student housing and faculty housing are looking too much scattered and not going with academic and common facilities.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT -5

STRENGTHS

Overall zoning of functions is very good. All buildings blocks are going with each other and responding to site as well.

• Auditorium and exhibition placed in front near main entrance is good because it will keep all the crowd coming to auditorium and exhibitions separated from rest of campus.

• Central spine created is binding campus together.

• Much better built and open relation than previous iterations.

WEAKNESS

• Vehicular circulation near student housing can be improved. Right now its far from hostel blocks

• Library can be brought closer to academic block.

• Academic block do not have much space for future growth that can be done by bringing building blocks closer to each other.

LEGENDS

COMMON FACILITIES

ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT HOUSING

FACULTY HOUSING

ACADEMIC BLOCK VEHICULAR