Bimal patel

BIMAL PATEL Born - August 31, 1961 (age 56) Nationality - Indian Occupation - Architect, Urban Planner, Academician Parent(s) - Hasmukh Patel, Bhakti Patel

Juhi Srivastava

Nirbhay Singh

educational career 1978 to 1984

1985 TO 1988

Diploma in Architecture

Moved to Berkeley to study

from the Center for

at the College of

Environmental Planning

Environmental Design,

and Technology,

CED and graduated with

Ahmedabad in 1984

M.Arch. and M.C.P. degrees in 1988

1989 TO 1995 Ph.D. from the Department of City and Regional Planning in 1995

In 1981, he apprenticed with Frei Otto at the Institute for Lightweight Structures, Stuttgart, Germany. Living and working in Stuttgart also gave him the opportunity to travel through much of Western Europe at a young age.

 Amongst the many teachers who he studied with, and those who he worked with closely were Prof. Manuel Castells (sociologist), Sir Peter Hall (historian of urban planning), Prof. Richard Walker of the Geography Department and Prof. Donlyn Lyndon (architect)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER Dr. Bimal Patel has over 30 years of professional, research and teaching experience in architecture.

He is President of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. Â Dr. Patel is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal.

He leads HCP Design Planning and Management Pvt. Ltd., a leading architecture, planning and project management firm.

vision towards india Witnessing an epochal transformation

From a country that lived in villages, it is becoming a nation of towns and cities. Roads are congested and traffic seems unmanageable.The country’s creaking infrastructure has been unable to support its cities’ rapid growth. Local governments should be granted autonomy to increase productivity The task of developing our cities is primarily seen as the burden of statelevel politicians

Will we ever be able to make our cities efficient, livable and sustainable?

Will we ever be able to make them abodes of happy and flourishing lives?

Source -www.forbesindia.com

Published -Â Aug 16, 2013

THE BEGINNING

Bimal joined his father Hasmukh Patel’s architectural practice in Ahmedabad and now heads the multidisciplinary practice.

Hasmukh Patel is an Indian architect and urban planner, known among prominent Indian architects in the post-independence era along with Charles Correa, B.V. Doshi and others.

HCP DESIGN HCP Design and Project Management Pvt. Ltd. (HCPDPM) provides professional services in Architectural Design, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Master Planning, Project Management and Interior Design. From its modest beginning in 1960 with a headcount of 3, today it is a large practice with a workforce of 150+.

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India Architect: Bimal Hasmukh Patel Location: Ahmedabad, India Client: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India Completed: 1987 Award: AGA khan award (1990-1992)

ABOUT Architectural style - Modern Construction Type - Brick Gross External Area -Â 9210.00 M2

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India is an autonomous, not-for-profit institution established in 1983 to nurture entrepreneurship talent through innovative education, training and research.

The project is notable for its simplicity and vernacular sensitivity. It represents the search for a post-colonial idiom for IndiaÂ

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The EDI campus consists of a sequence of spaces linked by courts and corridors, with five verandah type buildings - three for academics, Â placed on higher ground and two for dormitories.

Use of a very limited palette of building materials - exposed brick, stone and wood with a minimal application of reinforced concrete, steel trusses and corrugated aluminium sheet - directly reflect their traditional Islamic sources.

Entrance Pavilion and Hostel Block

Hostel Blocks and courtyard

Link Corridor looking North

Library courtyard

IIM AHMEDABAD Project name: New Campus for Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Architects: Bimal Patel – HCP Design, Planning and Management Pvt. Ltd. Location: Ahmedabad

PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS Academic Block: 14570 sq m Kitchen and Dining Facilities: 910 sq m IMDC Block: 5785 sq m Sports Complex: 953 sq m Postgraduate Students: 340 students Married Students: 150 students IMDC hostels: 50 students

The new campus functions independently from the original without any direct visual link and even has its own approach road and entrance halls, it is connected to the original campus by means of an underpass.Â

Pedestrian underpass connecting old and new campus

The architecture of the new campus maintains a consistency with the abstraction of forms and geometric rigor,like in Kahn’s campus.

Learning and living in the new campus is successfully integrated and the focus is placed on circulation by using elevated corridors as principal ordering devices The play of light and shadow creates a variety that renews the appearance of the buildings continuously throughout the day.

All individual buildings work as a continuum between the inside and the outside, enabling multiple walking routes between and through buildings to reach any destination. Such an arrangement enlivens the experience of moving about in the campus by allowing more chance encounters between the inhabitants Offering views of gardens, large trees and a water pool.

Balconies and stepouts provide visual connection between the different levels

Interior view of classroom

Residual space between student dormitories designed as play areas

Traversing routes made to meander through numerous existing trees-shaded plaza

The architects were conscious but did not want to imitate Kahn’s palette or grammar. Thus the buildings of the new campus are built in exposed concrete as the primary building material with fenestrations in a combination of mild steel and wood.

Use of a semicircular stair and turrets, the use of materials, compositions which use abstract forms and large plain surfaces, and the overall sense of restraint in the architecture all pay tribute to Kahn, without actually copying him.

Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project The Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project is an environmental improvement, social uplift and urban rejuvenation project that will renew Ahmedabad. Â The project is being developed by the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Ltd. (SRFDCL), a company wholly owned by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.

The project will reclaim approximately 200 hectares of land from the riverbed.  To reclaim the land, protect low lying developments from floods, and to prevent erosion of the river banks, retaining walls have been built on both sides of the river.

The project will provide Ahmedabad with 11.5 km long pedestrian promenades at the water’s edge along both the banks of the river.

Plaza at Vallabhsadan

The eastern bank at Gandhi Bridge

Street and plaza at "Delite" Plaza at Vallabhsadan

Bimal Patel | How to make urban planning work Patel is a firm proponent of liberalizing urban planning as a discipline, and that it must necessarily be market-oriented, so that spatial growth is aligned with economic growth.

For example, Ahmedabad has a grid and a public transport network across the whole city.