‘art of campus’

Project Type Institutional Stage Design

Location Vadakara, India

Role Associate Architect

In Association with DACglobal

A vision was created when ULCC, an organization that has influenced lives all across the Malabar coast decided to create an Educational institution, following the values of humanity and social causes propagated by its founder, Vaghbatananda. Gifted with luscious landscape, and aimed to embrace what nature has to offer, a masterpiece followed. Carefully placed atop a hill mound that linearly spreads itself, the design stamps itself on the terrain, adapting to its jaggedness by forming spaces functionally, embracing the natural contours. The design deftly synchronizes the flow of the spaces and volumes that opens up, towers over, and sweeps across depending on the function that it accommodates. Shades of alluring green, through plants, trees, and green covers run all along with the design, blending with the natural browns and raw concrete greys.

The design masterfully crafts spaces to create an order and hierarchy in terms of mass and placements. While the large volumes, vertically placed, provide space to accommodate the multitude of programs offered by the college, the voids are planted ideally to balance the human body’s need to break out from the walls and look up at the sky above, as a sort of breathing space. The built mass creates frames and grids, that add a contemporary touch to the architectural language while maintaining the vernacular aspects through locally sourced materials. The frames, in a way, also curate the panoramic view the site has to offer through freedom in the sizes of openings and dynamic shadows that create patterns throughout the day. The green cover adds that element of new life at every glance across the site.