The 10 most innovative institutes for architecture in 2018

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CHITKARA SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE A Pioneer Of Architectural Education

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‘‘ Is India the Next Architectural Hub of the World?

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hile talking about architecture, the more we speak, the less it appears. A renowned American Entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn once said, “Whatever good things we build end up building us.” Supporting to this statement, another statement that can be quoted to define architecture is something that is said by a popular American Architect Julia Morgan, “Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.”

Not just from today, India is a land of marvelous buildings and mindblowing architectures, and that can be traced to the time when humans started settling or even the times when primitive humans began looking for a shelter in their initial stages. From the cave paintings to Taj Mahal, India offers itself as a land of art and design. Residing in a country like this provides the younger generation to explore art, design, architecture and even archaeology in a level beyond imagination.

Architecture in India is not just art anymore, and it's much beyond that.

It's the gateway for better, more accessible and more comfortable living solutions. Even in this stiff competition, Indian architects are redefining designs and creating new landmarks in the world of architecture. These professionals are coming up with extraordinary ideas and innovative designs to make a living more meaningful.

There are numerous Indian architects whom the growing and aspiring architect admires and one such person is Balkrishna Doshi, who has been recently awarded the 2018 Pritzker-Prize, architecture's highest honor. He is also known as the pioneer of low-cost affordable housing and even the first laureate from India. With such esteem coming to the land of art and culture, it no more remains a question; rather, it gets assured that India is the next futuristic hub of architecture. T R

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Sustainable Architectural Solutions for the Contemporary World

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The Modern Architecture, Offering a Journey beyond Imagination

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Establishing Educational Excellence among Students and Building their Visionary Thinking

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Nurturing creative Architectural minds for a sustainable contemporary society with Profession oriented Architectural training

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Shaping Better Future for the Mankind through Quality Education

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Most Innovative Institutes for Architecture, Inspiring Students to Create Designs of the Level-Next

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esign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs, a renowned Tech-entrepreneur.

Buildings, the most important substance in today’s life, are the places where we spend the most of our time.

May it be our homes, educational institutions or offices; it's the structure of bricks and mortar, which gives us shelter for our entire lifetime. Whatever may the building be, the most critical thing about it is its design.

Design is the thing which decides everything from the foundation of the building to the structure of its windows.

Architectures are those people who decide what the structure of a building should be, and it’s the design of the building which instructs how a building should look like. It also rules the most crucial factors which make a building strong enough to withstand any circumstance from sun heat, rain, breeze or natural calamities like flood, earthquake or tornado. It is because of the architectures, the engineers and hufor ndreds of other skilled and non-skilled workers because of whom we have a peaceful sleep in the night or sit calmly in a lecture hall, even on a hot summer day, freezing winter night or a rainy afternoon.

Design is the thing which differentiates one from “Just a building” to “Wow! What a wonderful building”.

Architecture is the only scope where even humans can create the greatest wonders of the world and the most popular examples to support this statement are Taj Mahal in India, Colosseum in Italy, Pyramids in Egypt, Chichen Itza in Mexico, and Great Wall of China among many others.

Behind every great architect, lie their extraordinary sense of aesthetics, knowledge about art and design, geometric sense, and huge practical experience. To bring forward such institutes which are instilling creativity, enhancing knowledge and helping students create milestones of the level-next, we have come up with the issue “The 10 Most Innovative Institutes for Architecture in 2018”.

In the Cover of the edition, we have Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture, a constituent of Chitkara University Punjab. Located on the lines of Chandigarh – Patiala National Highway, the University is known for its commitment to excellence and its vibrant academic environment with a distinguished faculty, brilliant students and proactive collaboration with industry.

Along with such interesting cover story, we have listed numerous other universities which are making exceptional contributions in the world of architectural education including Academy of Architecture, Reva University, RV College of Architecture, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Wadiyar Centre For Architecture, SVS Institute of Architecture, IPS Academy Indore, Lovely Professional University, and Centurion University of Technology and Management.

This edition also features some extraordinary articles contributed by industry leaders and renowned educators. Our in-house editors have drafted numerous interesting articles including “The Modern Architecture, Offering a Journey beyond Imagination” and “Sustainable Architectural Solutions for the Contemporary World”.

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o promote research, innovation and entrepreneurship in collaboration with professionals and industries, the institute inculcates high moral, ethical and professional standards amongst students to contribute towards building a skillful society through an academic process aimed at achieving excellence and, through an active teacher-student-industry collaboration.

Established in 2004, Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture is a constituent of Chitkara University Punjab. Located along the Chandigarh – Patiala National Highway, the institute is within easy reach of Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Ambala and Patiala. It is committed to excellence and known for its vibrant academic environment, a distinguished faculty, brilliant students and, proactive collaboration with industry.

Chitkara University has secured a rank of 15th in “National Ranking – 2018: Private & Deemed Universities,” and is leading the architectural study industry with its students securing top honors at several forums, including the award for Best Outstanding Paper at Asia-Pacific International Model United Nations Meet, Bangkok (2013), several accolades at the Annual and Zonal Meets of National Association of Students of Architecture (NASA); NIASA Awards For Excellence in Under-Graduate Architectural Thesis (2014 & 2015); INTACH Heritage Awards for Excellence in Documentation (2016), top positions at the Earthquake Resistant Design Competition at IIT, Kanpur (2017); the Interior Design Competition by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) (2017), INSDAG Award for "Innovative Design of Elevated Cycle Track in Steel" (2018) and, the competition on “SMART Strategies for maintaining the Culture and Identity of Historic Cities” organized

by UNESCO-Indian Heritage Cities Network (2018).

Interestingly, CSPA is also one of the 5 schools selected pan-India

by Kajaria Ceramics Ltd. for their annual "Kajaria Meritorious Student Award for Architecture" (a cash prize of INR 100,000.00 per student) to the top three students of the B.Arch.

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Extraordinary Programs of the Innovative Institute Chitkara University hosts over 76 Programs in 15 diversified Schools/Departments, with around 12,000 students and faculty drawn from various parts of India. It also has an active collaboration with 137 universities abroad, enabling people from various nationalities and ethnicities to live and work together. A “Global Week” is organized annually when faculty from foreign partner university conduct week-long workshops with Chitkara students, offering a host of cross-disciplinary academic and co-curricular events.

The extraordinary courses and CSPA’s excellent standpoint in the architectural education industry have

Cover Story led students from various parts of India, Nepal and Bhutan to join the institution. The University conducts a regular “Semester Exchange Program”, where students from Spain spend one to two semesters at Chitkara for study purposes. In addition, collaborative workshops with students and faculty of some French and Japanese Universities have become an annual feature.

Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture runs a 5 – year B. Arch. Degree Program, with an annual intake of 120 students.

The Program is organized in two stages. 'Stage One' builds essential skills and sensibility required to work with professional architects. Stage Two focuses on state-of-the-art practices, while also preparing students for graduate studies and research. An intensive 32-week long Professional Internship separates the two stages.

CSPA has designed its curriculum in such a way that it promotes a human-centric, context-specific design approach while addressing challenges of technology and issues of environmental sustainability, drawing upon wisdom of the past while adapting to current and changing needs of the industry. Its vision is to provide the necessary creative, technical and soft skills, coupled with ample interface with the profession, and make its students technologically proficient, socially sensitive and environmentally responsible.

International Links and Collaboration of CSPA The university organizes various week-long workshops annually where numerous visiting faculties from its global partners conduct lectures and workshops with students of CSPA to show pathways leading towards success. It has an active Semester Exchange Program with Universities of Alicante and Barcelona in Spain. The Student Mobility Program under “Erasmus +” has also facilitated an all-paid Semester Exchange at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. Workshops have been organized with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais and École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse, France and, the Tokyo University of Science. Plans for further collaborative research on areas of mutual interest are on the anvil.

Expert Faculties to Help Students Achieve their Dreams The school has a large body of professionally proficient, motivated and committed Core Faculty, along with a band of experienced practitioners as Visiting Faculty.

Their cumulative expertise ranges from Heritage Conservation, Construction Management, Disaster Risk Management, Interior Architecture, Sustainable Design, to Urban Design and Urban Planning - thus offering a comprehensive, wholesome resource base and, providing an in-house facility for students to constantly upgrade their competence. The Faculty is actively involved in research and publication, with regular participation in national and international events. Constant in-service training keeps them abreast with latest developments in the profession, as well as in education

technology. Several among the faculty have been awarded for their extraordinary achievements and contributions.

Exposes Students to the Industry for an Exceptional Career The university offers a curriculum which directly connects the students to the industry where they are going to work in their near future. Besides frequent interaction with professionals from different streams, an intensive 32-week internship and, preparing students for research and teaching, special efforts are made to introduce newly emerging career options such as architecture journalism, architectural photography, and heritage tourism among many others. In addition, the institute hosts numerous on-campus incubators such as the “Explore Hub” providing multiple opportunities of entrepreneurship.

Grants Financial Support for Meritorious Students Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture offers financial grants for meritorious students, including sponsorships for participation in advanced/ extension courses and various competitions in India. Most interestingly, fully-funded semester exchanges are facilitated through the Erasmus Plus program, as and when available. Soft loans and “Earnwhile-you-Learn” schemes are also available on a “Merit-cum-Means” basis for funding Educational Tours and other similar activities.

Research and Publication Related Activities Right from the beginning of the institution's formation, CSPA has nurtured a culture of impactful research and publication. Besides “Concepts”, the annual publication of student's work, the institute also brings out “Creative Space”, the bi-annual refereed Architecture Journal of Chitkara University (ISSN Print: 2321-3892; ISSN Online: 2321-7154), which is indexed in several renowned journal indexing agencies such as SHERPA, SCILIT, ZENODO, Scientific Indexing Service, Research Bible, Mendeley, Academic keys, Directory of Research Journals Indexing, CrossRef, ISSUU, Google Scholar and, CiteFactor.

Maintains a Culturally Enriched Atmosphere for Students' Well-Being Besides organizing cultural events on national days and Annual Students' Fests, CSPA takes great pride in commemorating birth anniversaries of Master Architects every month through thematic competitions of poster-making, sketching, quizzes, costume parades, etc. Of special importance here is the "Le Corbusier Day" celebrated every year in

October with full gusto. Another annual event unique to CSPA is a week-long Design Charette held each July, in which each participating group involves vertical integration of students thereby fostering peer-learning along with teamwork and out-of-the-box thinking. Yet another tradition observed is the annual celebration of the World Heritage Day in April, when the students organize a public exhibition of the historic places documented by them during the year and, also visit neighboring village schools to sensitize them on their region's natural and cultural resources.

“Words of Trust” “CSPA laid the strong foundation of my career and personal growth. Today, I am confidently leading my firm 'SB Architects' and handling projects ranging from Residential to Commercial, Offices to Retail and Interiors to Turnkey Projects.”

Mr. Charanpreet Singh, an alumnus of CSPA's first Batch of 2004 "Learning Architecture requires mentors who work tirelessly towards the success of their protéges. CSPA's faculty helped me to achieve laurels at NIASA Awards 2014 and motivated me for further education in Environmental Design. Today I work in Toronto designing Condos and can't thank my mentors enough for this career.

Mr. Varunpreet Singh, an alumnus of Batch 2009 “I have been part of the CSPA family for the last 8 years, first as a student and now as a part of the visiting faculty. The skills and education I received at CSPA got me into a top-rated graduation school in the U.S. and has helped me grow in my small practice as an Architect. As a faculty I am trying to impart the same values now to my students.”

Mr. Rishabh Gandhi, an alumnus of Batch 2009 “I am a proud alumna of CSPA. All the teachers at CSPA have always been a support throughout my journey from being a clueless young student to an individual having my own identity. I feel highly obliged for being a part of this institute where I have been polished in a way that I can stand out independently and confidently”.

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Academy of Architecture

aoamumbai.in

Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture, 278 S Ghanekar Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400025

Centurion University of Technology and Management

cutm.ac.in

Dr Y V N Memorial Library, CUTM Paralakhemundi, R.Sitapur, Gajapati, Odisha761211

Chitkara School of Planning and Architecture

chitkara.edu.in

Chandigarh-Patiala National Highway (NH64) Vill. Jansla, Tehsil Rajpura, Distt. Patiala, Rajpura, Punjab, 140401

IPS Academy Indore

ipsacademy.org

School of Architecture, IPS Academy, Bijalpur, Indore (M.P) Pin: 452012

LPU

lpu.in

Lovely Professional University Block-30, Room no-308 Phagwara-144411

Reva University

reva.edu.in

REVA University, Rukmini Knowledge Park,Kattigenahalli, Yelahanka,Bangalore 560064.

RV College of Architecture

rvca.in

R V COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, C A Site no. 1, Banashankari 6th Stage, 4th Block,Near Chikagowdanapalya Village,Off Vajarahalli Main Road, Bengaluru-560062

Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya

svvv.edu.in

Shri Vaishnav Institute of Architecture, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Ujjain Road, Indore.- 453331

SVS Institute of Architecture

svssa.edu.in

SVS School of Architecture, J P Nagar, Arasampalayam, Myleripalayam, Coimbatore - 642 109, Tamil Nadu, India

Wadiyar Centre For Architecture

wcfa.ac.in

Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, No. 1011, CH 20, Krishnaraja Boulevard, Chamaraja Mohalla, Mysore 570005

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REVA University

School of Architecture: Inspiring Students to Learn from the Makers To create excellent infrastructure facilities and state-of-the-art laboratories and incubation center to provide student-centric learning environment through innovative pedagogy and education reforms, to encourage research and entrepreneurship through collaborations and extension activities, to promote industry-institute partnerships and share knowledge for innovation and development, to organize society development programs for knowledge enhancement in thrust areas; and to enhance the leadership qualities among the youths and enrich personality traits and promote patriotism and moral values.

Established in 2015, the School of Architecture of REVA University is located in the garden city – Bangalore.

The school has maintained a consistent improvement record in both its academic and co-curricular activities.

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industry and major stakeholders. Most interestingly, all the scheme of instructions and curriculum is designed by eminent architects and well qualified faculty members with different specializations. This has led the students and faculty members of the institute to consistently win prizes in various academic and co-curricular activities at both National and International levels.

Extraordinary Infrastructure and Facilities REVA University campus is spread over 45 acres of lush green area with built up area of 18,24,240 sq. ft., which is always vibrant. The Administrative Building of the University has been awarded “LEED INDIA NC PLATINUM 2013” Certification IGBC. The campus is well equipped

with laboratories, custom-built digital class rooms and teaching facilities designed specifically to emulate the working conditions, fully airconditioned library with adequate print and electronic sources and central computer center, well planned sports facility with cricket ground and running track, among many others, for a variety of indoor and outdoor sport activities and facilities for cultural programs. The unique feature of REVA campus is its large residential facility for students, faculty and supportive staff with 24 x 7 electricity and water supply, health care center, and transport facility for commuters from different corners of the city.

Establishing Academic, Cultural and Sporting Excellence REVA University has established a proud tradition of accomplishing academic, cultural and sporting excellence since its inception. The University believes and pursues a path of holistic education where the student community is the focal point

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of the teaching-learning process. The vision statement of the University is imbibed as, “REVA University aspires to become an innovative University by developing excellent human resources with leadership qualities, ethical and moral values, research culture and innovative skills through higher education of global standards”.

REVA University offers 25 Post Graduate and 15 Graduate academic programs in various academic fields. It has 15000+ students studying in Engineering, Science and Technology, Architecture, Commerce, Management Studies, Law, Arts, Performing Arts and Humanities at graduate and post graduate level and around 336 scholars pursuing research leading to PhD in 18 disciplines. The University has 900+ well qualified experienced faculty members guiding students and researchers.

After observing the industry scenario, the University started offering specialized courses for Corporates based on their specific training requirement. REVA University has a strong research and innovation center coupled with research centers of excellence in different schools, highly rated students’ placement and training center, and skill development center.

The faculty members of the University are well experienced in their respected fields and the interesting thing is that many of them have won numerous awards and laurels from renowned professional organizations.

What to look out for?

REVA University helps its students to pursue higher education, start entrepreneurship, look out for placements in reputed companies and prepare for competitive examinations such as IAS, IPS, IES, IFS, and KAS among many others. The University has entered into collaborations with numerous reputed international Universities including Florida International University, USA; University of California Riverside, USA; University of Alabama, USA; Oklahoma University, USA; Berkeley University of California; University of Salford; Manchester- School of Built Environment; Berkeley University of California- College of Environmental Design and many more. The University has also has collaborations with NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation), SAP student academy etc., to train students and conduct certification programs for placements. On the other hand, it even organizes events to encourage extra-curricular activities Yoga, Sports and Cultural Fests.

About the Torchbearer of the University Dr. S Y Kulkarni, Vice-Chancellor at REVA University, has wide range of experience in both industry and academia. He served as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic Director, REVA University, Principal, M.S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, Principal of NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte, Karnataka and also many other capacities in various institutions and has established himself as a renowned academician and academic administrator. He is visiting faculty at University of Bedfordshire, UK and University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has visited USA, T H E

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About the Leader of the University Dr. P. Shyama Raju, Chancellor of REVA University, Chairman of Rukmini Educational Charitable Trust and CMD of DivyaSree Developers Pvt. Ltd, holds prominent positions and memberships in reputed institutions across South India. He is also on the board of numerous companies in the field of infrastructure development, charitable institutions and welfare trusts.

With an objective of giving back to society a percentage of his earnings as successful developer entered into higher education and founded established Rukmini Educational Charitable Trust under which he established REVA Group of Educational Institutions to provide quality education of global standard to the aspiring youth of the country. With his undisputed leadership, discipline and dedication, Dr. Raju has not only created world-class infrastructure facilities in the University and other REVA Group of Institutions, but also added many unique features in higher education system which shall be treated as innovative in bringing reforms in higher education system of the nation.

His extraordinary contributions have helped to earn numerous recognitions and some of his major accomplishments are Distinguished and Innovative Educationist award by BERG (Business Excellence and Research Group), Singapore, Global Asian of the Year 2017 by Asian Business and Social Forum, Singapore, and Karnataka Rajyotsava Award – 2017.

Germany and UK on several assignments. For his excellence in both professional and academic fields, he has won multiple prestigious awards, among which Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan National Award is one.

Offers a Cosmopolitan Culture that Promotes Diversity REVA University is known for its cosmopolitan culture in the campus where the students come to study from various parts of India and the rest of the 23 countries abroad. It offers a highly vibrant campus with numerous cultural activities and cross cultural interaction among students.

Along with various cultural activities, the University organizes a series of cultural programs on every Saturday Evening including important educational documentary film show, in which students and staff of various Schools in addition to the students and staff of School of Performing Arts perform dance, music, drama, and folk art.

Supports Needy and Meritorious Students to Help Them Achieve their Goals REVA University has extended merit-based scholarships, prizes and medals to encourage students and motivate meritorious students. It further extends its scholarships to poor and merited students in the form of fee concessions. It apparently seems that the University has provided 18

scholarships and fee concessions amounting to Rs. 1.66 crores to 919 students. On the other hand, it has also provided financial support of Rs. 10.11 crores to 3,917 students belonging to scheduled castes, schedule tribes and other backward classes.

“Words of Trust” The experience at School of Architecture, REVA University has been an intriguing blend of learning and real world exposure. The supportive faculty, quality education, designed campus and friends are the best attributes. Nurturing individual learning by experience has assured my development. I’m glad to have been a part of the first batch of the school.

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At REVA University "We aren’t given the candle to light the way; instead we are taught how to make the fire!’ While the campus infrastructure vibrates with positivism, innovation and creativity; the course is well designed and delivered by very able teaching faculty members, who groom the inner architect in you.

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Academy of Architecture: Providing a Creative Atmosphere for Studies and Research

The academy strives to perform the best in every task with energy and determination.

Under the banyan tree of Rachana Sansad, Academy of Architecture is the first department which further led to the development of other courses like interior design, fine arts, fashion and textile, photography, and commercial arts. All of these creative discourses are part of the campus.

At its inception in 1955, the founding members envisioned a modest initiative for a professional training institute in Architecture for the aspiring students. Today, the campus creates an environment that upholds excellence to attract and retain the best teachers and experts from all over the world.

The institute believes in inducing a multidisciplinary approach in architecture and design. Various departments collaborate during multiple events inspiring and encouraging students to nurture individual skills which help them find their unique identities as professionals and architects in future. As a Government-aided institute, the

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campus enjoys a variety of students from around the country bringing in an eclectic mix of skill sets, experiences and cultures.

Vertical studios and workshops are organized for academic work in which students are encouraged to work together in teams which includes students from various years. This helps in building teamwork, exchanging experiences, and skills at an academic level.

Offering Exceptional Educational Facilities As Academy of Architecture is at the strategic center of Mumbai, the city becomes a laboratory for ideation, innovation, and experimentation.

Being a 60-year-old institute in the city, the organization has built associations of cultural and social value with the community in the immediate neighborhood and beyond.

The institution has grown with the city, sharing infrastructure, public forums and social concerns.

Every year, students travel nationally and internationally for study trips which focus on rigorous

Insightful Leadership The institution was founded by three young graduates from the Sir JJ College of Architecture; V.G. Mhatre, S.H. Wandrekar, and C.K. Gumaste.

Building on the success of the course, a government diploma was set-up. The DNA of the Academy was defined by the founders with an unwavering focus on offering quality design education that constantly evolves with times and equips students to not only integrate professional practice but also re-define it. This legacy is now cherished by Prof. Suresh Singh and Prof. Rohit Shinkre. They are the current Principals of the aided and unaided sections respectively both with more than 25 years of teaching experience as well as professional experience. documentation, mapping, and exposes the students to various cultures and lifestyles. Site visits, industrial visits, hands on workshop are a part of academic exposure. Design and technical studios are enquiry-based and encourage experimentation and selfquestioning approach to processes.

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Major Achievements The academy collaborated with IIT Bombay for Solar Decathlon. The project demonstrated innovation in architecture, construction and engineering. It is the first Indian team to be selected for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 in Versailles, France.

Accomplished Alumni AoA has produced numerous graduates who have been very successful in various walks of life. Their alumni are literally the who’s who of the fraternity in India. Some notable alumni include Hafeez Contractor, Noshir Talati, Bijoy Jain, Arzaan Khambatta, Ashok Korgaonkar, Sanjay Puri, and many more.

International Collaborations The institute has been a part of many international events. It has participated in the prestigious Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 as Team Shunya in partnership with IIT Bombay. The institute was shortlisted in the final 20 among more than 100 global institutes and universities.

The following have participated as visiting faculty at AoA in the recent past: Teresa Walters, Fullbright Fellow from Harvard; Professors Christina Murphy and Andrea Bertassi from X Coop; Jarrik Ouburg, Ex-Dean Academy of Architecture Amsterdam; and Gary Bates, Space Group, Norway.

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The academy is a partner of ROOMS, a global initiative to further research in the emerging field of neuroscience and architecture along with McGill University, Canada; Aalto University, Finland; and IUAV, Venice, IT. Scholarships and Financial Assistance AoA provides various financial supports to their students. 48% of students are directly benefited from social welfare scheme of Maharashtra State. Additional financial aid is provided on need and merit base from endowment from past students and scholarships from industry.

Career Opportunities and Exposures The academy enables a wide array of career opportunities for the students. It equips students with competitive knowledge.

Graduates from Academy of Architecture have explored a variety of career paths including architecture journalism, research, product design, interior design, set design, landscape architecture, photography, activism, and academia.

urban design, urban and regional planning, landscape design, creative writing, architecture journalism, and architecture design from prestigious universities such as AA, Bartlett, CEPT TU Delft, Harvard, Columbia, NUS, and RMIT. Words of Trust “I joined AOA in 2013 and it has been an exhilarating 5 years. The sheer variety of skills one gets to develop over the course of five years is astounding and having excellent peers makes the experience twice as rewarding! The assignments were set so that we weren’t just competing with each other, but got ample opportunities to work together and develop the art of collaboration which is absolutely essential to an architect’s job in the real world! And all the while, it’s been super fun!”

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IPS Academy: Establishing Educational Excellence among Students and Building their Visionary Thinking To keep students inspired to follow their ambitions and chase their dreams fearlessly, to make them responsible future citizens and to build an atmosphere of kind and creative learning to empower the growing young mind With a vision to create a class of future leaders who believe in choosing life rather than settling for anything less, who know the difference between what they are getting and what they actually deserve, Indore Professional Studies Academy (IPS Academy) was established in the year 1994. IPS Academy is one of the Central India’s largest educational hub, playing a major role to develop Indore as Central India’s most preferred educational destination.

The institute is built in an area of 60 acres housing three campuses and holding the most profitable intellectual, honing and experienced educational assembly. Built on the vision realized

by Mr. Achal Choudhary (IIT, Kharagpur), a renowned architect, IPSA is a successor to Indore Public School. Following a traditional hierarchy of all institutions under IPS Society, IPSA provides plethora of extraordinary educational facilities and

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Distinct Courses of the Institute IPS Academy School of Architecture offers extraordinary academic courses at all levels with curriculums designed in partnerships with local employers, ensuring its students getting placed in successful positions. The courses of the institute is designed while keeping in mind about the future employment prospects, and with an aim to serve the countries’ growing industries, from engineering and manufacturing to IT and architecture.

For its career-focused and reality-based academic structures, the university has earned affiliations from various deemed universities and organizations.

Admissions for entering IPSA are conducted by COA and the counseling is done by DTE/ RGPV. The five-year (10 Semester) course in B.Arch. gives immense exposure to students through lectures, tutorials, practical, workshops, site visits, market survey and practical training. All its exams and evaluation processes are conducted

by RGPV. It is also associated with the Indian Institute of Architects and With extraordinary contributions in the

The Leader behind this Successful Institute Achal K. Choudhary, President at IPS Academy, is an alumnus of the prestigious IIT Kharagpur (Hall of Fame: Nehru). After completing his graduation with specialization in Architecture, Achal started his independent practice in 1974 by establishing ASK Consultant Pvt. Ltd. in Indore. In the year 1987, he laid the foundation stone of Indore Public School and then later IPS Academy in 1994. Along with building extraordinary private educational institutes, he has contributed majorly to the society by providing support in building a number of social projects, hospitals, hotels, industrial complex designing, and colony planning projects with many other things. For his extraordinary inputs, he has been conferred with a huge number of state, national and international honorary posts and awards.as well as professional experience. education industry, IPSA has established excellence and visionary thinking in its efforts to improve teaching and learning across the entire

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nation, particularly within the contexts of urban and global education. The extraordinary faculty remains committed toward addressing the educational and physical needs of all learners across the lifespan and towards working closely with educators, learners and policymakers in the field. Most interestingly, the college offers its students hands-on instruction and access to the latest equipment, leading to excellent graduate placement and “degrees that work”.

Facilities which Make the University Stand Tall The distinct course of the institute focuses not only on academics but it grooms students for the future industry and prepare them in a manner that they become ready to solve any challenging real-life problem with ease. The course enhance students’ knowledge about the industry related topics including Project Management and Building Economics, Advance Building Construction, Interior Design and even Disaster Management. Along with curricular structure, IPSA provides its students’ professional training and general proficiency.

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reprography section, common rooms, conference room, exhibition hall, multi-functional library, resource center, material museum, student activity center, auditorium, sports ground, swimming pool, concrete material technology lab, material testing lab, carpenter workshop, blacksmith workshop, survey lab, photography lab, aluminum workshop, and painting workshop among many others.

To help students improve their knowledge and enhance their skills, IPSA organizes various events including conferences where experts from the industry share their extraordinary experiences. It even organizes various events to celebrate the Indian cultural festivals. To create an overall development of the students, IPSA organizes events with various activities including photography, music, literature, news, debate, extempore & quiz, seminar & workshops, among numerous other things. In a recent event held at the institute, Padmashree Ar. C.N.Raghvendran, B.Arch (IIT Kharagpur), M.Arch (University of California, USA) shared his experience with the students and enlightened them with the what, why and how of sustainable architecture.

Building up Architects for the Generation-Next The faculty of the institute is highly experienced in terms of both academic and professional terms. They have led the students to win numerous achievements during their course and even after completion of their graduation. The students of the institute have participated and earned successful positions at both national and international levels. Due to the extraordinary academic standpoint of the students of the institute, IPSA has often been featured on the national daily media platform of India. IPS Academy offers a very well-equipped placement cell which maintains a record of 90% placement and the rest opts for higher studies.

Words of Trust Ar. Eeshan Vairagkar, Alumini: 2009-2014.

I take this pride to praise my almamater for providing me a platform to prove my limits. I thank each and every Teacher and Non-technical staff of School of Architecture for their kind support in every aspect whether it be academics, sports or other cocurricular activities. Whatever I have achieved and I am achieving is because of the encouragement of SOA also. T R

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by Jean Nouvel, a famous French Architect. The quote perfectly fits in the modern architectural world where architects need to provide unique architectural solutions to particular sets of circumstances by creating something new, using unique shape, color, size and technologies with limited natural resources. The modern architects are facing huge number of challenges with the rapidly changing world.

According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the current world population of 7.3 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100. The world population is rising and the average life expectancy of the population is also increasing simultaneously. The world is going to become a more crowded place in the future. With these challenges, the architects have to design buildings in such a way that they can maintain the level of sustainability in the world.

Good Things Come In Small Packages There are various reasons for the trends of a smaller home. To maintain the sustainability, limited land availability and high density of population lead to design smaller buildings. Apart from that, now people prefer a small house with smaller mortgage, i.e., affordable houses. Architects have to design homes that are smaller and more eco-friendly. The small homes consume less energy and produce less wastage, which is ultimately beneficial for current environment of the world.

Emerging Sustainable Green Architecture Technologies To slow down the consumption of the scarce natural resources of the world and to reduce the pollution level, architects are embracing the green architecture technologies like solar power, green building or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) buildings, turbine power and more. The green architecture involves an energy efficient design to reduce negative environmental impacts and material selected contains recycled yet durable content. It also includes protection and conservation of water throughout the life of a building by rainwater harvesting and reusing water. Green roofs and green walls can be used to design an eco-friendly building.

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3D Printing of the House and Indoor Design 3D printing can be a potential architectural solution for affordable and rapid houses. As per the recent testing by architects, 3D printing has been used to create an entire house in 24 hours. The walls can be created with the printer and windows and the roof can be added with conventional construction methods. In fact, interior decorators can design the interior of buildings by 3D printers. This technology can be considered as the future of affordable houses and solutions to solve housing shortages.

The Concept of Floating City The global sea level is rising due to the sudden change in the climate, and availability of land for building houses is gradually decreasing. The futuristic floating city concept will help the human population to live on a self-sustainable floating island. The Lilypad Project with the concept of creating floating self-sufficient ocean-going eco-city islands that would accommodate up to 50,000, and would use the renewable energy technologies, including solar, thermal, wind, to produce more energy.

Innovative Architecture Can Change the World The world has exceptional architectural designs ranging from Burj Khalifa to Gardens by the Bay, The Empire State Building to The Opera House and many more which can be considered as the masterpiece designs. There are many amazing green architectural projects in the world, like floating self-sufficient ocean-going eco-city islands, a windpowered design that helps to generate more power, and solar towers that generate powers from sun’s ray; such contemporary concepts of designs can help to maintain the sustainability. The Bahrain World Trade Center is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design. It is the largest wind powered design and an example of the growing world trend in sustainable architecture. Dongtan Eco-City is world’s first environmentally, socially, economically, and culturally sustainable city. The city relies on its own wind and solar energy and emission free public transportation. The new and innovative concepts are used by modern architects to make the world sustainable.

The architecture can create better places and can positively affect the society with creative designs. Several studies have proven that the design of the building can affect the human behavior and creativity. The architect can shape the building and can shape the mood of the people residing with it as well; they can change the quality of life and bring positive social changes by innovative designs. The sustainable architecture can help to reduce the negative environmental impact and create an eco-friendly environment. Global warming is polluting water, air and natural resources; in such a scenario, an architect can design green and ecological buildings to sustain the environment. The limited natural resource is a challenge for this industry but with the help of advanced technologies the architects can design affordable small houses and new wonders can be made every day. T R

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rchitecture – what better way to express our ideas and thoughts through a meaningful display of structures that dwell in their own glory? I remember the painting by Anselm Kiefer (1981) which depicts the so-called Mosaic Hall of the New Reich Chancellery, the largest completed project in Berlin by Adolf Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, and one of the few realizations of Hitler’s plan to rebuild Berlin as the world capital, Germania. Although demolished after the war, having been badly damaged in the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Kiefer has painted the room as a ruin as if it had survived, reminding us of the temporary power of Reich, its pompous aspirations for domination and permanence and the ambiguous role of architecture as propaganda and testament.

through these sheets. We also strongly believe in developing the interpersonal skills of each and every one of the student to ensure they are ready to step into the professional field after their graduation.

Architecture has grown leaps and bounds within our country and globally as well. Gone are the days when the clients were clinging on to the local consultants to design a villa or an apartment; gone are the days when domestic brands were portraying their monopoly; gone are the days where one-consultant-does-everything. In the aftermath of globalization and signing of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) in 1947, every trade has had been promoted internationally including the practice of architecture. Hilary French, Professor of Design at Bath School of Art and Design, London rightly says, At SVS School of Architecture, we insist the same from the “Architecture is not considered as self-sufficient profession students, not just art and painting of the visualized anymore but a multidisciplinary, multi-skilled and architectural design. But more importantly, we give multidirectional profession”. The students of architecture do emphasis on the way the drawings are prepared; the way the not study just architecture and arts but their focus is more detailing is done; the way the drawings become more into diverse fields of engineering, sociology, business and representational; and the way in which true economics etc so as to become a multi-disciplined, multiarchitecture can be viewed in its fullest glory skilled and multidirectional professionals. The academic curriculum of our school at SVS sets the focus right for the students – Building Systems [Mechanical Engineering], Structure & Materials [Civil Engineering], Design Methods Dr Champa H S completed her B.Arch from University & Practice [Business & Economics], Urban Design Visveswaraya college of Engineering, Bangalore. She has two Planning & Landscape [Geography & Political Science], masters to her credit from Delhi and Mysore University in Sociocultural Studies [Sociology & Psychology], Literary ‘Ecology n Environment and ‘Urban Design’. During the Studies [Anthropology], Architectural & Art History Computer Aided Design [Computer Science]. centenary year of Mysore University Champa got awarded for[History], her We strongly focus on one compelling fact that Ph.D. with the title “REFURBISHING THE IDENTITY OF A architectural education should ensure that all CITY IN TRANSITION: An Urban Design Intervention into graduates have knowledge and ability in Development Paradigms of Mysuru”. architectural design, including technical systems and requirements as well as consideration of Dr Champa has worked in Bangalore, Goa and Kerala before health, safety and environmental balance.

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setting up her own independent practice based out of Mysore and has completed many Resorts, Residences, hotels, Institutions etc.

Dr Champa has served as ‘Principal’ at School of Design, University of Mysore before moving on a teaching assignment at Birla Institute of Technology, UAE. Presently she is the Director at SVS School of Architecture, Coimbatore. She has presented and published many papers in International and National conferences and Journals.

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One major problem that the enterprising students of architecture face during their course of study is the inability to relate structural design to their architectural design. Although, in architectural design studio, there is a need to enable maximum creativity through the knowledge of all disciplines involved, there has always been an apparent separation between design studio and structure courses and a lack of time to teach statically undefined structural systems that are more complex than simple beams and columns. To bridge this gap, we at SVS SOA adopt a “transdisciplinary 29

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approach” to architectural design studios, where design studio, structures courses and theory are brought under one umbrella and not as isolated disciplines. By doing this, we have been able to enhance learner participation and creation of new knowledge among the students. This also generates a unity of intellectual frameworks beyond the interdisciplinary perspectives. The Result? The students become knowledge producer and the teacher becomes an interactive learning designer.

In our technological age, when so many of us are on the social networking sites, and many of these experiences are predominantly virtual, the role architecture can play in the experience of real time situations is increasingly curious. I would personally like to explain this by taking an example of a Cancer Care Center. These buildings must carry a weight of seriousness due to the circumstances of the people who arrive in there to be treated; the spaces treating their anxiety, their emotions, and their psychological and physiological well-being. At the same time, the architect should also balance this seriousness through provision of social, spiritual and emotional needs as part of his/her design thinking. Creating a five-sense space within the cancer care center can be one such option. Making the patients walk through different tactile surfaces can be another option. Adding up social spaces like library or spiritual centers will go a long way in healing them and keeping them at peace. “The noblest architecture can sometimes do less for us than a siesta or an aspirin. Even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotunda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood”, points out Alain de Botton in ‘The Architecture of Happiness’. The societal and contextual consciousness and analysis that are inculcated within the minds of the students through appropriate studies and interaction enable them to produce better architectural designs.

We are living in a homogenized environment. In the name of “adaptive reuse”, train stations have become shopping malls, shopping malls have become town squares, churches have become pubs and crèches, schools have become community centers, homes have become offices and universities are moving online. Aesthetics have been stretched to encapsulate so many uses that we find it hard to distinguish one building’s use from its neighbor’s. We have deviated from appreciating the architecture of a building to notice only when the buildings are exceptionally big, exceptionally ugly or exceptionally beautiful.

Architecture faces many challenges in the future. Though technology is there to offer endless opportunities, we need to understand how architecture affects us. What types of buildings and spaces do we need in the future? How do we deal with interior spaces that offer endless change? What will be the role of architecture? Buildings change over time and so do out attitudes towards them. To annotate this, think about a hospital. A hospital once used to be a familiar piece of urban infrastructure exuding both civic and spiritual meaning is now an industrial megastructure that lack atmosphere and emotion. Architectural education should be focusing on the aforesaid concepts as well. Architectural Critique can be one of the courses where the students critically analyze their peers’ design and transfer knowledge which in turn helps everyone to appreciate the architecture of the building.

The students are also needed to introspect themselves and start learning to develop a meaningful conversation with their design thinking process [you read it right – conversation with their design thinking process].

Consciousness about society and the scale of impact of their design on the society should be explored at every stage of the design process through meaningful iterations and feasible design rationale. This helps in creating architectural emotion and further changes the way we experience spaces. T R

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Nurturing creative Architectural minds for a sustainable conteiety with Profession oriented Architectural training.

The institute aims to be a center of excellence for architectural and urban design studies by bringing the best teaching talent, infrastructure and technologies together.

Architecture offers opportunities to shape, perhaps even transform the environment in which we live.

Architecture brings together the arts, environmental awareness, sciences and technology. Architects combine creative design with technical knowledge to provide integrated solutions for built and natural environments. Architects are not only involved in mainstream architectural practice but are working increasingly in occupations ranging from Urban design , Interior design, Computer applications in Building design, simulations and more.

One such institute that nurtures excellent architectural professionals and has built a robust image in the educational space with its advanced Profession oriented architectural training modules is R.V. College of Architecture (RVCA), Bangalore.

Established in 1992-93, RV College of Architecture is one of the most trusted and preferred Architecture colleges among students not only in Karnataka but in the entire country. Its campus has a vibrant culture with contemporary institutional architecture that is well equipped with the state-of-

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the-art infrastructure and facilities that offers an inspiring environment that is required for honing essential architectural skills. Students from across the length and breadth of the nation from varied socio-economic backgrounds come to RVCA to transform their dreams into reality.

Advanced teaching methodologies, talented professors, excellent placements and a plethora of cocurricular and extracurricular activities makes the college unique among equals which every architectural student wants to be a part of. Many independent rating agencies have recognized the college among the Top Ten Institutes that provide excellent training.

The institute aims to be a center of excellence for architectural and urban design studies by bringing the best teaching talent, infrastructure and technologies together.

Interactive Academic Infrastructure The college offers an interactive learning process that is creative at its core. The superior academic infrastructure and curriculum assists students of RVCA to stand apart from the rest. Their students have shown caliber at various national and international events by winning various prestigious design competitions, research papers and accolades.

RVCA offers Undergraduate (B. Arch),

About the Principal Dr. Om Prakash Bawane, Principal, R. V. College of Architecture: Plays a key leadership role at RVCA. With nearly three decades of academics and administrative experience, Dr. Bawane is one of the senior most professors of architecture in Karnataka. Dr. Bawane is an alumnus of NIT, Bhopal and IIT Roorkee and recipient of numerous awards. He specializes in areas of climatic design, building services and quality management in construction industry and has visited several architecture schools across country to deliver talks. He is currently holding the position of Chairman, VTU’s Board of Studies in Architecture.

Postgraduate (M. Arch in Urban Design) and Doctoral programs (PhD) in Architecture, approved by the Council of Architecture and affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, Karnataka. Teaching at RVCA involves instilling the basics of building design, campus design, building construction, sustainable buildings, architecture in urban context, construction management, Geographical Information systems (GIS), Building Information management (BIM), digital architecture, etc., amongst the students which prepares them for various challenging roles.

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State Govt. and Central Govt. agencies like MHRD and Ministry of minority affairs.

Faculty Driving RVCA towards the Path of Glory The College has a robust team of handpicked teachers that not only come from the best universities in the world but possess excellent technical skills that are required to hone future leaders for the architectural world. The faculty keep themselves abreast with latest development by involving in publication of research articles and professional practice. To nurture core ethos and instill the fundamentals of architecture among students, RVCA provides valuable inputs in design and construction studios and various other subjects by bringing practical dimension to the architectural learning with the assistance of real world practicing architects. Seminars, talks, workshop, interactive sessions with renowned architects and consultants make the learning environment at RVCA a productive one.

Notable Alumni The most notable alumni of RVCA are well-established in specialized fields like campus design, residential enclave design, Landscape design, Architectural conservation and more.

Many of them are also doing worldwide research and have excelled in their field. Some of the prominent names are: Abhay Zachariah (Zachariah consultants Bangalore), Indraneel Dutta (Dutta & kannan associates), Varna Sashidhar (Landscape Architect), Smaran Mallesh (Cadence), Naveen Mahantesh, Sanjay Sridhar (C40 Regional Director for South and West T H E

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Asia), Pankaj Modi (Conservation Architect) etc.

Most of the students succeed in securing place for internship in leading design firms during their professional training or internship semester, which eventually turns into placements.

RVCA’s training and placement cell facilitates the students in seeking placement in various Architecture and Urban Design firms across India. The institute feels proud at their 100% placement rate which they have maintained till date since the past several years.

Notable Recognitions at National and International Stage Accomplished by RVCA’s Studen • tsRVCA is the only institute winning COA NIASA 10 on 10 maximum number of National awards: • Shivjeet potdar, Nippon Asia young designer awards 2017 • NDTV Grohe 2015 Student Award was won by Ms. Srushti Shah.

• C. Kathyaini& Mr. Ganesh Katwe (2014 batch), won the prestigious award of “Landscape Journal Students Design Competition 2016” • Ankitha Rao R (1RV14AUD03) M Arch (UD) 2014 Batch listed in Final best 10 entries in ARCHIPRIX 2017, an International Design forum/competition at CEPT (Ahmedabad).

• C. Kathyaini, Ms. Kadambari

Komandur & Ms. Meher Uddaraju qualified as Finalist in International.

Competition on ” Refugee Market Place Design” organised by Ideation Worldwide(IDeA) 2016 • Suhasini Hangal won Silver Medal in Asian Contest for Architectural Rookie’s Award (ACARA) – India Domestic Contest 2016. ACARA is an International contest held every year for students of Architecture.

“Words of Trust ”Since RV is one of the top colleges, we had the added advantage of attracting students from all over India thus giving diversity in the classroom and brought in a plethora of perspectives that helped us broaden our thinking.

• Leila Srinivasan, Batch: 2012-17, Currently Working in a reputed firm in Bangalore The faculty brings such different perspectives with their rich professional experience to help in giving inputs to shape and refine design ideas. Study trips; site visits, have exposed us to different contexts and design challenges, to understand the different cultures, histories, contexts, climates, and to study the vernacular architecture.

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ities are growing and becoming denser day by day, in that it’s being difficult to avail resources to a better livelihood. This is because the rate of migration from rural to urban areas is increasing across the world. By 2050, around 70% of the people will be living in cities and India is no exception in this regard. So there is emerging need for cities to get smarter in India. Cities must be smart enough to manage the resources.

We bring leverage technology to remodel the city across several limitations as we cannot change the entire city but we can the way we use the city. Smart City stands to leverage technology to serve people, it applies to several sectors of development basically depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources, and aspirations of the city.

A digital city model of the existing city can be used as a better way to analyze the city for its best uses. We can actually feel the city with a virtual tour and identify the problems and solution for it. In our case study, we have used 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to design the city with the help of available open sources satellite data such as SRTM, Google, and OpenStreetMap.

Education MTech in Geospatial Technology, BTech in Civil Engineering.

Profession: Course Coordinator, Survey Domain, Department of Civil Engineering, at Centurion University.

definition of a smart city, it varies from city to city and country to country.

Therefore, a city has to be designed to optimize resources and to promote sound sustainable development.

The first step comes to the planning of smart city is infrastructure. An infrastructure which has the capacity to accommodate an exceeding number of people, which transforms the movement of traffic rapidly, which allows industries for better production and where citizen communicates actively, which improves the quality of life through experiences to use the city.

This document state the art of utilization of 3D model city across multiple domains. This will also facilitate several external sources which are useful in making a Digital Twin City. To better plan for the future, we need to rethink how we can imagine, plan, design, analyze, simulate, build and manage the city. India needs to improve elementary education to move ahead in the digital era.

3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Keywords: Smart City; Livelihood; Urban; Migration; Engineering; Technology; Development; 3DEXPERIENCE Platform; Model city.

Introduction: To provide the aspirations and needs of the citizens, urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban ecosystem, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development-institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure. This can be a long-term goal and cities can work towards developing such comprehensive infrastructure incrementally, adding on layers of ‘smartness’.

Smart City: It can be defined as leverage technology to serve people, it applies to several sectors of development basically depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources, and aspirations of the city. So there is no universally accepted 34

3D Modeling Apps The application allows the full definition of construction projects. The broad-based collaborative framework enables commercial architects, planners, and clients to make the building real before it’s built. The user can design any geometry, in solid and surface, Get a very accurate 3D fully parametric CATIA native geometry, Generative 2D drawings, 2D layout for 3D design, Normal, and Large Range, Design Review, Interference checking, Terrain Modeling.

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Smart Urban Planning CATIA civil module is a complete solution to all types of civil design, a small training required for the user to be familiar with the several apps such as terrain preparation, building space planning, civil 3D design, and CATIA civil engineering. With the terrain preparation map facilitate terrain design, we can actually differentiate different elevation. Also, we can define the contour lines for the selected area. It also facilitates to mess the terrain so that buildings and existing structure can be placed in the geolocated place.

The dashboard contains a list of tasks, apps 3D Search and 6WTags, Me Menu, New Menu, Share Menu and home Home Menue.

3D Experience Platform Dashboard Terrain Preparation: Adequate terrain administration is in general interest of the society, and it is also significant from viewpoint of clients who invest in construction. In most of the countries, particularly those in transition, investors wishing to invest into construction often face a series of difficulties and problems during the process of acquiring all required grants and construction permits. There are several kinds of data which can be used as input to terrain preparation apps, such as SRTM, LiDAR, and DEM. Open source data SRTM which have 30m of resolution mostly used. The stand rudd SRTM data format is .hgt which is considered as raw SRTM data. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56° S to 60° N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.

The downloaded data from earth explorer can be imported into the software through CATIA terrain preparation app which facilitates terrain modeling, study area can be selected and projected from the large terrain. After meshing, the terrain a contour can be prepared with fixed elevation differences.

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Contour Showing Elevation Differences OpenStreetMap(OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. The creation and growth of OSM have been motivated by restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world, and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices. OSM is considered a prominent example of volunteered geographic information.

OSM map can be directly imported into the Building space planning app, for the most of the reason map have 3D information such as the height of the building so while importing a selection of 3D can be made by checking import 3D option in the toolbox. Sometimes OSM does not have height information so in this case, we can get the 2D layout of all the existing structure. The 2D layout can be modified to 3D in the Building Space planning app.

OSM Data Creation Imported 3D buildings from OSM are a box-like structure which can be converted into building with the predefine0d story. The imported line can be converted into roads, Generative Shape Development App facilitate key tools to design road. Before that, it is important to gather information about existing road such as the width of the road, no of lane, shoulders, parking e.t.c.

Most of the information can be stored from google earth view also, satellite top view footage can be directly applied to the texture of the terrain to bring the realistic view to the project. Given picture describe imported 3D OSM building.

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CATIA Building Space Planning App: After terrain modeling, CATIA building planning application is being used for the geolocation of existing building from OpenStreetMap (OSM). CATIA building planning app facilitates multi-story building designs with faster and easy way as per architecture oriented.

Boxes can be converted into buildings and geolocated with the respective place. CATIA live rendering app facilitates material analysis, it allows the user to apply the material to the structure for analysis purpose. It also allows the user to apply a texture to the buildings which result in realistic view.

The complete model City: Poor infrastructure impedes economic growth, in order to stimulate growth and reduce poverty, it is essential to improve the supply, quality, and affordability of infrastructure services. Since several years our cities are not being changed, the world population is excepted to grow from 7 billion in 2011 to over 9 billion in 2050. So we really gonna have to think about how we can design new technologies for the city into different ways, so there is two-way solve the problems of the cities; to optimize the systems another to bring the behavioral changes. A model city helps to study this area for structural changes. A possible way to real-time simulation with digital twin city can address various domain solution for infrastructure development.

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Conclusions More people are now living in urban areas than the country for the first time and we need to build several new cities in the next 30 years. This put immense pressure on all areas of daily life: water, air, food, energy, space, and safety.

3D models are the 1st steps toward fulfillment of smart cities; if we imagine, simulate & experience cities for the people then we can create lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy cities. T R

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rchitecture creates a significant impact on how we experience the world. What we are expecting/ imagining to happen in the future, architectures are making it happen today. People in the world are experiencing the unbelievable thrill which they owe to architecture.

So, what is architecture?

Architecture is more than just glass, steel and concrete.

Architecture is living story of societal values that are reflected and affected by the already built environment.

Architecture is giving birth to divergent shapes and

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functions in order to give purpose and meaning to space. It is story of civilization; past, present and future. It is inspiring innovation, and improving the quality of life.

Architecture uses their special understanding of skill to transform people through an incredible power of space.

They have responsibility to deliver spaces that are healthy, cost-effective and resource efficient. Architecture itself is considered as one of the tool, which will reverse some of the damage or at least slow it down. Architecture is the process of learning from the elements of nature to design buildings that will help humanity to survive longer, better and stronger.

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It create working environment for people; for that, they need creativity, inspiration and beauty that will give a meaning and happiness on which they can also educate the environment. The Environment is inspiring because of the quality of natural light, materials that were used, which includes rapidly renewable and recycled cork and bamboo.

It is the important feeling of being connected to a community. It is for everyone should feel like that they are part of the larger world. Basically architectures make connection between people in so many different ways.

The Modish Future The numbers of iconic buildings are rising. Buildings, like Sydney Opera House, Lloyds Building- London, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur- Malaysia, Burj Khalifa- Dubai and Kimbell Museum-USA. Wonderful buildings are reasoned due to technologically innovative ideas. Innovations were there and will still remain 1000 years from now. By using internet, we stay much closer to the new evolving technologies.

print inside of their home and so there is no need to pay an interior sculptor.

Amazing work by architectures everywhere today, dramatic example is Masdar City, a brand-new NetZero City, right outside of Abu Dhabi is being built. Don’t forget that this is just single example; there are many other examples too.

Final thoughts However, the future is getting super exciting with, dramatic changes in the shape of buildings that are becoming the most inspiring piece of architecture. From undergoing digital production of these bunches of innovative architects, it is clear that – soon it would be possible to bring imaginations into the reality. With the burning flame of hope, architectures are trying to make the world better place to live. T R

Today, technology has architecture and building designs in a position that one can have interactive walls, where the one can blow on it or make hand gestures near the wall and the shape of wall will respond whatever you do.

So, one can now make buildings which can be interactive by pushing the boundaries through new techniques and bright imaginations. Future is beyond our imagination and much more exciting than ever before.

Simply unbelievable and incredible innovations are evolving, like – Beautifully designed bridges, Rotating skyscrapers: A building that is expected to rotate 360-degree in every 90 minutes, so that no tenant has the necessity to fight over such specific side facing view. Indoor parks: Have you ever wanted to stay inside but still go to the park? Urban design could soon feature indoor open space. Sustainable buildings materials: From wooden skyscrapers to bricks made of locally sourced Mushrooms, sustainable materials are on the rise. 3D printed Interiors: One will be able to make usage of 3D

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Shaping Better Future for the Mankind through Quality Education To pioneer a mentoring based education system with an intellectual, moral and spiritual culture of its own, rooted in Indian ethos and in tune with global vision of the times. The university aims to inculcate learning through understanding, knowledge enhancement, skill development and positive attitude formation to encourage innovative thinking with self-discipline and social responsibility.

With a vision to create an educational environment that engages deep intellectual, moral and spiritual stimulation, thereby nurturing leadership, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth vishwavidyalaya, Indore, a private state university, was established under Madhya Pradesh Niji Vishwavidyalaya Adhiniyam in the year 2015 at Indore.

The university aims to be a leader in shaping a better future for mankind through quality education, training and research. It leads the education sector by making a difference in sustaining the growth of global societies by developing socially responsible citizens. The university setup the Institute of Architecture in the very first year of its existence. Two batches of B.Arch are already studying in the university.

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With an approach towards establishing value-based education, the University promotes endurance, excellence, fairness, honesty and transparency as its core values. Committed to impart premium education to develop students as critical thinkers and lifelong learners to meet industrial as well as social requirement by meeting the norms of regulatory authority, the university strives to continually improve the quality of its educational services and effectiveness of teaching. Among all, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyala stands tall in Madhya Pradesh as a multi-disciplinary university focusing on the needs of various segments of the society. For its extraordinary contributions to the society, the university has received recognition from various reputed bodies in the country.

To take education to the next level, the university has signed Memorandum of Understanding for academic as well as technical collaboration with IBM; Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA; National Research and Development Corporation (NRDC), New Delhi and Red Hat India, among many others.

Leading Personal behind the innovative initiative Dr. Upinder Dhar is Vice Chancellor of Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya (Indore). Earlier, he was Group Additional Vice Chancellor and Pro-Vice Chancellor - Academics, Amity University Uttar Pradesh (Noida); Founder Vice Chancellor of JK Lakshmipat University (Jaipur); Director - Institute of Management, Dean - Faculty of Management, and Dean - Faculty of Doctoral Studies and Research, Nirma University (Ahmedabad); Director - Prestige Institute of Management and Research (Indore); President - Prestige Group of Educational Institutions (Indore); Professor of Management at NITIE (Mumbai); and Reader at IMS-DAVV (Indore). He has conducted management and faculty development programs for the executives of major business houses and faculty members of academic institutions respectively.

He has also been Guest Faculty at IIM Calcutta, IIM Indore and IIT Roorkee.

Besides undertaking consultancy assignments, he has authored/coauthored more than 600 publications.

Thirty Four (34) scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision by various universities.

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Dr. Dhar was awarded National Fellowship by Indian Society for Training and Development in 2002-03. He has been on the Panel of Reviewers of number of journals, such as International Journal of Training and Development, Human Resources International, Journal of Global Business and Technology, and South Asian Journal of Management. He has also been on the Panel of Experts maintained by the NBA (Bangalore); ICSSR (New Delhi); and SAQS (Hyderabad). He has been President of Anthropological and Behavioural Sciences Section of the Indian Science Congress Association (2007-08), Indian Society for Training and Development (2008-09) and Association of Indian Management Schools (2014-15). He has also been Member of the Council of Management of AIMA, Member of ATMA, All India Redefining Education with Innovative Programs and Major Objectives Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyala offers 73+ programs at Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Dual Degree, Diploma and Doctoral levels.

In the field of Architectural education, the University is a renowned name.

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Built on an area of 51.5 acres, the University is established on 23 years old campus with wellequipped state-of-the-art classrooms, seminar halls, drawing halls, libraries, computer labs, workshop areas, playgrounds, sports complex, auditorium, cafeteria and many more.

The campus is well connected with the three major cities of Madhya Pradesh, namely, Indore, Ujjain and Dewas.

Major objectives of the university are as follows: • To provide teaching and training in higher education and make provision for research as well as advancement and dissemination of knowledge.

• To ensure world-class quality in its offerings and create higher levels of intellectual abilities.

• To create centres of excellence for research and development for sharing knowledge and its applications.

Offers Financial Support to the Meritorious and Needy Students The University extends financial help to the economically weaker students through its sponsoring body, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Trust. It even guides students to earn scholarship schemes of the State Government. It helps students with financial support based on merit, and often waives off

the tuition fee to certain extent, depending on the situation.

From the Expert’s Point of View Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya is committed to offer quality education and shape the skills of the young generation. The emphasis is laid on the holistic development of the students and a conducive environment is provided to the researchers. The learners are expected to orient themselves to play a crucial role in preparing themselves not only to face the knowledge based society with confidence but with purpose and responsibility.

“Words of Trust” “All my teachers are very enthusiastic and experienced in their subjects.

Though being the first batch I never felt like we missed anything.”

- Divyam Kandya, B.Arch, 2nd Year “The best thing about this university is being given the independence to study the way I wanted to in an environment focused on academics. The learning resource centre has extremely helpful staff. In fact, the subject teachers are too kind to help me in the places where I was in need and VAISHNAV has made the best efforts to provide all the facilities to us.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashok Mittal is the Chancellor of Lovely Professional University. He is the solo dream-merchant in casting ahead regular successes and glories not only for the university, but also, for the students, staff members, parents, and other allied personalities. He is driven by the vision and strong belief of transforming the way education is delivered in India, and to pay back more to the society than received through it. After entering the education sector in 2001, Mr. Mittal realized that as an afďŹ liated college, there were many limitations to the revolutionary thought he imbibed. Hence, he established LPU to impart quality education the way it ought to be delivered.

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he current global population has reached up to 7.6 Billion and expected to grow 10 billion by 2020.

The design and construction business will be one of the fastest expanding industries globally. This shift will put Architects and Designers increase in demand globally for generations to come up. In India, new projects will contribute more than 50% of construction sector. It is predicted that in next 20 years, more than 200 million Indians will migrate from rural to urban areas. This will add more demand on urban infrastructure.

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Now a day’s either developed or developing nation they are boosting the tourism industry and conserving the heritage and old buildings. Architects have great potential in Architectural Conservation which addresses historic buildings, historic areas and built heritage resources. There are number of Government aided and Public Private Partnership projects to conserve heritage monuments.

Architectural Conservation area develops professionals to expand architectural practice to conservation and deign in historic place with respecting the social and cultural value.

There is 100 percent foreign direct investment in the construction development filed with approval from Indian cabinet. Consequently, this will prove out to be express development in nation development and which will generate more number of architect’s employment. This situation will provide incredible opportunities to architects to present entrepreneurship skills via start up their own architecture and design firms in India. There is an emergent drift between the youth and the old in India to get their dream home, which has boosted construction. This has produced number of opportunities for architectural companies.

Over the period, there are number of other fields in which architect can build their career. The professions are not even heard before ten year back. However, in current scenario there is huge demand in global market. The digital software’s skill have put architect on higher demand in market. Architect having knowledge of Software’s like Revit Architecture, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, BIM and Design simulation are earning higher salaries globally.

Architects with higher proficiency in digital software can start their own firms and give consultancy. Architects are doing specialization in Building Engineering and Management. As the project managers are in high demand in multinational real estate companies.

Architecture as a great professional education, does not only teach about design methods but it makes aware with social and cultural values of society, leadership, communications and service. This creates an inner vision to design a sustainable future and redesign the civilization which will continue till lifelong in their career. Architecture Profession is opening up its possibility for the students, with the different dimensions of career in the field. A full time five year degree presents students the opportunity to explore the numerous facets of architecture and its scope in society. Fresh graduate architects are gaining rapid identification in Urban and rural areas with the emerging infrastructure demand in housing, educational, Landscape Architect and health infrastructure.

In the capacity of an architect, one is able to identify the area of specialization after completing the Bachelor of Architecture. One can do expertise in the field of Urban Design, Sustainable Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design and Affordable Housing. There are number of smart city projects under going and in pipe line

by Government for revolutionizing India. An architect can develop career in the Urban Planning, Transport Planning, Infrastructure Planning, Regional Planning and Environmental Planning.

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There is no limitation of being a designer. In recent era, architects and designers have developed their career in film making sets and photography. Worldwide, every nation is concern about the building security system and society safety. Architects can find their expertise in the field of Advance Building Automation security system.

Globally, private and government companies float design competitions. Architects can compete for national and international design idea competitions. In the profession of architecture, there is no limit of sky if one is equipped with creative innovative thinking and creative skills.

In current scenario and large number of upcoming infrastructure projects present tremendous career opportunities in the field of architecture in India and abroad.

Architects need to identify the best potential and acquire the expertise in the respective field and step in to the business market. There is huge demand of skilled professional’s globally and it is the ideal time to step into architecture filed as there are number of prospectus for infrastructure project especially in developing country like India. T R .

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Wadiyar Centre or Architecture: Fostering Design and Preparing Students through Interactive Learning Process

To foster design, empower and encourage students, and to provide them both curricular education, the excitement of exploration and intellectual stimulation, through creative exercises Founded in 2015, Wadiyar Center for Architecture (WCFA) is a College of Architecture located in the heart of Mysuru, the city long renowned as a center of education. With a vision to create atmosphere for learning through an interactive process, the institute encourages and empowers its students to learn and to gather knowledge.

WCFA offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch) degree course and is recognized by the ‘Council of Architecture’ New Delhi and is affiliated to ‘Visveswaraya Technological University’, Belgaum, Karnataka State.

Wadiyar Center for Architecture is guided by an ideology that allows the student to emerge with a complete education in Architecture along with a deep-rooted knowledge of one’s own surroundings, social awareness and grounding in cultural heritage, resulting in professionals who would

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be responsible leaders with ethical practice.

About the College’s Prime Location and its Innovative Campus Mysuru is a city with stimulating experiences of both urban and rural milieu. The cultural and historical backdrop lends an opportunity for the student to explore and delve into architecture in varied contexts.

Geographically, Mysuru city is of the size that spares long commutes and offers the students to dedicate quality time to fully engage in education with enough time to spare for extracurricular activities ensuring allround development.

The lush green campus includes heritage structures integrated harmoniously with newly built facilities. While the heritage buildings contain the library and administrative areas, the academic spaces are housed in the newly built structures, set in a manner that the natural environment is preserved and the space is seamlessly integrating with the landscape forming the heart of the place. The College is well equipped with facilities like Lecture Halls, naturally lit flexible

About the Dean Prof S G Srinivas, Architect and Academician, is the founder President of the Design Foundation for Study, Education and Research trust that has initiated the college. He is also the Dean and Design Chair at WCFA. He has been a teacher and guided many, including some of the college trustees, during their college days. WCFA, he believes, is dedicated to train students in holistic architectural education with an inclusive curriculum that will enable the student a solid creative and intellectual foundation. floor plan quality learning Design Studios, Library, 40-seater Computer Centre, Wood and Clay Workshop, Exhibition Hall and Material Museum.

Architecture and WCFA’s Contribution to the Industry Architecture, being a highly creative field, demands specialized educators trained to educate students in a creative teaching method without affecting the artistic vision. The experts of the

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industry say that the task of architecture is the creation of human environment.

The prime reason behind WCFA’s milestones in the architectural education industry is that it adopts a pluralistic approach to teaching architecture that includes both theoretical and empirical approaches.

At this institute, students have opportunities to become instinctively conscious in their understanding of the built environment through the realization of values, culture, technology and social behavior.

The future of work practice is tending towards a rich scenario of diverse viewpoints and of collaboration. The student consciously is at times an individual and many a times, a collaborator in a group. The environs at WCFA allow the nurturing of the student to find their unique expression of thought leading to knowledge and action. Beyond the university’s curriculum, WCFA offers opportunities through learning and pragmatic exploration of interrelated fields like music, dance, drama, literature, creative arts, political science, philosophy, economics and physical activities.

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to inculcate original thinking while learning about other values.

The college promotes the students to discover their identity and expression, through sustained inquiry, dialogue and discovery. To enable the process, WCFA organizes value added learning programs like Skill Workshops, Master Class and Expert Lectures, Related Study Programs and Study Tours, where the students get the rare and unique opportunity to see, meet, converse, study and work with renowned masters from related fields.

WCFA’s Source of Power and Most Valuable Resources The teaching faculty of the college consists of a group of Architecture educators, Artists, Urbanists, Social Anthropologists, Planners, Conservationists, Structural Engineers, Interior Designers, Writers, Theorists and Photographers, in addition to many practicing Architects who are passionate academicians and research enthusiasts. The multi-disciplinary background of the faculty not only helps the students to perceive design through diverse viewpoints but also enables them to approach design comprehensively. The faculty members

are encouraged to engage in architectural practice through the Design Cell of the College and also pursue research, which will bring practical and explorative orientation to teaching. Academic discussions are encouraged between the faculties and between the students across the classes to make learning a way of life on campus.

The student community, though small at present, are a vibrant lot. Though Academics forms the way of life, they find time for Basketball, Football, a movie club, book reading club, a hiking club and a college music band.

“Words of Trust” An institute that is inspiring and drives you to your fullest, it brings out the best in you, not just in the way we learn, but it’s the spaces in which we do so, an environment that allows you to dream, a place we could call home.

Varun Michael Pais, 3rd year This college became home for us way before we knew it. Motivation is abundant. The school got me lost in ways that I started feeling found.

Sayema Syed, 1st year T R

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