ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

THESIS

TOPICS
1. City Centre - An Urban Life Center

2. Residential Stadium, Adaptive reuse.

3. Ekalavya Modern Residential School for Indian

tribal peoples, Uttarakhand.

4. Agriculture College cum Research Institute.

NAME : MOHAMMED FAHAD M

RRN : 150101601018

BATCH : 2015-2020
OPTION 1 : City Centre - An Urban Life Centre

INTRODUCTION:
Type of project - MIXED USE BUILDING ( Live project )

 City centre is the area of a city where commerce,

Entertainment, Shopping are concentrated, Urban city centre have
combined both the shopping, learning and Recreation activities with
entertainment to offer an overall experience to the visitors.
 City centre is usually associated with shopping or retail.
They are also commercial and political centre of hubs such as hotels
and offices.

AIM:
 Ideas about designing cities for people not just cars & shopping
centre. Benefits both to the spaces themselves & the people who
uses them.
 To create a space which can form the node for holding and
experiencing commercial, cultural and social activities.
 It’s in a way a hybrid between a conventional centre or a cultural
hub and a commercial centre at a much reduced scale.
 As a city centre requires to incorporate the demands the present
demography asks for commercial and cultural hub.
 Strengthening the connection between people and the places they
share, inspires people to collectively re imagine and reinvent public
spaces as the heart of every community.
 To focuses on the social & cultural importance of lively
neighbourhood and inviting public spaces.
OBJECTIVES :
 To understand the importance and design a future proof city centre
that is a commercial cultural and often a historical, political and
geographical heart of the city.
 To create a city centre providing an iconic image and a landmark to
the city.
 To take into the account site considerations and climatic conditions.
 To develop a greater understanding of inter relationship of variety
of variety of spaces, various characters, pubic, private,
entertainment centre, commercial, administrative etc.
 “A future proof - efficient approach for a better tomorrow”
 To re hold shopping in malls & centres & Urban spaces, various
characters public, private, entertainment centre, commercial,
administrative etc.
 A hub of activity
 A breathing space for people
 A fantasy lands for kids
 A generation next hangout
 A day destination centre

LIMITATIONS :
 To explore the symbolic character of commerce and culture.
 Explore the Inter-relationship of the spaces and the challenges of
disparities cause by design which restrict spaces to a particular
segment of the public.
 To evolve future proof contemporary model of conventional Indian
market.
 The project would try to explore the possible integration of the
functions which usually exist at larger distances.

DESIGN STATEMENT:
 COMMERCIAL COMPLEX - OFFICES / ROOF PLAZA / KIOSK
 BUSINESS HOTEL - CONFERENCE / SUITE ROOMS / BANQUETE /
MEETING HALLS
 SHOPPING COMPLEX - SHOWROOMS / KIOSK / VENDOR SHOPS
 ENTERTAINMENT - MULTIPLEX / IMAX / PLAYZONE / FOODCOURTS
 CONVENTIONAL CENTRE - AMPHITHEATRE / ART EXHIBITION /
LIBRARY / CULTURAL CORRIDOR.

STUDIES :
 Case study
1. City Centre Salt Lake, Kolkata.
2. City centre, Mylapore, Chennai.
3. Amanora town centre, Pune.
 Literature study
1. City centre, Deira, United Arab Emirates.
2. MGM Mirage’s City Centre In Las Vegas.
3. Marina bay sands, Singapore.

SITE :
 Site location - Amaravthi, Andhra pradesh, India
 OPTION 2 : RESIDENTIAL STADIUM - ADAPTIVE REUSE

WHAT IS RESIDENTIAL STADIUM?

 Initially the stadiums were constructed due to staging of major
international multi-sport competitions such as Olympics, etc.
 With the change in time and the high cost inputs; they have been
submitted to a change in their role.
 Now they are just not used for hosting sport meets, but also for
staging and promoting various community as well as non sporting
events.
 This part, basically discusses the multi-purpose aspects and the
economic benefits. Such stadia can provide to local, regionaol or
even a national economy.
 The 2018 Soccer World Cup held at Russia. With it ends an intense
month of an event that not only affects the sports world, but has
direct repercussions in the economy, tourism or urban planning of
the host country.
 On this occasion Russia was chosen to host the event. A total
of twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities have been built and
renovated for the FIFA World Cup.
 But have you ever thought about what happens when Olympic
arenas, World Cup stadiums or other costly sporting venues close at
the end of the colourful events for which they were designed? Many
go on to host local sports clubs. Others, though, become proverbial
‘white elephants’, scraping by as glorified parking lots, dirt tracks for
stock-car racing and even, as in the case of Montreal’s spectacular
Olympic Stadium, as a swine-flu vaccination centre.
AIM:
 Ideas about designing the stadium, how architecture can provide
solutions to stadium design,so they can always be reused after the
event can finished.

OBJECTIVES:
 Proposal to design an adaptive stadium that could also be used as
a residential building.
 Giving the fact that the World Cup 2026 will be held in North
America (USA, Canada and Mexico), the project for the stadium will
be located in New York City (USA).
 Adaptive reuse as an effective way of reducing urban sprawl and
environmental impact.
 By reusing an existing structure within a site, the energy required
to create these spaces is lessened, as is the material waste that
comes from destroying old sites and rebuilding using new materials.

THE PROPOSED STADIUM CAN:

1) Work as both sports arena and residential building at the same

time.
2) Adapt to sports arena or residential building depending on the
required use or;
3) Convert to residential building permanently after the sports event
has finished.
4) Design approach Concentrated on both the Indoor stadium and
Outdoor Residential units.
5) Focuses on which type of structure going to cover the entire
stadium.
6) Providing shell structure as a outer covering membrane.
DESIGN STATEMENT:
The stadium could have the following program:

 Soccer field Length: minimum 100 m, maximum 110 m.

Width: minimum 64 m, maximum 75 m.)
 Stadium stands - Residential units (recommended size: 30 m2 to 100
m2)
 Restaurants - Offices - Shops and commercial spaces
 Multipurpose spaces - Bathrooms - Gardens and public spaces
 Parking slot - Provision of parking slots based on the capacity of
the stadium.

LIST OF STUDY:
1. Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, chennai.
2. Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bangalore.
3. Jwaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi.

SITE:
The project will be located in the current McCarren Park, in
Williamsbourg, New York City.
 OPTION 3 : Ekalavya Modern Residential school for Indian Tribal
peoples, Uttarkhand.

INTRODUCTION:
 School is such a place where a child starts his real development. It
provides an environment where the future mankind is shaped.
 School is child’s first institution which is responsible for shaping his
character & building his future. It gives society a civilized person, a
more sensitive & competent citizen.
 School provides an access to the latest technology and thoughts.

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL:
 A Residential school is one where students stay in the hostels and
pursue their studies, They live in with fellow students.
 Some schools offer residence as an option for outstation students
while in some others, availing the residence facilities of the school is
compulsory.
 Residential schools essentially provide food & lodging for a specific
fee. Varied number of students share rooms or dormitories and
remain under the guidance of house mistress or matron.
 It is essential that the built environment of the school should be
conducive for learning. Design should enhance the environment the
environment which support the creative skills of a child.

FROM THE HISTORY:

 The concept of going students together in a centralized location for
learning has existed since classical antiquity. Formal schools have
 existed at least since ancient Greece, ancient India (gurukul) and
ancient China.
 Many of the earlier public schools in the United states were one
room schools where a single teacher taught seven grades of boys
and girls in the same classroom.

EKALAVYA MODERN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL:

 Ekalavya Model Residential School (EMRS) is a Government of
India scheme for model residential school for Indian
tribals (ST, Scheduled Tribes) across India.
 It is one of the flagship intervention of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs,
Government of India and was introduced in the year 1997-98 to
ensure tribal students get access to quality education in the remote
tribal areas.
 In the context of the trend of establishing quality residential schools
for the promotion of education in all areas and habitations in the
country, the Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for ST
students take their place among the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas
(JNVs), the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) and the
Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs).

AIM:
 To design a school which will provide good built environment with a
blend of cluster and courtyard planning and merging the built form
with open space and landscape for a soothing environment.
 To incorporate the cost effective construction techniques by using
Appropriate building Materials and Techniques and by using
 recycled material to achieve economy in initial construction and
maintenance costs.
VALIDITY:
 With the growing population, the school construction is essential in
every part of the world. But due to high construction costs and
depletion of natural resources, there is need to incorporate cost
effective and innovative technologies.

OBJECTIVES:
a) Comprehensive physical, mental and socially relevant development
of all students enrolled in each and every EMRS. Students will be
empowered to be change agents, beginning in their school, in their
homes, in their village and finally in a larger context.
b) Focus deferentially on the educational support to be made available
to those in Standards XI and XII, and those in standards VI to X, so that
their distinctive needs can be met,
c) Support the annual running expenses in a manner that offers
reasonable remuneration to the staff and upkeep of the facilities.
d) Support the construction of infrastructure that provides education,
physical, environmental and cultural needs of student life.

REQUIREMENTS:
The following items may particularly be included in the lay-out of the
Ekalavya Model Residential School.
School
· Sufficient no. of class rooms.
· Teachers resource room/computer lab.
· Students computer lab/language room
· Library
· Science laboratory
· General purpose hall/ Recreation Room/ Auditorium (can be
combined with dining space)
· Infirmary/ sick room
Residences
· Housing for teachers, security and supporting staff
Hostel
· Well ventilated dormitories
· Assured/ reliable water supply
· Office Room for hostel warden
· Courtyard/veranda for washing and drying clothes
· Recreation/common room/covered courtyard for rainy season
activities
· Rainwater harvesting
· Reliable sewage system
· Open-able/cleanable nets on doors and windows to keep out
mosquitoes/insects.
· Dining/Kitchen
Ø Solar water heating
Ø Kitchen garden and compost pit
Ø Kitchen utensil washing area
Ø Multipurpose area-covered veranda attached to kitchen
· Housing for wardens, security and supporting staff (in case of
proposals relating to Ashram Schools)
· Outdoor areas
Ø Compound wall
Ø Area for plantation of nutritional fruit trees
Ø Garden and small shed
Ø Toilets for workers/visitors
· Utilities
Ø Electrical control room
Ø Underground tanks, pump house
Ø Sewage treatment plant
Ø Security cabin/guard room
· The entire school building including library, laboratories and toilets
should be accessible to children with disabilities

LIVE SITE PROPOSAL:

 Pathankot is located at the junction of three Northern States-Punjab.

Himachal pradesh and j&k. So it acts as an ideal location for setting
up of residential school for tribal peoples.

 Natural Beauty of the site provide an excellent environment for a

residential school.

 Also the nearby areas have developed as educational zone with the
opening up of educational institutes.

 Site Area : 16.5 acres .