THE BIHAR

MUSEUM
• Architects: Maki and Associates, Japan & Opolis, Mumbai
• Principal Architect: Fumihiko Maki
• Site Area: 13.8 acre
• Built up area:25410 m²
• Building Footprint- 37% (5.1 acre)
• Completion Year: October 2017
• The Bihar Museum is an exciting new museum of ancient India in
Patna, Bihar.
• It is one of the largest museums in India and one of the most ambitious
projects undertaken by a state government in India.
• This museum represents the Heritage stories, Culture and tells about
the history of Bihar.
• There are 25 thousands artifacts inside the Bihar Museum.
• Design for the Bihar museum creates an engaging and appropriately-
scaled response to a prominent site and an ambitious, multi-faceted
museum program.
• The Museum houses a rich variety of treasures from the region, and
includes event and education spaces that nurture a newfound sense of
pride and connection to Bihar’s storied history.
• This 13.8 acre plot allowed for a variety of site planning approaches,
while demanding sensitivity to its low-scale surroundings and
prominent tree growth.
• In response to this context, Maki and Associates conceived the Bihar
Museum as a “campus” - an interconnected landscape of buildings and
exterior spaces that maintains a modest but dynamic profile, in
harmony with existing site conditions.
COVERED PATHWAY BAILEY ROAD ENTRANCE(1 & 2) PARKING SIDE ENTRANCE
WITHIN THE SITE
AREA
REQUIREMENTS
 • The museum consists of 2 floors while the
administrative area consists of 5 floors.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

CROSS SECTION

BRIDGE CONNECTING TWO SIDES OF COURTYARD

ZONING OF THE SPACES
MOVEMENT INSIDE THE BUILDING

VISITOR MOVEMENT
CHILDREN MOVEMENT
GENERAL AREA MOVEMENT
MOVEMENT INSIDE THE BUILDING

ENTRANCE FROM STAFF PARKING

1 MAIN LOBBY
2 MULTI- PURPOSE SPACE
3 CAFE
4 EXHIBITION
5 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
6 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
4

3
2

6
4 1

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

STAFF MOVEMENT
CORRIDOR WIDTH- 2.1M
WIDE CORRIDOR- 5M
MOVEMENT INSIDE THE BUILDING

STAIRCASE LOBBY ENTRANCE FROM STAIRS(STAFF

PARKING)
1 MAIN LOBBY
2 MULTI- PURPOSE SPACE
3 CAFE
4 EXHIBITION
5 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
6 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
4

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

STAFF MOVEMENT
VISITOR MOVEMENT
VERTICAL CIRCULATION
VERTICAL CIRCULATION
DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS
• Monumental and welcoming entrance lobby catering baggage counter and information desk.

ENTRANCE LOBBY WATER CURTAIN VISIBLE FROM THE ENTRANCE LOBBY

MAIN ENTRY OF THE
MUSEUM

1 MAIN LOBBY
2 MULTI- PURPOSE SPACE
3 CAFE
4 EXHIBITION
5 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
4 6 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

3
2

4 6
1

4
COURTYARDS

1 MAIN LOBBY
2 MULTI- PURPOSE SPACE
3 CAFE
4 EXHIBITION
5 TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
6 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
4

5
3
2

4 6
1

• 7 courtyards are located in the cultural centre, allows daylight into the whole Bihar museum building.
• Courtyards are well landscaped and visually connected with the corridors of the Bihar museum .
AMPHITHEATRE

• The amphitheater is located inside the courtyard of the building and has 200 seating capacity.
NATURAL LIGHTING

• Whole building is getting natural light

with the help of,
- Multiple Courtyards, inside the
building premise.
- Floor to lintel vertical windows
- Multiple Punctures in the wall
- Light well in the lobby areas
VISITOR CONVENIENCES
• Washrooms/Toilets at every intermediate position of the Exhibition areas.
• Seating has been provided in each exhibition halls and Corridors of the museum.
• Baby care center is also there inside the building premise.
LANDSCAPING

• Well Landscaping in Courtyards .

• Children areas is well connected with the landscaping of the site.
ORIENTATION GALLERY
• At the Orientation gallery, we will get an overview of all the Museum galleries and how historians interpret history employing various scientific methods
and research.
• At the Orientation Theatre, the pre-show film will show the prehistoric sites that were discovered. 
XHIBITION GALLERIES/ ART GALLERIES
HISTORY GALLERY
ART GALLERY
FIRE EXITS
Temporary gallery

Children experiment zone

MATERIALS USED

Weathering steel at the entrance

• Structural Finishing: RCC/MS

• Extruded polystyrene Insulation in the wall.
Flooring: Granite/Rubber/Vitrified tiles

Internal Wall Surfaces: Gypsum /Paint/ Wood Panel Plaster External Wall Surfaces: Sandstone/ Limestone/ Granite cladding/ Corten steel panels/Terracotta.
BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS

Vertical fins in the administrative building to Courtyard effect Green Roof in those areas where staffs do their job Cladding on the building surfaces
cut down the sun’s radiation

• Use of fly ash bricks (65% fly ash component in the brick).
• 50 cm thick brick masonry wall.
• Energy performance Index of the building- 66.18kWh/sqm/year The following strategy makes it an energy efficient building.
• Bihar museum is a 5 star rated Green building got Griha Certification in 2019 for its green building Design. 

INFERENCES
• Vehicular congestion is controlled at the main entrance by providing parking entrance from another side of the site.
• Different parking area for staffs with another entrance.
• Covered pathways from parking area to the main entrance.
• Division of blocks into Museum, Children area and administrative area in different direction which is directly applicable by related people.
• Multipurpose hall is at the main entrance lobby, to be directly used by those people who have came for the function going in the hall.
• Entrance lobby is showing a welcoming feature as water curtain in the courtyard adjacent to the lobby.
• Provision of multiple courtyards to get more day light and frequently connected with open sky and landscape.
• Provision of Grand staircase lobby to serve for visual and physical rest.
• Floor to lintel and ceiling vertical windows allows more daylight.
• More Unbuilt spaces than built spaces to get connected with the nature and healing environment.
• Provision of green roofs on those blocks where museum staffs are doing their job.
• Connecting one gallery to another type gallery in one line thoroughly.
• Special area for children in the building premise to spread knowledge.
• Provision of fire exit in each exhibition areas directly outside from the building.
STUDENT HOUSING FOR CHANDIGARH GROUP OF
COLLEGES
• Project name - Student Hostel for Chandigarh Group of Colleges
• Typology - Residence
• Location - Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran, Kharar-Banur Highway, Sector-
112, Greater Mohali, Punjab- 140307, India
• Client name- Chandigarh Group of Colleges
• Architectural Firm - Charged Voids, Panchkula
• Plot Area - 27,400 Sq. Ft.
• Total Built up area - 1, 35.000 Sq. Ft.
• Estimated cost of the project - 20.25 Crores
• Completion date - March 2018

Access:
By Air
• CGC Landran is 20 km from Chandigarh International Airport, Chandigarh.
By Rail
• SAS Nagar (Mohali) Railway Station in Sector 65 is about 12 km from the CGC
Landran. It connects places like New Delhi, Alwar, Agra, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai,
Asansol and Lucknow with the city.
By Road
• The city has a Bus Terminal in Sector S, which receives buses from places like
Chandigarh, New Delhi, Haryana and other parts of Punjab, A new Tenninal and
Commercial Complex with world class amenities for passengers is under construction.

SITE PROPOSED BY THE ARCHITECT FOR HOSTEL

Design process

FORM EVOLUATION

• The process was started off with the idea of 3 different blocks placed diagonally to the site with a central space between them.
• Basic axial arrangement of blocks.
• Three separate building had advantage of having to receive ample light and ventilation but the problem was lack of intercation/spill over spaces
and the central place was not used to its fulliest.
• So the orientation of the individual blocks from along axis are connected to its end to end.
• This led to formation of a central atrium within the interior of the building having to eliminate ambiguity.
• As the evolution progressed balconies were aligned with respect to the elevation and fully functional design was produced.
Zoning

Public spaces on the lower floors and private spaces on the upper floors. Since there is a combination of public and private spaces, two
separate entrances were designed to create division of spaces as a
viable option.

Separating the entrances to divide the public and private zones and to make
public and private entrances separate and distinguishable.

ENTRANCES
The bridges are designed that bisected the atrium at each level in a different way.

These bridges play multiple roles with in the built spaces. As a functional infrastructure, they facilitate the
short movements on same floor from one end to another.

They act as social connectors and facilitate intreaction between people which brings up an emotional
connection between people making them feel at home.
 Site zoning

The site zoning is located in the

campus of Chandigarh Group of
colleges which is almost 25 acres
having a number of Blocks, parking
areas, services and playground and
parks.

The campus contains an Admin

block, 12 academic blocks, 4 Hostel
blocks, Workshops, Lecture halls and
a lot of green spaces.

Campus plan of CGC Campus, Landran

 Building zoning:

The building has the Public zones for the whole campus students also and public as
well as private zfor the main users of the building also.

The basement and the front area are the spaces which are designed for all the users of
the campus. The public zone contains areas like:
1. Double ht. common areas(on ground floor)
2. Triple ht. entrance area ( main entrance to basement for public)
3. Sunken court
4. Multipurpose lobby area.
5. Sports room
6. Audio/visual room
7. Documentation room
8. Storage room

The main entrance to the private zone is the entrance from the ramp which is
transitional space for the Private zone. The private zones also contains some common
spaces for the hostelers residing. The zone contains areas like:

1. Atrium
2. Reception counter 8. Terrace
Site for Student Hostel for CGC
3. Waiting area 9. Furniture storage room
4. Newspaper reading stand 10. Warden room
5. Dining area 11. Warden office
6. Kitchen area 12. Rooms with balcony
7. Reading area 13. Bridges
14. Facilities
15. Vertical circulation.

1.Entrance to public
facilities
2. Ramp : Entrance to
Private areas
3. Double Ht. Common
area
5. Triple Ht. Space
6. Common private area
7. Mess
8/9. Vertical Circulation

Ramp entrance Atrium Sunken Courts

Built- in Furniture

The Furniture of mess area and the rooms are designed by choosing the materials
which needs less maintenance and are easy to use.

Mess area Furniture Room Furniture

Mess area Furniture

Circulation Approach to Site:

The building is located in the campus of Chandigarh group of colleges which has the There are various roads inside the campus which connects all the blocks with each
seven main entrances from different directions. All the entrances can take the other. Hence forms the good connection between each other.
students to the hostel.

MAIN ENTRANCES TO CAMPUS

The pink arrow is showing the roads which lead towards the hostel block in the
The roads from the main entrance are used for both movements i.e, campus. The building has two main entrances one for main users and one for
pedestrian as well as Vehicular. public spaces.
 Building Circulation

The building has two entrance one is for public entrance and one is private
entrance. The public entr directly leads us to the public spaces and the private
entrance is a ramp which leads to the spaces used by the hostellers.

Entrance for the Hostellers

Circulation on Ground floor

The ramp is the main entrance for the people residing
inside the hostel block. The entrance is
a private entrance for the main users of the building
which is easy to approach in tens of
vertical circulation.

This further leads inside the building which has

horizontal surfaces, Corridors, Bridges for
means of horizontal circulation inside the building and
the couple of staircases and the lifts for the vertical
circulation inside the building.

Ground floor Public area in Daytime Sunken Court during Night

 Vertical Circulation

Bridge inside the building

Section through Stairs
The building also has Bridges which forms the spaces for interaction and
also helps in horizontal movements on the floor.

The building is having G+S floors with basement and terrace. So, the two staircases and lifts These bridges play multiple roles with in the built spaces. As a functional
are the important part of the building which connects all the floors, basement and terrace infrastructure, they facilitate the short movements on same floor from one
together from inside. end to another.
This was ensured by creating congregation & spill over spaces in form of bridges that
bisected the atrium at each level in a different way at each level. These varied bridges thus
created a great interaction between the various levels and also provided for a naturally
well-lit and ventilated interior space.
PARKING

The Parking for Students Hostel is not a very huge Parking. The Parking Space is available on the Left-Hand side of the site which has space for 2 Four Wheclers & 20 two
wheelers which is just for emergency purposes and for Staff. The parking use by the users is the main Parking lot of the Campus which is used by the whole campus.

SERVICES

Services on Terrace:
The building has lots of services which can easily understandable if we start looking at services from the terrace.

Services which can be

observed from terrace are:

1. Electrical shaft
2. Plumbing shafts.
3. Over head flushing tank.
4. Over head Domenstic
tank
5. Over head Fire tank.
6. Water heating system
7. Solar panels
8. Fire House cabinet.

The Terrace contains 3 Electrical Shafts, 4 Plumbing Shafts, 2 Fire Hose

Cabinet, and One overhead Flushing Water tank of 12KL Capacity, One
overhead Domestic Water Tank of 24KL
Capacity. One overhead Fire Tank of 25KI. Capacity, Solar Panels, Water
Heating System.

The Terrace is divided by ridges into four parts for creating slope for the
drainage of Rain
water.

The Water Cooler & Purification systems are also placed on the terrace.

View of Terrace
 The services for Electrical
and Plumbing runs from
the shafts which are
basically run in a service
area divided on each floor.
Each floor contains its
service area at the corners
which has its own panel by
which each floor
controlled separately.

The system run similarly on

each floor and serves the
users.

All the services area is near

to the facilities which
require all the services and
can easily be travelled
through the corers of the
building.

The shaft services are very

well designed on
the corners. The areas are
Terrace plan of the CGC Hostel covered by louvered screen
of M.S which also acts as a
part of the elevation and
looks aesthetically
good from the elevation.
The shafts run separately
also give safety and reduces
the chances of mishap.
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES

Shear wall diagram

Most buildings are built around a frame that provides the structure and support for
the building.

The Student Hostel for Chandigarh Group of Colleges is a RCC Frame structure &
having lot of different kind of beams like Upturn, Downturn, and Concealed. The
building is made of various combinations of materials which provide it both
Structural Support as well as its aesthetics.

The building is totally finished with the Grit finish which is used in its Elevation The stack effect describes the passive movement of air through a building resulting from
as well as in differences in vertical pressure developed by thermal buoyancy. When air inside a
the common areas in interiors. building is warmer than the outside air. the warmer, the less dense air will rise.
 Balcony area open for daylight and ventilation

Rooms during day time Sunken court infront of Gym

Balcony area
THE ART MUSEUM,
CHICAGO
 HISTORY AND BUILDING
• The Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1879 as both a school and a museum
with the name Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and took its current name three
years later.

• The institute is aimed to “collect, preserve, and interpret works of art of the

highest quality, representing the world’s diverse artistic traditions, for the
inspiration and education of the public”.

• In 1893, the institution moved to its current location in Grant Park, in a new
The facade of the 1893 building on South Michigan Avenue with the
two lion sculptures by Edward Kemeys. neoclassical building designed by architects Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. The
two popular bronze lions which flank the museum entrance on South Michigan
Avenue were installed in 1898 after a design by American sculptor Edward
Kemeys.

• Over time, through gifts and acquisitions, the museum evolved from a plaster
cast collection into one of the world-leading museums of art, while progressively
expanding and renovating its home with the additions of  the Japanese Screens
Gallery – designed by Tadao Ando in 1992, and the Kraft Education
Center opened in 1993. The latest, imposing expansion of the Chicago Art
Institute, the Modern Wing, was completed in 2009 after a design by renowned
Italian architect Renzo Piano.
The Women’s Board Grand Staircase, located after the entrance hall,
built in 1910;
 Site plan with the Art Institute of Chicago on the left (old building and South Michigan Avenue above and Modern Wing bottom-right) and Millenium Park with the curvilinear Pritzker
Pavilion designed by Frank Gehry facing the Modern Wing on the right;

On 264,000 square feet, Piano’s expansion accommodates a new double-height entrance lobby; the Ryan Education Center; the museum gift
shop; temporary exhibition rooms; spaces for the museum collections of 20th- and 21st-century art, architecture, design, and photography; and a
garden.
 MODERN WING

The Art Institute of Chicago is an art museum, the second largest in the United States, which conserves and
displays an encyclopedic collection of artworks and objects of decorative arts spanning nearly 5,000 years.
Consisting of two pavilions connected by a large central lobby, the Modern
Wing offers three levels of exhibition spaces, aside from services like a
shop, a ticket office and cloakroom, a cafeteria, a restaurant, and an interior
garden.
Among these ribs, solid and massive, are the glass and steel surfaces of the
exhibition halls, giving the complex a light and transparent appearance that
facilitates its integration with the adjacent park and with the lake.
FLOOR PLAN
Modern wing, north elevation

Modern wing, general section

Transverse section
 Flying above the art pavilion will be a shelter that filters the sun to create the
natural shaded light conditions ideal for the enjoyment of art. This shelter is a
kind of flying carpet made of aluminum leaves that perform the same job as
the tree canopies all around in the park. It is a “soft machine” that sensitively
levitates above the new wing, vibrantly screening the light.

All this is made easier in a city that is built on precise north-south and east-
west axes, perfectly in tune with the cycle of the sun, like a solar machine.
The Modern Wing shelter will give the museum what it needs in terms of
light, much as the open lattice of the Pritzker Pavilion gives shelter to the
Great Lawn in terms of sound.
 Limestone, a material used in the construction of the entire museum from its
original Beaux Arts palace to recent additions, rises from the ground like a
topographic relief, massive and solid, as though it has always been there. Above
this topos, the building stands light, transparent, and permeable in steel and
glass, in the great tradition of Chicago buildings: solid and robust yet at the
same time light and crisp.

The Nichols Bridgeway goes from the heart of Millennium Park to the
public terrace of the Modern Wing, crossing high above Monroe Street like
a fine blade. The sharp metal reminds us of the bold structures characteristic
of Chicago. The bridge does what all bridges do: it connects two different
worlds and makes it possible to share experiences, providing beautiful views
for people walking up towards the sunlight or down in front of the
unique Chicago skyline.
 HALLWAY NICOLAS BRIDGEWAY

STAIRS FROM GRIFFIN COURT

PUBLIC TERRACE GALLERY OF AFRICAN ART

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