▪ Campus Buildings- Jodhpur University,

▪ Habib Gunj Railway station- Bhopal,

▪ Aga Khan School, Mundra, Gujarat.
❑ Uttam Chand was born in 1934 in Melwara, Rajasthan.

❑ He completed his schooling at jodhpur Rajasthan.

❑ He graduated in architecture with I class honors in 1958 at Indian institute of

technology, Kharagpur where he was a merit scholar throughout.
❑ Soon after receiving advance study scholarship from national university of
Tucumen , Argentina proceeded to Latin America where for two years he
studied and gained experience .
❑ Established his own architecture practice in 1961.

❑ Handled institutional buildings, commercial complexes, recreational facilities,

tourists projects, luxury hotels, theaters, housing, private residences, and
university campus layout.
❑ Taught at various architectural colleges and been examiner at university of Bombay, Punjab university,
Chandigarh, Baroda university; Ahmadabad school of architecture and school of planning and
architecture, New Delhi.
❑ He served on jury of national competitions in architecture on many occasions.
❑ His buildings reflect the heritage of that particular place. Spatial configuration in his design is an

attempt to invoke a spirit that will establish a symbiotic bond between the present and the past.

❑ He is not much bothered about the trends and always try to conceive the building in his own style.

❑ The immediate surroundings are source of construction materials; snow, stone, straw, reed, wood

or mud is the indigenous materials for constructing an enclosure.

❑ The relationship between human being and the building being established

FORM: Realization of shelter form and its content are in

response to a given place, climate, and time.

AESTHETICS: It is the aesthetics of openness contrasted

with enclosures that highlights the different features
from the rest of the façade.
Mainly there are three buildings in the campus
A. The faculty of art and social science
B. Central lecture theatre cluster
C. Campus canteen
❑ The three wings of the Arts and social sciences complex
form a U-shaped plan around a central open space
❑ Internally, the class rooms, seminar rooms, laboratories and
offices are organized along double-loaded corridors.
❑ Climatic responsive building, double wall construction to bear
the hot and dry climate.
❑ Sculptural gesture of raised water tank and stairs towers
between stone walls, makes the façade bolder.
❑ The design attempts to imbibe the spirit of the architectural

heritage of Jodhpur city.

❑ The planning of the cluster is kept simple to evoke the use of

local stone for both structural and non-structural

requirements.

❑ A simple plan is achieved by placing four rectangular lectures

in two sets of twin units symmetrically along a central axis.

❑ A ramp leads up to a raised central court which is a transitional

space between the theatres.

❑ Wide stone steps are provided on either side of the cluster

where informal talks could be held in winter.

❑ The space below these steps and the central court is proposed for
storage.
❑ Stone is used profusely as finishing material and is left natural on the
exterior as in the traditional buildings in Jodhpur city.
❑ Some bonded in lime mortar is used to keep down the cost of
materials and to provide jobs for local skilled labour.
❑ The entire cluster raises gradually from both sides to the narrow
central open space.
❑ This is termination of traditional hillside cluster formations so typical
of the region.
❑ various traditional elements from Jodhpur city are also incorporated
in the design: a ramp entry defined by a gate; narrow street-like
spaced formed by high walls on either side; small openings in base,
stone textured wall.
❑ Building is made with golden colored sandstone with which
the traditional buildings of jodhpur have been constructed.
❑ Steel and cement are used only minimally in this cost
effective design
❑ Walls are of dressed masonry laid in lime mortar, standard
3.5meter long stone slabs.
❑ The building is constructed with a double wall to counter
the hot and desert climate of the desert.
❑ The outer wall screens the sun and are rhythmic in pattern .
❑ Lecture theatre –cluster is a small ziggurat like structure
mirroring the inclined seating in each of its four identical
halls.
❑ A stone pergola screens the central node at which all the
four theaters emerge.
❑ Similar to the lecture theatre it has stepped profile .
❑ This allows the light to enter in the central space.
❑ It also has a stepped entrance which is clearly visible.
❑ Like other buildings of the campus it also made of locally available sandstone.
❑ The east west façade is made of dead wall to cut of the heat of sun.
❑ A long, narrow, three-storey building which is inspired by the forms of city
gates.
❑ The station is a series of open vaulted concrete structures built at each of the
three levels through which platforms and ramps pass.
❑ The building contains ticket offices, a waiting hall, a restaurant, and arrival
and departure platforms.
AGA KHAN SCHOOL , MUNDRA, GUJARAT
Client : Aga Khan Foundation
Project Architect : Shona Jain
Project Management Consultant : Aga Khan
Education Services , India
Plot Area : 15693 sq.m.
Built-up area : 4459 sq.m
Project cost : Rs. 43100000
Year of completion : 2006
Map shows :
▪ Approach to site
▪ Context of site (Open ground and vegetation)
▪ Relation between Built and Open Ground on Site

▪ Plot Area : 15693 SQM

▪ Built-up area : 4459 SQM
▪ Project cost : Rs. 4,31,00,000
Academic Block

Analysis of Zoning Adopted

1. Entrance
2. Security room
3. Corridors
4. Courtyards
5. Classroom
6. Pre-shift classroom
7. Arts & crafts room
8. Computer room
9. Laboratory
10. Library
11. Head coordinators room
12. Administration
13. Reprography room
14. Teacher’s resource center
15. Staff room
16. Meeting room
17. PA’s room
18. Principal’s room
19. Vice-principals room
20. Sick room
21. Counselor’s room
22. Store room
23. Kitchen
24. Utilty room
25. Toilet
26. Handicap toilet
27. UPS & electrical room
28. Auditorium phase 2 (future)
29. Gymnasium phase 2 (future)
30. Server room
31. Multipurpose hall
32. Terrace
33. Overhead water tank
1. Entrance
2. Security room
3. Corridors
4. Courtyards
5. Classroom
6. Pre-shift classroom
7. Arts & crafts room
8. Computer room
9. Laboratory
10. Library
11. Head coordinators room
12. Administration
13. Reprography room
14. Teacher’s resource center
15. Staff room
16. Meeting room
17. PA’s room
18. Principal’s room
19. Vice-principals room
20. Sick room
21. Counselor’s room
22. Store room
23. Kitchen
24. Utilty room
25. Toilet
26. Handicap toilet
27. UPS & electrical room
28. Auditorium phase 2 (future)
29. Gymnasium phase 2 (future)
30. Server room
31. Multipurpose hall
32. Terrace
33. Overhead water tank
❑ Academic block is a G+1 structure
❑ Single banked classrooms arranged in
a linear fashion.
❑ A linear strip of classrooms opens out to
green courts
❑ These courts serve as assembly areas
for discussion and spaces for informal
activities.
❑ Library is placed in the centre and acts as the pivot amongst all activities.
Administration is placed close to the entrance, away from classroom clusters to
give students a sense of belonging to their spaces.
Facade of building is white washed with
the a contrasting sloping tiled roof The
built form is ground hugging where the
administration (which is visually taller)
and roof of entrance portico are given a
contrasting nature.
Compound wall made of sized
stone masonry Designed with
a curvilinear form Security
cabin adopts a circular form
CONCLUSION :
Uttam C. Jain is one of the great contemporary architect of India . After studying his projects we
understand his philosophy that “ The relationship between human being and the building being
established, what develops and grows around becomes a measure for man and his society” . His
project shows lots of good architectural solutions and their implications in Indian climate and
behaviors. The use of arches , vaults , domes ,squinched , pillars , cutouts in facades , courtyards ,
pergolas etc are the majorelements of his design. His designs are mere a excellent response the
site and surroundings. The Jodhpur university is one of his great works indeed . He has come up
with a excellent solutions of the climate and space behavior. The stepped roofs , the sitting
patterns , the use of stones , the use of cutouts for ventilation are his major features in it . Use of
local materials with a good mixtures of modern technology make his building a completely
excellent response . In the operational realities, if an attempt is made to highlight the ideological
postures leading to the directions of value as accepted in all design-decisions resulting into
tangible architectural ambient, the efforts are also directed towards creating a preference in the
public mind for consumption of good design in their day to day living.
A doctor buries his mistake and an architect builds his mistake. There are individuals who fail to

understand what good architecture is all about. But U.C.Jain feels that, architecture begins after

you put up four walls and a roof and that is what he call the non-manifest part. Architecture is like

music. You can feel it but not see it. You have to comprehend and appreciate architecture.

Architecture provides us with our basic biological needs but actually its realms go much further

than that. His sense of creativity stems from what he add from his mind. There are the 3 'P's of

architecture, namely, the personality of the architect, the product and the place. These have to

be in synergy.