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CASE STUDYCHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE,

CHANDIGARH

ARCHITECT : LE CORBUSIER


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CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

CHANDIGARH


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LOCATION


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INTRODUCTION

College of Architecture, Chandigarh was designed by Le Corbusiein 1962.

The college is present near the capital complex and is easilyaccessible from the city.

This college gives degrees in bachelors Course of architecture.


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PLANNING AND LAYOUT

The planning is introvert in nature. The studio and classrooms have

been grouped together around a Rectangular courtyard.

There are two doubly loaded corridors originating on two ends ofthe building which Lead from the entrance to the studios and classrooms. The facilities like library, museum, common room, dark roomand Administration and faculty rooms are on both sides of these

corridors. These corridors are poorly connected to the courtyardthrough four small openings.

The design studios are on the northern side of the building. Entrancehall is a long rectangle in shape. The Courtyard has not been welllinked with rest of the building.


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SITE PLAN


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FLOOR PLAN


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LINKAGES There has been no thought of linking studios and the relationship

between different classes is quite poor.

Architect has failed to link the courtyard in an active manner withrest of the building. As a result, it is a passive & a dead space.

Corridors and courtyards are poorly linked. Some faculty rooms arevery close to studios while, others are far away. Thus, a varyingnature of relationship has been generated between students and

faculty.

There is little room for inter-faculty interaction corridors which aremajor circulation arteries of the building help circulation in a veryuninteresting and boring manner.


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PLANNING


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LIGHT AND VENTILATION

The classrooms, studios are other spaces deeper on north lights fortheir lighting. The lighting is good during day time.

Courtyard that might have been exploited for natural lighting hasnot been used for such purposed.

Ventilation is from small window, which are present on the outsidewalls. The north side windows are large and near the ceilings.


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Effect of the day light enteringfrom the northern facade

View of the norther


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NORTH SIDE ELEVATION


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SOUTH SIDE ELEVATION

WEST SIDE ELEVATION


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SECTION THROUGH ACADEMIC BLOCK OF C


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Curvilinear roof is used for light and vent


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ROOF OPENINGS

INTERNAL VIEW EXTERNAL


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INTERACTION

Closed nature of study spaces.

courtyard is only interaction space in the college. Interaction andexchange of is which forms a very important part of architecturaleducation has been ignored by the architect.

The uneven spacing o faculty rooms create very awkwardrelationship between students & faculty.


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LIBRARY

Centrally air-conditioned library with approx. 15,000titles in architecture and related fields.

Teaching aids like audio and videocassettes are alsoavailable.

Training reports of Seventh semester students are alsoavailablehere for reference.


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PLAN OF LIBRARY


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BOOK SECTION OF LIBRARY


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WORKSHOP

The college workshop caters to the needof hands on experience in handling ofbuilding construction tools and modelmaking.

It has facilities including machines andtrained personnel in the fields of carpentry,metal work and model making.


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INTERIOR SPACES Thestudios are quite spacious and they are separated by low height walls.

The doubly loaded corridors are dull spaces. The studios and the workshop arintercepted columns in the middle.

Now days, further partitions have been put in studios to divide them intosubspaces.

The walls are whitewashed while the ceiling have left of bare concrete.

On the whole, there has been no attempt to create interesting spaces by thearchitect.


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MATERIALS USED

BRICKHAS BEEN USED AS PRIMARY BUILDING MATERIAL FOR THEENTIRE COMPLEX WALLS, COLUMNS.

BRICK ARCHES HAVE BEEN USED FOR WIDE SPANS.

USE OF CONCERETE HAS BEEN RESTRICTED TO FOUNDATIONS, FLOOSLABS, AND TIES FOR ARCHED OPENINGS.


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THANK YOU


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PREPARED BY :-RAJAT KATARNE

AISHWARY JOSHI

SOURABH VERMA

VANDITA CHIBBER

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