UTTAM C JAIN LIFE AND WORKS JODHPUR UNIVERSITY

1. AR. UTTAM CHAND JAIN
“The relationship between human being and the building being established,
what develops and grows around becomes a measure for man and his society”

2. ■ Architect Uttam Chand Jain 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
■ 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 major elements of his design.
■ His designs are mere a excellent response the site and surroundings.
■ The Jodhpur university is one of his great works indeed

3. ■ 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 .
■ the efforts are also directed towards creating a preference in the public
mind for consumption of good design in their day to day living.

4. Philosophy
■ The immediate surroundings is 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, what
develops and grows around becomes a measure for man and his society.
■ There is a place for everything and everything has its 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.
■ 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.

5. Key Projects
■ Capitol Complex, Naya Raipur, India, 2006-Ongoing, Institutional
■ ShriTirupati Balaji General Hospital, Panthawada, India, 2004-2007, Hospital
■ Aga Khan School, Mundra, India, 2002-2006, Institutional
■ Umaid Heritage, Jodhpur, India, 2003-2005, Master Plan
■ Prerna Sthala,Yavatmal, India, 2002-2003, Memorial
■ Landmark, Bombay, India, 1993-2002,Workspace
■ University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India, 1969-1999, Institutional
■ Universal Harmony Hall, Mount Abu, India, 1993-1995, Convention Centre
■ Habibganj Railway Station, Bhopal, India, 1989-1995,Transport
■ IndiraGandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay, India, 1985-1987, Institutional

6. UNIVERSITY OF JODHPUR

7. ■ The university buildings are widely dispersed
■ Three buildings – 1) the faculty of arts and social sciences
2)The central lecture theater cluster and
3) campus canteen stand out among them .
■ 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 .

8. ■ DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
■ This department has a very simple u-shaped plan with a central courtyard
■ planning.
■ Made of locally available sand stone with thick walls of lime construction.
■ On the ground floor there are all the faculty offices, and some of the lecture rooms.
■ Mainly the lecture rooms are on the first floor.
■ Enough space is left for future expansion.
■ DEPARTMENTOF BOTANYAND ZOOLOGY
■ • Similar in plan, simple with colonnaded corridors

10. ■ Lecture theater – 1971 (680 sqm)
■ 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.

11. ■ Lecture theatre –cluster is a small ziggurat like
■ structure mirroring the inclined seating in each of
its four identical halls.
■ Each is a simple rectangle in plan supported by two parallel walls along
its longer axis .
■ A stone pergola screens the central node at which all the four theaters
emerge.
■ Approach is through a ramp framed between two lecture theater.

12. ■ The canteen –
■ comprises of shared kitchen and service areas with separate dining
facilities for students and teachers .
■ The staff area is a small mezzanine that overlooks the larger student dining
hall below .
■ It is reached by an open staircase rising from the entrance court .

13. ■LIBRARY BUILDING
■ Library building is a simple rectangular Greek cross.
■ In this building U.C.Jain has achieved minimum distance between
readers and the books.
■ As he has places the stacks in central area on the mezzanine floor
,along with other circulation elements.
■ And the reading areas are placed in all the four l-shaped halls ,
which receive sufficient ambient light.
■ Building made of golden sandstone matches the surrounding

14. INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTEOF
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
■ In this building the main concept which the
■ architect has achieved is “darkness to light”
■ there is a main entrance gate which leads to sun
deck.
■ The corridors open up into the courtyards.
■ On the entrance wall there is an inviting mural.
■ The basic planning is the courtyard planning.
■ The site on which building stands is sloping and hence the building follows the
topography of the site .

15. ■ Another thing which is achieved in this building is
■ the restricted motion,
■ major areas of maximum movement are kept near to the
entrance
■ the research labs are kept at thefarthest point from the
entrance thus minimizing the movement.

16. ■ The campus comprises of two zones- the institutional and residential.
■ The buildings are low-profiled masses, that are loosely connected to merge
with surroundings, interlinked by pneumatic connectors.

17. PLAN
■ The institutional spaces consist of an auditorium, a computer room, a research wing, an
administration block, a recreation hall and a service core.
■ The residential accommodation caters to the needs of the staff, researchers and visiting
scholars.

18. The barrel vault evokes the
elemental vaulted roofs
of the caves.