The document provides information about the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) campus: - IIMA was established in 1961 on a 106 acre campus designed by Louis Kahn and others. It offers postgraduate management programs and has about 500 students, 100 faculty, and 350 staff. - The campus includes academic buildings around a central plaza, housing for faculty and staff, dining halls, and student dormitories arranged to take advantage of winds. - Louis Kahn's architecture uses exposed red brick, geometric shapes, and large corridors to give the buildings a solid, formal look while integrating living and learning spaces.

1. INDIAN
INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT
AHMEDABAD

2. PROJECT
➢ Indian institute of management,Ahmedabad is a public business school located in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat.
➢ Established in 1961, the campus is spread across 106 acres of land.
➢ It is led by space scientist Dr.Vikram Sarabhai and industrialist shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai.
➢ It was designed by Louis I. Khan, B.V. Doshi and Anant raje.
➢ Kahn's architecture is characterized by the use of exposed red bricks, the extensive use of
geometric shapes in hostels and academic blocks and vast corridors outside the classrooms.
➢ The institute offers post-graduate diploma programmes in management and agri-business
management, a fellowship programme and a number of executive training programs.
➢ The institute has about 500 students, 100 faculties and 350 staff members.

3. SITE ANALYSIS
➢ The campus has an old campus and a new campus.
➢ Master plan of the institute is divided into 2 parts:
1. Institutional complex with library, administration,
faculty blocks, school buildings and school dormitories.
2. Residential area for faculty and clerical staff.
Influenced by the management philosophy and students
busy schedule Kahn integrated living and earning
spaces.
➢ ORIENTATION- the diagonal layout had the
advantage of the building being oriented towards the
south western breezes.The orientation also helps cut
out the west sun reducing glare.

5. DESIGN CONCEPT
➢ Khan always wanted to give a solid and formal look to his buildings.
➢ He wanted to create a “FORTRESS IN BRICK’’ in keeping with some of the following features:
➢ Exposed brickwork
➢ Large openings or voids in walls
➢ Exposed concrete ties
➢ Very less use of glass for windows
➢ Interplay of light and shade in corridors
➢ Hide entrances, window openings
➢ Diagonal system of placing the blocks to emphasize the blocks.

6. CIRCULATION
The circulation in IIM is through
three major roads:
1. Peripheral
2. Internal
3. Smaller internal roads.
Separate accesses are provided
for the institutional complex and
the residential complex.
All activities are placed within
walkable distances.

7. COMPONENTS OF
THE CAMPUS
 MAIN ACADEMIC COMPLEX
(includes administration block,classrooms,
faculty room around central piazza which also
has the main entrance)
 KITCHEN AND DINING
 FACULTY AND STAFF HOUSING
 MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
CENTRE
 STUDENT DORMITORIES FOR PGP
 (Post Graduate Programme)
STUDENTS

8. CAMPUS LAYOUT
 Separate entries for institutional and residential complex.
 Separate service entry.
 Academic and social activities have been integrated with students and staff living.
 Institutional building has been taken as the focal building.
 Auditorium is located near the main entrance for easy access for visitors.
 Residential areas have been planned in hierarchical pattern.
 The scale and massing gives a monumental feeling of space.
 Canteen and auditorium does not integrate well due to being a later addition.
 School building is planned around a court
 School building and students dorm have been placed diagonally to take advantage of winds from
south-west

10. ACADEMY BLOCK PLAN

11. MAIN ENTRANCE

12. ARCHES

13. ACADEMIC
COMPLEX
The academic complex comprises
of the following:
 LIBRARY
 SCHOOL BUILDING
 FACULTY BLOCKS
 DORMITORIES
 LOUIS KAHN PLAZA

14. LIBRARY BLOCK
 FIRST FLOOR PLAN:
 The library building is five storeyed with a rectangular plan.
 It is approached by a broad, imposing flight of steps from
the parking lot.
 The design has been conceived to entail movement from
the active spaces to most private and quiet carrels at the
farthest reaches.
 SECOND FLOOR: accommodate the triple height reading
hall and conference hall.
 THIRD FLOOR: accommodates bound volumes of journals.
 FOURTH FLOOR: accommodates bound volumes of old
books and journals.

15. LIBRARY BLOCK
SECOND FLOOR PLAN

16. CLASSROOMS
 The shape of the classrooms
are hexagonal.
 The design of the classroom
is based on the seminar type
interaction between the
students and the faculty.
 Windows are high to get
glare free light.

17. CLASSROOM INTERIOR

18. FACULTY BLOCKS
 Faculty block is on the right
side of the main entrance.
 It is a four storeyed building
with four blocks.
 All the openings are designed
to overlook the adjacent
landscape and the Louis kahn
plaza.

19. LOUIS KAHN PLAZA
 Instead of a small courtyard,
one large courtyard has been
planned in the centre to relate
the movement around.

20. DORMITORIES
 Each dormitory is cubic block, 4 storey height, and has 2 wings of individual rooms set at right angles
to one another, separated by a vertical slot, forming and L- shape on the west and south that creates
shadowed common spaces for informal meeting
 A square tower like service block is placed on the north-east corner of dormitory, its corner is
open with narrow slots so that the facades appear to stand free of one another
 A diagonal wall pierced by a large circular opening and joined at its mid point to the service tower
with a semi-circular stair at its centre

21. DORMITORIES - CONCEPT
 “I UseThe Square To Begin
My Solutions BecauseThe
Square Is A Non-choice,
Really. InThe Course Of
Development, I Search For
The Forces ThatWould
DisproveThe Square...” -
Louis Kahn

22. DORMITORIES
 The position of the staircase
and washroom are meant to
protect the living room from
sun and glare without
obstructing the breeze and
ventilation.
 In most of the blocks, the
ground floor is used as banks,
etc.
 The dorms are placed one
behind the other to obtain the
much needed breeze and cross
ventilation.

23. BUILDING MATERIALS
 Brick has been used as primary building material for the entire
complex, walls and columns.
 Brick arches have been used for wide spans.
 Use of concrete has been restricted to foundations, floor slabs, and
ties for arched openings.

24. MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE - INTRO
 Anant Raje was invited by Louis Kahn personally to work in his office in Philadelphia. Raje worked there from
1964 to 1969 in close association with the master architect.
 During this period Anant Raje oversaw the ongoing construction of Louis Kahn's Indian Institute of Management
in Ahmedabad.
 After such a long association with the master, Raje imbibed in him Kahn's philosophy of architecture, sense of
order, appreciation of light, handling of materials especially brick and concrete, climate control, etc.
 This is evident from many other buildings Raje designed in IIM Campus after 1974. Prominent among these
include the Management Development Centre (1974-89) and the Ravi Mathai Centre (1987-89).

25. MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
 Management development
centre has been located
towards the eastern edge of
the campus. It has been
planned as a self contained
unit with academic area,
offices, executive hostels and
dining facilities.
 Its a double storeyed building
with a basement and has a C-
shape plan enclosing a court in
between.

26. MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
 There are two lecture halls, two
conference rooms and eight syndicate
rooms in the MDC building.
 Construction – exposed brick and
concrete
 Spatial organization similar to main block
 Court is the main feature
 All rooms are centrally air conditioned
with balconies over looking landscaped
court
 The services block is separated from the
court by an arcade up to full height
containing also the stairs.
 While the main piazza opens towards the
horizon, Raje's court, while apparently
having the same plan design, is an intimate
space screened off by a line of green.

28. KLMDC
Inside Lawn

29.  KLMDC lawn

30.  KLMDC BACK AREA

31. KLMDC
Back area

32. THANKYOU