Uwc mahindra college

MAHINDRA UNITED WORLD COLLEGE , PUNE, INDIA
Location : Located 40 kilometres to the west of Pune, a city which in
turn is about 100 kilometres south east of Mumbai.
It is a self sufficient campus.
Its spreads over 170 acres.
Architects : Benninger Christopher & Associates, Pune, India
Commission : 1995
Design : 1996-1998
Construction : 1996-1999
Occupancy : 1997
Site area : 627285 Sq m
Ground floor area : 10575 Sq m
Total floor area : 10775 Sq m
Mahindra UWC , Pune

Concept..
•The building are a reflection of the mountains surrounding the campus .
•A miniature model reflecting the jagged contours.
•Continuity and harmony achieved through consistency between the
architectural language and environment.
•Architectural language evolved through the selection of functional
components like door lintels, window shade boxes, ventilators and
waterspouts.

Layout planning:
-The whole site is divided into two parts - ACADEMIC and RESIDENTIAL
connected by a walkway.
Continuity and homogenity between the buildings to be maintained.
Entries:
-One main entry, one residential entry, one service entry
Entrances must be segregated.
Proximity of main entry points to the academic block. This avoids confusion for the
users.
Service entry should be placed in a manner so that it is not seen easily.
View:
-Nothng is seen from the main entry. Only after the huge opening door, the main
building is visible.
Block should stand as a landmark.
Proximity:
-CANTEEN  Closer proximity to academic block than dormitories.

ACADEMIC ZONE RESIDENTIAL ZONE
Overall Layout
The overall layout can be divided into two zones
•Academic
•Residence

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DESIGN FEATURES....
•The college campus nestled in the Sahayadri Hills, between two river valleys.
• Educational part is totally separated from the residences and hostels
• Separate guest houses provided for the visiting faculties and parents.
• The interconnectivity of each block is well maintained

•Hierarchy of space played important role in design.
•Used sequence of open, semi enclosed and closed spaces to create learning
environments.
•Climate ranges from hot-dry to cool-rainy to chilly-dry in annual cycle ; This is
exploited in design as all class rooms have verandas and extent into courtyards.
•Low covered walkways in teaching areas provide spaces for informal
gatherings.
•Covered porches act as pavilions for discussions, project meetings and
contemplation.
DESIGN FEATURES....

•The academic wing can
be accessed from two
roads.
•By the main road at
entrance or by the
pedestrian walkway
linking the academic wing
to the residential wing.
•The building blocks are
placed correspondence to
the site slope in a
terraced, clustered,
arrangement.
•The academic wing and
residential wing are
physically separated by a
forest land which act as
the partition between the
two worlds.
Areal view of academic block

Building units...
• Academic quadrangle
• Science centre
• Library
• Medical centre
• Nurses quarters
• Guest house
• Headmasters bungalow
• Director’s house
• Residential clusters 1&2
• Road infrastructure
• Basic landscaping
• Sanitation blocks
• Administration building
• Student centre
• Arts centre
• Residential clusters 3&4
• Entrance area
• Multi purpose hall
• Service centres
• Amphitheatre

Student centre

Academic quadrangle....
•It encircles a garden court.
•Quadrangle and class rooms are linked by glass doors.
•So each classrooms thus connected to its own garden or courtyard.
•The three corner rooms in the academic quadrangle are the faculty
rooms for language, mathematics and social science respectively.
•The quadrangle is linked by an encircling, low covered walkway
•This space is detached from the stone walls except where it connects
to classrooms
•The ceiling of the walkway cast with a ‘Sacred’ river mural running a
complete circle around the quadrangle.

The academic quadrangle is connected to the
other structures via walls, generating an
architectural fabric

The grand
entrance or
MAHADWARA
is so large as to
demand a door
within a door.

Catering centre...
•Is triangular waffle slab was
designed to avoid columns
•Verandas and service area
allow more variety in a
complex angular composition
•A sloping Mangalore tile roof
and a ventilation tower offer
visual accent to this complex
structure.

Science centre...
•Designed around a square
geometry preparation rooms
servicing two laboratories on each
side of covered internal walkways.
•A large circular cut out opens to
the sky in a central quadrangle.
•The entrance porch and the
student’s space near the corner,
also have circular cut outs, creating
a sequence.
•The rigidity of the square is used
as a counter point against the free
forms in the other structures.

Students perch on ‘The Pyramid’ awaiting lunch in the dining hall beyond.

Stone path ways link a complex composition with science centre porch.

Administration building
•Includes offices for the headmaster, directors, a board room,
faculty room, and others.
•A square shape of board room reflects the shape of the science
centre.
•It is anchored to a corner position by a glass passage and is turned
askew, creating two small courtyards.
•Composition focus on an atrium segregated from administrative
functions by a turning glass wall.
•The building uses sloped Mangalore tile roofs, stone towers and
basalt masonry walls.

Administrative building reflects the Architectural language of
the campus.

PLAN –
ADMINISTRATION
AND BANK

Amphitheatre..
•Its a strong connecting element linking the Academic
quadrangle with the Multi purpose hall.
•The stage like design ensure that physical beauty
proportionately with beautiful ideas in a place of learning.
Amphitheatre
uses steps to link
Multi Purpose
Hall to the
Academic
Quadrangle

Multi Purpose Hall...
•Covered by high ceiling composed
of 160 triangular coffers set within
10 larger triangles defined by
structural beams.
•There are 10 skylights in these
that generate a hierarchy.
•Four utility towers, sloped roofs
over verandas reflect the
landscape. And tie this large
structure in with the scale

Coffered triangles span the 6000 sq m Multi Purpose Hall

Multi Purpose Hall reflects the mountain landscape.

Library ..
•Triangular composition on two levels focussed in on a glass atrium.
•The lower floor of the reading room uses the natural gradient, thus it a
generous space.
•Parallel beams , aligned with the main wall, alternately hold skylights
and fluorescent lights.
•The corners of the triangle form the reading room, computer centre and
stacks.
•Circular columns supporting the beams are used visually to demarcate
spaces
•Slit windows diffuse light into the interior.

The Library twists a light atrium into the centre of the structure.

View of library atrium from reading room

Glass wall in library looking into the central courtyard

Art centre...
•The three studios of the art
centre fly out from a central
courtyard.
•Studios for multimedia work like
a painting, printmaking, and
sketching.
•There is office room, store room,
a small pottery court and kiln
tucked into the composition.
•The studios are composed of
tandem walls sloping up to large
glass windows.
•These studios are joined to a low
veranda which wraps around a
planted courtyard, stepping down
to the mountain edge

North facing studio windows provide
light and views in the Art centre.
Birds in a flight on the ceiling of
the Art Centre Veranda

Column diffuses light into the interior stone walls in
the Library

Student centre....
•Design of student
centre based on folded
retaining wall.
•The wall folds into 6
vertical light shafts,
reaching up into the
sky. Each shaft holds a
room, or a large activity
niche.
•Large sky lights are
cupped in the stone
shafts.
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Student centre towers are around the proposed
swimming pool.

Light towers define Activity Rooms in the Student Centre.

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