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    Achyut Prakash Kanvinde was an Indian architect known for his modernist style. Some of his notable projects include the IIT Kanpur campus and Darshana Performing Arts Academy. At IIT Kanpur, he designed the campus based on functionalist principles with an academic complex at the center surrounded by housing. Key buildings like the P.K. Kelkar library followed his signature grid structure and use of local materials like brick. Overall, his designs focused on functionality while also creating welcoming spaces through his interpretation of modernism influenced by the Bauhaus school.

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    Achyut Prakash Kanvinde was an Indian architect known for his modernist style. Some of his notable projects include the IIT Kanpur campus and Darshana Performing Arts Academy. At IIT Kanpur, he designed the campus based on functionalist principles with an academic complex at the center surrounded by housing. Key buildings like the P.K. Kelkar library followed his signature grid structure and use of local materials like brick. Overall, his designs focused on functionality while also creating welcoming spaces through his interpretation of modernism influenced by the Bauhaus school.

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    Achyut Prakash Kanvinde was an Indian architect known for his modernist style. Some of his notable projects include the IIT Kanpur campus and Darshana Performing Arts Academy. At IIT Kanpur, he designed the campus based on functionalist principles with an academic complex at the center surrounded by housing. Key buildings like the P.K. Kelkar library followed his signature grid structure and use of local materials like brick. Overall, his designs focused on functionality while also creating welcoming spaces through his interpretation of modernism influenced by the Bauhaus school.

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    VERNACU LAR ARCHITECTURE

    ACHYUT PRAKASH KANVINDE


    PROJECTS- IIT CAMPUS, KANPUR
    DARPANA ACADEMY PERFORMING ARTS, AHEMDABAD

    SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
    AR HARSHITA AGARWAL PREETI KANSAL
    ACHYUT PRAKASH KANVINDE

    Padma Shri Achyut Kanvinde


    occupied unique position in the
    history of
    Contemporary Indian
    Architecture. He was an Indian
    architect, writer, and commited
    modernist as he always desired
    to take Indian architecture to
    be global and to the height of
    international style
    ABOUT ARCHITECT
    NAME ACHYUT KANVINDE
    : 1960-2002
    DATED ACHARNA VILLAGE, IN KO KAN REG I ON OF
    :
    MAHARASHTRA
    BIRTH PLACE
    GRADUATION
    : : SIR J.J SCHOOL OF ARTS, MUMBAI IN
    1942
    TRAINING HAWARD UNIVERSITY UNDER WALTER
    AND : GROPIUS
    INFLUENCE
    PRINCIPLES
    DESIGN CONCEPT
    1.He practiced for 55 years, He was considered pioneer of
    modern movement in architecture in india
    2.He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural
    and spatial aspect would turn a design to more sophisticated and
    faceted
    3.He treated his building with “ VASTUSHASTRA “ .
    4.THE BAUHAUS STYLE : studying under Walter Gropius , He
    was greately influenced by the bauhaus style, which
    later on was adopted in his various buildings.
    FEATURES

    1. The IITK campus occupies 1055 acre area.


    2. The Academic Complex located centrally at the site and
    free from traffic noise .
    3. ACADEMIC BUILDING : 13 Departments ,PK Kelkar library
    , computer centres, faculty offices, laboratories and
    administrative building .
    4. Around 7000 students ,390 faculty members , 1000
    staff members ( besides their families) reside on
    campus
    5. No of buildings :108
    6. 10 boys hostel 2 girls hostel
    7. With sports complex and housing for faculty.
    8. Site is flat and canal on one side and transportation route
    on other side.
    CONCEPT AND IDEOLOGY
    1. The residencial campus is planned and landscaped with hope
    for environmental freedom.
    2. Halls of residence, faculty and staff houses and community
    buildings surround the academic area to provide flexibility in
    movement .
    3. The academic area is connected by long corridor which links all
    major buildings .
    4. Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated islands
    of department.
    5. Core pedestrian island which consist of lecture halls surrounded
    by landscaping and water body forming the main focus of the
    campus .
    6. Activities which students and faculties share are designed to
    encourage meeting and interaction
    P .K . KELKAR LIBRARY
    • The library forms an important part of the whole complex.
    It is a framed structure based on grid.
    • The whole building is built in R.C.C with a brick facade.
    1. Established in 1960 as central library.
    2. Four storied building ( covered area : 5730 sq m )
    3. Basement – 700 sq .m
    4. Ground floor -700 sq .m
    5. 1st floor – 1630 sq. m
    6. 2nd floor – 2700 sq, m
    7. Exposed brickwork
    Structural design
    Of library Connecting corridors
    P.K. Kelkar library
    Key Sustainable Features
    •The building is fully complaint with the ECBC (Energy Conservation
    Building Code).
    •Sustainable site planning has been integrated to maintain favourable
    microclimate.
    •The architectural design has been optimized as per climate and sun
    path analysis.
    •The building has energy-efficient artificial lighting design and daylight
    integration.
    •Water body to cool the micro climate.
    •Orientation of building: North – South.
    •It also has energy-efficient air conditioning design with controls
    integrated to reduce annual energy consumption.
    •Passive strategies such as an earth air tunnel have been incorporated
    in the HVAC design to reduce the cooling load.
    •Optimized window design by selection of Low E glass and external
    shading.
    https://www.iitk.ac.in/cese/features.htm
    FIG. EXISTING BUILDING
    FEATURES
    • Optimization of building envelope by use of insulated cavity walls,
    insulation of roof, and surface finishing that reflects a major part of solarheat.
    • Efficient glazing for openings which minimize solar grains in summer, heat
    loss in winter, and maximize natural daylight.
    • Roof shaded by bamboo trellis with green cover to cut direct heat gain.
    • Provision of an internal court shaded by louvers that allow free air movement.
    • Natural light and ventilation through skylights & ventilators in common
    spaces.
    • Use of indigenous and recycled materials with low embodied energy
    ACADEMIC CHARACTER
    IIT KANPUR

    1.Elevated pedestrian pathway


    2.Sheltered and yet openness
    3.Protection from hot Sun
    yet Allowing breezes
    The v a r i o u s Bauhaus characteristics
    visible i n Kanvinde's w o r K - I I T K
    •ASSYMETRY
    Brick •Blocky
    Cement •Cubic shapes
    •Smooth, f l at plain, undecorated su rfaces
    •‘ Flat’ roofs
    •Adoption of steel framed or reinforced-concrete
    p os t-and-s l a b.

    • KANVINDE PLAYED WITH SPACE AND FORM


    AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANT TO NATURAL
    LIGHT.
    • HE BELIEVED THAT THE RELATIONSHIPS OF
    THE PARTS AND MATERIALS OF THE
    BUILDING AREA WORKING MORALITY.
    FUNCTIONALISM- IITK
    • Reveals the internal functions in a building as separate masses.
    • Arranged in ways that were functional from inside and elegant
    from outside.
    • Kanvinde strongly believed that the elevation of a structure should
    be defined by the functions inside.

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    MATERIALS
    • In Kanpur, the local availability of high quality brick and the
    prevalent labour and construction practices made Kanvinde go
    for reinforced concrete for structural frames and brick as infill's .
    • Reinforced-concrete post-and-slab construction, with a series of
    flat slab-floors and a flat roof-slab carried on concrete columns or
    posts
    CONCLUSIONS
    • His works are generally raw and unemotional. Yet he
    managed to make his designs appealing and welcoming.
    • His designs were distinct and unique yet having one thing
    similar- functionalism.
    • His designs appear to be built with a large amount of thought
    having been given to making them functionally efficient and
    practically feasible.
    • Conventional type of buildings were designed as isolated
    islands of departments.
    • Activities which students and faculties share are designed to
    encourage meeting and interaction.

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