CASE STUDY – IIIT ALLAHABADPROJECT DETAILS

ABOUTEstablished in the year 1999, The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad also known as IIIT-A is said to be a center of excellence in the field of IT and related sectors. It is termed as "Deemed University" by the Government of India. It is also said to be an institute of national importance and is located at a beautiful 100 acre campus, near Deoghat, Jhalwa Allahabad. The IIIT-A campus is a fully residential campus with all amenities for the staff and the students.

been styled on the patterns developed by the internationally acclaimed scholar and mathematician Roger Penrose.

CONCEPT

• The physical structure of the institute has been designed to transcend the Established conventions.

• Accordingly, instead of the traditional geometrical lines, the campus buildings, pathways and landscapes have

CLIENT MHRD IndiaARCHITECT Ashutosh Joshi, Ajit

kumar Joshi

LOCATION Jhalwa , AllahabadSITE AREA 100 AcresCOVERED AREA 250000 Sq ftOPEN SPACE 50000 Sq ftBUILDING TYPE Institute

• Penrose patterns have not been used in the world in designing buildings and laying out campuses.

• IIITA has a well established network infrastructure both for the local (LAN) as well as access to the internet. It is a medium-size network and approximately consists of 2000 nodes.

Penrose GeometryThis grid was chosen because the process of constructing a "Penrose Universe" has a remarkable congruence with the fundamentals of information theory. The basic units of information are aggregated in simple or complex sequences to provide a variety of "information structures" that span the entire range of human activity

BRANCHES1. Computer Science Engineering2. Electronics And Communication3. Information Technology4. Civil Engineering5. Science And Humanities

CASE STUDY – IIIT ALLAHABAD

LEGEND

• Further, the interior spaces in the buildings or landscapes, etc have also been designed on Penrose patterns.

• The periphery of the campus is land-scaped with wooded effects.

• The open spaces are not ‘disfigured’ by utility or service installations, which are located in the adjacent residential complex, and provide ample space for future expansion of academic campus.

1. Admin Building2. Lecture Theatre3. Electronics Library4. Computer Centre I5. Computer Centre 26. Services7. Girls Hostel8. Boys Hostel9. Guest House10. Staff Residences11. Faculty Hostel12. Director Residences13. Dean/Prof. Residences14. Health center

• The layout of the academic as well as residential campus of IIIT-A, including the disposition of the roads and pathways, the locations and outlines of the buildings, the landscaped environs. etc. have been planned on a basic Penrose grid which has bilatereral symmetry along the axis centering on the main entry gate.

• Within the Penrose layout for the Academic Campus, A central zone has been marked out for the academic core, consisting of an administration building. lecture theatre complex and talk show, electronics library and computer laboratories and research buildings a total of five buildings.

• The zone approximates as a flying bird with spread out wings and fanned out tail. in which the library will relate as the head. the lecture hall complex the body. the computer laboratories- the wings and the administrative building- the tail of the bird.

• The sun pattern has been chosen for laying out the library and the lecture hall complex while the computer la-boratories and the administrative building are derived from selected tessellated blocks in the star pattern.

SITE PLAN OF CAMPUS

CASE STUDY – IIIT ALLAHABADADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING• The administrative building has been

derived from selected tessellated blocks in the star pattern.

• The main entrance of the administration building is at a higher level with a flight of steps leading to a foyer from which the various levels are connected through two straight flight staircases.

• A ramp is provided as a separate entry on the left for the physically challenged.

• Over the entrance foyer, a structural glass covering has been provided.

• The particular geometry here comprises Denzer tiles, which are Penrose pattens in the third dimension.

• This is a two storeyed building.• On the right there is a conference

hall,offices and then faculty chambers• On left there is only offices.

LECTURE THEATURE COMPLEX• The sun pattern has been chosen

for laying out the lecture hall complex

• The layout of the lecture theatre complex is typical with Pentagon seminar rooms, classrooms of 120-student capacity, tutorial rooms, meeting rooms and language labs on the first floor.

• The central courtyard is in consonance with the golden ratio.

• The lecture theatre is in the Center of the five academic buildings and the basement under the talk show section at the rear is provided to house the air-conditioning.

• plant and other mechanical services of the campus.

• The lecture halls are air conditioned and each of them is equipped with a projector, a computer and a white board.

• Lamps are studded in the false ceiling.

• Louvers have not been provided in central courtyard , in case of rain the water comes into the corridors.

COMPUTER CENTER I & II• Two research and computer

laboratories are so placed as to form the wings of the 'bird'.

• The central portion has computer labs, while the arms of the building house faculty rooms and classrooms.

• The building has three levels; the central portion has a polycarbonate skylight on the top and the foyer below has ‘sun pattern‘ made out of a combination of black and red granite, kota, yellow jaisalmer and marble.

• Dholpur stone and roughcast plasters are the two main finishes chosen for building exteriors.

• Ramp was not there in original plan but has been added recently

CASE STUDY – IIIT ALLAHABADLIBRARY• The IIIT-A central library has a

repository of more than 50000 books concerning myriad disciplines of study such as pure and applied sciences, computer science, information technology, electronics and communication technology, information security and management.

• It can accommodate up to 150 students at a time.

• The sun pattern has been chosen for laying out the library

• Fully airconditioned with lamps studded in ceiling.

• Eight laptop charging points have benn provided at each table

• It is a two storey building.• First is for reading halls• Second is for stack. • There is a central atrium.• Central atrium is used as newspaper

rerading space.

• The residential campus consists of a boys" hostel with capacity for 2000 students, girls" hostel for 500 students, 40-room air-conditioned guest house and staff residences for senior professors and other staff.

• Faculty hostels with two-room and one-room units meant for visiting professors are also be provided.

• There are separate hostels for men and women, with single rooms (for the senior most batches) and twin sharing rooms.

• There are 3 girls hostels and 4 boys hostels. A fifth boys hostel which aims to provide for the increasing demand of the institute is under construction. .

• Faculty hostels of 2-room and 1-room units for visiting teachers are also provided. Sports facilities also are located within the main campus.

• .The spacious accommodations are provided with computers, along with 24-hour backup power supply

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX