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Channarayapatna, India

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Community Center

Channarayapatna, India

Firm

Urban Precinct

Type

Cultural › Gallery Hall/Theater Cultural Center
Government + Health › City Hall Community Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

$1M - 5M

This project is located in Channarayapatna town of Hassan district in Karnataka with a tropical-savanna climate where the temperature varies between 18 to 33 degree Celsius. The project brief was to design a well-orchestrated, comprehensive, contemporary, and cost-effective community place in the city for any occasion with a large gathering in a plot size of 3300 sqm abutting a National Highway.

The design intent was to create an experiential place that speaks volumes with a minimal material palette, emphasizing the quality of spaces.

The community center comprises 2 large multipurpose halls with 300 & 500-seat capacities, a dedicated community kitchen with necessary utilities, washrooms, guest accommodation, and landscaped gardens.

The spaces are enclosed within a rhythmic structural grid that binds the design with a singular aesthetic. Movement within the building is clearly defined with a spatial hierarchy of the spaces.

Largely spread on the ground level with a few ancillary spaces at the upper level, this place is very user-friendly and is knit carefully with a clear understanding of space dynamics.

This place is designed in an attempt to overcome the suburban conditioning of what Community spaces are. With most of the public buildings trying to exhibit their cosmetic design features, this place chose to express itself in its truest sense and initiate people to adapt to this contextually new aesthetic, which is maintenance friendly.

It is a bare minimum building with a bold presence. Light & Smart in its making, the place stands for ‘Suburban Hope’ as it introduces a new building language in the context which is easy to adopt. This place has the potential to adapt to the changing needs of a community space.

As an alternative to creating an industrial shed with a pre-engineered steel structure, we chose to create a vibrant architectural space with a combination of form-finished concrete frame, hollow clay block infill, and delicately woven steel structure for the roofs, all of which define the material palette of the project.

The structure is laid out with a modular grid, where the roof is expressed as a light and sleek entity, further in alignment with the Architectural requirements of the Project.

Hollow clay blocks have been used as a singular walling material to provide thermal insulation. The same material has been used as Jaali to facilitate cross-ventilation and capture filtered light. As the hot air rises, the Jaali walls located above 10ft height act as an air vent eliminating the need for any additional mechanical ventilation systems.

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Channarayapatna, India

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