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MSAP - Manipal School of Architecture & Planning
MSAP - Manipal School of Architecture & Planning
Manipal, India
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MSAP - Manipal School of Architecture & Planning
Manipal, India
Project Featured on Dec 19, 2023
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
The 1,45,000 Sqft campus was built on a dense contoured land of 3.9 acres with a vision to create interwoven and fluid spaces. The campus is planned for 1200 students from the field of Architecture, Design and Fashion. Located in the coastal town of Manipal in Karnataka, mother ship of Manipal Academy of Higher Education Institutes.
The city is bustling with vibrant campus life and students coming from different parts of the world. A subset of the existing facility which already held strong roots in the existing system with an avant-garde vision offered a mould to a design philosophy which is innovative yet sensitive. As Indian cities alter into megacities with little capacity for planning, the early generation becomes the Charioteer to cruise the making of smart cities. It is inevitable for design colleges to be progressive & innovative.
The inherent characteristics of the educational spaces need to reflect the ideological framework and be rooted in the context. The design program went through a lot of reinterpretation to understand the true essence of an institute of design learning.
The design originated from the strong topographical site- context. The site had a major slope of 18m towards the South-East side at a mere distance of 100m, facing the valley.
Working with a 10mx10m grid, the building blocks were stepped down to have undisturbed views of the valley while also respecting the existing contours. The design program was divided into four blocks placed across the site. Wind direction being the important factor in the orientation of the blocks, the placement was planned around a central open space. The central court became an informal stepped forum encouraging an open-ended space for faculty-student interaction.
The court also offered a visual window to all the blocks internally. The circulation is thus planned around it with meandering staircases connecting the terraces at various levels capturing panoramic views of the valley. The flooring of the court is monochromatically derived from tones of the granite stone available in the region. The flooring patterns are derivatives of the shadow patterns formed by the built forms.
Design studios planned on the top-most level were extended into a stepped court/terrace. The terraces worked like interactive pockets which were deliberately kept open to sky. Visual connectivity from the corridor staircases formed a dynamic relief and visual access of peers, mitigating the connection of the two. Cladded in the red hues of terracotta, the steps act as informal spaces for the studio to extend outdoors, spaces of contemplation and offered panoramic views of the valley. The corridor widths are exaggerated with punctured volumes creating opportunities to interact at multi-level and display for work & installation fostering collaboration. An array of carefully placed apertures makes the connection with the outdoors and encourage interdisciplinary exchange.
The design brief to have an emblematic entrance was planned to be a spatial continuum. The fluidic form also served as undulating steps leading towards the auditorium and administrative spaces. Inspirations were sought from the conspicuous religious centre the Udupi Shri Krishna Matha, which also denotes an entry portal to the old city. The complexity of the structure was broken into several construction processes a synergy of RCC & ferrocement to achieve the complex form twisted to reveal the entries. Flowing rhythmic brick waves continuing on the façade gave a new identity to the campus. The subtle play of organic forms continues at the entrance to introduce a new dimension to the access level.
The material palette is utilitarian with an emphasis on the maintenance aspect of the campus while also being true to its form. Building materials and cultural nuances are kept in mind at all times and have undergone many interpretations. Ceilings are exposed concrete with speckles of colors derived from the shared cultural landscape of the region. These form Inseparable elements of design.
As one moves through the l spaces a new experience unfolds with the proportioned harmony of forms bounded around nature, encouraging a dialogue between the two. The design philology centred on ways to discover, experiment, to move forward: to think the unthinkable and create the unimaginable
The city is bustling with vibrant campus life and students coming from different parts of the world. A subset of the existing facility which already held strong roots in the existing system with an avant-garde vision offered a mould to a design philosophy which is innovative yet sensitive. As Indian cities alter into megacities with little capacity for planning, the early generation becomes the Charioteer to cruise the making of smart cities. It is inevitable for design colleges to be progressive & innovative.
The inherent characteristics of the educational spaces need to reflect the ideological framework and be rooted in the context. The design program went through a lot of reinterpretation to understand the true essence of an institute of design learning.
The design originated from the strong topographical site- context. The site had a major slope of 18m towards the South-East side at a mere distance of 100m, facing the valley.
Working with a 10mx10m grid, the building blocks were stepped down to have undisturbed views of the valley while also respecting the existing contours. The design program was divided into four blocks placed across the site. Wind direction being the important factor in the orientation of the blocks, the placement was planned around a central open space. The central court became an informal stepped forum encouraging an open-ended space for faculty-student interaction.
The court also offered a visual window to all the blocks internally. The circulation is thus planned around it with meandering staircases connecting the terraces at various levels capturing panoramic views of the valley. The flooring of the court is monochromatically derived from tones of the granite stone available in the region. The flooring patterns are derivatives of the shadow patterns formed by the built forms.
Design studios planned on the top-most level were extended into a stepped court/terrace. The terraces worked like interactive pockets which were deliberately kept open to sky. Visual connectivity from the corridor staircases formed a dynamic relief and visual access of peers, mitigating the connection of the two. Cladded in the red hues of terracotta, the steps act as informal spaces for the studio to extend outdoors, spaces of contemplation and offered panoramic views of the valley. The corridor widths are exaggerated with punctured volumes creating opportunities to interact at multi-level and display for work & installation fostering collaboration. An array of carefully placed apertures makes the connection with the outdoors and encourage interdisciplinary exchange.
The design brief to have an emblematic entrance was planned to be a spatial continuum. The fluidic form also served as undulating steps leading towards the auditorium and administrative spaces. Inspirations were sought from the conspicuous religious centre the Udupi Shri Krishna Matha, which also denotes an entry portal to the old city. The complexity of the structure was broken into several construction processes a synergy of RCC & ferrocement to achieve the complex form twisted to reveal the entries. Flowing rhythmic brick waves continuing on the façade gave a new identity to the campus. The subtle play of organic forms continues at the entrance to introduce a new dimension to the access level.
The material palette is utilitarian with an emphasis on the maintenance aspect of the campus while also being true to its form. Building materials and cultural nuances are kept in mind at all times and have undergone many interpretations. Ceilings are exposed concrete with speckles of colors derived from the shared cultural landscape of the region. These form Inseparable elements of design.
As one moves through the l spaces a new experience unfolds with the proportioned harmony of forms bounded around nature, encouraging a dialogue between the two. The design philology centred on ways to discover, experiment, to move forward: to think the unthinkable and create the unimaginable
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