Indian institute of management kashipur Uttrakhand

Abstract

After India became independent in 1947, the Planning Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the development of the nation. India grew rapidly in the 1950s, and in the late 1950s the Commission started facing difficulties in finding suitable managers for the large number of public sector enterprises, so to tackle this situation IIMs were established in India as a part of its industrial policy. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are a group of 13 public, autonomous institutes of management education and research in India. They were established with the objective of providing quality management education. Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur aspires to establish its permanent campus at village Kundeshwari (on the erstwhile Escorts Farm Property) adjoining Kashipur in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Preserving the existing land and its landscape, developing regional connections, capturing water bodies and creating outreach centers becomes the main motives to evolve the master plan. The design evolves from defining the two major axis laid across northwest-southeast and southeast-northwest direction of the site. The northwest-southeast axis connects the market plaza, faculty housing, academic, library hostel. It connects the other part of the site. The main entry gate is on the southeast-northwest connecting to the Admin, auditorium, academic and library. Two entries are provided from the road to avoid congestion and a secondary road is provided which connects the campus from back side. We believe that learning happens by casual encounters across trans-disciplinary boundaries, across various age groups, from peers and faculty, from nature and between the inside and the outside. In order to achieve these qualities in the campus design the movement of a person is necessary: for this, streets are needed along which are dispersed facilities and programmes, faculty and students and workshops etc. ABSTRACT Indian Institute of Management Kashipur iv All of these should also be able to absorb, change, grow and adjust over time to site conditions, budgets as well as to changing pedagogy and newer teaching methods. When this basic design concept is combined with the climatic considerations of heat, rain, breeze, the scarcity of water and the need to conserve it; we arrive at a series of courts circumscribed by shaded streets allowing for a variety of academic clusters along them. Thus the concept in itself becomes the generator of the principles for an energy efficient architecture. The water bodies transform into the rainwater harvesting pools. Various Large and small communities spaces, playgrounds are designed along the edges of pond which are visually connected from hostels, admin, academic, Faculty housing and sports complex .The pond ecology is maintained in its natural manner. The hostel typology for both faculty houses and the students hostels are developed upon the principles of courtyard. The residences for students are envisioned as not just hostels with long corridors but rather as homes, shared by 25-30 people. These courtyard homes are put together forming a hierarchy of communities. Through a threshold one enters his or her own territory in turn lending each person living there a sense of identity as well as responsibility. When a cluster of homes come together they start sharing sports facilities such as badminton courts and play grounds. Library is centrally places which is easily accessible from academic ,admin, hostel and faculty housing block