chitkara university draws from le corbusier's chandigarh

chitkara university school of business draws from le corbusier’s chandigarh
all images courtesy of plane 3 studios

mumbai-based planet 3 studios has designed the new campus for chitkara university school of management informed by the spatial ideas of le corbusier’s chandigarh. located just outside the famed modernist’s visionary city, the proposed home of the school of management adopts corbusian principals of programmatic clustering, proximity, green spaces and responsiveness to climate and context, albeit within the frame of 3D honeycombed lattice. the first planned city after the 1947 partition of india, the city-complex is marked by a rigidity that resists the awesome sprawl of mumbai and has since become an object of architectural curiosity marked by static rules.

the chitkara proposal appears mindful of its context, what with the grouping of program and access to ample green space; however, the plan forgoes a linear grid in favor of a more circuitous network of webbed volumes. in lieu of strictly orthogonal 800 by 1200 meter blocks, an arrangement of circular plans was translated into a 3D voronoi diagram, a tessellation of convex polygons generated by the regions around a specified set of points. the voronoi web is a computational reinterpretation of the corbusian grid and is manifested in a honeycombed steel frame structure. designed to last a decade while a larger structure is constructed, the school would be clad in acrylic planes that extend beyond the roof line and pay further homage to the modernist master with dashes of color. 

connection nodes are interspersed throughout the pavilion to encourage collaboration and interaction

cricket pitch is one of the accessible green spaces afforded by the voronoi plan

clustered programming and amenity access are key spatial ideas adopted from chandigarh

the built mass is a 3D honeycombed lattice

corbusian ideas about programmatic proximity and architectural framing are reinterpreted in the proposal

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project info:

project name: chitkara university : school of business
location: punjab, india.
client: chitkara university
design: ongoing.
built up area: 7,435 sqm/ 80,000 sqft.
delivery: design consultancy.
design team: kalhan mattoo, santha gour mattoo, ashwini hublikar, shanky jain, shreyas more