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Architecure Workshop Report-2008

National Information Centre of Earthquake

Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208016

Workshop for
EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT PRACTICES FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF
ARCHITECTURE
03-08 JULY 2008, IIT KANPUR

A Workshop on Earthquake Resistant Practices for

Undergraduate
Students
of
Architecture
was
conducted at IIT Kanpur during July 03 08, 2008.
This was a part of NICEE initiative towards reaching
the architects of tomorrow through a hands-on
programme in earthquake resistant architectural design.
The workshop was attended by 57 participants of 19
colleges from all over India (and Nepal). These
participants were selected from over 100 applications
which were received. The aim of this workshop was to
sensitize the students of architecture in earthquake
resistant design practices through technical lectures
followed by design studios where they were given
guidance in earthquake resistant design by working on
an architectural design project.
The selected participants were each sent a NICEE
publication titled Architectural Teaching Resource
Material on Earthquake Design Concepts authored by
Murty and Charleson. The participants were advised to
go through the book before coming for the workshop.
On the first day of the workshop a quiz with multiple
choice answers was given to the participants. Another
quiz of similar difficulty level was administered to the
participants towards the end of the workshop to
evaluate the progress made by the students.
During the six-day workshop the students were given an architectural design assignment where they were required to
design an apartment complex containing a mix of various different types of apartments in addition to amenities and
utilities for residents. The brief was to incorporate earthquake resistant features at the conceptual design stage
along with the usual design considerations such as activities, climate, image etc. Students were exposed to RESIST
software to test the adequacy of their designs from seismic performance perspective and this session helped them
arrive at reasonable sizes of structural members. The design assignment helped the students internalize earthquake
safety issues and apply these in their design solutions.
The following faculty members were the resource persons of the workshop:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

Prof Keya Mitra, Department of Architecture, Bengal Engineering & Science University, Shibpur
Dr. Mahua Mukherjee, Department of Architecture & Planning, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee
Dr. Vasudha Gokhale, Dr. B.N. College of Architecture for Women, Pune
Prof Bhavna Vimawala, Department of Architecture, SCET, Surat
Prof Nehal Desai, Department of Architecture, SCET, Surat

In addition to the above faculty, lectures were also delivered by Dr. Sudhir K. Jain and Dr. Durgesh C. Rai of IIT
Kanpur, who also participated in the Design Studios and guided the students on how best to incorporate earthquake
resistant features in their individual designs, keeping in mind all the other requirements of the design brief. The studio
sessions were a mix of desk work and informal lectures where individual cases were used to illustrate earthquake
engineering concepts to the entire class.

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The final designs were evaluated by a Jury Board on the last day through presentations followed by brief questioning
by the Jury. The Jury consisted of Ar. Tapan Kumar Sinha, Additional Director General, CPWD, New Delhi; Prof Amit
Bose, Director, Designers & Planners Combine, New Delhi; Prof OR Jaiswal, Department of Applied Mechanics, VNIT,
Nagpur; Prof Sudhir K Jain and Prof Durgesh C Rai of IIT Kanpur. After the initial scrutiny, best eight designs were
shortlisted, which were again reviewed by the Jury. The final winners were as follows:

I Prize

(a) Hemant Kumar Chaurasia of Lucknow College of Architecture, Lucknow

(b) Sarang Sanjay Patwardhan of BKPS College of Architecture, Pune

II Prize

(a) Himanshu Soni of Lucknow College of Architecture, Lucknow

(b) Smita Yatish Prabhune of BKPS College of Architecture, Pune

III Prize

(a) Anil Kumar K of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

(Two W inne rs)

(b) Roshana Banepali of Khwopa Engineering College, Nepal

(a) Mungekar Neha Nandan of Academy of Architecture, Pune
(b) Minu Agarwal of Guwahati College of Architecture, Guwahati

The students feedback at the end of workshop was

excellent. The overall rating assigned by the students to
the workshop was 83% (average). The response had an
average score of 4.71 (out of 5.0) to the question if
they will recommend this workshop to their colleagues.
During the Valedictory Session, Prof Sudhir K. Jain
advised the participants to draw a balance between the
requirements of earthquake resistant design and host of
design considerations that they normally consider in
their architectural design exercises. The chief guest, Ar.
Tapan Kumar Sinha lauded the quality of the design
output by all participants and wished them success in
their careers.
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The workshop was made possible by the generous

support from:
Computers & Structures Inc, Berkeley, USA
Poonam and Prabhu Goel Foundation, IIT
Kanpur
Other donors of NICEE

For further details please contact Cdr Suresh Ailawadi, Retd, at asuresh@iitk.ac.in, nicee@iitk.ac.in
Contact no.: +91-512-259 7749, +91-9450162502
Additional photographs of the workshop are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/nicee.iitk
Press Coverage available at http://www.nicee.org/press_coverage.php

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