UTTAM C.

JAIN’s

Aga khan
school, Mundra
Gujarat
By, Albab R.Khan
VI Semester
RV COLLEGE OF ARCHITECURE
Architects Profile
• Full Name : Uttam Chand Jain
• Born : 1934
• Business Name : Uttam C. Jain Architects & Planners
• Services : Architecture, Urban Planning
• Design Team : 15 members , Mumbai

Qualification :
• Advanced study scholarship from the National University of Tucuman,
Argentina, 1959
• First Class Honors degree in Architecture - Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, 1958
Key projects

Capitol Complex, Naya Raipur Jodhpur University

Kota Engineering College

 Key projects

Habib Ganj Railway Station,

Bhopal

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Universal Harmony Hall &

Reserve Bank of India, International Exhibition Centre,
Mumbai Mount Abu
Key projects

Landmark- Larren & Toubro Welfare Centre,

Bombay

Private House, Babulal Jain Vicks Vapour rub Plant, Goa

Key Awards
• 2007, A+D & Spectrum Foundation
Architecture Awards 2006, New
Delhi, India

• 2005, Golden Architect Award

2004, A+D & Spectrum Paints
Ltd., New Delhi, India

• 2002, Chairman's Award -

Architect of the Year 2001, J.K.
Cement Ltd., India

• 1992, President's Award – Babu

rao Mhatre Gold Medal, Indian
Institute of Architects, India

• 1991, JIIA Awards, Indian Institute

of Architects, Bombay, India

• 1969, Commonwealth Institute of

Architects, London, UK
Philosophy
Believed that architecture begins after you put up four walls and a roof – This
is what he called the “non-manifest part.”

The immediate surroundings is source of construction materials -

snow, stone, straw, reed, wood or mud is the indigenous materials for
constructing an enclosure.

The relationship between human being and the building being established,
what develops and grows around becomes a measure for man and his society.

There is a place for everything and everything has its place.

Spatial configuration in his design is an attempt to invoke a spirit that will

establish a symbiotic bond between the present and the past.
FORM

Realization of shelter form and its

content are in response to a given
place, climate, and time.

Context is important.

AESTHETICS

It is the aesthetics of openness

contrasted with enclosures that
highlights the different features from
the rest of the façade.

Facades communicate through solids

and voids
 Aga Khan School , Mudra,
Gujarat

• Client : Aga Khan Foundation

• Project Architect : Shona Jain
• Project Management Consultant : Aga Khan Education
Services , India
• Year of completion : 2006
 Map shows :
• Approach to site
• Context of site (Open ground and
vegetation)
• Relation between Built and Open
Ground on Site

• Plot Area :
15693 SQM
• Built-up area :
4459 SQM
• Project cost :
Rs. 4,31,00,000
 Amphitheatre
Soakpit

Trans- sandpit
former
volleyball

badminton

School Proposed
building staff
housing
Septic
tank
Entry

Security room Earth mound

 LABRATORIES
Academic LABORATORIE

SERVICES
SERVICES
S
Block
Analysis of Zoning CLASSROOMS
CLASSROO
Adopted
MS

LUNCH
LUNCH STAFFROOM
STAFFROO
LIBRARY M
LIBRARY
AUDITORIUM ADMIN
ADMIN

CLASSROOMS
CLASSROO
MS SERVICES
SERVICES

ENTRY
ENTRY
1. Entrance
2. Security room
3. Corridors
4. Courtyards
5. Classroom
6. Pre-shift classroom
7. Arts & crafts room
8. Computer room
9. Laboratory
10. Library
11. Head coordinators room
12. Administration
13. Reprography room
14. Teacher’s resource center
15. Staff room
16. Meeting room
17. PA’s room
18. Principal’s room
19. Vice-principals room
20. Sick room
21. Counselor’s room
22. Store room
23. Kitchen
24. Utility room
25. Toilet
26. Handicap toilet
27. UPS & electrical room
28. Auditorium phase 2 (future)
29. Gymnasium phase 2 (future)
30. Server room
31. Multipurpose hall
32. Terrace
33. Overhead water tank
1. Entrance
2. Security room
3. Corridors
4. Courtyards
5. Classroom
6. Pre-shift classroom
7. Arts & crafts room
8. Computer room
9. Laboratory
10. Library
11. Head coordinators room
12. Administration
13. Reprography room
14. Teacher’s resource center
15. Staff room
16. Meeting room
17. PA’s room
18. Principal’s room
19. Vice-principals room
20. Sick room
21. Counselor’s room
22. Store room
23. Kitchen
24. Utility room
25. Toilet
26. Handicap toilet
27. UPS & electrical room
28. Auditorium phase 2 (future)
29. Gymnasium phase 2 (future)
30. Server room
31. Multipurpose hall
32. Terrace
33. Overhead water tank
Analysis
• Academic block is a
G+1 structure CLASSROOM CLASSROOM

CORRIDOR
• Single banked
classrooms arranged

CORRIDOR
CLASSROOM CLASSROOM
in a linear fashion. COURT

• A linear strip of
CLASSROOM CLASSROOM
classrooms opens out
to green courts .

• These courts serve as CLASSROOM CLASSROOM

assembly areas for
discussion and spaces
for informal activities.
Layout of Classrooms
 Inner Corridors made
colorful (unlike front
façade of building)
Green courts
between classrooms
Analysis
Library is placed in the centre and acts as the pivot amongst all activities.

Administration is placed close to the entrance, away from classroom clusters to

give students a sense of belonging to their spaces.
Analysis Roof of building Driveway and entrance portico
of school

Facade of building is white

washed with the a contrasting
sloping tiled roof

The built form is ground

hugging where the
administration (which is visually
taller) and roof of entrance
portico are given a contrasting
nature.

Panoramic view of the curved built structure

Analysis
Compound wall made of sized stone
masonry
Designed with a curvilinear form
Security cabin adopts a circular form
Conclusion
Uttam C. Jain is one of the great contemporary architect of India .

His project shows lots of good architectural solutions and their implications in
Indian climate and behaviours.

The use of arches , vaults , domes , squinched , pillars , cutouts in facades ,

courtyards , pergolas etc are the major elements of his design.

His designs are mere a excellent response the site and surroundings.

His designs show how use of local materials with a good mixtures of modern
technology can make a building a climate responsive .

He believes that here are the 3 ‘P’s of architecture :

-The Personality of the architect, -The Product -The Place.

These have to be in synergy.

Bibliography
• www.ucjain.com
• Manyness of Mumbai , Author : U.C.Jain (available in our campus library)

• www.archnet.org
• www. Architecture-page.com
• www.google.com/images/
• www.pinterest.com/agakhanschoolmundra/