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Chapter-4
CAMPUS
PLANNING
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Introduction
IDEAL CAMPUS
The campus is the physical environment created when building is constructed to allow
the idea to flourish. A campus has been compared to a city on a small scale because it
provides most of the needs for the community. Unlike a city, however, the campus is
non-commercial and primarily a place of study. The campus, therefore, ought to be a
closely with unified cluster of buildings with intimate pedestrian open spaces providing a
unique environment for living and studying it should ideally be a quiet, comfortable
oasis apart from the normally
Busy, Noisy, Congested
World in this sense a campus should be more like a residential suburb or dark than a city
Each of these zones requires different and special study design techniques to plan energy
efficient buildings.
The energy requirement of building depend upon various factors like comfort levels,
location of building usage of building etc.
3. Moderate Banglore
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Input Data-Pre Planning Stage
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(1) Sources of household income
• Agnarian • Finance
• Building consts • Amusement recreation
• Manufacture • Professional
• Transport • Others
• Communication • Matrix of number employed and
• Public authority utilization levels of income
Modern data for urban & regional planning information systems (Comp. based)
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Built Environment system the expectations from the building or built environment
are as under:-
1. To provide utility/function, firmness, delight, etc. In/On time and the right price.
2. To provide shelter
3. To admit daylight
4. To exclude/minimize noise
5. To resist snow
6. To exclude rain
7. To resist wind loads
8. To provide ventilation
9. To allow views to create views-prospect
10. To resist soil & hydrostatic pressure
11. To exclude damp
12. To provide external doors for access with security
13. To provide insulation of sound
14. To provide structural safety
15. To provide fire safety
16. To take care of health safety
17. To impart constructional safety
18. To create a desirable environment to perform activities inside and outside the
building so as to improve the efficiency and comfort of the user, with an
aesthetical background.
Hence, one would provide for all these different consideration in architecture.
Creation of an environment inside the building in known as three dimensional
architecture, while creation of the same outside the building is known as two
dimensional architecture.
Walls
Walls of daytime living area should of heat storing materials; walls of night use
rooms of materials with light heat capacity. E and W walls should preferably be
shaded high reflective qualities are desirable for both hermal and solar radiation.
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Roof
Generally, heat storage insulation is best, which uses the fly-wheel of outgoing
radiation for daily heat balance. However a shaded, ventilated roof is also
applicable, primarily over night user rooms. Water spray or
Shading
Devices should be separate from structure, and exposed to wind convection.
Foundation Basement
Lithosphere type of houses are possible in this zone.
Mechanical Equipment
Equipment should have high operating efficiency in heat producing devices, such
as those for cooking.
Development Plan
Circulation
Landscape Service
Detail Plan
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Campus design must anticipate, as nearly as possible, the nature of probable growth and
change. Providing flexibility and indeterminacy, is perhaps the greatest challenge to the
Architect. There are three major aspects to growth and change.
(i)First is the overall growth or expansion of facilities caused by increasing
enrollment.
(ii)Second is the differential growth that occurs in various areas of the campus
along with overall growth.
(iii)The third aspect is the internal flexibility required for changing uses of spaces
and services.
A coherence and sense of identity for all parts must be maintained in the design as a
whole while certain parts remain incomplete. To do so demands a discipline, a kind of
pre- designed matrix or systems fabric that will insure order in future development,
without being too restrictive.
SIZE
The ideal size for a campus depends upon individual circumstances.
(i) The demands on the campus
(ii) The location of the campus, the type of instruction, all influence the size.
Experience has shown that when an “ultimate” size was predetermined, the
university often continued to grow beyond what was originally considered
best.
(iii) A major controlling factor is walking distance. Ten minutes from hostel to
classroom is considered a maximum allowable walking distance. Three to
five minutes is optimum. When growth endangers convenience, comfort and
efficiency..
HUMAN NEEDS
In an ideal campus environment, regardless of size, classrooms and living spaces should
be related for the convenience of pedestrian occupants and closely linked to the qualities
of the natural setting.
Since a campus is for people, it must be designed to the measure of man himself, his
physical dimensions, his senses his habits, responses and impulses. Moreover, the mind
of man his intellect, instincts and ambitions, must be satisfied. To merely accommodate
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him is not enough. Students and staff alike should be delighted and inspired if the campus
environment is to fulfill its potential.
The central area of “core” of the campus be comes tightly enclosed and successive
rings of development shut in and prevent selective expansion.
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The pattern chosen for the University of Bath; the central core can expand at either end
as the University grows; existing elements extend outwards and grow independently of
one another. New ones are added to extensions of the core; which never becomes shut in
as in the concentric pattern.
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• Scale has been respected and there has been a continuing consistency in roof
lines, missing, relationships and fenestration.
• General consistency has prevailed in selecting materials, in creating a series of
design recalls and themes, and in relating proportion, color and texture.
• Full respect has been given to neighboring buildings and existing spatial qualities
in the sitting of buildings.
• Each new building has been considered as a completing element or further
refinement of spatial order and sequence of campus spaces.
• Each new building and the landscape are blended so the spatial order is strength
ended rather than being disturbed.
EXAMPLE:
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The campus provides for 2400 students and 500 staff with the possibility of doubling
the present capacity.
• The residential areas adjoin the academic complex to provide a planned
neighborhood unit with provision for such community needs as
• Shops
• primary school
• Hospital
• Post office and bank.
• The area of the campus is 800 acres.
While pre established patterns of an older campus which must be appreciated and
complemented in further growth, often determine the form and approach; in the design of
new campuses, the educational philosophy or the nature of the site usually has the
greatest influence.
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