Salient Feature of the Project

Name & Location : Gangubai Hangal Gurukula ,Hubli.
Cost of Project : (INR) 500 Lakhs

Description of Project :

Linear fields
Built-up area: 4000 sq.M.
(In case of Public Building minimum built-up area should be 1000 sq. meter)

The brief for the Gangubai Hangal Gurukul called for the design of a Gurukul campus, as opposed to a college, where around eight gurus would impart training to their shishyas in an idyllic setting.

As a generator of form and space , we look at linear fields as explored by contemporary architects, as well as the
linear field urbanism that is used as a climatic•device in parts of India…
The site is fairly flat with a proto-nala roughly bisecting it….
The first strategy is to locate the Gurukul diagonally opposite to the road junction.
The drainage of rainwater through the nala, now made explicit as a water body, will create an aqua urban landscape of water channels and ponds gently affecting the microclimate.

Materials of Construction Details :
RCC framed structure in combination with steel fabrication Mangalore tiles, laterite.

Special Features :
A weave of the traditional with the modem
We look into the typological differences between westem modes of learning and our traditional eastem pedagogical methods.
The key difference is in the way the lives of the students and teachers are enmeshed in the Gurukul model, and the way, they are distinct in modem schooling.
As a strategy, these two distinct models are merged in a weave…
The space is a Gurukul, when read from north to south and a modem institution from east to west.
Thus the campus could is laid out as a Gurukul, with integrated stuents housing, guru housing, riyaz areas etc, from north to south, but also could be perceived as a modem educational institution from east to west.
Eco- sensitive devices as generators of architecture

Walls running from nortl to south demarcate each Gurukul. These walls are also climatic devices, as they cast shadows in open courtyards as the sun moves from east to west. Buildings are located along these walls along the westem side of each Gurukul. This ensures that the buildings shade the open space in-between.
These open spaces are further tempered by the presence of water ponds that form a part of the rainwater harvesting
and collecting system.
In this manner, ecological devices, that are inspired by traditional linear walls of inner city housing are utilized in conjunction with rain water retention ponds, green spaces to generate a conducive micro climate.

Summary

In summation, the Gangubai Hangal Gurukul is a synthesis of the traditional with the modem- a weave of two
strands of pedagogy, the eastem and the westem, as well as a study into the way traditional urban fabric could be
reinterpreted for a modem campus.