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Student Housing Design in India

The project is a student housing complex within the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management campus in Noida, India. The design was inspired by the urban structures of Shahjahanabad, with courts, clusters, and streets to foster interaction between students. Blocks are arranged along a central spine and include internal courtyards. Voids and overlooks create a vertical community that improves safety. The street and court configuration adapts Jane Jacobs' theory of "eyes on the street" for security and perception of security.

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Student Housing Design in India

The project is a student housing complex within the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management campus in Noida, India. The design was inspired by the urban structures of Shahjahanabad, with courts, clusters, and streets to foster interaction between students. Blocks are arranged along a central spine and include internal courtyards. Voids and overlooks create a vertical community that improves safety. The street and court configuration adapts Jane Jacobs' theory of "eyes on the street" for security and perception of security.

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1.

Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, Noida

•Architects: Morphogenes
•Area : 1750000 ft²
•Year : 2013
The project is a student-housing complex
within the existing educational campus of
the Institute for Integrated Learning in
Management, Greater Noida, India. The
campus takes inspiration from the urban
structure of court, cluster and street living
of Shahjahanabad, the old settlement of
Delhi. The aim was to create an architecture
that would be a socio-cultural setting for
fostering cross pollination of ideologies in
young minds.

RITHIK CYRIL | SEM- X | AT | ASSIGNMENT -2


The notion of the street being an urban
space and the community being the
caretaker of it has been used to align all
movement along one narrow street with
the individual blocks facing into this
primary circulation spine. Within each
block, courtyards are introduced as
internal communal spaces. A series of
interaction spaces in the form of voids
spiral up the form, creating in a way, a
vertical urban scape that overlooks the
central spine and the courts. This plays a
vital role in Morphogenesis’ design
approach for this student habitat in
terms of safety and security, both
perceived and real. The street court
configuration whilst traditionally
inspired, is also an outcome of adapting
Jane Jacobs’ concept of ‘eyes on the
street’. Jacobs had famously explained
this theory stating, "There must be eyes
upon the street, eyes belonging to those
we might call the natural proprietors of
the street".
2. Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, Ahmedabad
IIM-A, constructed
between 1962-1974, is
known for its exposed
brickwork, concrete slabs,
concrete lintels, and
concrete beams, and it has
many notable features like
academic blocks, faculty
offices, a library, 33 fully
furnished dormitories, a
plaza, an auditorium, and
sport as well as
recreational spaces.

The massive brick framework of


IIM-A is inspired by ancient and
medieval architecture, thus
contributing to the timeless
nature of this structure. Being
a monolithic masonry, many
individual bricks were laid by
hand and were used to build
arches, semi-circles, and
squares sliced out of multiple
walls, pathways, and other
elements of architecture.

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