Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect born in 1934 who runs the firm Uttam C. Jain Architects & Planners. Some of his notable projects include the Capitol Complex in Naya Raipur, the Shri Tirupati Balaji General Hospital, and the Aga Khan School in Mundra. His design philosophy focuses on creating a symbiotic relationship between buildings and their surroundings using local materials and responding to the climate and needs. He emphasizes the importance of architectural aesthetics, form, and creating designs that enhance people's daily living experiences. The document then examines one of his projects, the Aga Khan School in Gujarat, providing details on its site plan, building functions
Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect born in 1934 who runs the firm Uttam C. Jain Architects & Planners. Some of his notable projects include the Capitol Complex in Naya Raipur, the Shri Tirupati Balaji General Hospital, and the Aga Khan School in Mundra. His design philosophy focuses on creating a symbiotic relationship between buildings and their surroundings using local materials and responding to the climate and needs. He emphasizes the importance of architectural aesthetics, form, and creating designs that enhance people's daily living experiences. The document then examines one of his projects, the Aga Khan School in Gujarat, providing details on its site plan, building functions
Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect born in 1934 who runs the firm Uttam C. Jain Architects & Planners. Some of his notable projects include the Capitol Complex in Naya Raipur, the Shri Tirupati Balaji General Hospital, and the Aga Khan School in Mundra. His design philosophy focuses on creating a symbiotic relationship between buildings and their surroundings using local materials and responding to the climate and needs. He emphasizes the importance of architectural aesthetics, form, and creating designs that enhance people's daily living experiences. The document then examines one of his projects, the Aga Khan School in Gujarat, providing details on its site plan, building functions
Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect born in 1934 who runs the firm Uttam C. Jain Architects & Planners. Some of his notable projects include the Capitol Complex in Naya Raipur, the Shri Tirupati Balaji General Hospital, and the Aga Khan School in Mundra. His design philosophy focuses on creating a symbiotic relationship between buildings and their surroundings using local materials and responding to the climate and needs. He emphasizes the importance of architectural aesthetics, form, and creating designs that enhance people's daily living experiences. The document then examines one of his projects, the Aga Khan School in Gujarat, providing details on its site plan, building functions
Department of Architecture & Planning Indian Institute of Technology , Roorkee 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 Honours degree in Architecture - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1958
Key projects
Capitol Complex, Naya Raipur, India, 2006-Ongoing, Institutional Shri Tirupati Balaji General Hospital, Panthawada, India, 2004-2007, Hospital Aga Khan School, Mundra, India, 2002-2006, Institutional Umaid Heritage, Jodhpur, India, 2003-2005, Master Plan Prerna Sthala, Yavatmal, India, 2002-2003, Memorial Landmark, Bombay, India, 1993-2002, Workspace University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India, 1969-1999, Institutional Universal Harmony Hall, Mount Abu, India, 1993-1995, Convention Centre Habibganj Railway Station, Bhopal, India, 1989-1995, Transport Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay, India, 1985-1987, Institutional
Shona Jain Chirag Jain
Pojects pics 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 - Baburao 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
In the operational realities, if an attempt is made to highlight the ideological postures leading to the directions of value as accepted in all design-decisions resulting into tangible architectural ambient, the efforts are also directed towards creating a preference in the public mind for consumption of good design in their day to day living.
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.
AESTHETICS
It is the aesthetics of openness contrasted with enclosures that highlights the different features from the rest of the faade. FORM
Realization of shelter form and its content are in response to a given place, climate, and time. Case Study :
1. Jodhpur University , Jodhpur 2. Aga Khan School , Gujarat 3. NRI Housing , Jaipur Jodhpur University Aga Khan School , Gujarat Client : Aga Khan Foundation Project Architect : Shona Jain Project Management Consultant : Aga Khan Education Services , India Plot Area : 15693 sq.m. Built-up area : 4459 sq.m Project cost : Rs. 43100000 Year of completion : 2006
Soakpit sandpit Septic tank transformer bandminton vollyball Earth mound School building amphitheatre Proposed staff housing Security room 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. Teachers resource center 15. Staff room 16. Meeting room 17. PAs room 18. Principals room 19. Vice-principals room 20. Sick room 21. Counselors room 22. Store room 23. Kitchen 24. Utilty 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
NRI Housing , Jaipur Uttam C. Jain is one of the great contemporary architect of India . After studying his projects we understand his philosophy that The relationship between human being and the building being established, what develops and grows around becomes a measure for man and his society . His project shows lots of good architectural solutions and their implications in Indian climate and behaviors. 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. The Jodhpur university is one of his great works indeed . He has come up with a excellent solutions of the climate and space behavior. The stepped roofs , the sitting patterns , the use of stones , the use of cutouts for ventilation are his major features in it . Use of local materials with a good mixtures of modern technology make his building a completely excellent response . In the operational realities, if an attempt is made to highlight the ideological postures leading to the directions of value as accepted in all design-decisions resulting into tangible architectural ambient, the efforts are also directed towards creating a preference in the public mind for consumption of good design in their day to day living.
A doctor buries his mistake and an architect builds his mistake. There are individuals who fail to understand what good architecture is all about. But U.C.Jain feels that, architecture begins after you put up four walls and a roof and that is what he call the non-manifest part. Architecture is like music. You can feel it but not see it. You have to comprehend and appreciate architecture. Architecture provides us with our basic biological needs but actually its realms go much further than that. His sense of creativity stems from what he add from his mind. There are the 3 'P's of architecture, namely, the personality of the architect, the product and the place. These have to be in synergy