Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Jetavan Centre
The Jetavan Centre
Centre
Sameep Padora and Associates
CONTENTS
GENERAL
01
CONCEPT
02
FORM ANALYSIS
03
SPATIAL ANALYSIS
04
MATERIALS ANALYSIS
05
GENERAL
The Jetavan Centre, designed by Sameep Padora and Associates in rural Maharashtra, is built for
the spiritual & skill development of the local Buddhist community.
Working closely with Hunnarshala, an institution looking to revive and resuscitate local building
traditions we collated a material palate that uses rammed loadbearing walls of basalt stone dust.
The stone dust, which is waste from a nearby quarry, is mixed with waste fly ash, a by-product from
the adjoining factory that in the past was paying people to cart the waste fly ash away. Repurposed
wood from old shipping vessels acts as roof structure, with the under structure made of mud rolls,
which are also great insulation. The roof itself is finished with clay roof tiles, remnants from older
demolished buildings.
The mandate of Jetavana is to provide a spiritual anchor
PARKING
1 car space and 1 two wheeler space for every
20sq.m
DRIVEWAY
The driveway width shall be 3.0m for one-way
movement and 6.0m for two-way movement.