Gateway College of Architecture and Design, Sonepat, Haryana

OFFICE BUILDING
SECTOR-GURGAON, HARYANA
THESIS REPORT
THESIS CO-ORDINATOR
AR. SOHAN LAL GUPTA

THESIS GUIDE
AR. SHEILY SHRIVASTAV
SUBMITTED BY-
SUMIT ARORA
GCAD/09/135






Gateway College of Architecture and Design, Sonepat, Haryana
CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the thesis titled OFFICE BUILDING, GURGAON, HARYANA
submitted in the partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Bachelor of
Architecture is the bonafide work of SUMIT ARORA, Roll Number- GCAD/09/135, who
carried out research work under supervision in the Gateway College of Architecture and
Design, Sonepat, Haryana 131001.

We recommend that the thesis be placed before the examiners for their consideration for
the award of Bachelor Degree.
Ar. Sheily shrivastav
Thesis Guide
Ar. Sohan Lal Gupta
Thesis Co-ordinator






Gateway College of Architecture and Design, Sonepat, Haryana,


Declaration
I,_______________________________________________________, Roll Number ________________________ hereby declare that the thesis titled _____________________________________________________, submitted by me , in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of Degree in Bachelor of Architecture, to Gateway College of Architecture and Design, as a record of my original research work.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The satisfaction and euphoria that accompany the successful completion of any task would
be incomplete without the mention of people who made it possible, whose constant
guidance and encouragement crowned out efforts of success.

With a great respect I would like to express my indebtedness to my guide, Ar. sheily
Shrivastav for his visionary approach and efforts in making this study comprehensive. It was
indeed a great pleasure to work under his supervision. I express my thanks to the Thesis
Coordinator, Ar. Sohan Lal Gupta and director Prof. Anil Kumar for extending their support
and encouragement at all times.

I give my heartiest thanks to my parents for boasting and supporting me throughout. My
deep sense of gratitude towards all the people who extended a helping hand during my case
studies and various site visits. My classmates, friends and all my juniors for supporting me
during the last five years.

I also owe this success of today to my Institution, GATEWAY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
AND DESIGN, and my faculty members.












CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION THE TOPIC
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 REASON FOR CHOOSING THE PROJECT
1.3 VALIDITY & FEASIBILITY OF THE PROJECT
1.4 ACCESIBILTY
1.5 SCOPE & LIMITATION
1.6 PROPOSED METHODOLGY

2. STUDY & ANALYSIS
2.1 HISTORY
2.2 ARCHITECTURAL IMPLICATIONS
2.3 DESIGNING IMPLICATIONS

3. USER PROFILE & EXPECTATIONS
3.1 TYPE OF USERS
3.2 EXPECTATIONS OF USERS

4. STANDARDS

5. CASE STUDIES
5.1 EICHER VOLVO HEADQUATERS, GURGAON
5.2 PUNJAB ENERGY DEVELOPMENT, CHANDIGARH
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5.3 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

6. LITERATURE STUDY
6.1 SUZLON ONE EARTH, PUNE

7. SITE ANALYSIS
7.1 ABOUT THE PROJECT
7.2 LOCATION
7.3 ABOUT THE CITY
7.4 SURROUNDINGS
7.5 ACCESSIBILITY
7.6 DEVELOPMENT RULE
7.7 PHYSICAL FEATURES
7.8 PLANNING ASPECTS
7.9 CLIMATE
7.10 SUN MOVEMENT

8. CLIENTS BRIEF

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CHAPTER 1





INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
A commercial building is a building that is used
for commercial use. Types can include office buildings, warehouses,
or retail. In urban locations, a commercial building often combines
functions, such as an office on levels 2-10, with retail on floor 1. Local
authorities commonly maintain strict regulations on commercial zoning,
and have the authority to designate any zoned area as such.

While offices can be built in almost any location and in almost any
building, some modern requirements for offices make this more difficult.
These requirements can be both legal or technical . Alongside, other
requirements such as security and flexibility of layout, has led to the
creation of special buildings which are dedicated only or primarily for
use as offices. An office building, also known as an office block or
business centre is a form of commercial building which contains spaces
mainly designed to be used for offices.

An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is
done, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific
duties attached to it, the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place
originally referring to the location of one's duty.

An office is an architectural and design phenomenon; whether it is a
small office such as a bench in the corner of a small business of
extremely small size, through entire floors of buildings, up to and
including massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In
modern terms an office usually refers to the location where white-collar
workers are employed.


REASON FOR CHOOSING
The reason behind choosing this topic is to understand the basic concepts

To re-think over the conventional attitude towards property development
and recognizing problems like land scarcity and high land value in urban
cityscape.

To built a structure, a tall building or tower that facilitates its user with
wide range of functions like , office, recreational, commercial etc. placed
along zones that exist vertically in the hybrid super-structure.

To envelope and achieve a built form fruitful for the functions like ,
office, recreational, commercial etc, through organizing different kind of
spaces therein.


VALIDITY AND FEASIBILTY OF THE PROJECT
As gurgoan is the biggest IT and commercial hub in NCR with lots of
infrastructure developments going on, this type of projects suits well in
this location and also
There are various issues which demand such dwellings like,
The need for large workplaces for administrative and managerial works
to handle an organization
Lack of quality working environment.
Scarcity and high land value in urban areas.
High dependence on personal mode of transport for smaller distance
because of distance from major transit zones.
Wastage of time on movement from one place to another because of
traffic jam & congestion.
Close proximity to national highway 8.
Other upcoming commercial and residential developments nearby.





ACCESSIBILTY
The site can be easily accessible from NH 8 via Sohna road .The major
road is on southern side i.e., 60 mtr. Wide sector road & the other road is
20 mtr. Wide.
If we see the land use map we can see the site is totally surrounded by
Proposed residential and commercial projects. So the project is feasible
as many people will be dependent on it or working in this unit can easily
get things at a lesser distance.
SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
The thesis is an attempt to cover a wide scope of planning, zoning,
architectural and design solutions, structural and design strategies
involved in an office building .
The scope is limited and thus does not cover the details of expenses,
scheduling and other such professional and practical procedures.
METHODOLOGY

SETTING UP OF OBJECTIVE
SITE ANALYSIS
LITRETURE STUDY
CASE STUDY
OBJECTIVE & DESIGN CONCEPTS
PREPARE MASTER PLAN OF THE ZONE
DESIGN PROPOSAL

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STUDY & ANALYSIS
HISTORY

The structure and shape of the office is impacted by both management
thought as well as construction materials and may or may not have walls
or barriers. The word stems from the Latin officium, and its equivalents
in various, mainly romance, languages. An officium was not necessarily
a place, but rather an often mobile 'bureau' in the sense of a human staff
or even the abstract notion of a formal position, such as a magistrature.
The relatively elaborate Roman bureaucracy would not be equalled for
centuries in the West after the fall of Rome, even partially reverting to
illiteracy, while the East preserved a more sophisticated administrative
culture, both under Byzantium and under Islam.
Offices in classical antiquity were often part of a palace complex or a
large temple. There was usually a room where scrolls were kept
and scribes did their work. Ancient texts mentioning the work of scribes
allude to the existence of such "offices". These rooms are sometimes
called "libraries" by some archaeologists and the general press because
one often associates scrolls with literature. In fact they were true offices
since the scrolls were meant for record keeping and other management
functions such as treaties and edicts, and not for writing or keeping
poetry or other works of fiction.

Middle Ages

The High Middle Ages (10001300) saw the rise of the
medieval chancery, which was usually the place where most government
letters were written and where laws were copied in the administration of
a kingdom. The rooms of the chancery often had walls full of
pigeonholes, constructed to hold rolled up pieces of parchment for
safekeeping or ready reference, a precursor to the book shelf. The
introduction of printing during the Renaissance did not change these
early government offices much.









An early European office.

Emergence of the modern office

With the growth of large, complex organizations such as the Royal
Navy and the East India Company in the 18th century, the first purpose-
built office spaces were constructed. The Old Admiralty (Ripley
Building) was built in 1726 as a three storey U-shaped brick building and
was the first purpose built office building in Great Britain. As well as
offices, the building housed a board room and apartments for the Lords
of the Admiralty. In the 1770s, many scattered offices for the Royal
Navy were gathered into Somerset House, the first block purpose-built
for office work.

The East India House was built in 1729 on Leaden hall Street as the
headquarters from which the East India Company administered
its' Indian colonial possessions. The Company developed a very complex
bureaucracy for the task, which required thousands of office employees
to process the necessary paperwork. The Company recognized the
benefits of centralized administration, and required that all workers sign
in and out at the central office, daily.
20th century

By 1906, Sears, Roebuck and Co had opened their mail order and
headquarters operation in a 3,000,000-square-foot (280,000 m
2
) building
in Chicago, at the time the largest building in the world. The time and
motion study, pioneered in manufacturing by F. W. Taylor and later
applied to the office environment by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, led to
the idea that managers needed to play an active role in directing the work
of subordinates. As a result, in 1915, the Equitable Life Insurance
Company in New York City introduced the Modern Efficiency Desk
with a flat top and drawers below, designed to allow managers an easy
view of the workers. This led to a demand for a large square footages per
floor in buildings, and a return to the open spaces that were seen in pre
industrial revolution buildings.



However, by the midpoint of the 20th century, it became apparent that an
efficient office required discretion in the control of privacy, which is
needed to combat tedium linked to poor productivity, and to encourage
creativity. In 1964, the Herman Miller (office equipment) company
engaged Robert Propst, a prolific industrial designer, who came up with
the concept of the Action Office which later evolved into
the cubicle office furniture system.

ARCHITECTURAL IMPLICATIONS
In an Architectural implications there are a lot challenges. There are
various spaces that need to be designed and the spaces have different
functions and different usages. These spaces and zones will have
different approaches. As an designer tangibles and intangibles of that
particular project will be followed seriously and will be designed in
accordance to meet up the demand of client, and the function for what
we are designing. This project is an interesting as this project will serve
various kind of users and the design solution will be responsible for the
reactions of the users of same.

According to me, the process of design adapts to the demands of the
project and starts with the understanding of the functions and brief of the
same. The concepts are then sought and the functions are systematically
knitted around the concept with utmost intelligence and efficiency. Then
will choose to model it using different softwares on computers to get a
physical scale of the project and its functions and then modify the same
if needed. After the completion of the first sketches of the design, will
tend to focus on the essentials of structures and services of the same so
as to give the project a proper sense of workability. Form and function
run parallel and are symbiotic to each other throughout the process of
design and execution of the same on site.

DESIGNING IMPLICATIONS
Architectural Zoning of each space will be done, like they should merge
well in each other that they are complementing each other. Although the
spaces will be broadly segregated only, because in these types of projects
different type of spaces are not there.

Natural lighting and ventilation for the offices spaces and following
green building principles by giving right orientation, using green
building materials and intelligent approach towards design huge amount
of energy will be saved.




CHAPTER 3





USER PROFILE AND EXPECTATION
TYPE OF USERS
As it is a Office building Project, so it is going to serve various functions
it means there will be different users with different expectations and
mentality. So meeting up everyones expectation in a design is actually a
workable and functional architectural design, if it is not done then it is a
non-functional project in which no one would like to Work.

OFFICE
Employees
Boss/Head
Guests/clients for meeting
Maintenance staff
Services staff

SERVICE STAFF
Drivers
IT Engineer
HVAC engineer staff
Electrical engineer
Plumbing Engineer
Security staff







EXPECTATION OF USERS

OFFICE

EMPLOYEES -All the employees work in office demands
particular environment. He expects at least a comfortable place to
work which follows anthropometrics and a storage space for keeping his
documents.
He even expects a place not to just work but a place to relax, by giving
sometime to other activities or by spending time in open recreational
areas during breaks of close time of office.

BOSS/HEAD -Head of the Office will expect differently from
employees. He expects a decorated and ample amount of space for his
Cabin.
He expects an office where his employees work happily and give better
outcome.
He also expects a place for meeting or his with his clients or employees.

VISIOTR/CLIENTS FOR MEETING Guest always expect a
Legibility in an office. All the ways should be legible, one should not get
lost in a building if he/she is new to the building.
They expect a comfortable place to sit, wait, do meeting, discuss etc.

MAINTAINCE STAFF - Maintenance staff like peons, office boys
and cleaners expect a proper storage space for their instrument like
provision of janitor closet on every washroom.

They expects the design should be in a way that is no problem in
cleaning anything.






















SERVICES STAFF - Like HVAC engineer demands a proper space for the
HVAC plants and he expects all the shafts and pipelines for the HVAC system to
be proper.
He also expects a proper maintenance room with easy circulations in it.
Plumbing engineer expects proper provision for the motor and water tanks.
He also expects proper circulation in these spaces so that repairing and
maintaining such plants wont be a issue.

CHAPTER 5





CASE STUDY

EICHER VOLVO HEADQUATERS, GURGOAN
PUNJAB ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, CHANDIGARH

CHAPTER 6





LITRETURE STUDY

SUZLON ONE EARTH, PUNE


CHAPTER 4





STANDARDS





























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CHAPTER 7





SITE ANALYSIS




CHAPTER 8





CLIENTS BRIEF



S.No REQUIREM
ENT
AREA (SQ.
M)
NUMBER TOTAL
1 Director
Room
80 1 80
2 Director
Staff
100 1 100
3 Director
Meeting
Room
60 1 60
4 Reception
& waiting
area
450 1 450
5 Conference
room
450 2 900
6 Meeting
Room
75 2 150
7 cafeteria 400 1 400
8 Office
space
175 to 350
BIBLIOGRAPHY
wikipedia

SOURCES OF PROCURING THE BASIC DATA
Library studies
Thesis reports
HUDA office
Internet
Case studies
Neufert
Time saver standards
National building cade