GALBABHAI FARMER’S TRAINING

INSTITUTE
Location of project: Banas,
Palanpur, North Gujarat
Year of completion: 1983 
Name of client & consultants:
National Dairy Development Board,
Anand. 
Client: Banas Dairy, Palanpur. 
Covered Area -11,000 s ft. 
  The concept is based on open to sky courtyards enclosed oi partly enclosed by
ABOUT : stone walls. The courts form important places in the working of the institute as
well as form link to various areas of living, teaching and dining activities. The
bigger court becomes the amphitheater with grassed terraces linking the lower
part of the contours the grouping of various activities that form the buildings
are oriented according to the priorities of wind, light and shade. Thus the
dormitories occupy the prevailing wind direction, teaching areas on the north
side and the kitchen on the east side. The wall that forms the arrival court
keeps the view of the factories on site away from the internal activities of the
institute.
• The complex is built in midst of
wheat fields, consists of two
distinct clusters respectively
housing the school and residential
units.
• The former group of structures,
accessed by a courtyard, is
designed as a house, with several
courts and rooms where people
can gather, and as a dining space.
• Indoor and outdoor areas are
clearly defined so as t reflect the
 • Two sets of class rooms with 24 participants residential rooms, dining verandahs and
FEATURES: other facilities connected with regular Dairy plant. Buildings built with stone load
bearing walls, stone quarried from places not more than five kilometers from site.
Reinforced concrete floor slabs and loggias. Openings deeply recessed to shade from
hot sun. Hierarchy of courtyards enclosed with stone walls, and openings with
concrete lintels bent to span the openings. Building sited in wheat field. 

• The series of loggias making up the • The exposed stone

dormitories do not open on the facades and
courtyard placed in their center in arched lintels
order to achieve maximum privacy used throughout
• The compound is enclosed by stone convey a visual
walls , and the buildings’ openings are unity to the
spanned by concrete lintels and are overall design.
deeply recessed to provide additional