Ar. Uttam Chand Jain

• Uttam Chand was born in 1934 in Melwara, Rajasthan.

• He completed his schooling at jodhpur

Rajasthan. • He graduated in architecture with I class

honors in 1958 at Indian institute of technology, Kharagpur where he was a merit scholar throughout.

• Soon after receiving advance study

scholarship from national university of Tucumen , Argentina proceeded to Latin America where for two years he studied and gained experience .

• Established his own architecture practice in 1961.

• Handled institutional buildings, commercial complexes, recreational facilities, tourists projects, luxury hotels, theaters, housing, private residences, and university campus layout.

• Taught at various architectural colleges and been examiner at university of Bombay, Punjab university, Chandigarh, Baroda university; Ahmadabad school of architecture and school of planning and architecture, New Delhi.

• He served on jury of national competitions in architecture on many occasions.

Education• 1958 Graduated in Architecture (B.Arch.) with 1st Class Honors on a scholarship from I.I.T

Kharagpur, West Bengal• 1958-59Advanced study scholarship from the National University of Tucuman, Argentina

Professional Practice 1961 to date : In private practice

PHILOSOPHY His buildings reflect the heritage of that particular place.

• He is not much bothered about the trends and always try to conceive the building in his own style .

• The various projects he has undertaken since then reflect the consistent contextually inherit in his design philosophy.

ACIEVEMENTS• First achievement was in 1969 common wealth institute of architects, London awarded prize in

India essay competitions.

• In 1973 he won first prize in all India architectural competition sponsored by government of Goa for memorial design.

• He was listed as one of the three Indian architects among 200 contemporary worlds architects by Japan architects , Tokyo in 1977.

• In 1978 Washington university USA invited him to speak at their Tuesday lecture series on “a contemporary architecture of the past”.

UNIVERSITY OF JODHPUR CAMPUS

• Lecture theater – 1971 (680 sqm• Building is made with golden colored

sandstone with which the traditional buildings of jodhpur have been constructed.

• Steel and cement are used only minimally in this cost effective design

• Walls are of dressed masonry laid in lime mortar, standard 3.5meter long stone slabs.

• The university buildings are widely dispersed all over the campus ,three buildings – the faculty of arts and social sciences, the central lecture theater cluster and the campus canteen – stand out among them .

• The building is constructed with a double wall to counter the hot and desert climate of the desert.

• The outer wall screens the sun and are rhythmic in pattern .

•Lecture theatre –cluster is a small ziggurat like structure mirroring the inclined seating in each of its four identical halls.

•Each is a simple rectangle in plan supported by two parallel walls along its longer axis .

•A stone pergola screens the central node at which all the four theaters emerge.

•Approach is through a ramp framed between two lecture theater..

•The canteen – comprises of shared kitchen and service areas with separate dining facilities for students and teachers .

• The staff area is a small mezzanine that overlooks the larger student dining hall below .

•It is reached by an open staircase rising from the entrance court .

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•Similar to the lecture theatre it has stepped profile .•This allows the light to enter in the central space.• It also has a steeped entrance which is clearly

visible.•Like other buildings of the campus it also made of

locally available sandstone.•The east west façade is made of dead wall to cut of

the heat of sun.

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES• This department has a very simple u-shaped plan with a central courtyard planning.• Made of locally available sand stone with thick walls of lime construction.• On the ground floor there are all the faculty offices, and some of the lecture rooms.• Mainly the lecture rooms are on the first floor.• Enough space is left for future expansion.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY• Similar in plan, simple with colonnaded corridors

LIBRARY BUILDING• Library building is a simple rectangular Greek cross.• In this building U.C.Jain has achieved minimum distance between readers and the

books.• As he has places the stacks in central area on the mezzanine floor ,along with other

circulation elements.• And the reading areas are placed in all the four l-shaped halls , which receive

sufficient ambient light.• Building made of golden sandstone matches the surrounding.

INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT• In this building the main concept which the

architect has achieved is “darkness to light” there is a main entrance gate which leads to sun deck. The corridors open up into the courtyards.

• On the entrance wall there is an inviting mural.

• The basic planning is the courtyard planning.

• The site on which building stands is sloping and hence the building follows the topography of the site .

• Another thing which is achieved in this building is the restricted motion, major areas of maximum movement are kept near to the entrance and the research labs are kept at the farthest point from the entrance thus minimizing the movement.

• The campus comprises of two zones- the institutional and residential.• The buildings are low-profiled masses, that are loosely connected to merge with

surroundings, interlinked by pneumatic connectors.

PLAN• The institutional spaces consist

of an auditorium, a computer room, a research wing, an administration block, a recreation hall and a service core.

• The residential accommodation caters to the needs of the staff, researchers and visiting scholars.

To give a handicraft look to the complex, natural materials and the maximum possible manual labor have been used.

OBEYING THE NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY

To respond to hot and humid climate, a series of paper-thin sections have been designed through the double skin principle.

The barrel vault evokes the elemental vaulted roofs of the caves.

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