CASE STUDY

CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE,

CHANDIGARH

ARCHITECT : LE CORBUSIER

CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE

CHANDIGARH

LOCATION

 INTRODUCTION

College of Architecture, Chandigarh was designed by Le Corbusier

in 1962.

The college is present near the capital complex and is easily

accessible from the city.

This college gives degrees in bachelors Course of architecture.

 PLANNING AND LAYOUT

The planning is introvert in nature. The studio and classrooms have

been grouped together around a Rectangular courtyard.

There are two doubly loaded corridors originating on two ends of

the building which Lead from the entrance to the studios and class
rooms. The facilities like library, museum, common room, dark room
and Administration and faculty rooms are on both sides of these
corridors. These corridors are poorly connected to the courtyard
through four small openings.

The design studios are on the northern side of the building. Entrance
hall is a long rectangle in shape. The Courtyard has not been well
linked with rest of the building.

SITE PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

 LINKAGES

There has been no thought of linking studios and the relationship

between different classes is quite poor.

Architect has failed to link the courtyard in an active manner with

rest of the building. As a result, it is a passive & a dead space.

Corridors and courtyards are poorly linked. Some faculty rooms are
very close to studios while, others are far away. Thus, a varying
nature of relationship has been generated between students and
faculty.

There is little room for inter-faculty interaction corridors which are

major circulation arteries of the building help circulation in a very
uninteresting and boring manner.

 PLANNING

 LIGHT AND VENTILATION

The classrooms, studios are other spaces deeper on north lights for
their lighting. The lighting is good during day time.

Courtyard that might have been exploited for natural lighting has
not been used for such purposed.

Ventilation is from small window, which are present on the outside

walls. The north side windows are large and near the ceilings.

View of the northern facade

Effect of the day light entering

from the northern facade

NORTH SIDE ELEVATION

SOUTH SIDE ELEVATION

WEST SIDE ELEVATION

SECTION THROUGH ACADEMIC BLOCK OF CCA

Curvilinear roof is used for light and ventilation

ROOF OPENINGS

INTERNAL VIEW

EXTERNAL VIEW

 OPEN SPACES

Courtyard is the only open space in the college which is well linked
to the rest of the college. It is a grassy lawn, used by students to
relax during their spare time. There is a large garden the south side
of the college which is linked through entrance hall the

 INTERACTION

Closed nature of study spaces.

courtyard is only interaction space in the college. Interaction and

exchange of is which forms a very important part of architectural
education has been ignored by the architect.

The uneven spacing o faculty rooms create very awkward

relationship between students & faculty.

 LIBRARY

Centrally air-conditioned library with approx. 15,000

titles in architecture and related fields.

Teaching aids like audio and videocassettes are also

available.

Training reports of Seventh semester students are also

availablehere for reference.

PLAN OF LIBRARY

BOOK SECTION OF LIBRARY

 WORKSHOP

The college workshop caters to the need

of hands on experience in handling of
building construction tools and model
making.

It has facilities including machines and

trained personnel in the fields of carpentry,
metal work and model making.

 INTERIOR SPACES

The studios are quite spacious and they are separated by low height walls.

The doubly loaded corridors are dull spaces. The studios and the workshop are
intercepted columns in the middle.

Now days, further partitions have been put in studios to divide them into
subspaces.

The walls are whitewashed while the ceiling have left of bare concrete.

On the whole, there has been no attempt to create interesting spaces by the
architect.

MATERIALS USED

BRICK HAS BEEN USED AS PRIMARY BUILDING MATERIAL FOR THE

ENTIRE COMPLEX WALLS, COLUMNS.

BRICK ARCHES HAVE BEEN USED FOR WIDE SPANS.

USE OF CONCERETE HAS BEEN RESTRICTED TO FOUNDATIONS, FLOOR

SLABS, AND TIES FOR ARCHED OPENINGS.