1.1.1 INTRODUCTION

Assembly building means a building or part where groups of people congregate or gather for amusement, recreation, social, religions, patriotic, civil, travel and similar purposes.

These are social space that is open and accessible to people. They provide people many opportunities to come together and engage with the community of other professionals so that they share thoughts with each other and this is what a Block 6 serves!.

Basically client had originally asked for 3 different spaces I.E. Library, Dinning hall and shops with seating area. However, to economize on land and resources we proposed on angle building with 3 different stacked vertically.

It was designed to use a mixed function of spaces to become a single space and for the creation of student facilities in a newly developed campus of 7000 students.

Main focus was given to the designing part and to combine these space functionally and aesthetically with the help of exposed brick work. The whole space is designed in such a manner as each area should get natural light and ventilation through jallies.

1.2 SITE PROFILE

The site is located within the campus of "University Institute of Management Studies" which is a part of "Chandigarh University". It is a campus of almost 23 acres.

The site is surrounded by various building blocks like Hostel Block, UIAHS 1 and Academic Block

The whole campus is surrounded by green fields and farms.

The site is connected to the main highway Ludhiana –Chandigarh state highway NH05

The site is surrounded by the fields and the near by villages are Gharaun, Hasanpur and Mamupur

1.2.1 SITEANALYSIS

The site is located in south extension of Chandigarh University on NH05 Chandigarh –Ludhiana Highway, Gharaun, Mohali, Punjab, India. The project is located in Gharaun, a peri urban area in the vicinity of Mohali (Punjab) a satellite town of Chandigarh. Chandigarh is a city designed by Le Corbusier located 250 km from New Delhi and is a symbol of modernism in India. Kharar, Mohali, Chandigarh are the nearby cities to the university.

Geographic location

Latitude 31° 45′ 10.35″ N

Longitude 74° 35′ 48.71″ E

Access : By air

Chandigarh university is 29.5 Km via NH 5 & 35.0 Km via NH 205 from the Chandigarh Airport, Mohali.

By rail

(SAS nagar) Mohali Railway Station in Sector 65 is about 25 km from the Chandigarh university. It connects places like New Delhi,Agra, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow with the city.

By road

The most nearby bus stand is in Kharar which is 9.5 km from the campus, then Sector 43, Mohali bus stand which is 20 km, that connects the Punjab and Himachal, Jammu Kashmir with the city and at last Sector 17, Chandigarh bus stand 24 km from the campus which connects the Delhi and Haryana with the city.