The IT college building is an addition to the K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering on their Sion campus in Northern Mumbai.
The site for the new building was flanked on one end by a cement plant, on another by a contaminated rivulet and on the west by the existing eight-storey engineering college building.
The client brief was for the new institute to accommodate programs that included Workshops, Laboratories, Lecture Rooms & Student Community Rooms along with an extension to the existing cafeteria in the adjoining building, to be built in a second phase.
The IT College building viewed from the adjacent eight-story academic block © Edmund Sumner/sP+a
The insulated roof plane spans over all programs linking them together into a distinct singular building while folding into giant water gargoyles that would channel rainwater into the courtyards and further into harvesting tanks.
- Completion Year: 2018
- Built Area: 2070 sq m
- Project Location: Sion, Mumbai - Maharashtra. India
- Photographer: Edmund Sumner. Sahil Dagli. Akanksha Jain
- Structural Consultant: Rajeev Shah
- Key Materials used: Galvanized colour-coated roofing ("puff panel"), Aluminium Door/Window section, "Radiant" underfloor cooling systems, Kota Stone Flooring1
- 1. Manufacturers' and Brand names omitted for compliance by the Ordinances issued under the Architects Act (India) of 1972 and other Indian statutes
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Phase II: Canteen In K.J. Somaiya College for Information Technology. Sameep Padora & Associates (sP+a), 2018.