Publication dated 16th August 1983
Notes on the Master Plan for Proposed Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
'The Focus of all efforts will be on "Institution buildings" that is to the process of nurturing and making an institution self-sufficient and self-renewing. Institution building is a continuous process – from the establishment to nurturing the growth of the institute at various stages of its development.'
Above quote is from a report on 'A Ten Year Perspective' prepared by Forestry Group and accepted by the Govt. of India as a basis for establishing IIFM.
The emphasis on the above 'focus' – the building of [an] institute called for a master plan for physical development with a set of space requirements for various activities, that need to be interpreted architecturally into a single connected group of buildings rather than as separately identified buildings with specific functions on its territories. This continuity of buildings mitigating/reacting against isolationist tendencies should ease progress towards academic, functional and social interaction which characterizes a successful and flexible institute. The most difficult planning problems in all-new institutes are those which arise from rapid and not entirely predictable growth; and every proposal in the plan, from overall form to minor details reflects the attempt to anticipate these problems.
The plan, therefore, centres on the interaction between the academic, social and residential life of the community in such a way as to attempt creating a sense of 'Communal Identity' without contradicting the growing desire of a student to be independent.
The environ and the master plan constitute the following classification of the site and the programme of requirements with Architectural and Planning considerations.
CONSIDERATIONS
The site and the panorama around | : | 1) | Big lakes in the distance | |
2) | Cityscape | |||
3) | Downhill horizons | |||
Determinants on the site | : | 1) | Jagged hillocks | |
2) | Rounded hill | |||
3) | Steep slopes | |||
Climatic chart for Bhopal | ||||
Major roads, water bodies and entry to the site | ||||
Major activity areas | : | 1) | Residential | |
2) | Sport | |||
3) | Academic | |||
4) | Gardens | |||
5) | Parking | |||
6) | Service and utility buildings | |||
7) | Service yards | |||
Padestrian and vehicular circulation | ||||
Academic building: | Indoor spaces | : | 1) | Administration |
2) | Faculty offices | |||
3) | Large classrooms | |||
4) | Small classrooms | |||
5) | Seminar rooms | |||
6) | Library | |||
7) | Auditorium | |||
Outdoor spaces | : | 1) | Academic court | |
2) | Administration court | |||
3) | Gardens | |||
4) | Promenade | |||
5) | Parking | |||
Residential buildings | Indoor spaces | : | 1) | Dormitories |
2) | Dormitories for senior participants. | |||
Outdoor spaces | : | 1) | Entrance courts | |
2) | Connecting walkways. | |||
Dining: | Indoor spaces | : | 1) | Mess halls |
2) | Kitchen | |||
Outdoor spaces | : | 1) | Kitchen yard | |
2) | Dining sit-out terraces. | |||
Recreation: | Indoor spaces | : | 1) | Clubhouse |
Outdoor spaces | : | 1) | Badminton courts | |
2) | Volleyball courts | |||
3) | Basketball courts. | |||
Academic areas | : | 1) | Contiguity between formal and informal educational experiences. | |
2) | The plan to provide a helpful context with academic and residential areas closely integrated. | |||
Residential areas | : | 1) | Consideration for a living room at terrace level for encouraging group contacts within the Dormitory units and common toilets | |
2) | Consideration for Senior participants providing the rooms with living and study areas for each participant with attached toilets. | |||
Circulation within the Academic Complex | : | 1) | The shape of circulation must provide for the neede sense of location within this complex. There must be a sense of arrival and departure, of moving from one place to another place, each with their sphere of influence, and vital that these should have a relationship to the whole and reflect naturally the differing intensity of each of their use. | |
: | It is this pattern that will make the anatomy of the whole development comprehensible to anybody moving about it. |
DETAILS OF MASTER PLAN
1. SITE
The site is heavily contoured on two sides (West & South) with the third side having gradual slopes (East). The major axis of the site runs North-South on a relatively flat area with outcrops of two hillocks. The entire site is predominantly made of rocky terrain. The North-South axis connects the flattened lower lands on the Northside and the distant lakes on the Southside. The Western slopes open up the panorama of the city in the distance.
2. ROADS AND APPROACHES – Diagram No: 1.
A simple road system serves the buildings of the academic complex, students' residential areas and the kitchen-dining complex. The same road system can be extended to serve the future use of the site on the Eastern side. A secondary road branching off serves the parking areas provided for the outside participation next to the Auditorium. Within the three major parking areas provided for the Academic complex lies the entire pedestrian circulation in and around the complex in the form of 'Promenade', 'Courts' and covered 'Corridors.' It is this freedom of pedestrian movement that ensures the uninterrupted flow of circulation free from vehicular traffic generating multiple points of intersection between the teaching, non-teaching and the student community. The throb of which reflects the spirit of the occasion and the congenial relationship within the community.
3. ACADEMIC AREA – Diagram No: 3.
It is on this North-South axis that the main circulation spine is located. The main thrust on the Academic area plan is on the location of the Faculty and Research Offices with their P.A.'s and Research Assistants, that forms the inner core crucial to in its location, equidistant from Administrative Offices on the one side and the teaching areas on the other sie. In place of a continuous narrow corridor, individual set back lobbies are made as stop-off places for desirable interaction.
The buildings which form the academic court area: the Larger classroom, Smaller classroom, Library, Auditorium and Seminar rooms. The scale of building forming the court is such that no building except the library will be more than 2 stories. The Library considering its growth over a period of time may become a four-storey building giving a strong focus and anchor psychologically and physically to the academic court.
The Seminar rooms are considered a community of rooms having differently sized to house students from 15 to 40 in numbers. This variety of sizes offers the possibility of engaging the room simultaneously for an appropriate number of students.
The Auditorium for 540 persons is planned for multipurpose activities speech, music, film or slide projection and holding an indoor Badminton or Table tennis tournament, For this reason, the part of the seating is on a flat area with removable chairs and part on the permanent tiers. The auditorium will be acoustically treated and will have space for green rooms, switchgear, chair storage, etc.
Hill site crowned by the academic complex offers considerable possibilities for compact cohesive grouping of buildings which is mainly the "Work-Zone." The "Core-Zone" is composed of Auditorium-Library and the academic court while the "Living-Zone" provides students Residences (Dormitories) Kitchen-Dining areas and any other spaces for group meetings.
The "Work-Zone" flow along the flat contours providing the linear form capable of extensions along on the other side of 'Promenade.' (Dia. No.: 4). The future extensions if any can have ready landscaping as indicated, helping to give form and interest.
4. DORMITORIES – Diagram No.: 4.
Students Dormitories are located at the Southern tip of the Academic Complex. It is based on a concept of the house for 8 students sharing the bathroom facility. Each house has a living room at the terrace level such as to capture the view of the distant lakes on the Horizon. The living room forms the "Social Centre" for each group of students whereas a bed-cum-study room forms a "Cell" for isolation and study for the individual student.
All Dormitories are oriented towards the lakes on the side of Southern slopes of the land and are in close proximity of the library in the Academic Complex. The rows of trees between the student Dormitories and the Academic complex help create a buffer zone besides creating shaded walkways connecting other groups of Dormitories.
The rooms of the Dormitories are based on a general bay of 9'-6". 9" load-bearing walls and one-way concrete slabs across smaller span help keep the cost down besides offering rapidity of construction. The external walls will be covered with stonecrete plaster between bands of thin stone slabs. This esthetic will be coherent with the esthetic of the Academic Complex.
5. LANDSCAPE – Diagram No.: 2.
The climate of each place controls its ecology. The plans generated by climatic considerations determining the quality of the environment. It brings into focus such concepts as, 'Courts, Loggias, Galleries, the impression of thick walls, verandahs and plazas or squares' for public activity. This is the true ecology of Architecture. The concepts based on climatic consideration also generate possibilities of forming a micro-climate for a given place, helping to produce zones of comfort, conditions inside and outside the buildings.
With this consideration, it has brought about the disposition of certain buildings forming inside and outside spaces directly related to the activities housed inside and outside the academic complex.
Bhopal has a hot and dry climate, except for a few months of winter and rains. Mean maximum reaching 41°c in the month of May and mean minimum touching 10°c in the month of January. Average humidity except in the months of June, July, August, September remain below 50%.
It is this consideration that generates a pattern for landscape on a broad plane. Adherence to this pattern will play a very important role in the development of the entire Master Plan. The main features of the site are the two Hillocks with outcrops of slated stones and depressions. As a counterpoint to the natural features is proposed the deep bans of trees shading the walkways, promenade and some areas of courts.
The bands to tress provide a deep buffer zone between the Academic complex and student residences. The water bodies are structured to create continuous vistas all over the site, carrying water in narrow channels to the areas containing trees and grass. the idea of the water reservoir on top of one of the Hillocks is to give a strong focus on landscape avoiding the compulsion to put high water towers completely incongruous to the Horizontal development of buildings and the natural terrain of the site.
On a very open site approximate 259' from lower read levels on a hill plateau the relation between landscape and buildings, will have more than just visual significance.
An extensive programme of tree planting is needed to establish a new of shadow belts across the site and further protection can be given in the early years by the extensive use of bunding, earth filling and the planting of quick-growing shrubs and hedges.
SUN DIAGRAM – Diagram No.: 5.
From the sun diagram, it is inferred that solar shading would be required between March to June from 10 AM to 5 PM (April and May being critical months). It is fortunate that during the cold months of December to February winds are mostly quiet. These winds are from mainly North and North Eastern directions.
Between July and November solar radiation is reduced due to the monsoon cloud cover. Humidity increase during this period and comfort requires good airflow. Outside wind velocity is quite high. Occasionally demanding rain shading, directions being West and North West. November is mostly comfortable period, so also is February.
16th August 1983 | |||||
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT-BHOPAL, M.P. Area statement as per dr. No: X-1. |
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Block - A. | Administrative section and accounting section with case study material etc. Dispatch – Store – Bank – Post Office. | 13,632.00 | sft. | G.Fl. + F. Fl. | |
Block - B. | Faculty Research Offices with committee rooms, lounge, toilets, P.A.s and Research Assistants, Stores. | 12,813.75 | sft. | G.Fl. | |
12.813.75 | sft. | F.Fl. | |||
Block - C. | Seminar Rooms | 5,000.00 | sft. | G.Fl. | |
Block - D. | Classrooms | 10,000.00 | sft. | ||
Block - E. | Library, stacks, stores, documentation, offices, reading halls, study carrels, etc. | 20,000.00 | sft. | G.Fl. + F.Fl. + S.Fl. | |
Block - F. | Auditorium with Foyer, Ancillary rooms, stores, etc. | 15,664.00 | sft. | ||
Kitchen-Dining, Stores, etc. | 5,000.00 | sft. | |||
Workshop-Maintenance, Warehouse, stores, etc. | 4,000.00 | ||||
16th August 1983 | |||||
Indian Institute of Forest Management-Bhopal, M.P. Area statement of Residences: |
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1 | Student participant Residences: | Per Unit | (7 Students) | ||
Ground floor | 982.00 | sft. | |||
First Floor | 982.00 | sft. | |||
Terrace floor lounge | 356.00 | sft. | |||
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Total | 2320.00 | sft. | One unit | ||
x 19 units | |||||
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= 44080.00 | sft. | ||||
2. | Executive participant Residences: | Per Unit | (4 participants) | ||
Ground floor | 895.00 | sft. | |||
First floor | 895.00 | sft. | |||
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Total | 1790.00 | sft. | One unit | ||
x 3 units | |||||
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= 5370.00 | sft. | ||||
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3. | Servants quarters: | 360 sft. per house x 5 = 1800 sft. | |||
4. | Dispensary: | 500 | sft. | ||
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Area of Roads & Parking | |||||
1. | Major road: | 94.500 | sft. | ||
2. | Minor road: | 74,100 | sft. | ||
3. | Parking: | 45,199 | sft. | ||
30th May 1985 | |||||
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT-BHOPAL, M.P. SUMMARY AREA STATEMENT |
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BLOCK: A - | ACCOUNTS OFFICE | 1220.0 sq.m | 13000 sq.ft. | ||
BLOCK: B - | ADMN. OFFICE | 1400.0 sq.m | 15000 sq.ft. | ||
BLOCK: C - | FACULTY RESEARCH OFFICES | 3285.0 sq.m | 35346 sq.ft. | ||
BLOCK: D - | SEMINAR ROOMS | 1300.0 sq.m | 14000 sq.ft. | ||
BLOCK: E - | CLASS ROOMS | 1767.0 sq.m | 19016 sq.ft. | ||
LINK CORRIDOR | 183.0 sq.m | 1970 sq.ft. | |||
BLOCK: F - | LIBRARY | 2076.0 sq.m | 223337 sq.ft. | ||
COMPUTER CENTRE | 216.0 sq.m | 2324 sq.ft. | |||
BLOCK: G 0 | AUDITORIUM | 3400.0 sq.m | 37000 sq.ft. | ||
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TOTAL AREA OF ACADEMIC COMPLEX | 14847.0 sq.m | 159775 sq.ft. | |||
BLOCK: H - | DORMITORY (ONE) 362 sq.m. AREA OF 10 BLOCK |
3620.0 sq.m | 38950 sq.ft. | ||
BLOCK: KD - | KITCHEN-DINING | ||||
STUDENT DINING HALL AND VERANDAH | 385.0 sq.m | 4150 sq.ft. | |||
FACULTY DINING | 127.0 sq.m | 1367 sq.ft. | |||
KITCHEN SERVICES | 475.0 sq.m | 5111 sq.ft. | |||
BLOCK: SC - | SPORTS COMPLEX | 1400.0 sq.m | 15000 sq.ft. | ||
CLUB ROOM | |||||
BLOCK: M - | MAINTENANCE | 460.0 sq.m | 4950 sq.ft. | ||
WORKSHOP | |||||
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AREA STATEMENT AS PER DRG. NOS. |
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30th May 1985 | |||||
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT-BHOPAL, M.P. AREA STATEMENT AS PER DRG. NO. A1, B1, C1.1, C1.2, D1, E1.1 R3, 31.2R3, F1.1, F1.2, G1, H1.1R1, KD1.1, S1R3, S2R2, S1R2 |
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BLOCK: A: | ACCOUNTS OFFICE | ||||
First-floor: | 624.70 | sq.m. | 6724.4 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 595.00 | sq.m. | 6404.7 sq.ft. | ||
1219.70 | sq.m. | 13129.1 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: B: | ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE | ||||
Ground-floor: | 711.00 | sq.m. | 7653.3 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 688.10 | sq.m. | 7406.8 sq.ft. | ||
1399.10 | sq.m. | 10580.1 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: C: | FACULTY RESEARCH OFFICES | ||||
Ground-floor: | 527.00 | sq.m. | 5671 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 508.00 | sq.m. | 5466 sq.ft. | ||
Second-floor: | 60.00 | sq.m. | 656 sq.ft. | ||
3 x | 1095.00 | sq.m. | 11782 sq.ft. | ||
3275.00 | sq.m. | 35346 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: D: | SEMINAR ROOMS | ||||
Ground-floor: | 656.30 | sq.m. | 7064.5 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 583.20 | sq.m. | 6277.7 sq.ft. | ||
1238.50 | sq.m. | 13342.2 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: E: | CLASS-ROOMS | ||||
Ground-floor: | 1136.00 | sq.m. | 12223 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 631.30 | sq.m. | 6793 sq.ft. | ||
1767.39 | sq.m. | 19016 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: F: | LIBRARY & COMPUTER CENTER | ||||
COMPUTER CENTRE G.F. | 216.00 | sq.m. | 2324 sq.ft. | ||
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LIBRARY: Ground-floor: | 503.00 | sq.m. | 5412 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 643.00 | sq.m. | 6919 sq.ft. | ||
Second-floor: | 465.00 | sq.m. | 5003 sq.ft. | ||
Third-floor: | 465.00 | sq.m. | 5003 sq.ft. | ||
2075.00 | sq.m. | 22337 sq.ft. | |||
TOTAL | 2292.00 | sq.m. | |||
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BLOCK: G: | AUDITORIUM | ||||
Ground-floor: | 2307.30 | sq.m. | 24836.3 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 1113.35 | sq.m. | 11984 sq.ft. | ||
3420.65 | sq.m. | 36820.6 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: H: | DORMITORY (ONE BLOCK) | ||||
Ground-floor: | 151.40 | sq.m. | 1625.4 sq.ft. | ||
First-floor: | 134.55 | sq.m. | 1448.3 sq.ft. | ||
Second-floor: | 76.51 | sq.m. | 823.5 sq.ft. | ||
362.46 | sq.m. | 3897.2 sq.ft. | |||
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BLOCK: KD: | KITCHEN-DINING | ||||
Ground-floor: | 937.00 | sq.m. | 10082.00 sq.ft. | ||
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BLOCK: SC: | SPORTS COMPLEX AND CLUB ROOM | ||||
Ground-floor: | 1395.00 | sq.m. | 15000.00 sq.ft. | ||
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BLOCK: M: | MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP | ||||
Ground-floor: | 460.0 | sq.m. | 4950.00 sq.ft. | ||
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30th May 1985 | |||||
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT-BHOPAL, M.P. LANDSCAPE WITHIN AND AROUND BUILDINGS |
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SUMMARY OF AREA STATEMENT | |||||
1) | ACADEMIC COMPLEX | ||||
a) Paving in light courts and pavilions | 881.2 | sq.m. | 9482 sq.ft. | ||
b) Promenade | 540.8 | sq.m. | 5819 sq.ft. | ||
c) Hard paved courtyards | 789.7 | sq.m. | 8497 sq.ft. | ||
d) Soft paved courtyards | 765.0 | sq.m. | 8231 sq.ft. | ||
e) Entry platform | 215.8 | sq.m. | 2322 sq.ft. | ||
f) Bund Walls and seats | 140.0 | sq.m. | 1506 sq.ft. | ||
g) Terraces | 3442.2 | sq.m. | 37038 sq.ft. | ||
h) Stairs connecting terraces | 26.3 | sq.m. | 283 sq.ft. | ||
i) Steps to entry platforms | 103.0 | sq.m. | 1108 sq.ft. | ||
j) Steps to terraces | 101.1 | sq.m. | 1108 sq.ft. | ||
k) Waterbodies | 2340.0 | sq.m. | 25179 sq.ft. | ||
l) Pathways and side-walks | 983.9 | sq.m. | 10587 sq.ft. | ||
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2) | DORMITORIES | ||||
a) Paving in light courts (for 10 units) | 266.0 | sq.m. | 2862 sq.ft. | ||
b) Pathways | 3333.0 | sq.m. | 35830 sq.ft. | ||
c) Soft planted courtyards | 7280.9 | sq.m. | 78333 sq.ft. | ||
d) Waterbodies | 230.0 | sq.m. | 2475 sq.ft. | ||
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3) | KITCHEN-DINING | ||||
a) Paving in light courts | 295.0 | sq.m. | 3174 sq.ft. | ||
b) Pathways | 257.0 | sq.m. | 2765 sq.ft. | ||
c) Soft planted courtyards | 900.0 | sq.m. | 9684 sq.ft. | ||
d) Bund walls & Seats | 59.0 | sq.m. | 635 sq.ft. | ||
e) Terraces | 115.0 | sq.m. | 1237 sq.ft. | ||
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4) | MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP | ||||
a) Paving light courts | 31.0 | sq.m. | 334 sq.ft. | ||
b) Pathways | 66.0 | sq.m. | 710 sq.ft. | ||
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5) | SPORTS COMPLEX – CLUB ROOM | ||||
a) Paving in light courts | 32.0 | sq.m. | 340 sq.ft. | ||
b) Pathways | 210.0 | sq.m. | 2260 sq.ft. | ||
c) Soft planted courtyards | 2390.0 | sq.m. | 25716 sq.ft. | ||
d) Bund walls & Seats | 85.0 | sq.m. | 915 sq.ft. | ||
e) Terrace | 835.0 | sq.m. | 8985 sq.ft. | ||
f) Waterbodies | 190.0 | sq.m. | 2044 sq.ft. | ||
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AREA STATEMENT AS PER DRG. NOS S1R2/S2R2/S1R3. |
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10th August 1983 | |||||
Indian Institute of Forest Management-Bhopal, M.P. Programme for Phasing |
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1st Phase | 2nd Phase | ||||
1. | Academic Complex | 1. | Academic Complex | ||
i) | Office Accommodation for Director, Faculty, Staff, Board Room, etc. | i) | Library, reading rooms, stacks, sorting space | ||
ii) | Seminar rooms. | ii) | stores records. | ||
iii) | Classrooms. | iii) | Common rooms for faculty students and staff. | ||
iv) | Parking sheds for Cars, Scooters and Bicycles. | iv) | Compex for Post office, bank and dispensary. | ||
v) | Maintenance workshop shed. | ||||
2. | Dormitories | 2. | Dormitories | ||
i) | For 40 Officer trainees/ Research scholars for short duration courses/seminars | i) | for 100 Post-graduate students | ||
ii) | Canteen & Kitchen for the above. | ii) | Canteen and kitchen for the above. | ||
3. | Nil | 3. | Auditorium | ||
i) | Auditorium AC for 500 persons with projection and acoustic arrangement | ||||
4. | Guest House | 4. | Guest House | ||
i) | Servant quarter, 5 nos. | i) | 20 single rooms with attached baths for visitors. | ||
5. | Water & Power supply | 5. | Playground | ||
Roads & Approaches | |||||
Landscaping | |||||
Pathways |