IIHS CAMPUS
MASTER PLAN

IIHS CAMPUS
MASTER PLAN

IIHS CAMPUS
MASTER PLAN

ISSUES
SPACE | RESILIENCE
KEY ASPECTS
DESIGN | RESEARCH
ESTABLISHING A BENCHMARK FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTRY
The development strategy and evolution of the master plan for the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) is a valuable opportunity to engage with critical aspects of sustainable development in the urban context. It brings to the fore several issues – the potential of an institutional campus as a demonstrator of its pedagogic principles, its impact on the natural and urban fabric, its responsibilities in mitigating some of the externalities, and so forth.
Understanding soil and the terrain
Understanding regional hydrology
Interpreting the geology is key to water security
All components of the built & unbuilt have an assigned productive function
Fine grained curation of ecological functions
Master plan at maturity - 2025
Given the directive principles guiding the IIHS, the campus should reflect its ideologies and establish benchmarks for campus planning, sustainable use of resources, maximizing the natural capacity of the site and more importantly, function as a living lab for its users – faculty and students alike. 
The extensive process of first framing a development strategy and structuring a physical master plan is deeply embedded in the natural characteristics, potentials and limits both within the site and the surrounding landscape. Extremely ambitious benchmarks, well beyond the cutting edge by global standards, for minimal use of resources including water, energy and materials meant evolving a complex ecosystem that should render the campus near-zero at every stage of its growth. Close readings of the landscape – both terrestrial and sub-terranean – clearly establish the carrying capacity of the campus in terms of all resources including waste management, nutrition security and even micronutrient flows. 
The built form evolved is intimately linked to the ecological functions of the site as well as the productive landscape it sits in. A hybrid of centralized and decentralized services – based on their energy and resource dynamics – structures the built and the unbuilt components of the campus into a single, complex and inter-related organism.
The IIHS is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements, opening its first campus in Bangalore, India.

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ISSUES
SPACE | RESILIENCE
KEY ASPECTS
DESIGN | RESEARCH
ESTABLISHING A BENCHMARK FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTRY 
The development strategy and evolution of the master plan for the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) is a valuable opportunity to engage with critical aspects of sustainable development in the urban context. It brings to 
the fore several issues – the potential of an institutional campus as a demonstrator of its pedagogic principles, its impact on the natural and urban fabric, its responsibilities in mitigating some of the externalities, and so forth.
Understanding soil and the terrain
Understanding regional hydrology
Interpreting the geology is key to water security
All components of the built & unbuilt have an assigned productive function
Fine grained curation of ecological functions
Master plan at maturity - 2025
Given the directive principles guiding the IIHS, the campus should reflect its ideologies and establish benchmarks for campus planning, sustainable use of resources, maximizing the natural capacity of the site and more importantly, function as a living lab for its users – faculty and students alike. 
The extensive process of first framing a development strategy and structuring a physical master plan is deeply embedded in the natural characteristics, potentials and limits both within the site and the surrounding landscape. Extremely ambitious benchmarks, well beyond the cutting edge by global standards, for minimal use of resources including water, energy and materials meant evolving a complex ecosystem that should render the campus near-zero at every stage of its growth. 
Close readings of the landscape – both terrestrial and sub-terranean – clearly establish the carrying capacity of the campus in terms of all resources including waste management, nutrition security and even micronutrient flows. 
The built form evolved is intimately linked to the ecological functions of the site as well as the productive landscape it sits in. A hybrid of centralized and decentralized services – based on their energy and resource dynamics – structures the built and the unbuilt components of the campus into a single, complex and inter-related organism.
The IIHS is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements, opening its first campus in Bangalore, India.

FOR PROJECTS BY TYPOLOGY

CLICK HERE
ISSUES
SPACE | RESILIENCE
KEY ASPECTS
DESIGN | RESEARCH
ESTABLISHING A BENCHMARK FOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTRY
The development strategy and evolution of the master plan for the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) is a valuable opportunity to engage with critical aspects of sustainable development in the urban context. It brings to the
fore several issues – the potential of an institutional campus as a demonstrator of its pedagogic principles, its impact on the natural and urban fabric, its responsibilities in mitigating some of the externalities, and so forth.
Understanding soil and the terrain
Understanding regional hydrology
Interpreting the geology is key to water security
All components of the built & unbuilt have an assigned productive function
Fine grained curation of ecological functions
Master plan at maturity - 2025
Given the directive principles guiding the IIHS, the campus should reflect its ideologies and establish benchmarks for campus planning, sustainable use of resources, maximizing the natural capacity of the site and more importantly, function as a living lab for its users – faculty and students alike. 
The extensive process of first framing a development strategy and structuring a physical master plan is deeply embedded in the natural characteristics, potentials and limits both within the site and the surrounding landscape. Extremely ambitious benchmarks, well beyond the cutting edge by global standards, for minimal use of resources including water, energy and materials meant evolving a complex ecosystem that should render the campus near-zero at every stage of its growth. 
Close readings of the landscape – both terrestrial and sub-terranean – clearly establish the carrying capacity of the campus in terms of all resources including waste management, nutrition security and even micronutrient flows. 
The built form evolved is intimately linked to the ecological functions of the site as well as the productive landscape it sits in. A hybrid of centralized and decentralized services – based on their energy and resource dynamics – structures the built and the unbuilt components of the campus into a single, complex and inter-related organism.
The IIHS is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements, opening its first campus in Bangalore, India.

FOR PROJECTS BY TYPOLOGY

CLICK HERE
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