Krushi Bhawan is a 130,000 square foot administrative facility in Bhubaneswar, Odisha for the state's Department of Agriculture. The building was designed to promote local crafts and materials, including patterns in the brickwork resembling traditional Odisha textiles. Public spaces like a learning center, library, and amphitheater were included to allow the building to function as part of the social infrastructure. Landscaping features agricultural motifs and crops important to Odisha. The design utilizes local passive cooling techniques like night ventilation and shaded brick louvers to respond to the regional climate.
Krushi Bhawan is a 130,000 square foot administrative facility in Bhubaneswar, Odisha for the state's Department of Agriculture. The building was designed to promote local crafts and materials, including patterns in the brickwork resembling traditional Odisha textiles. Public spaces like a learning center, library, and amphitheater were included to allow the building to function as part of the social infrastructure. Landscaping features agricultural motifs and crops important to Odisha. The design utilizes local passive cooling techniques like night ventilation and shaded brick louvers to respond to the regional climate.
Krushi Bhawan is a 130,000 square foot administrative facility in Bhubaneswar, Odisha for the state's Department of Agriculture. The building was designed to promote local crafts and materials, including patterns in the brickwork resembling traditional Odisha textiles. Public spaces like a learning center, library, and amphitheater were included to allow the building to function as part of the social infrastructure. Landscaping features agricultural motifs and crops important to Odisha. The design utilizes local passive cooling techniques like night ventilation and shaded brick louvers to respond to the regional climate.
Krushi Bhawan is a 130,000 square foot administrative facility in Bhubaneswar, Odisha for the state's Department of Agriculture. The building was designed to promote local crafts and materials, including patterns in the brickwork resembling traditional Odisha textiles. Public spaces like a learning center, library, and amphitheater were included to allow the building to function as part of the social infrastructure. Landscaping features agricultural motifs and crops important to Odisha. The design utilizes local passive cooling techniques like night ventilation and shaded brick louvers to respond to the regional climate.
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CAMPUS DESIGN
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GROUP 5 Krushi Bhawan Krushi Bhawan is a facility developed for the Government of Odisha’s Architects: Studio Lotus Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment. The 1,30,000 sq.ft Area: 130000 ft² administrative centre has been designed as an office for a team of Year: 2018 nearly 600 people, in addition to accommodating spaces for community Client: State Government of Odisha engagement and learning. (Department of Agriculture & Farmers' Empowerment)
Krushi Bhawan illustrates how a
Government facility can extend itself It is located in Bhubaneswar, the to celebrate local context, state capital of Odisha; home to craftsmanship and sustainability and multiple agrarian communities, and become a vital part of the social third-largest contributor to India’s infrastructure. grain supply. The new campus sits adjacent to the old campus for Krushi Bhawan, with several ancillary structures of power in the vicinity, such as the Police Commissionerate Building and the State Guest House. Facade Treatment
With the design team working closely with local consultants and craftsmen, the project promotes sensitisation to local materials and looks at new way of integrating craft in a contemporary environment. The brickwork elements that wrap the upper floor create a pattern designed to emulate Odisha Ikat, a traditional dyeing technique of the state. The patterns recreated with bricks using three different colours of clay sourced from the surrounding area.
Designed as a passive- cooled structure with a night-purging ventilation system and a high thermal mass. The facade consists of Ground floor has a brick-louvered screen been conceived as a acting as a solar shading free-glowing stilted device and expresses itself in area that connects the pattern of local weaves, to the pedestrian its colors representing the circulation from the geographical diversity of the street. region. Campus Planning Programmatically, the project comprises a learning centre, library, auditorium, training rooms, garden and a public plaza, while the offices have been moved to the upper floors.
The designers suggested inserting a
programme for a public space, which would allow for a significant part of the building facilities, to be shared as a part of the social infrastructure of the city.
The plaza has an amphitheatre, and a
garden with a pond to naturally cool the space. Entrance is via a pathway lined with trees and stone colonnades, which doubles as a shady place for employees to eat their lunches. A learning centre, gallery, auditorium, library and training rooms are also located on the ground floor.
Government offices are located on the
first, second and third floors, where access can be restricted.
This allows the offices to be secured
off, making it possible to keep most of the other facilities open to the public even on holidays.
Through exhibitions, workshops,
weekly markets, lectures & school visits, these public spaces become a hub for imparting skills & knowledge that engages diverse sections of population. Landscaping The building and its grounds are designed to be statement on the unique qualities of Odisha. While the building is inspired by the ikat patterns of indigenous cloth, the gardens are designed to showcase the issues of and solutions to Odisha’s agricultural heritage. Bas reliefs carved into the laterite on the complex's public plaza illustrate rice paddies in the style of Odisha Pattachitra scroll paintings, a traditional, cloth-based scroll painting.
Similarly, agricultural motifs have been displayed across
the building through a variety of craft techniques – such as the bas-relief carvings in laterite along the Public Plaza, which depict ripe paddy crops illustrated in the Odia Pattachitra (cloth-based scroll paintings) style. In the Central Court, a Crop Calendar has been created on a stone inlay floor, which displays the harvesting cycles for the most prevalent crops in Odia farmlands. Climatic Response
The distinct visual identity of Krushi Bhawan
has been derived from regional materials and vernacular narratives, expressed in a manner that is responsive to the local climate.
Odisha's climate is hot in the day but cooler at
night, so a night-purging system is used to pull cool air in through the northern facade after dark, lowering the building's temperature before the hotter daytime hours.
The courtyard design, along with recessed
windows, also features brick louvres that create shade and airflow.
Using local materials lowered the building's
carbon footprint and also installed solar panels on the roof. Skillsets Integrated and Materiality With the design team working closely with local consultants and craftsmen, the project promotes sensitisation to local materials and looks at new way of integrating craft in a contemporary environment. The material palette uses a combination of exposed brick and local stones like laterite and khondolite; adapting local motifs to an unprecedented architectural scale, Krushi Bhawan emerges as an example of how the government can serve as the prime patron of regional crafts
Dhokra, a type of metalwork perfected
in India over 4,000 years, appears on screens along the building's corridors and the light fixtures on columns.
Regional materials and techniques feature all over Krushi Bhawan. Its pedestal and part of the north wing are made from laterite and khondalite stone from nearby mines.
The khondalite was carved by hand to create lattices around the central courtyard, which has a stone inlay floor that displays a yearly calendar according to the crops. Odisha is the third-largest supplier of grain in India. Thank You
