B. Arch.

Thesis Project Report

Along with the design solution in the form of graphic materials, the students have to submit a
comprehensive report which outlines briefly the nature of the subject, its scope, goals & objectives and
design proposal in the form of a Thesis Report, which should primarily have three divisions, the details
are as follows:
i.

Preliminaries

The Main Body

References

Hard Cover: Students have to submit three copies of the thesis report
in a hard bound format, along with the cover page as mentioned in the
Annexure-i.
Certificate: The certificate has to be as per format mentioned in
Annexure ii.
Acknowledgements: Students should make proper acknowledgement
and also sign this before submitting.
Abstract
Contents: It records the structural pattern of the report in detail. The
sequence of this content shall be such that it makes clear at a glance
the relation of the main and subordinate elements.
List of Tables: The tables as used in the report should be properly
numbered and captioned precisely. The tables must show the source of
information, wherever applicable.
List of Illustrations: The illustrations in the report (in the form of
photographs / maps / sketches / diagrams etc.) should be placed in
appropriate place and should not be put together at the end of the
report. The drawings for the design proposal may however be kept at
the end in proper sequence.
Introduction: It should have the details of the project, aims,
objectives, scope, methodology and limitations
Literature study: All the background information regarding your
project.
Data Analysis: It should analyze all the data obtained from primary as
well as secondary sources, in terms of Site analysis, Case studies,
Literature studies, Climatic / environmental parameters, Building
byelaws etc. and inference drawn. This part of the report can be
further divided into following chapters:
o Site Analysis.
o Case Studies.
o Relevant Codes, Standards and Bye-laws.
o Area Programme.
The contents for each of these chapters have already been mentioned
in detail during corresponding thesis reviews.
Design Proposal: It should clearly explain the basic concept
governing the design solution and then describe each aspect in detail
with the help of relevant drawings / sketches.
Advanced Objective.
Conclusion: It should briefly discuss the achievements of this thesis
project carried out by the respective student.
Bibliography: All reference books, journals, reports and other sources
of materials should be indicated in the list of selected references and
should be arranged alphabetically by the name of the authors.
Annexure: Any additional information relevant to your thesis can be
provided at the end of the report in the form of annexure.

Formatting Guidelines
S.No.
i
ii
iii
iv
v
vi
vii
viii

Guidelines
No. of thesis report copies
Cover
Printing
Paper size
Paper quality
Minimum words
Page margins
Text

ix
x
xi
xii

Numbers in running text

Spacing
Header
Footer

xiii
xiv

Footnote
Heading Style

xv

Page no.
.

xvi
xvii

Chapter name
Maps

xviii

Tables

Specifications
Three
Hardbound in Black with golden embossed text
Back to back
A4
Executive bond/minimum of 75 gsm
15,000
Left 1.25, other margins 1
Any font (should be clearly readable) of students choice (12),
except for chapter names, tables and footnotes
For 0 to 9, write in words. Above nine, use numbers
1.5, except for text in tables
Chapter name (right align), Any font of students choice (10)
Thesis title (left align), page number (right align), Any font of
students choice (10)
Any font of students choice (10)
Chapter No. / Name
DESIGN
(Any font of students
THESIS
choice, 16, Bold)
Main Heading (Any font
1.0 Introduction
of students choice, 12,
Bold)
Side Heading (Any font of 1.1 Design Program
students choice, 12)
Side Sub Heading (Any
1.1.1 Case Studies
font of students choice,
12, Italics)
Footer (right aligned)
Any font of students choice, 10
Preliminaries pages before Roman, small numbers (i, ii, iii.....)
chapterisation
For certificate and declaration, no
numbering
Body
Numbers (1, 2, 3......)
Upper case (Any font of students choice, 16, Bold)
A3 size (coloured, scaled maps with proper title panel including
map title, legend, north point, scale, key map/location map, notes,
etc.)
Text in Table
Any font,11, single spacing
Table No. and Heading
Any font, 12, Top Left.

Eg. Table No.1:Population,

Bhopal (2011)
Sources
xix

Figures/
Illustrations/ Photographs

Heading

Any font, 11, Italics, Bottom Left

Eg. Source: Directorate of Economics and
Statistics (2001).
Any font, 12, Bottom Left
Eg. Fig. No.1:Landuse, Bhopal

(2011)
Source
xx
xxi
xxii

Reference style
Certificate
Declaration

See Table below.

See Annexure-ii
See Annexure-ii

Any font, 11, Italics, Bottom Left

Eg. Source: Directorate of TCP (2001)

Reference style
Harvard system of referencing has to be followed.
Material Type

In-Text Example

Book: Single
Author

(Holt 1997) or
Holt (1997)
wrote that...
(McCarthy,
William &
Pascale 1997)
(Bond et al.
1996)

Book: 2 or 3
Authors
Book: More
Than 3
Authors
Book: No
Author
Book: Editor
Book: 2 or
More Editors
Book, edition
other than
first.
Book:
Translator &
Author
Book:
Organisation
as Author

Book: Chapter
or Article in
Edited Book
E-book
E-book:
Chapter or
Article in an
Edited Ebook
Book:
Different
Works by
Same Author
in Same Year
Company
Report

Reference List Example

Holt, DH 1997, Management principles and practices, Prentice-Hall, Sydney.
McCarthey, EJ, William, DP & Pascale, GQ 1997, Basic marketing, Irwin,
Sydney.
Bond, WR, Smith, JT, Brown, KL & George, M 1996, Management of
small firms, McGraw-Hill, Sydney.

(A history of
Greece 1994)
(ed. Jones 1998)
(eds Bullinger &
Warnecke 1985)
(Drafke, 2009)

A history of Greece 1994, Irwin, Sydney.

(trans. Smith
2006)

Colorado, JA 2006, Economic theory in the Mexican context: recent developments

on the ground, trans. K Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

(Australian
Bureau of
Agricultural and
Resource
Economics
2001)
A number of
disturbing facts
intrude'
(Milkman 1998,
p 25)
(Aghion &
Durlauf 2005)
'Historical
thinking is
actually a
Western
perspective'
(White 2002, p
112)
(Bond 1991a)
(Bond 1991b)

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2001,

Aquaculture development in Australia: a review of key economic issues, ABARE,
Canberra.

(Aspect Huntley
2009)

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May 2009].

Jones, MD (ed.) 1998, Management in Australia, Academic Press, London.

Bullinger, HJ & Warnecke HJ (eds) 1985, Toward the factory of the future,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Drafke, M 2009, The human side of organizations, 10th edn,
Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J

Milkman, R 1998, 'The new American workplace:high road or low

road?' in Workplaces of the future, eds P Thompson & C Warhurst,
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Bond, G 1991b, Corporate governance, Irwin, London.

Company
Profile
Financial Data

(Datamonitor
2009)
(Datastream
2009)

Datamonitor 2009, Wesfarmers Limited Company Profile. Available

from: Business Source Premier. [20 May 2009].
Datastream, 2009, S&PASX200 daily index data 2000-2009. Available
from: Datastream. [20 May 2009].

Conference
Proceeding
Paper: Print

(Riley 1992)

Conference
Proceeding
Paper:
Electronic

(Fan, Gordon &

Pathak 2000)

Conference
Proceeding
Paper:
Unpublished

(Brown & Caste

1990)

Riley, D 1992, 'Industrial relations in Australian education', in

Contemporary Australasian industrial relations: proceedings of the sixth
AIRAANZ conference, ed. D. Blackmur, AIRAANZ, Sydney, pp. 124140.
Fan, W, Gordon, MD & Pathak, R 2000, 'Personalization of search
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Digital Library. [24 June 2004].
Brown, S & Caste, V 2004, 'Integrated obstacle detection
framework'. Paper presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles
Symposium, IEEE, Detroit MI.

CMO Article

(Jennings 1997)

Journal Article:
Print

(Conley &
Galeson 1998)

Journal Article:
Electronic
Database

(Liveris 2011)

Webpage: No
Author

(Improve
indigenous
housing 2007)

Webpage: No
Date
Web
Document
Website

Use first few

words of the
page title
(Jones, n.d.)
(Department of
Industry,
Tourism and
Resources 2006)
(Australian
Securities
Exchange 2009)

Blog

(Newton 2007)

Computer
Software
Web Based
Image / table
/ figure

(OpenOffice.org
2005)
(The Lunar
Interior 2000)

Jennings, P 1997, 'The performance and competitive advantage of small

firms: a management perspective', International Small Business Journal,
vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 63-75. Available from: The University of Western
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Video
Television
Programme

(Effective
performance
appraisals 1994)
(Crystal 1993)

Audio Podcast

(Van Nuys 2007)

Video Podcast

(Kloft 2006)

Music Track
from an
Album
Video Blog
Post

(Shocked 1992)

Effective performance appraisals 1994, (video recording), Melbourne,

Educational Media Australia.
Crystal, L (executive producer) 1993, The MacNeil/Lehrer news
hour(television broadcast) 11 October 1993, New York and
Washington DC, Public Broadcasting Service.
Van Nuys, D (producer) 2007, 'The anatomy of a lobotomist [Show
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picture), in M.Sameuls (executive producer), American
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2006].
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New York, Polygram Music.

(Norton 2006)

Norton, R 2006, 'How to train a cat to operate a light switch' (video

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Newspaper:
Print
Newspaper:
Electronic
Database
Newspaper:
From a
Website

(Ionesco 2001)

Ionesco, J 2001, 'Federal election: new Chip in politics', The

Advertiser 23 October, p. 10.
Meryment, E 2006, 'Distaff winemakers raise a glass of their own to
their own', The Australian, 7 October, p. 5. Available from: Factiva. [2
February 2007].
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Standard:
Retrieved
From a
Database
Standard:
Published

(Standards
Australia 2008)

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requirements. AS 4758.1-2008. Available from: Standards Australia
Online. [1 December 2008].

(Standards
Australia/New
Zealand
Standard 1994)

Standards Australia 1994, Information processing - text and office

systems - office document architecture (ODA) and interchange format:
part 10: formal specifications, AS/NZS 3951.10:1994, Standards
Australia, NSW.

Thesis:
Unpublished

(Hos 2005)

Thesis:
Published
Thesis:
Retrieved
From a
database

(May 2007)

Hos, JP 2005, Mechanochemically synthesized nanomaterials for

intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell membranes. Ph.D thesis,
University of Western Australia.
May, B 2007, A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust
cloud. Bristol UK, Canopus Publishing.
Baril, M 2006, A distributed conceptual model for stream salinity
generation processes: a systematic data-based approach. WU2006.0058.
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Lecture Notes

(Foster 2008)

(Meryment 2006)
(Hilts 1999)

(Baril 2006)

Foster, T 2004, Balance sheets, lecture notes distributed in Financial

Accounting 101 at The University of Western Australia, Crawley on 2
November 2008.

Annexure i (Cover Page)

<THESIS TITLE>

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

<Students Name>
[Sch. No.

Under the Guidance of

<Guides Name>

SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, BHOPAL

SPORTS COMPLEX, MANIT CAMPUS, BHOPAL (MP)-462051
MAY <YEAR>

Annexure ii (Declaration & Certificate)

Declaration
I .............................................................................. Scholar No. ...........................................
hereby declare that the thesis entitled ....................................................................................
..................................................................................................................................................
submitted by me in partial fulfilment for the award of degree of Bachelor Of Architecture, in
School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal, India, is a record of bonafide work carried out
by me. The matter embodied in this thesis has not been submitted to any other University or
Institute for the award of any degree or diploma.
<[Date]>

<[Students Name]>

Certificate
This is to certify that the declaration of ____________________________________ is true
to the best of my knowledge and that the student has worked for one semester in preparing
this thesis.

RECOMMENDED

<[Guides Name]>
<[Designation]>

Dr. Sanjeev Singh

Prof. Ajay Khare

B. Arch. Thesis Coordinator, SPA Bhopal

Director, SPA Bhopal

Annexure ii (First Page)

<THESIS TITLE>

A DESIGN THESIS

Submitted
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE

By

<Students Name>
[Sch. No.

Under the Guidance of

<Guides Name>

SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, BHOPAL

SPORTS COMPLEX, MANIT CAMPUS, BHOPAL (MP)-462051

MAY < YEAR >