The hostel is designed as four-level, linear blocks that snake across a wedge-shaped site, creating organic spaces like the old streets of Mathura, India. The buildings are oriented to generate large north-facing garden areas and each room has a north-facing bay window overlooking a playground. Ventilation openings in the corridors allow cross ventilation. The bending blocks create breakout spaces with natural light. Color accentuates the different blocks and helps identity within the complex.
The hostel is designed as four-level, linear blocks that snake across a wedge-shaped site, creating organic spaces like the old streets of Mathura, India. The buildings are oriented to generate large north-facing garden areas and each room has a north-facing bay window overlooking a playground. Ventilation openings in the corridors allow cross ventilation. The bending blocks create breakout spaces with natural light. Color accentuates the different blocks and helps identity within the complex.
The hostel is designed as four-level, linear blocks that snake across a wedge-shaped site, creating organic spaces like the old streets of Mathura, India. The buildings are oriented to generate large north-facing garden areas and each room has a north-facing bay window overlooking a playground. Ventilation openings in the corridors allow cross ventilation. The bending blocks create breakout spaces with natural light. Color accentuates the different blocks and helps identity within the complex.
The hostel is designed as four-level, linear blocks that snake across a wedge-shaped site, creating organic spaces like the old streets of Mathura, India. The buildings are oriented to generate large north-facing garden areas and each room has a north-facing bay window overlooking a playground. Ventilation openings in the corridors allow cross ventilation. The bending blocks create breakout spaces with natural light. Color accentuates the different blocks and helps identity within the complex.
The orientation of all the buildings are done with a view of
generating large north facing garden areas overlooking a vast playground towards the north. In addition, each hostel room is punctuated with a wedge shaped bay window oriented towards the north and the playground.
Taking a cue from the old city
streets of Mathura city in India where this project is located, this 800 room students’ hostel creates organic spaces.
Each hostel room has ventilation openings in the
internal corridor facilitating cross ventilation. The linear buildings create small break out spaces at each bending point allowing natural light into the internal circulation spaces. Designed in 4 level high, 5 lin- The organic layout of the ear blocks, the built spaces buildings characterizes snake across a wedge shaped site each space within the site. twisting and turning along their Color accentuates differ- length. Sitting adjacent to repeti- ent blocks and facilitates tive hostel blocks on the east and within. Each block is dif- west these new hostels within a ferently colored along large university campus create with the internal face of individual spaces within a dis- the bay windows of the cernible identity in each part of hostel in bright colors to the layout. create an identity.
