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Uttam Chand Jain

Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect who graduated in 1958 with honors from IIT Kharagpur and has been in private practice since 1961, designing buildings that reflect the local heritage and using traditional materials like sandstone. Some of his notable projects include the lecture theater and department buildings at the University of Jodhpur that are constructed of locally quarried stone, as well as the Indira Gandhi Institute of Research & Development which uses courtyard planning and restricts movement through the building.

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Uttam Chand Jain

Uttam Chand Jain is an Indian architect who graduated in 1958 with honors from IIT Kharagpur and has been in private practice since 1961, designing buildings that reflect the local heritage and using traditional materials like sandstone. Some of his notable projects include the lecture theater and department buildings at the University of Jodhpur that are constructed of locally quarried stone, as well as the Indira Gandhi Institute of Research & Development which uses courtyard planning and restricts movement through the building.

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UTTAM

UTTAM CHAND JAIN


JAIN

USMITHA - 20041AA050
Education
1958 Graduated in Architecture (B.Arch.) with 1st Class
Honors on a scholarship from I.I.T Kharagpur, West Bengal
1958-59Advanced study scholarship from the National
University of Tucuman, Argentina

Professional Practice
1961 to date : In private practice

Philosophy
His buildings reflect the heritage of that particular place
He is not much bothered about the trends and always try
to conceive the building in his own style .
The various projects he has undertaken since then reflect
the consistent contextually inherit in his design
philosophy.
Achievements

First achievement was in 1969 common


wealth institute of architects, London
awarded prize in India essay competitions.
In 1973 he won first prize in all India
architectural competition sponsored by
government of Goa for memorial design.
He was listed as one of the three Indian
architects among 200 contemporary
worlds architects by Japan architects ,
Tokyo in 1977
In 1978 Washington university USA invited
him to speak at their Tuesday lecture series
on “a contemporary architecture of the
past”.
P H I L O S O P H Y

His buildings reflect the heritage of that particular place.


• He is not much bothered about the trends and always try to conceive the
building in his own style .
• The various projects he has undertaken since then reflect the consistent
contextually inherit in his design philosophy. ACIEVEMENTS
• First achievement was in 1969 common wealth institute of architects,
London awarded prize in India essay competitions.
• In 1973 he won first prize in all India architectural competition sponsored
by government of Goa for memorial design.
• He was listed as one of the three Indian architects among 200
contemporary worlds architects by Japan architects , Tokyo in 1977.
• In 1978 Washington university USA invited him to speak at their Tuesday
lecture series on “a contemporary architecture of the past”.
U N I V E R S I T Y O F J O D H P U R

• Lecture theater – 1971 (680 sqm


• Building is made with golden colored sandstone with which the traditional
buildings of jodhpur have been constructed.
• Steel and cement are used only minimally in this cost effective design
• Walls are of dressed masonry laid in lime mortar, standard 3.5meter long
stone slabs.
• The university buildings are widely dispersed all over the campus ,three
buildings – the faculty of arts and social sciences, the central lecture theater
cluster and the campus canteen – stand out among them .
• The building is constructed with a double wall to counter the hot and
desert climate of the desert.
• The outer wall screens the sun and are rhythmic in pattern .
Printing press
• Similar to the lecture theatre it has stepped profile .
• This allows the light to enter in the central space.
• It also has a steeped entrance which is clearly visible.
• Like other buildings of the campus it also made of locally available sandstone.
• The east west façade is made of dead wall to cut of the heat of sun8. DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• This department has a very simple u-shaped plan with a central courtyard planning.
• Made of locally available sand stone with thick walls of lime construction.
• On the ground floor there are all the faculty offices, and some of the lecture rooms.
• Mainly the lecture rooms are on the first floor
. • Enough space is left for future expansion.
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY
• Similar in plan, simple with colonnaded corridors LIBRARY BUILDING
• Library building is a simple rectangular Greek cross.
• In this building U.C.Jain has achieved minimum distance between readers and the books
. • As he has places the stacks in central area on the mezzanine floor ,along with other circulation elements.
• And the reading areas are placed in all the four l-shaped halls , which receive sufficient ambient light.
INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
• In this building the main concept which the architect has achieved is “darkness to light” there is a main entrance gate which leads to sun deck.
The corridors open up into the courtyards.
• On the entrance wall there is an inviting mural.
• The basic planning is the courtyard planning.
• The site on which building stands is sloping and hence the building follows the topography of the site .
• Another thing which is achieved in this building is the restricted motion, major areas of maximum movement are kept near to the entrance and
the research labs are kept at the farthest point from the entrance thus minimizing the movement.
BUILDINGS

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