Location: Purvanchal
Land Area: 5 acres
Project Area: 1,00,000 sq.ft
Client Name: Jagriti Seva Sansthan
Status: Upcoming
Design Timeline: Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Scope:
Architectural Design
Master Planning
Sustainability Engineering
Strategies for water, waste, energy,
Thermal Comfort through Natural Means
Branding through Building Design
CLIENT:
Jagriti Enterprise Centre is a bespoke state-of-the-art incubation centre aimed at creating a strong enterprise ecosystem in small towns and villages of India. The first prototype in Purvanchal will cater to 70 million people. The mission of this Centre is ‘Building India through Enterprise’. The client is the founder of Jagriti Yatra - “Journey of Awakening”, the world's longest train journey dedicated to social entrepreneurship.
SITE:
We found a magnificent 200 year old large Banyan, India's national tree, on the site during our first site visit. This was the only context on an otherwise ‘back of the beyond’ village surrounded by open fields as far as the eye could see.
200 year old magnificent Banyan around which the entire Centre is designed with proposed Lotus pond underneath - to surround the national tree of India with the National Flower of India (Big)
DESIGN:
The banyan tree being the national tree of India forms the perfect epicentre of the architectural design. A lotus pond is proposed underneath to reflect the tree's aerial roots. Also, lotus is considered a symbol of the Buddha, whose final resting place, Kushinagar is only 40 km away.
Institutional facilities are arranged around the Banyan along the curve of a golden spiral, an evolutionary form representing possibilities of sustainable growth.
A transitional axis connects the Banyan with a Park containing an inspirational museum in Railway carriages, catapulting from the client's identity of the transformative train journey for social enterprise - Jagriti Yatra.
A large amphitheater oriented towards the Banyan tree, forms the heart of the campus. Steps gently leading to water reflecting Banyan’s aerial roots evoke memory of ghats at nearby city Varanasi. Spaces embody principles of solar passive design with light and air as essential materials of architecture.
The Master Plan of the Centre spread over 5 acres (big)
INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING
The Centre aspires to be a catalyst of change for Purvanchal, steeped in challenges of degrading air, water and soil quality, through instructive environmental design and minimizing ecological footprint. A comprehensive vision encompassing all aspects of Sustainability engineering was drawn up.
View from Entrance gate
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
● Daylighting
● Passive solar design for thermal comfort to minimize solar heat gain and maximize natural ventilation
● Radiant cooling to reduce air conditioning load
● Renewable power - windmill and solar panels
Minimising Solar gain through natural cooling
WASTE
● Wastewater treatment through biological methods
● Segregation at source and composting kitchen waste for gardens
Rainwater used for gardening
WATER & VEGETATION
● Complete Rainwater harvesting - rooftop and surface runoff
● Recycling treated water for secondary domestic purposes, irrigation and radiant cooling
● Groundwater recharge
● Landscaping with Local vegetation
Caption : An inspirational museum on “Building India through Enterprise” inside train boggies to catapult the brand image of Jagriti Yatra
This project has also been covered in Trupti’s TEDx talk “Can a Building be a Person?” in Greece under the heading “Building as an Entrepreneur”. Please find the link here.
Testimonial
Ms. Trupti Doshi, Auroma Architecture is the Architect of our flagship project - Jagriti Enterprise Centre, Purvanchal. I have known Trupti since 2014. Her genius lies in embracing a project at its conceptual level as her own, and shaping it with her creativity that is inspired by her inquisitiveness to explore new horizons. It is not easy to convince everybody about new, radical ideas, especially when the person in question is your client. But that’s what Trupti does with a certain poise. And the reason she does this is because she imbibes the vision of the person and becomes a co-creator in the process. To me, that is the mark of a leader.
My organisation has been engaging with Trupti since early 2015 for the Incubation Centre idea. She has really championed the idea, collaborated with our various teams, listened to every idea with an open mind and heart. Finally she has delighted us with her designs which kept on improving every time they came to us. She is not satisfied with the ordinary, neither she let people around her get satisfied with the prosaic. The project brief kept on changing but every time she took it as a challenge and came back to us with something that was beyond our imagination. Her dedication and passion towards the work she takes up is exemplary. - Mr. Shashank Mani Tripathi, Founder of Jagriti Yatra, Partner at PwC Strategy&, India
