News and Happenings

The Unison World School in Dehra Dun India, designed by Bargad, has taking leadership position in the category of residential girls schools in India. Here is a recent look in to the school in UWS’s video post.

Excited to share that the building activity of Bargad projects in IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat in finishing stages now. This project is a new innovative model for a progressive environment for student communities exhibiting transparency, access and collaboration. Highly innovative sustainable strategies are being tried out in India for the first time. To ensure thermal comfort, a ‘Cooling Strategy’ has been planned involving radiant cooling, combining passive cooling with an innovative ‘assisted’ PDEC (Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling) and green softscapes are maximized with the built form orientation.

ACER Australian Council for Education & Research. ACER India Corporate Office inaugurated in New Delhi in 37 days from start to finish.

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Revitalization of Anandaban Hospital, Nepal for Article 25. Bargad was invited by Sunand Prasad, Chairman, Article 25 (a UK based registered charity that manages sustainable architecture projects in areas of extreme poverty and disaster) to participate in revitalization of The Leprosy Mission buildings at Anabdaban Hospital near Kathmandu, Nepal. Bargad organised a team of structural and MEP consultants to visit and asses/analyse the buildings for rehabilitation. It also participated in a design charette with the objective to do an appraisal of the different facilities and develop the design brief based on which the Hospital team could delineate building projects across the campus.

Kathputli Colony is a colony of street performers in Shadipur Depot area of Delhi. For the last 50 years, it is home to some 2,800 families of magicians, snake charmers, acrobats, singers, dancers, actors, traditional healers and musicians and especially puppeteers or ‘kathputli’-performers from Rajasthan. The colony is undergoing an in situ redevelopment plan by DDA as a PPP project. The community felt that it was not getting proper design input from the stakeholders. At behest of the Court an Advisory Committee was appointed, who in turn requested NMA to prepare a design, pro bono, on behalf of the community. NMA explored various options, the primary two being 1) 8-storey development with a ‘second’ ground created above the fourth floor and b) high density/low rise ground-plus-three development. In both the need for open spaces as extension to the community’s needs were addressed. Key project details: Project size (Plot Area): 52,160 sqm No. of Dwelling Units: 2,800