Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai

The Institute is located on a 14-acre site on a hillside in Goregaon (east), 15 minutes by public bus from the Goregaon
railway station in Mumbais suburban and 20 min drive from Mumbais national and international airports.
The architecture of the campus is inspired by the historical Elephanta and Jogeshwari caves.

View of the Institute campus from the west, set in the green rolling acres of Goregaon - a suburb of Bombay west

The campus includes office buildings for research and administrative staff, several seminar rooms, a 500-seat auditorium,
a library, a computer centre, a cafeteria and a guest house where visiting scholars are accommodated.

Topography: steep slope

Campus comprises of two zones:

- Institutional
- Residential
 Institutional spaces consist of:
- Auditorium
- Computer room
- Research wing
- Admin block
- Recreation hall
- Service core

Mural on the double height city

gate invites the visitors to small sunlit place
Encompassed by intensely built steps which make the
backdrop structures rise realistically.
Design responds both to topography and architectural
heritage.
The barrel vault, evokes the vaulted roofs of the caves.
The form of the barrel vaults recalls the rock-cut
Chaitya Caves of Buddhist architecture.

Elephanta caves, Maharashtra Mural on entrance gate, IGIDR

To give a handicraft look to the complex, natural materials and the maximum possible manual labour have been used.
Water as a landscape element is used throughout by fountains in foyer and lobbies.
Buildings are low profiled masses that are loosely connected.
The inner structure skin is pierced by windows and the outer provides protection from extreme weather.
The theme darkness to light is achieved in the building by a grade admittance of natural light from the dark auditorium to
the bright researches cubical.
A walled garden is developed outside the library.
Residential accommodation caters to the needs of staff, researches and visiting scholars.
 Classroom, Seminar Halls and Auditorium:
The institute has four class rooms and two seminar rooms,
one conference hall and one auditorium equipped with the
facilities like Projector, Document Camera, Wi-Fi, Digital class
and Video conferencing system. The seating capacity of
Auditorium is around 500.
Hostel and Guest House:
Students are provided hostel accommodation on the campus.
The institute also has a guest house with 50 rooms.
Recreation facility:
Recreation facilities include Club library, table tennis,
badminton court, lawn tennis, jogging track, fully equipped
gymnasium, swimming pool and a childrens park within the
Institutes premises.

Computer Centre and Library:

The IT facilities at IGIDR Include a state-of-the-art Computer
Center and the IGIDR library is one of the leading
professional research and reference libraries in the country.

The Institute also has subsidized canteen facilities for the

students and employees.
There are also some recreational facilities which include a 20-
metre swimming pool, a tennis court, an indoor badminton court,
a table tennis room, a small jogging track, a fully equipped gym
and a children's park at the Institute.
All the academic facilities of the Institute are organized
concentrically around the central open space.
A system of quarter-circle passages on different levels connects
to the three separate research blocks which span out in radial
fashion.
 All the academic facilities of the Institute are organized concentrically around this central open space.
The form of the buildings themselves with their many different external treatments is rich and varied, but despite the
strong central order which pervades the complex, the architect's penchant for post-modernist effects tends to distract.
The walls, covered with glazed tiles, rough plastered stucco in different colors, and made of Malad stone - while recalling
Jain's earlier works in Rajasthan - do not successfully hold together and tend to break down the strongly integrated fabric
of the complex.
SECTION THROUGH THE SEMINAR ROOMS

SECTION THROUGH THE STREET CORRIDOR

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