| landscape architecture & design

'A LIVABLE CAMPUS'
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IISER
Ujan Ghosh
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The campus is an attempt to integrate residential, academic, and recreational spaces harmoniously, fostering a walkable, sustainable environment and institutional space, conducive to learning and well-being.
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal campus is not only the workplace for over 3000 students and faculty but also their ‘home’ away from home. A visit to the campus gives the feel of just that, a tranquil environment where greenery prevails over the built, and the leisurely activities of the young inhabitants make the place alive.

IISER is located on the outskirts of Bhopal city, beyond the airport in a developing Institutional area. The 200-acre campus is built on a 3 km-long linear strip of land. The land is mostly flat but has a hillock occupying part of its eastern side.

The three dominant functions of the Institute have been carefully located one after the other but close enough for easy and direct access from one to another. The housing for faculty and staff and related facilities have been located in the front portion nearer to the entrance to the campus. This helps keep the cars owned by faculty and staff close to the gate and away from the rest of the campus. The students’ hostels have been provided at the rear portion of the site along with the sports facilities. Between these two residential zones, the Academic Complex has been placed making it close to both the user groups. While allocating land for these three functions, the natural features like the hillock and the drainage channels have been kept undisturbed.



 


| report

LANDSCAPES OF COEXISTENCE
MANIFESTATIONS| RENDITIONS | EVALUATION | DIRECTION
Report by Sharayu Gangurde


| the region

REGIONAL CONTEXT
Vishakha Kawathekar


IN THE LAP OF NATURE
Suhas Kumar


THE CITY
P. K. Biswas


| nature in the city

IS WISE USE OF BHOJ WETLAND, A RAMSAR SITE, A DREAM?
Pradip Nandi


PLANNING OF LAKE CITY
OPPORTUNITIES AND COMPLEXITIES
Surabhi Mehrotra


NEGOTIATING CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Abhilash Khandekar


CLASSICS
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND PLANNING

| city & culture

BHOPAL
THE LOST HISTORIC GARDENS
A GLANCE
Meera Ishwar Dass


ENACTING THE PAST
Moulshri Joshi


| landscape, architecture & design

FROM THE ARCHIVES

INDIRA GANDHI RASHTRIYA MANAV SANGRAHALAYA
MANAV SANGRAHALAYA IGRMS | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MAN
Ram Sharma & Associates


‘A LIVABLE CAMPUS’
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IISER
Ujan Ghosh


SHAURYA SMARAK
A MEMORIAL
Kishore D. Pradhan: Architecture+Landscape


WITH VERNACULAR
Nipun Prabhakar | Dhammada Collective


| seeing the unseen

MOVING THROUGH SPACE & TIME
Manjusha Ukidve


VISUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE LANDSCAPE STORIES
GOND PAINTINGS
Khushboo Adhiya



























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