AshokBLall architects

Wildlife Insitute of India (WII), Dehradun

On the edge of a Saal forest on undulating ground, the Wildlife Institute is developed to enhance the experience of the land and the natural environment. The focus and alignments of buildings are negotiated across the dictates of the land and a preferred north-south orientation of spaces to enjoy the benefit of day lit spaces and the winter sun.
Materials of river bed pebbles, slate and timber are drawn from the neighboring region. A strict regimen of construction processes that ensure least disturbance to the land is prescribed.

TATA Energy Research Institute, Gwal Pahadi

A master plan that finds a pattern of development where forest, buildings and field and outdoor work spaces – follow the dictates of climate and land form.
Homes and workspaces are protected from harsh winds by forest to the north and west and face the open spaces to the south- to receive the winter sun and the monsoon wind.
The axis of equinox is marked on the landscape by the alignment of the entrance forecourt at the southern end, the water tower, the flower garden and the chabutra with a baoli leading down to the northern marsh.

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Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), BarodaDesign Competition Entry (placed second), 1990-91 (collaboration
with Naveen Kulshreshtha)

A planted forest with a bund walk at its edge to which the various parts of the institutional settlement connect is the strategic symbol of response to the environment.
Outdoor micro-climate modifiers and the buildings for work and for homes form an integrated whole. The climate responsive configurations conserve energy and water.

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TERI Tissue Culture Pilot Plant Nominated for Aga Khan Award, 1995

The tissue culture pilot plant is an industrial building with artificially controlled indoor environments but its materiality and systems of building are “earthbound”.

Ayurveda University Jodhpur

A triangulated network of movement finds a formal expression of natural desire lines of campus circulation.This framework intersects with the rectilinear structure of quadrangles and ceremonial routes aligned to the cardinal directions Gardens, herbal plantations, orchards and forest form a progressive relationship between the formal symbols of knowledge and the forest beyond.
Semicircular teaching departments acknowledge the rising sun across the shaded walkways.

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State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Jaipur

A campus built on the slopes of jhalana doongri with a kikar forest above the campus. The design responds to the incidents of the land with meandering paths of old justifications, but all of them sheltered by pergolas.
Load bearing stone masonry, natural pink sand plaster, a stone aggregate of the doongri stone and concrete jails of jaipur- these are the materials for this modern institution.

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Medicity Hyderabad

A flexible master plan for expansion of a medical college. Two-tiered covered walks that establish a favorable north –south orientation of single loaded spaces and an intimate scale of sheltered courts, each with its individual identity.

Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur Campus

Competition First prize, Nominated for Aga Khan Award, 1995)An institutional typology of courts with small tended gardens surrounded by Kikar and Neem forest or orchard plantations to modify the harsh winds from the north-west.
The natural watercourse is bounded by the raised walkway to recharge the water-table during the rains.

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Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA)

TERI Campus

TERI TCPP

Ayurveda University Jodhpur

SIHFW , Jaipur

Medicity, Hyderabad

IIHMR Jaipur Campus