Stephane Paumier architects, Mehrauli, New Delhi (2026)

After completing his Baccalaureat in Ecole Estienne in Applied Arts, he studied industrial design at the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts (Olivier de Serres) and Architecture, at the School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville, under Professor and architect Henri Ciriani. He came to India in 1996 under the French civil service programme to
works as an architect for the french Embassy in

Delhi, India. He stayed further on and won the competition for the Alliance Francaise of Delhi, in 2001 in collaboration with Architects Anupam Bansal and Rajesh Dongre (ABRD Architects). This was the beginning of a long-standing association which helped realize several projects like institute of Pondicherry , French resource centre, open national competition of Minto hall convention center, Bhopal (2nd prize winners)etc. In 2005 Stephane Paumier founded SPA Design Pvt. as a principal, with Anupam Bansal and Krishnachandran Balakrishnan as co directors, both graduates from School of Planning and Architecture Delhi and Masters from Kansas and Berkeley University respectively. The practice focuses on developing contextual skills for each project. Since 2005, the firm has conceived and realized many notable projects like the Tarun Tahiliani headquarters (nominated for the AGA Khan Awards 2010), the Triburg headquarters, the O.P. Making of projects entails long studies of the context of site, history of the region and technical knowledge for physical realization of desires, forms and spaces. It is the process of going through all these essentials systematically and bringing an order which help develop each project individually and tend to its needs. The organization explores all the opportunities that come with a site and the program to ascertain a strong design concept. With each project, new constructional and structural techniques are evolved, local materials are discovered and worked upon. Structure being the most important of any project is always dealt with high sensitivity. The organization believes that the structural solutions can not only support the building but also lend an aesthetic idiom to it. The clarity in structural solutions always reveals the simplicity and order of thoughts on which the foundations of a project stand. The office brings local craft of construction in play along with the latest technological & material development advancement for the benefit of an ecologically responsive design. It gives credit to the existing local constructional techniques, local materials and traditional spatial planning. This provides S.P.A. Design with a good base of knowledge to develop something new and experimental in the spaces, techniques or materials.

10/11/2012

Year of completion/ opening -2008-2010 (phase 1) Program: University Campus including Law and Business school- Auditoria, library, classrooms, tutorial offices, canteen, students housing, faculty housing, sports centre, service block, post office. Structural Designer: Larsen & Toubro-EDRC Services Consultants: Larsen & Toubro-EDRC Contractors: Larsen & Toubro Area: Phase 1- 50,000 sqm (completed) Phase 2- 30,000 sqm (Tender stage) Phase 3- 65,000 sqm (Master Plan) Concept: The campus for the O.P. Jindal Global University is planned in an entirely flat agricultural land, 10 km away from the city of Sonepat, on the remain of the mythical Grand Trunk Road that was going through Northern India, from Afghanistan to Burma. As a Greenfield project with no built context, the design started on a very rigorous geometrical framework of traces regulateurs of squares and golden rectangles, dear to European architecture as well as Indian architecture. The project is designed like a vast classical garden where the nature has been tamed by the rule of geometry as the metaphor for the men pacified by the rule of law. At the center is the academic square based on 6 courtyards clubbing together lines of classrooms and faculty offices, while auditoria, reception, library and cafeteria occupy the center of each courtyard. The main structures are large span steel bridges entirely flexible inside. All buildings are on pilotis to offer a continuous shaded park below the structures. Beside the academic square are the 2 students complexes made of pavilions in exposed concrete varying in heights and covered with terrace gardens. They create 4 courtyards of different proportions. The faculty housing is a line of immeubles villas forming the visual boundary of the campus.

31/07/2012

The brief of the competition called for creation of an institution reflecting the image of France and India together. The project proposes to superimpose harmoniously High technology and High craft in order to create an energy efficient building. Keeping in view the diversity of programme, the project aims at creating a conducive microclimate for outdoor activities and at interacting with its surrounding in a synergetic way. By proposing a natural extension of Lodi gardens, most of the area taken from the ground for erecting the building is given back as terrace gardens to create a tri-dimensional garden. All the trees have been protected and integrated into the project scheme. The intermediate terraces are planted with giant leaves, bushes and bamboos. The pergolas provide the shade of a nursery that is suitable for plants. After few years the vegetation will cover the gap between pergolas and building.

Address

Mehrauli
New Delhi

Website

http://spadesign.co.in/

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