Project Details
- Project Name
- The Street
- Architect
- Sanjay Puri Architects
- Project Types
- Student Housing
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 211,000 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2017
- Shared by
- Hanley Wood
- Project Status
- Built
2018 Residential Architect Design Awards / Student Housing / Award
“I think it’s really adventuresome and has a great energy for student life.” —Dirk Denison
The Street, designed by Mumbai, India–based Sanjay Puri Architects, is a 211,000-square-foot, 800-unit student housing complex on the campus of GLA University in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India. The designers took advantage of a wedge-shaped site between repetitive blocks to create a complex of radially aligned four-story-tall structures informed by the more organic organization and expression of traditional Indian cities.
The architects create what they call a “discernable identity” for the project by marking each student room with a distinctive angular bay window that faces north to capture daylight (and heat) in the winter months and limit heat gain for the remaining eight months of the year, when the average area temperature is above 30 C (86 F). Louvers in each window provide sunshading while permitting natural ventilation, which is enhanced by openings at the corridor for each room. Overall natural air circulation is further encouraged by openings at regular intervals in each block, where the form shifts in plan. These irregular parts of the floor plan are filled with breakout spaces that provide natural light into the double-loaded corridors.
Double-height, 20-foot-tall cafeterias, game rooms, and gymnasiums are located at the end of the buildings, where they open directly onto the campus’s larger outdoor spaces. Canted rooflines reprise the bay windows at a more public scale, marking these indoor gathering spaces while also sheltering monumental outdoor stairs from the elements. Bright colors differentiate the blocks, the painted surfaces being located on the exterior of the volumes housing public amenities, and on the inside of individual bay windows, casting color into the students’ rooms.
See the full list of winners of the 2018 Residential Architect Design Awards.
Project Credits
Project: The Street, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
Client: Ganeshi Lal Agrawal University
Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects, Mumbai, India . Sanjay Puri (principal architect); Ishveen Bhasin (senior project architect) Interior Designer: Sanjay Puri Architects
Mechanical Engineer: Epsilon Engineering
Structural Engineer: Padaria Associates Structural Consultants
Electrical Engineer: Epsilon Engineering
Civil Engineer: Padaria Consultants Structural Consultants
Construction Manager: Bajaj Infrastructure Development Co.
General Contractor: M&M Builders and Contractors
Landscape Architect: Sanjay Puri Architects
Lighting Designer: Sanjay Puri Architects
Size: 215,000 square feet
Cost: Withheld
Materials and Sources
Adhesives/Coatings/Sealants: Pidilite
Bathroom Fixtures: Kohler
Cabinets: Locally made from aluminium and plywood
Concrete: M25 Grade
Countertops: Granite
Flooring: Somany Tiles (vitrified tiles)
Furniture: Locally fabricated from metal and plywood
Glass: Saint Gobain
HVAC: Proposed system from Mitsubishi Electric (not installed)
Kitchen fixtures: Cera
Lighting: Locally produced LED fixtures
Masonry and Stone: Locally sourced clay bricks and locally available granite and limestone
Metal: Tata Steel
Paints/Finishes: Dulux Paints, Asian Paints
Plumbing/Water System: PVC and GI pipes
Roofing: Flat roof
Site/Landscape Products: Local stone
\Wallcoverings: Plaster and paint
Walls: Local clay bricks
Windows/Doors: JSW
Windows/Doors: JSW