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Patel Zalak Kirankumar

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Adaptive Re-Use of building: Introduction of Chancellery

The library, when designed in the 1960s, was at the centre of the academic complex - between classrooms to the south and faculty offices and admin to the north. 
With the expansion of the campus, with additional classrooms, seminar rooms and faculty offices, the existing library gets marginalized, at one end of the larger academic complex. What was once the Centre now becomes a peripheral condition, albeit still maintaining proximity to the east formal drop-off. Also, the library is more about the freedom and accessibility of knowledge; it is an informal function that was housed in a very formal building and in a formal location. This was inappropriate. So I am looking what is a formal function which appropriate to replace it. What is appropriate program for vacant this building? 
So by observing and understanding all the opportunities  as a micro level and macro level, because of location of existing building, is sited at the most formal location in the campus, which the library was actually not suited for that the functions to fit into. The existing building has to be more formal and also there is need for administration department for which the Chancellery fits perfectly.

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Area of interest

Observation at master plan level

Ground floor plan

Upper plinth plan (G+1)

Floor plans

Section

Views from boardroom and verandah space

Transformation of space from existing to proposed

Threshold details

Process details of East façade