Christopher
Charles Benninger
AMARNATH PS
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Christopher Charles Benninger
BORN : 23 Nov 1942 [age 77 ] ,America
EDUCATION : urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where he later
taught
INTRODUCTION
FIRM : CCBA [pune]
INSPIRE : I Josep lluis sert , Walter Gropius , Buckminster fuller,FL wright
AWARD : Great Master Architect of India
“To gain something beautiful one may have to give up
something beautiful’’.
“It is better to be what you are, than to seem what you
are not”.
DESIGN Truth is the ultimate search of all artists. Even then I feel,
“It is better to Search the good ,than to know the truth”.
PHILOSOPHY “There is only one form of good luck, which is having
good teachers!”.
“Don't be euphoric when people praise you, or depressed
when people criticize you!”. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
• Use of human scale
• Use of material in its form
• Take elements from vernacular
• Bring the natural landscape in to the
building.
• Blending with context.
• Make the pedestrian the king
and vehicle the servant
• Take ideas from the nearby physical
features
ABOUT BENNINGER
• He got fellow ship in india ,later in 1971 BV doshi invited him to india to
start school of planning in Ahmedabad
• His thesis was based on housing project in colombia created a shelter
system .
• He has initiated many project like : housing for poor families financed first
time by government of india under HUDCO and innovated concept of site
and services to provide house by developing small plots for poor people
to construct home for their needs.
• He was inspired by reading the book of FL wright 'THE NATURE HOUSE'
PROJECTS OF SIR CHRISTOPHER BENNINGER
• His work mainly on educational campus , cooperate headquarters,
Housing, estate and complex's ,hotel resorts, hospitals etc..
• SUZLON ONE EARTH, PUNE
• SAMUNDRA INSTITUTE OF MARITIME STUDIES, PUNE
• CENTRE FOR LIFE SCIENCES, HEALTH & MEDICINE, PUNE
• YMCA INTERNATIONAL CAMP, NILSHI
• MAHINDRA UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF INDIA
• HEADQUARTERS OF KOCHI REFINERIES, KERALA
MAHINDRA UNITED
WORLD COLLEGE
(pune)
MAIN ENTRY Location : Pune, in the Sahyadri hills ,
b/w two river valleys.
Concept : Inspiration from the
mountains surrounding the
campus reflecting the jagged
contours.
• Centered the plans of this highly
diverse little world around a
quadrangle with passages
radiating out from it .
• Just as traditional villages of the
ACADEMIC area are divided into
LIBRARY QUADRANGLE clusters gardens, passages,
stepped platforms, atria and
orchards showing harmonious
ART CENTRE integration of the built form into
the natural topography
MULTIPURPOUS • The buildings are made of local
HALL stone and exposed
concrete ,with gently sloping
masonry surfaced, terracotta
tiles roofs and square cut outs in
the walls for windows
ACADEMIC QUADRANGLE
• It encircles a garden court
• Quadrangle and class rooms are
linked by glass doors connected to
its own garden or courtyard
• The quadrangle is linked by an
encircling, low covered walkway
• The academic quadrangle is
connected to the other structures
via walls, generating an architectural
fabric
• It reflect the gigantic mountain
LIBRARY
• Triangular composition on two levels
focused in on a glass atrium.
• Reading room uses natural gradient in
lower floor
• The corners of the tangle room form the
reading room, computer centre and
stacks .
• library and glass wall looking out to a
central garden courtyard
STUDENT CENTER
• Located in the residential area of
campus
• There are 6 vertical light shaft
,reaching up to the sky.
• Each shaft has a room .
MULTIPURPOUS HALL
• Multipurpose hall Covered by high ceiling
composed of 160 triangular coffers set
within 10 larger triangles defined by
structural beams
• Here are 10 skylights in these that generate
a hierarchy
ART CENTRE
• North facing windows
ofthe arts cente
• Three studios of the
art centre fly out from a central
courtyard.
• large glass windows .
DESIGN FEATURES
1 Hierarchy ofspaces ,
2 Climate responsive(verandas & courtyards)
4Covered porches (pavilion , for project
meetings, discussion )
MUGHAL
SHERATON
HOTEL, AGRA
plan
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
• The idea was to build a cooling heaven in the
Agra
• Mughal style of Architecture concept-garden and
fountains with the climate responsive architecture
• Interior court The primary focus of the complex is
inward to the garden courts View of quadrangle from periphery of sit
• North West corner of hotel complex.- openings in
the west wall are recessed Cypresses , fruit trees ,
lantern niches and waterfalls
• Planters at the base of the walls are a screen for
the rooms and a transitions Detail of double wall
system enclosing public block.
Entry bridge and public block
SUZLON ONE
EARTH (Pune)
Energy efficent building
• The glass cylinder connecting the
earth and the sky at various entry
portals.
• Design provides 75% of the work stations
with and external views.
• Aluminum louvers - allows daylight and
cross ventilation.
• Moto of the company 'powering a greener
towmorrow '
Architect relied completely on exclusively
on nontoxic and
recyclematerial
• LOUVERS & CLADDING
INTERPLAY CREATING A
VISUAL DRAMA OF THE
FACADE
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
• BALANCE WITH TRADITION
• It got inspiration from large Indian historical campuses like Fatehpur
Sikri and the Meenakshi Sundareshvara Temple complex in Madurai.
• Both employ an interpositioning of open and closed spaces
That balances one another. Both have strong horizontal
elements that tie the complexes together and accent feature
is that emphasize quadrants and sacred places, like the gopuram
at Meenakshi.
• Balance between mind & spirit- creating a central gathering CONCEPTUAL SKETCHES OF THE DEEP STAMBH
space, or Brahmasthan, with the sky as its ceiling! I conceived & WATER BODY IN THE CAMPUS
it as a “secret internal garden” that gifts an exclusive and unique
feel to the campus.
• THE DEEP STAMBH OR THE CENTRAL OBLIX REACHING OUT
TO THE SKY AS SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE AND HOPE.
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• https://www.scribd.com/doc/61679905/Case-Studies-Mr-
Christopher-Benninger
BIBLIOGRAPHY • https://www.slideshare.net/DivyaSuresh15/christopher-charles-
benninger-indian-architect
• https://www.academia.edu/13739451/Christopher_Charles_Beninge
r
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