Intersection of education and modernist legacy

Le Corbusier’s modernist legacy finds expression in the sky-lit corridors of the student hostel designed by Haryana-based firm, Charged Voids

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Ahe student hostel for the Chandigarh Group of Colleges, located within a twenty-five-acre campus in Landran, a semi-urban area close to Mohali, Punjab, draws from Le Corbusier’s modernist legacy. The 10-storey building occupies the campus’ bus yard in place of designing on the proposed greenfield site.

A simple triangular plan makes the most of the oddly shaped site while playing with levels to create multiple interactive volumes. The primary idea was to step away from the enclosed vocabulary of the existing campus buildings by freeing the new building of boundary walls, in an attempt to create shaded recreational spaces.