Romi khosla

Firm Name: Romi Khosla Design Studios , Maharani Bagh,New Delhi

Year of Practice: 1974

EDUCATION - At Cambridge University UK, where he received a B.A. in economics and the Architectural Association London. •He has designed large educational and recreational complexes. His boutique hotel operated by Le Meridian in Kathmandu has been featured in architectural books of Nepal.

•His prestigious reputation led to invitation to serve on the Aga Khan Award Jury as well as the Izmir City revitalisation Competition Jury in Turkey.

•Appointed as a Principal Consultant to UNDP, UNOPS, UNESCO and WTO, he has carried out extensive Urban Planning and revitalisation and Tourism Planning missions to the Balkans, Cyprus, Central Asia and Tibet.

•Mr. Khosla founded GRUP (Group for Rural and Urban Planning) in Delhi in 1974, and has designed a number of large institutional complexes as well as small community-based rural projects.

•Mr. Khosla’s published works include Buddhist Monasteries in Western Himalayas (1979).

•He served as professional advisor for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s International Competition for Ideas on the Revitalisation of Samarkand. Mr. Khosla was a member of the Award Technical Review for the 1986, 1989, and 1992 cycles.

•Romi Khosla Design Studio works across a broad spectrum of design opportunities. 

•While it is located in India and primarily works on the subcontinent, the Studio engages regularly with international concerns.

•Its design concerns and parameters are primarily informed by the availability of materials at the location of the project, the Socio-economic profile of the users as well as need to define the form as a minimal object. 

•The use of natural materials, crafted by either hand or machines forms an important concern in the Studio’s expression of form.

•Romi Khosla Design Studios is a middle size energetic design office with some international staff that is regarded as one of the top design offices in India. 

Awards :

World Architecture Community Award – 9th cycle 2011 for The Dental College

World Architecture Community Award – 8th cycle 2010 for The Plus house

M.F. Hussain Art Gallery – World Architecture, fourth cycle June, 2009

Building for Bowkunde – World Architecture, fifth cycle Sept, 2009

Eicher-Volvo Headquarter, Gurgaon – World Architecture, third cycle March, 2009

Dharamshala, Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital – World Architecture, second cycle Dec, 2008

IIID interior award for Shantanu and Nikhil-1 in 2006

The unique thing about architecture is that as designers, artists, you make something, but, somebody else pays for it.

I am not like a sculptor or a painter, who is being creative with his own efforts.

We, as architects, have to convince the client that we will give something interesting or unique and functional.

However, I see architecture as a holistic art including real life, environment, materials, designing skills and a high level of abstract thinking.

It’s a combination of all these and you need to be trained in architecture, just like in medicine, because your mind needs to open up to all kinds of issues.

Architect‘s words

INSTITUTIONAL Projects

M.F. HUSSAIN ART GALLERY POLYCLINIC FOR THE DESTITUTE,OLD DELHI

LE MERIDIAN , KATHMANDUVOLVO-EICHER HEADQUARTERS ,GURGAON

SHANTANU & NIKHIL SHOP , DELHI

INTERIORS Projects

BAMBOO FASHION SET , DELHI SWAROSVKI BLACK POD, DELHI

SUNEET VERMA STORE, DELHI

CHAKRAVARTY HOUSE, DELHI

RESIDENTIAL Projects

A-HOUSE, HIMACHAL PRADESH THE RIVER FARM , GOA

KAPOOR FARM HOUSE , DELHI

SCHOOL FOR SPASTIC CHILDREN, DELHI

EDUCATIONAL Projects

CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND , HARYANAASSAM VALLEY SCHOOL, TEZPUR , ASSAM

SPRINGDALE SCHOOL , DELHI

ZUARI GARDEN CITY , MANDYA, MYSORE

HOUSING Projects

ALAMADA LUXURY VILLAS , GURGAONHOUSING FOR FACTORY WORKERS , U.P

KERALA HOUSING , KERALA

Project Data

Client: Holy Cross Institute

Location: Kuju, Bihar State, Central India

Architects: Romi Khosla, Narendra Dengle, Anil Jain

Consultants: Ashok Pavte, Semac (P) Ltd.

Contractor: Constructed by craftsmen employed directly by the client.

Construction period: 1979-1981

Tribal Children's Hostel, Kuju

Exterior view of a detail of the hostel

•The present proposal for the Marsal Mandir Complex is an attempt to create avillage atmosphere in an organised manner.

•In fact the hostels are visualised as two small children's villages, which areeconomical on space standards, simple buildings planned around open courts.

•Internal courtyards are visually linked with one another and are utilised by the girlsfor recreation.

•The perforated walls allow for breezes and privacy.

•The children's villages have dormitories for 20 students each.

•The students have been provided with low shelves and windows related to their height.

•The dorms are ventilated also through the roof to keep them dry and clean.

•Toilets are shared by two dorms and are also ventilated through the roof in addition to the normal windows.

•All the important buildings are linked by an open-to-sky paved pathway, creating smaller spaces that look onto the central large open spaces.

•The landscaping suggested is to break the heavy wind, give shade and create a lively atmospherefor the growth of the tribal children.

Architectural Group: Romi Khosla Design StudioChief Architects: Romi Khosla, Martand KhoslaClients Name: Jamia Milia Islamia University, New DelhiDesign Team: Maulik Bansal, Ram Pandarathil Nair, Megha ShahProject Location: Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, IndiaProject Year: 2007-09Project Area: 11696 sq. mtProject Type: InstitutionalContractor: CPWD

Dental College , JMI, ,New Delhi

The College was therefore a place where three users interacted with each other. The common public, the doctors who treated and taught and thirdly the students who learned and practiced

•The site given for the building was a neglected and overgrown part of the campus.

•It had two levels and both the levels were used to access the building for the public and students.

•These facilities have been arranged in a rectilinear plan form that encloses two large courtyards and has a certain formality to it.

•It was a design judgment to simplify the formal layout of the building in order to contain the enormous volumes of spaces in a simple form that would be easily readable by all three categories of users.

Site entry level plan

LEGEND:-1.Entrance2.Lobby3.Central block

4. Terrace Garden5. X-Ray Room6. Dark Room7.Staff Room8.Faculty Room

9. HOD Room10. Toilet (M)11. Toilet (L)12.Mortuary13.Dissection Lab

14. Modeler’s Room15.Histology16.Mueseum17.Lecture room18.Server Room

19. UPS Room20. Staff Room21. Faculty Room22. Café23. Kitchen24.Students Room

Ground floor plan

North side elevation

South side elevation

•The treatment clinics have been provided with full 80% north side glazing that allows ample daylight to flood the clinics. 

•So instead of the dentist twisting and turning angle poise lamps into the patient face and dreading a power cut, the doctor can rely on daylight to illuminate the patient’s condition. 

The materials used for the structure of the building are• Reinforced concrete frames• Structural steel staircases and corridors•Brick walls. •Stone is used for cladding wall surfaces• Structural glass for the north light window facades•Aluminium sheeting for cladding the brisk walls.

•On the south side, the glazing has been confined to narrow slits which run horizontally and protect the south of the building in the clinic areas from heat gain.

•These staggered fenestrations also break the scale and the thin strips of windows help in exaggerating the horizontality of the structure.FINISHES

Walls:Brick walls with ACP & Stone Cladding. Curtain wall glazing on the North façade & Glass brick in filled in steel frame for corridors.Floor:Kota stone is the hardest locally available stone. Its slabs have been used for flooring, skirting, dado, risers of steps etc. keeping in view the high expected usability of the building.Structure:Steel & RCC composite structure

Castro Cafe –, JMI,, New DelhiArchitectural Group:  Romi Khosla Design StudioChief Architects: Romi Khosla, Martand KhoslaClients Name: Jamia Milia Islamia University, New DelhiDesign Team: Maulik Bansal, Praveen RajputhProject Location: Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, IndiaProject Year: 2007Project Area: 890 sq. mtProject Type: InstitutionalElectrical Consultant: WBG Consulting EngineersStructural Consultant: Chordia Techno ConsultantsPlumbing Consultants: Kumar Endecon Pvt. Ltd.Contractor: Zumair Khan, New Delhi

Design Concept

•A Cafeteria in a University Campus located near Auditorium, Cultural Center, Mass communication, was expected to become hub of all social activities of the Campus.

•Due to the extreme climatic conditions of New Delhi, where the summer sees temperatures of above 45 degrees centigrade, and the winters often see temperatures below 5 degree centigrade, This canteen was proposed as a ‘Semi open air Café’.

• This allowed to have an ambient temperature for most of the year along with good ventilation, and a variety of degrees of shade from the climate.

Site plan

Ground floor plan

North east elevation

North west elevation

South east elevation

•The building block has a kitchen block to the east, which is a fully enclosed space to cook and serve in. 

•As One walks along the length of the building westwards, initially the eating enclosure is defined by two walls and a roof .

FINISHES :-

Kitchen: Marble Cladding over kitchen walls comes in handy for this kind of busiest place.Eating Area: Waste off cuts of marble stacked on its side, elevated from the floor on a steel I – sectionFloor: Kota stone is the hardest locally available stone. Roof: Coated galvanized iron sheets lay over steel framework.Ceiling: Perforated aluminum sheet has been used as a ceiling so as to reduce noise levels within the canteen. Lights have been concealed in this ceiling to achieve a clean soffit.Furniture: Benches: Precast RCC, with Sheesham wood tops.Tables: RCC with

granite top.Structure:Kitchen: RCC and BrickEating Area: Steel

Located in a new luxury mall DLF Emporio among top international and Indian designer shops at Delhi, the client wanted his store to make a strong design statement and set itself apart from other stores.

Architects: Romi Khosla Design StudiosLocation: New Delhi, IndiaChief architects: Martand Khosla, Romi KhoslaClient: Suneet Varma

SUNEET VERMA STORE ,, NEW DELHI

•The architect sought to create a sleek, uncluttered space that through its dynamic, understated articulation of space would convey a sense of high-end design.

•The concept for the store was based on Origami – an idea of a space enclosed by folded planes of paper.. 

•The 28 sectional permutation profiles served as the basis for the working drawings.

•The design consists of two folded white planes suspended inside a dark wooden box with requirements, from the main garment display , AC ducts and vents. 

•Suspended from the metal trellis false-ceiling are hundred of flowers, lazer-cut from sheets of acrylic.

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