Aatam有一个住宅项目组合，包含学生的宿舍房间和拥有该地块的家庭的住宅。该项目历时六年，位于拉贾斯坦邦科塔的干燥和炎热气候中。印度北部的科塔镇是培训学生参加印度令人羡慕的IIT工程学院的入学考试的辅导中心。每年约有20万名学生搬到科塔，在辅导班度过至少一年的时间，住在该镇专门为学生提供的私人旅馆里。科塔的经济是由这些临时性的人口推动的。
Aatam has a residential program mix, containing hostels rooms for students along with a residence for the family that owns the plot. Six years in the making, the project is in the dry and hot climate of Kota, Rajasthan. The town of Kota in Northern India is a coaching hub for training students to take entrance exams to study at the coveted IIT engineering colleges in India. Every year around 200,000 students move to Kota spending a minimum of a year at coaching classes living in private hostels specifically made for student housing in the town. The economy of the Kota is driven by this temporal population.
对于有志于IIT的人来说，科塔占据了中心舞台，以至于它催生了一个流行的OTT节目，该节目强调了生活在那里的有志于IIT的学生的苦难和磨难。虽然辅导中心和国内任何其他此类教育机构一样先进，但学生宿舍却被忽视了，没有什么想法。自然光、通风的社会空间大多不存在。通过IIT考试失败的风险很高，再加上严重的或缺乏有同情心的生活空间，在心理上会有压迫感。科塔宿舍是重新想象学生在该镇生活的一个小开始。
For the IIT aspirant, Kota occupies center stage, so much so, that it spawned a popular OTT show which highlights the travails and tribulations of student aspirants living there. While the coaching centers are as state of the art as any other such educational institute in the country, student housing is neglected and devoid of much thinking. Natural Light, ventilation social spaces are mostly absent. There is a high risk of failure in getting through the IIT exams which when coupled with the severity or lack of sympathetic living spaces can be psychologically oppressive. The Kota hostel is a small beginning in reimagining students living in the town.
该项目采用了传统的哈维利（拉贾斯坦邦的房屋形式）的元素，如垂直比例的庭院、Jharokhas（观景阳台）和石头Jali（穿孔屏风），是对哈维利形式的改造，适合学生的程序性需要。与周围的排屋类型形成鲜明对比的是，科塔宿舍在街道上形成了一堵不透光的墙，它将街道与院子以及小区外的操场的景色融为一体。
Working with elements of the traditional haveli ( Rajasthan house form) like vertically proportioned courtyards, Jharokhas ( lookout balconies) and stone Jali’s ( perforated screens) the project is a remaking of the haveli form suited to the programmatic needs of the students. In stark contrast to the surrounding rowhouse types which together form an impervious wall to the street, the Kota hostel opens, animating the street with views of the courtyard and then to the playground beyond the plot.
阳台和庭院的社会空间的结合创造了一个风洞，使微风能够流过建筑。向天空开放的庭院上方有一座桥，连接着业主住宅单元的两个手臂。建筑结构中的多个阶梯式露台为学生提供了遮阳的社交空间，创造了一个跨越其他楼层以及与街道和庭院的视觉连接。
The combination of the social space of terraces and courtyards creates a wind tunnel enabling the breeze to flow through the building. The open to sky courtyard is spanned above by a bridge that connects the two arms of the residential unit for the owners. The building structures through the section multiple stepped terraces of shaded social spaces for the students to create a visual connection across the other levels as well as with the street and the courtyard.
Architects: Sameep Padora & Associates
Area : 20000 ft²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Suryan // Dang
MEP Consultant : ARKK Consulting
Design Team : Vami Sheth, Aparna Dhareshwar, Akanksha Sharma, Archita Bandopadhay, Kunal Sharma
Graphics : Adnan Kasubhai, Raj Kachalia, Nikhil Bang, Anand Jain
Structural Consultant : Sameer Sawant
City : Kota
Country : India