Facade Solutions in Zinc The XLRI School of Management, Jhajjar, New Delhi

By: Pratyush Prasan, SPP Architects

Academic Block of The XLRI School of Management, Jamshedpur by SPP Architects displaying ZINC Facade Design

The XLRI School of Management in Jamshedpur, a top ranking business school, decided to expand with the construction of a new campus in Jhajjar in the Delhi region, in the north of India. Spread out over 36 hectares, the buildings of this new school were designed by the SPP Architects firm in Gurugram “with respect for nature and a wish to foster climate awareness”.

**The project is designed by SPP Architects, Gurugram “with respect for nature and a wish to foster climate awareness”.**

The campus obtained the Indian Green Building Council’s “Platinum” certification for ecological construction. For the facades of the main buildings, the architect wanted a material that would be coherent with the image of modernity associated with the XLRI. Zinc has aesthetic qualities and flexibility led him to choose various surface aspects of zinc: 2,500 Sq m of Interlocking panels in QUARTZ ZINC®, ANTHRA-ZINC® and PIGMENTO® blue, which he mixed in an original, random manner. Playing with the widths, colours and finishing of these panels, he created a texture that responds harmoniously to the painted walls on the lower parts of the facades and gives his architecture a modern signature.

QUICK FACTS:
Project: XLRI School of management
Location: Jhajjar- NCR Campus
Architect: SPP Architects
Contractor: Woodrap Corporation
Technique: VMZINC® Interlocking panel
Materials used for facade: VMZINC QUARTZ-ZINC®, ANTHRA-ZINC®, PIGMENTO® blue
Surface: 2,500 Sq m
Commencement Date: September 2018
Completion Date: March 2019
Copyright: Gitesh Gupta, Studio BluOra

Pratyush Prasan, SPP Architects

Founder

Pratyush Prasan founded SPP Architects in 2009 and is a proponent of practising "costeffective and environmentally friendly" methods of construction. His design consultancy works in various fields including architecture, product design, interior design and planning. Pratyush has designed numerous projects of a wide variety and size including a number of design competitions across India. He is also a visiting faculty and dissertation guide at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He addressed and lectured the IAS and RBS Officer Trainees on low-cost housing at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. He was a guest speaker on "New Technologies in Construction & Affordable Housing" at "Bengal Builds" a Conclave on Urban Infrastructure Development, jointly hosted by the Government of West Bengal & CREDAI Bengal.