Infrastructure & Facility

The College of Architecture is located in a lush green campus at Dhankawadi, Katraj, Pune. The building is surrounded with trees and lawns in a peaceful environment with ample parking. The campus has a large playground with facilities to facilitate sports such as football, basketball, cricket, athletics etc. The students have access to a fully equipped gymnasium. The campus has multiple facilities like a Medical Hospital, Dental Hospital, Multiple auditoriums, Hostels, mess and food facilities, and a shopping market for daily needs.

BVDUCOA Pune

To meet the needs of stakeholders of an architectural college BVDU has been enhancing the necessary infrastructural facilities periodically and putting them to its optimum use. Significant funds are allotted in budgetary provisions for the advancement of these facilities. New proposals are made and passed every year through the policy procedures to meet the vision of making the institute a center of excellence.

IT Infrastructure

The institute has a high-tech computer graphic studio with more than 120 advanced computers with LAN and internet services through wireless connectivity. The lab is well equipped with relevant hardware and softwares, digital cameras, printers, scanners, plotters, and photocopying machines. As a part of BVDU’s pursuit to be technologically in sync with the present times, the following hardware and systems were installed in the college:

A new utility center was started for the students and faculty of the college with facilities for printing, plotting, scanning, photocopying and free WIFI for internet browsing.

The internet connection has a bandwidth of 1:1 ILL 120 Mbps. The connection is available to all the users uninterruptedly.

Building Infrastructure

The building, one of the pioneering institutes in imparting architectural education, was inaugurated in the year 1994. The Institute building has spaces like is Studios, classrooms, technology enabled learning spaces, seminar halls, laboratories, material museum and other specialized facilities provided. Ground floor mainly has admin areas, the principal's office, library, NAAC room, exam cell, and 3 studios. There are two open-to-sky courtyards which act as open interactive spaces for every user. The floors above have classrooms, studios, labs and staff rooms. The floor rooms are divided into large drawing studios and classrooms.

The studios are equipped with well-furnished drafting tables and chairs, Smart boards, Blackboards, LCD screens, LCD projectors and CCTV Cameras. All the studios are well lit and ventilated naturally. The studios are large enough to accommodate 40 students of each batch. All studios and classrooms have a desktop at the teacher's desk and soft boards for pinning up students' work. Teacher is provided with a raised dais for better visual contact with each student.

Studios and Classrooms

The whole institute has a Wi-Fi connection accessible to staff and students to get easy connectivity to the Internet. The studios and classrooms are also equipped with LCD projectors and Desktops connected by LAN. This enables easy access to the Internet and Intranet. The facility enables students and staff to access academic records, attendance systems from the class itself. The corridors, classrooms and staff areas have CCTV systems in place for complete security on each floor. The Institute has Hi-Tech and fully equipped computer Labs.

Upgraded IT Infrastructure and Related Facilities

ICT enabled classrooms have been introduced for enriching the teaching and learning process.
There are smart boards installed in the studios for effective presentation skills.
More hardware and software are added to cater to the needs of the students and staff.
Every department has an Internet facility to speed up activities like browsing and research.

The computers in the lab are well configured suitable for the use of design software by the users for Architecture. These computers are upgraded as per the need of university syllabus and the software version changes.

Institution facilitates extensive use of ICT resources including development and use of computer-aided teaching learning materials by its staff and students.

Material Museum

A variety of materials are used in the construction of buildings and infrastructure development. A wide range of conventional building materials is readily available in the market. Also new building materials are being introduced to the market almost daily.

In order to update the students’ knowledge on building materials along with building services like water supply and sanitation, plumbing, electrical and mechanical fittings and fixtures, insulation, acoustics, etc, samples of this variety of material are displayed in the museum. These samples are facilitated with information in the form of charts and brochures mentioning their specifications like properties, availability, market forms, etc.

The application in construction and working details in the form of drawing panels are displayed in the material museum. The large and small scaled models of various building components are also displayed in the museum. This helps students to better understand topics that are taught in the classroom.

Students doing market surveys and procuring samples are also displayed. This enables them to see different materials in-house.

Library

The BVP College of Architecture library has one of the widest collections of architecture and allied field reference Books. Since the library has made consistent progress in terms of collection of Books, Journals, thesis, dissertation, CD’s, etc. More than 6916 books, 20 national and International journals and 01 E-database have been subscribed by the college. Library is situated on the Ground floor of the college building.

INTERACTIVE SPACES & CONSTRUCTION YARD

We promote hands-on learning to students and our material museum, construction yard and interactive spaces which facilitate students for interacting and learning. Multiple workshops and activities happen at least once a week. These spaces have ample area for seating, working and gathering. There are spillover spaces next to these areas. The building premises and surroundings are a lively space for interactive learning for the students. The open-to-sky courtyard on the ground floor also houses active installations executed through the conducting of hands-on workshops at regular intervals; which add to the landscape of the space as well.