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Tata Steel Inaugurates New Complex for Institute of Mathematics and Applications
07/29/2008 - Tata Steel celebrates completion of a new state-of-the-art complex for the Institute of Mathematics and Applications, complete with computer labs, classrooms, and residential accommodations.
Tata Steel recently celebrated completion of a new state-of-the-art complex for the Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA).
Tata Steel constructed the new Institute of Mathematics and Applications facility in a total plot area of 23 acres with an investment of Rs 14 crores. Mr. Karan Grover, the designer of the master-plan for this campus, synthesized ideas from the worlds of mathematics and architecture. The vision for this campus incorporates concepts of traditional Indian architecture modified to suit the needs of a modern educational institute, with energy efficiency and sustainable architecture also figuring prominently into the design. The layout of the institute is generated from the spiral lines of the “Golden Rectangle”, universally acclaimed proportions integrated into the project and to the local climatic conditions, to create an appropriate architectural vocabulary consisting of buildings interspersed with courtyards and connected with semi-open walkways.
The architecture is specifically designed to foster formal and informal interactions between students, teachers and visitors. Gatherings of varying scales are encouraged through creation of semi-open spaces of different sizes.
Arrangement and orientation of the new facility’s buildings and courtyards is also designed to ensure maximum climatic efficiency. Classrooms are oriented so that the north and south facing walls are long, while the east and west facing walls, which receive harsh sunlight, are shorter. This allows maximum north-light into the classrooms while the southern sun is cut down by corridors. Earth-berms provide insulation on the east and west walls. The construction technique of the jack-arch roof was low-cost and easy to execute, and also contributes to climatic efficiency and the architectural beauty of the buildings.
This facility would house 96 students from across the country who would undertake activities like higher research in mathematics. Apart from hostel, this 7000-square-meter institute will also have such facilities as computer labs, classrooms, library rooms, and residential accommodations for the faculty and researchers.
The Institute of Mathematics and Applications Complex is not the first such education infrastructure by Tata Steel in Bhubaneswar. The company previously facilitated the complexes of Pathani Samanata Planetarium and XIMB in Bhubaneswar in addition to 200 schools and colleges that it had facilitated in the state of Orissa over last ten years.
In Orissa, Tata Steel’s community outreach program touches the lives of more than 25,000 needy families in 500 villages, bringing in health care, education, livelihoods and rural infrastructure. The company’s Project Sikshya is driving education in rural Orissa, through the development of an education infrastructure that supports more than 200 schools over the last 15 years.
At Tata Steel, sustainable development of community is a living tradition. The company has lent support to premier institutions including XIMB, Pathani Samanta Planetarium, Nabakrushna Choudhry Center for Development Studies, J N Tata Technical Education Centre, Science block at Sukinda College, and Joda Women’s College, among others. The most recent major initiative is constructing the Institute of Advanced Mathematics and Applications in Bhubaneswar.
Established in 1907 as Asia’s first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel today is the world’s sixth-largest steel producer with geographic footprints in India, South East Asia, UK and Europe. With the recent acquisition of Corus Limited, the combined enterprise has a crude steel capacity of 28.1 million tonnes with over 84,000 employees across four continents.
