S N PINGLE – SNPC

WORKS OF S N PINGLE

A 1964 graduate from the J J school of Arts, Ar. S N Pingle worked as a partner for few years in Mumbai, in partnership by the name of Cosmo Architects. He established a proprietary firm in Pune in 1967 and successfully converted opportunities to work with automobile giants in the early stage of his career under doyens such as Shri Navalmalji Firodia.
Planning & designing of mega campuses for Bajaj Auto Ltd. , Bajaj Tempo Ltd. ( Now Force motors Ltd.) Geskin Williams (Now Mahindra CIE) , Century Enka Ltd. , Sudarshan group, Kinetic Motors Ltd. , Videocon International , Ispat profiles and many more.

The campuses comprised of multi- functional buildings like administration, various offices, multipurpose halls, canteen facilities serving to different categories, residential quarters, recreation centres and allied mandatory spaces in line with law.

He had the unique opportunity to design the canteen for BAL in 19– which was one of the largest in Asia then , seating almost 3000 employees

Use of local stones , detailing of windows to minimize the possibility of pilferage , exploitation of forms in concrete such as canopies and shading devices towards opimised light and ventilation.

Design of large span factories constructed using conventional structural systems and emphasizing the building vocabulary through the use of local basalt stone.

The campuses comprised buildings of multi- functional characters like administration,various offices, multipurpose halls, canteen facilities serving to different categories, residential quarters, gardens etc

Had the unique opportunity to design the canteen for BAL in 19– which was one of the largest in Asia then.

In addition to the industrial campus design he worked on vast number of diverse projects.
Geetai mandir : He was instrumental in converting the idea of Geetai Mandir, proposed and conceptualized by the great visionary Mr. Kamalnayan Bajaj.The design involved successful and aesthetic translation of the idea of “Cow” —————-. The intricate detailing of stone panels with engraved geetai arranged in the profile of a cow. Creation of a miniature river following a toposheet plan of the actual river of—– was a noteworthy achievement.

This was conceptualised by Shri Kamalnayan Bajaj , who was a great visionary and Gandhian follower.

It was an intent to record “The Geetai” , which is the commentary on the Bhagwat Gita in Marathi language by Param poojyaniya Shri Vinobaji Bhave which remains a living experience for generations to come.

In order to depict a sense of national unity & integration there were 714 versus , each of them were engraved on stones slabs which were transported from different parts of India. To maintain the continuity of the versus , a subway was created at the entrance to access the premises.

A unique entrance gate was designed and detailed which represented the Arjunas chariot encapsulated by a architrave in the form of a “Holy book rest ” which as constructed with “ZERO” slump concrete , duly form finished , which was a novel idea.

With the unique design talent experimented with flexibility of rcc and created aesthetic structures with shell roofs as well as folded slab roof systems.