Consulting engineers & architectsPEC-registered, Karachi, since 1982
Case study, defence
One architecture for six buildings of the Pakistan Naval Academy at Manora: gate house, cadets' block, sick bay, auditorium, sports complex and sailing centre.
The cadets block, architect's render
PNS Rahbar, on Manora, is the Pakistan Naval Academy. The practice was appointed on six of its buildings, the gate house, the 200-cadet accommodation block, the sick bay, the auditorium, the indoor sports complex and the sailing training centre.
On the project index those are six separate sheets. Set side by side they are one institution, built to one architectural language.
The argument
A naval academy is not a single structure but an estate: cadets arrive through a gate, are housed, are treated, assemble, and train, and each of those is its own building with its own plan.
What holds them together is not the brief, the briefs differ, but the architecture. The record describes a symmetrical, columned frontage under a red sloping roof used across the academy, and that language recurs from the cadets' block to the buildings around it, so the estate reads as one place rather than six commissions that happened to share a site.
That coherence is what one practice carrying all six produces. On each building the practice held architecture, structural and MEP engineering, with project management and detailed supervision, so the shared language did not have to be negotiated between firms.
The commissions
Every figure below is read from the practice's project record, where each one sits beside the document it came from.
The gate house and approach, architect's render
01The entrance and its control point
The formal entrance and security control point to the Pakistan Naval Academy, covering roughly 5,080 sq ft.
The cadets block, architect's render
02Accommodation for 200 cadets
Accommodation for 200 cadets over ground plus three, planned for supervision as much as for living.
The sick bay at PNS Rahbar, architect's render
03The academy's medical facility
A single-storey medical facility of 14,550 sq ft serving the officers, sailors, cadets and staff of the Naval Academy.
The auditorium at PNS Rahbar, architect's render
04Where the academy assembles
A 750-seat auditorium for the Pakistan Naval Academy, built as ground plus one with a columned frontage and a red sloping roof.
The indoor sports complex, architect's render
05The indoor training facility
47,150 sq ft of indoor sport for the Naval Academy, a 50-metre pool, squash courts, a boxing ring, a gymnasium and a shared court.
The sailing centre and floating jetty, architect's render
06The sail training centre
A waterfront sailing and boating facility of 40,750 sq ft, with a boat shed, a wooden deck and a floating jetty.
On each building the practice held architecture, structural engineering and MEP engineering, with project management and detailed supervision throughout, the same disciplines applied six times to one architectural intent.
Each commission keeps its own sheet in the record, with its own area, status and figures, and each is linked above.
Also
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Next step
The practice holds every discipline in-house, master planning, architecture, structure, services, infrastructure and supervision, under one appointment.
