Facilities at IVS

Ceramics Studio

Film Studio

Sewing Room

Sculpture Studio

The Woodwork and Metal Shop is maintained by the Foundation Programme. It’s primarily used for 3D Design classes.

Housed under the umbrella of the Department of Fine Art at the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture the IVS Print Studio is a well equipped work space used by the four year Bachelor’s Degree program students, Faculty, Alumni and visiting artists.

The studio has one medium sized one, one large and two smaller intaglio presses and a  lithography press .It is well equipped with a dark room facility to expose for silk screen, an acid room and aquatint/hotplate areas located  in a separate spaces within the studio.

IVS is having a third party operated stationary shop which is fully customized stationary outlet as per need of an art & design school. It provides useful needy stationary materials like art paper, copies, pages, registers, stationary material, other than that also provide color and ordinary printing facility to our students in reasonable price. Stationary shop also provides scanning facility and most important photo copy facility is provided to students.

The cafeteria offers a variety of freshly cooked snacks and meals with local, oriental and continental dishes at all times. Comfortable and welcoming, IVS Cafeteria is an all time favorite meeting point. 

Agha Hasan Abedi Textile Resource Centre

Textiles manifest an important aspect of all cultures and traditions. The objective of the textile resource centre at IVS underscores the same idea. It is a valuable audio visual resource for students and textile researchers providing information. It is a designated space for design references consisting of various textile samples, traditional and contemporary. Agha Hasan Abedi Textile Resource Centre comprises printed, woven, embroidered and experimental fabric samples. A wide range of indigenous textiles is collected from all provinces of Pakistan and displayed in the resource centre along with selected thesis projects of IVS Students.

Materials and Construction Resource Centre

(MCRC) has been developed with the objective of assisting students to gain a better understanding of theoretical elements of construction through manipulation and sensory feel. As MCRC is located within the premises of the School, students can easily access it at a time convenient to them. The availability of construction materials just a few steps away ensures that the MCRC plays an important role in the teaching and learning process. Inventory of MCRC consists of samples of metal bars, wires, sands, bricks, stones, tiles and different variety of woods used in construction work.

Agha Hasan Abedi Computer Lab is named after the renowned philanthropist and founder of INFAQ Foundation. With the generous help of Infaq Foundation, the School has been able to transform a traditional computer lab into a state of the art learning space. Agha Hasan Abedi Computer Lab is equipped with 31 high- performance all in one Core i7 7th generation computers in the main Lab and 16 computers in IVS End user Lab with 24 hours Wi-Fi facility throughout the campus. Agha Hasan Abedi Computer Lab serves approximately 1000 users. The lab is conveniently used as a classroom with multimedia.

All computer stations are fitted with comfortable furniture and spacious work areas. Laser printers and scanners provided in the lab that students use extensively.

The establishment of the Mariam Abdulla Library (MAL) coincided with the inception of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in 1989. MAL houses approximately 13,152 resources, including 1590 dissertations based on research work carried out by the IVS students every year, CDs/DVDs and School Archives. One impact factor journal and 37 subscribed magazines are also available in the library. The Library is equipped with core i7 computers that have Internet Wi-Fi connectivity and OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) where library users can search the library database. MAL also has access to PERN 2 and online databases like JSTOR along with the digital library provided by HEC (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan).