Building Systems

a21devvratsingh
Jun 25, 2023
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Updated: Nov 8, 2023

Course Mentor : Saba Giradkar

Course Brief:

‘What is the architecture of resource consumption and regeneration (air, light, water) and how does the infrastructural requirement to harvest, store, consume, renew these resources inform the builtform and its spatiality?’ How can this systemic thinking become the mode to craft spaces and suggest informed relationship between the space, experience, behaviour, life and living to create comfort conditions? The architectural imperatives, structural logic and materiality are derived from these coordinates. The climatic response here becomes inherent to the design process.

Architectural questions:

How does space and form become a derivative of building services and systems?

How does space get generated through alternative building systems?

What is the nature of spatial configurations that reduces the demand on resources to build and operate the building?

What is the architecture of harnessing resources for buildings?

How do you start structuring space such that the harnessed resources become a part of the experience of life and living?

Site:

JVPD, Juhu, Vile Parle (West)

SITE PLAN

SITE SECTION

CROSS-SECTIONS THROUGH THE SITE

Sangeet Vidyalaya

BMC Garage

BMC Junkyard

Shops

Intervention

Design Question

How can architecture provoke involvement in waste neutralization and regeneration? Can it be an intermediate between the neighborhood and administrative levels? What will the form of such a service be?

Site Plan