VOIDS

Location - Malleshwaram

Type- Senior Citizen Centre

The Voids is a senior citizen centre. The main programme of this spaces were the 105 accomodations; (55 -1BHKs And 25- 2BHKs) along with other semi private spaces like the physiotherapy room, counselling room, yoga and meditation, salon and other public spaces like the cafe, general store, clinic and others. The ground floor of the building are the public and semi private zones whereas the upper levels mainly comprise of the units.

The building is situated in Malleshwaram with a school and a church on two either ends. The site had a road on the Northern and the Eastern side and a railyway track on the Southern side. The Eastern road faces a heavy traffic during the after school hours and also due to the close proximity of the railway track. The neighborhood mainly comprises of residential, industrial and some commerial buildings.

The design intent was to provide the elderly with completely private zones but also increaing their activity and interaction with the school and church. The main intent was to create spaces for the citizens to engage in interaction with the school kids through the public zones like the workshop and tuition centre and also providing a visual connection inside the accomodation itself by creating a series of voids throughout the layout of the building.

Massing and the voids

Creating voids in the space and breaking out spaces by scaling them down by playing with the levels and the masses. Envolping the school with public zones to create interaction and creating altenating floor plates for easier visual connection on every floor level. The vertical circulation plays an importan role as it opens up in a large break out space for easy navigation and accessibility of the units and other spaces.