project ENSCONCE.

Community Narratives. 2nd year. Studio Project. @ Karama, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Designing an aura for the diverse abode of karama, where the residents have an oppertunity to soak up with tranquillity and harmony within the natural habitat of Karama park.

Since Karama park acts as a safe haven from the busy atmosphere of karama, the sentiment of the end users of the park clearly mentioned they do not want a building which would repress their functionalities of the land parcels. So the two consequential challenges of the brief would be to intervene with a land parcel where the purporse of the parcels is retained and to blend to create an element of softscapes while working with constricted land parcels.

ELEVATING THE ROOFS TO GET THE SOUTH-EASTERN SUN.

ELEVATING THE ROOFS TO GET THE NORTH-WESTERN SUN.

ADDITION OF SOLAR CHIMNEY.

Spaces within the underground are linked together with the atrium to have maximum natural daylighting within the underground systems. All the spaces that require sound supression with a lot of activity are structured within the basment

Main resources such library, social hub, av room, coworking spaces and the kitchen spreads are kept within the ground floor itself to promote easy access to the space. The plan was kept open for easy circulation with three vertical circulation points including an exclusive seating placed within the library around the light wells.

porous HOUSING.

Co-housing project

3rd year. Urban Housing project.

@ Al Ras, Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The population demographic is mainly focused on low income middle class society hence the concept of co-housing is implied.

This would mean that there would be increased shared spaces. Porous housing takes form by giving life to a live market space, that would be self-sustained by the tenants of the project. This would also increase the economic sustainability of the project by assuring jobs to the low-income groups of Al Ras.

The Idealogy of urban Pores were through the inbetween spaces presented by the sikhas. Primarily Pore spaces are something which donot connect two intangible masses. However, within the aura of Al Ras, alot of people make use of these sikhas.

RAISED DECK: Platform was raised to extend the souq to facilitate parking:

COMMUNITY DINING WITH A VISUAL CORRIDOR: The community dinning was raised up a level to respect the creek view.

RAMP TO THE CREEK: Ramp runs along the food spine to move the people towards the raised community dining.

5M COURTYARD: A 5x5 m Grid was then placed across to subtract the courtyard spaces along the south western winds.

SKEWED MASSING : The masses was then skewed towards the North eastern direction to enhance the creek view.

POROUS BALCONY : The transitional space between the 3 masses tunrs into an outdoor space relating to the urban porous.

COURTYARD SKEWED: The courtyards were then skewd around to channel the south western winds into the project.

VERTICAL CIRCULATION: The middle block was fixed to be the vertical circulation.

CONNECTING THE BALCONIES : The pods facing across each other would share a common balcony where its a multifunctional terrace space such laundromat drying spaces, shared public areas. etc.