WATER PAVILION

Making Living Places

Spring ‘21

Academic project

Program : Pavilion

Site : Narmada Canal, Baroda

The neighbourhood was intensively and sensitively studied as a site for making living places. The idea of breaching the canal was taken further by the means of creating a built structure which becomes like the receiving gateway of the water from the canal to the lakes on the other dry side. Introducing the water to nourish the living structure on the sides of the canal.

The receiving and distribution of water was explored further. The slow transi - tion from solid built to semi hard pitching to natural soft ground was designed. But later it was understood that this design was becoming one more container of water like the canal itself and instead of letting the water go and be distributed it was retaining it. The idea of a pleasant water pavilion needed the water to flow out freely.

The water is gradually received in the bandhs of the cascading form and overflows down to the lower levels and eventually is distributed to the soft ground to nourish the living structure.