Kite Museum Redesign Space project

SPACE DESIGN

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Study of famous architects

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Study of different types of structures

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Making of different type of structures

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Sanskar kendra (Architecure, Purpose, User, Environment)

contents Walk through/ opportunity mapping

Site selection

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Brief study of the site and Problem areas

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Opportunity mapping of the site

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Concept sketches

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Cad drawings of the final concept and its explorations

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Final concept detailing 5

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Duration- 6 weeks, 7th semester Teaching faculty- Rahul Singh and Aditi Ranjan RelevanceArchitecture without textiles is a shell, furniture without textiles is a structure. Textiles are increasingly becoming important in making the architecture interactive, dynamic and experiential.

Textile surfaces such as canopies, sun-shades, tent coverings, wall panels, dividers and floor coverings are integral part of Indian architecture. Contemporary architecture, interiors, furniture and textile design are converging due to emerging trends in new materials, our understanding of interaction and structure along with concepts of sustainability, modularity and usability. Thus an inter-disciplinary course in understanding ‘space making’ becomes essential for a textile design student.

ObjectiveTo provide understanding and appreciation of architectural form, quality of space, and the role of textiles as modifiers of space.

To understand the properties of textiles as an integral element for space creation.

To explore the inter-dependant relationship between textile’s properties and space making which are in turn dependent on climate, environment, user’s activities, culture and the nature of social interactions.

To understand the importance of force equilibrium- tensile and compressive forces- in creating textile spaces.

To employ textiles as a material choice to create environmental experiences like light, shade, airflow, privacy, inside-outside connectivity and spatial continuity.

Course content• • • • • • •

Introduction to architecture and space (screening of architecture and space related films, case studies) Orthography and measuring drawing Introduction to structures and structure systems Site finalization and model making Analysis of the selected site Explorations and visualization of the space making elements Design development

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TENSILE MODELS - HAND ON EXPERIENCE

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Tensile structures

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Tensile structures

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Space frame structures

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Tensile structures

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Space frame structures

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Tensile structures

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SANSKAR KENDRA • • • • • • • • •

Brief about the history of sanskar kendra About the arschitect Principles of architecture applied in the building Proposed plan of le corbusier Users Environment Opportunity spaces Purpose Kite museum

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GROUND FLOOR

ELECTION OFFICE

DISASTER MANAGEMENT OFFICE

SANSKAR KENDRA RAMP STAIRS

AMC OFFICE BIRD FEEDER

KITE MUSEUM-BHANU SHAH

OPEN GROUND AREA

RIVERFRONT ON SIDE

RIVERFRONT

NID IN FRONT TWO EXHIBITION HALLS

CITY MUSEUM

CLOSED WITH TREES OUTSIDE POND

LE CORBUISER

TAGORE HALL ON SIDE

EMPTY TERRACE

GARDEN SPACE IN FRONT

OPEN CONCRETE

7MX7M GRID PARTY, FUNCTION GROUND

HIGH CEILING

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Established in 1954, april 9 Ahmedabad foresighted mayor, chinubhai chiman lal commissioned le corbusier City museum depicting art, culture and architecture of ahmedabad Designed in the modernist style. It was called museum of knowledge during designing.

It was originally a large complex of cultural centre of ahmedabad which had separate pavilions and areas of different subjects like anthropology, natural history, archeology monumental sculptures, workshops depot in open air.

Included a pavilion for theatre called ‘miracle box’ Rests on signature pilotis, 3.4M high Structural grid is 7m Designed to protect hot climate Roof has large basins intended as planters Interior space are finished in plaster The plan is based on a spiral and is designed to be expanded.

It is assumed that visits to the museum will be made particularly in the evening and night time, they will wind up the roof which will offer a wonderfully flowered surface formed by more than 45 basins, of 50m square each, air filled with water to a depth of 40cm Ramp for the way to exhibition hall The hall entry faces the sun thus allowing natural light.

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Main principles of le corbuiser being aplied in the building• • • • • •

A building free from the ground by pilotis, increase the garden area Free the roof by making it a terrace Long live the pillars, walls no langer neede, free facades which support nothing, Favourite material- concrete Pattern of golden section whose basic unit is human figure as a proportionality scale.

Potruding concrete structure both inward and outward are called sugar lums, they are the visible part of load bearing structures and support the beam.

Four mezzanine floors on each sides

concrete sugar lums

Terrace Service floor

Exhibition halls

Troughs Pilotis

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Proposed plan by Le Corbuiser-

Experimental workshops North east elevation Permanent exhibition

North west elevation Temporary exhibition

Directors residence

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Permanent exhibition E

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Permanent exhibition Used for storage at times of ground exhibitions

Experimental workshops Extension of the below exhibition ground. Used for storage at times of functions

Directors residence Space provided by amc for minor sale exhibitions and cultural activities like community marraiges, print, stationery, textile expos.

Usually empty and is used aprox 2 times a month

Intended purpose Activities, functioning

Temporary exhibitions Ground floor- monsoon office, kite museum, disaster management office First floor- city museum, temporary exhibition hall Service floor-lection office, storage

Amphitheatre Tagore hall, a garden, ground for functions at tagore hall

Permanent exhibition Traces of deer sculptures, grass lawn with surrounding trees and plants.

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Heritage office till last year, now its locked and used for storage.

Intended purpose

Was a link to permanent exhibition area Sculptures being exhibited on both the sides of the road

Service staircase

Activities, functioning

old fire control machine being exhibited

Ramp used to go to first floor exhibition area for the visitors,and for easy movement of big artifacts. kite museum being gifted by mr bhanu shah

Information desk or reception area for the museum Monsoon measuring Act as cooling system inside department temporarily building and glimpse of open being placed. sky Open to sky area, the source of natural light inside the 7x7 grid structure

disaster management office which is closed at present Another entry gate linking exhibition ground to museum which is being closed from long time.

According to le corbuiser principles, the structure is resting on the pilotis to protect it from floods and give proper ventilation system and could be used as parking area.

Open tar road not being used for any purpose right now

Placement of concrete lighting structures Resting and lunch place for policemen and amc staff.

Link to permanent exhibition Link of the museum and garden

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Temporary exhibition having flat 2d panel boards for display commonly photography and painting exhibitions.

Few of them are familly of man, festivals of india, international book fair, live portrait exhibition, sameer bhai panchal’s painting exhibition, raja ravi verma ‘s painting exhibition.

Permanent city exhibition having artifacts about ahmedabad city, its culture, religion, about the architects, famous buildings, textiles, sculptures, utencils.

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Reception desk area with few temporary siting arrangements and water facitility A naturally ventilated area.

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Users-

Tourists, school students, professionals, local public, exhibitores Officials-amc people, maintainence, security guards, election officials, rain department officials

Entry points Kite museum flow Free movement

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SELECTED SITE - KITE MUSEUM

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Kite museum • • • • • • •

Flat artifacts while kite has so much dynamism.

Information, artifacts is all vertically placed.

Kite is a tensile structure, its properties are no where shown.

Only its patterns and colours are being given importance.

The excitement, fun, enjoyement, sound felt during flying it.

Cater to all the age groups.

Kites represents colourful sky and shows that Gujarat soars high to touch the skies to be the best in the world.

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The kite museum being an important entity is at present dedicated to a very small area on the ground floor which is most of the time being neglected by people becuse of the grand welcoming offered by the ramp.

And also when we enter the ground floor we have two options, either to go to first floor or the kite museum which leads to division of the visitors.

To solve out this problem and make the kite museum more significant amoungst people, we could change the entrance of the kite museum and extend the space given to it. We can include disaster management office and heritage office into it and increase the space.

This would facilitate the direct wind and natural light coming to the side of the kite museum .

So now with a new entry to the kite museum we could have two entrance which are temperorily closed. And the other door which is at present used as entry could be an exit door leading to the ramp and the city museum.

Entry

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Exit

Experience in museums•

It can teach us, delight us, inspire us.

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Can’t find a specific piece of information

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Leave soon because people are bored

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Miss key lessons from the main exhibits

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Visitors accessibilitity and attention

Things which could be done•

Motivate visitors

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Focus content

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Engage visitors within a story

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Modularity

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Interaction and narrative

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Integrate technology

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Present information in a hierarchieal manner

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UTARAYAN

MOTION

GEOMETRIC COLOURFUL

JOY SUPREMACY

FESTIVITY TRANSLUCENT FUN

FOOD

FREEDOM

MODIFIED SHAPE

TINY STARS IN SKY

NIGHT LAMPS WIND DIRECTION

MAANJHA

FLOW

DYNAMIC

CRAFTMANSHIP HOPE

PRESSURE

BIRD

LIGHTNESS

TENSION

WEIGHTLESSNESS DIFFERENT SIZES

ENERGY

LAYERING

INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL ALL AGE GROUP

PATTERNS

BREEZE

FIRKI

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SYMMETRIC

FLY

WIND

Opportunity mappingKites In Ahmedabad-”Way Beyond The Colourful Patterns”

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Family involvement

The day scenario

Uttarayan kite flyers come from all walks of life. Typically young boys are introduced to the sport of kite fighting by their fathers, older brothers, uncles or friends.

Fewer women are flyers. They become experts at setting the bridles and untangling the strings. They are very much a part of the celebration of uttarayan as they manage the rooftop ambiance with special food, cold drinks and moral support for ‘kite fever’.

As kite flyers visit various rooftops they are treated to food along with cold drinks. All of this is taken in a spirit of family and friendly competition to get the most kites.

Cheers of encouragement and shouts of “who kata hai!” ring from the rooftops as adversaries’ kites are cut down and experts find victory throughout. Local kite suppliers stay open during the day for emergency supplies, backup kites and last minute arrivals for the festivity.

When evening comes, and the sun sets, the sky and trees are littered with the ‘flowers’ of millions of fallen kites.

The passionate kite flyers begin their final competition with firecrackers and helium balloons with candles to test the night winds. A strong white kite , easy to spot in the darkened sky, is kept for the launching of ‘tukkals’ signifying the end of the festival. It is not just the challenge of launching the lanterns at this final stage that continues the sport of the day. You need a team of gaurds to fly kites all around your lanterns in order to prevent your neighbours from cutting down the chain of light.

Food In the homes of kite flyers all over the state families begin to prepare special foods for the festival. These include ‘tilgul’ or ‘laddoos’, sesame sweets made with jiggery. ‘khichri’ is eaten and given away as charity. A dish called ‘undhyoo’ a mixture of nine winter vegetables stewed overnight in a clay pot and sweetened with jiggery is special to this festival because it is traditional during the time of harvest.

Cons of flying kite The age old harvest festival of makar sankranti celebrated across india and the kite flying festivals in many other asian countries have been synonymous with colourful kites dotting the sky. But an earlier harmless practice has started affecting birds in urban areas when followed in an improper fashion, especially when glass-coated manja (string) is used. It has lead to hundreds of death of the innocent birds. Also as the sun starts to set, the whole scenery changes to the kites flying all over. The trees loaded with the broken kites, sky filled with flying kites and maanjha. The maajha lyig allover also leads to severe accidents of bike riders.

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Opportunity sketches-

The square fabrics being stretched and being overlapped which could be as the display panels.

Shapes of panels being explored

Kites hung on the roof and the shadow of it falling on the ground which could be the guiding path for the movement of the visitors.

An installation of the tesselation of the kites shape which could be on one of the walls of the museum.

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Basic form explorations-

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Concept 1-

The scale of the structure inside the space.

The basic structure of the display system for kites.

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The structure is made up of square frames interconnected to to each other by smaller square frames.

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The bigger square frmes have a system of hanging kites tied diagonally.

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The hanging kites would rotate and thus would be free in space.

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the bigger square frames touch the ground only at the vertex of the frame.

The structure would be placed as the partition wall inside the space.

So the shadows of it forming the ground or the side wall according to the angle of source would be very attractive.

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Concept 2-

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The structure with multiple frames inside one another. All connected in a series on the diagonal points.

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The kites being hung on few frames while few ar empty.

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The frames are supported on ground with the vertex of the frame touching the ground.

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Concept 3-

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The structure with the wire mesh which gives support as well as shape.

The squares placed on mesh in a grid format.

The dynamic shape of the structure resembles to kites.

The square grids would be made of frames covered with farbics.

Some of the frames would carry kites on it as well.

The different square frames would be of different colours which would also create interesting lighting while making shadows.

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Concept 4-

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The more simpler and basic structure where the frames are placed vertically on ground with the edge support on ground.

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The frames would be all vertical while only the smaller frame for the kite would be hung diagonally and would be free for movement.

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Some other concepts-

A collapsable screen cum partition for the display of kites. The structure is a three dimentional one, so kites displayed wont be just flat.. They even cast a beautiful shadow on the ground. The both sides of the panel could be used for display of kites and information.

A kite tessellation based on zodiac circle.

This is another kite tessellation on a a regular square grid.

Its a tessellation of kites inspired by fabonacci series numbers.

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Some other concepts-

1. An installation for the display of kites outside museum standing on vertical wire pillars.

2. The more simpler and basic structure where the frames are colourful and placed vertically on ground with the edge support on ground.

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Cad drawings of the final concept and its explorations

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Exploration 1

The placement of the the display structure inside the exhibition space. The strucutre stands vertically touching the bottom as well as the roof. The structure seems to emerge from the ground and diverse into the roof. The diamond shapes diverse on to the roof like the kites in the sky. The four similar structures are placed each between the two pillars.

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Exploration 2

The strucutre can have a big uttarayan photograph printed on the textile frames in the pixallated form. The structure diverses on the roof having sky colour printed. Few of the diamond shaped would have actual kites being displayed looking as if the kites are flying in the sky. The back and front of the structure would have diffrent photographs being printed.

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Exploration 4

The previous explorations were a bit complex in itself and thus when it repeated, it was getting too clustered in the whole space. Thus a simple when gets repeated forms a interesting pattern.

The same form with a different composition and material.

The whole structure frame would be with a iron rod and the diagonal grid inside would be with nylon cords.

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Final drawing

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The final composition selected for the screen where the grey patches represent fabric piece and kites while the white spaces would be blank. The diagonal lines would be made with thick nylon ropes while the kites would attach to the frame work of ropes with thin nylon wire.

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Pillar to pillar distance- 18 feet Pillar height- 10 feet Human average height-6.5 Feet Height iof installation- 9 feet

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1.5 cm solid cube of alluminium/ iron

5mm diameter hollow cylinder

5mm

1.5 cm

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