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Spatial journey of Cars Ayushichaturvedi1*, Professor richa Mishra 2 1,2

Architecture Department, Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior,India

Abstract If we see around us as a human, then all the spaces are human centric but they are not. We are now standing in an era where spaces are more car centric than human centric. The progress of humans is defined in terms of advancement and innovation in automobile industry. Car is similar to human and have journey of its own to live. The journey is personified from the cars perspective in this paper .The birth of a car is a process as a resultant of thousand innovations .The development from a single idea of body form to the assembly of organs for its survival is a lengthy process. The livable age starts from display mode to walking on the roads .Ups and downs in life can be healed from the service hospitals meant to visit in regular intervals of time for long and smooth life. Cars also own humans for its support and as a backbone. Life comes to an end at certain time ,this certainty leads car to dump yard where it can be reused ,recycled or can donate itself for the wellbeing of human race. We humans never understood the mindset of cars but cars have mindset of their own and are now overtaking the responsibility of understanding the overpopulating demand of them. And to understand the amount of space a car occupies is all personified in this paper.

Keywords: carchitceture ,suburbanisation, point of production, , processing, assembly,dumpyard. * E-mail:ayushichatur96@gmail.com

INTRODUCTION IF YOU PLAN FOR CITIES AND CARS, THEN YOU GET CARS AND TRAFFIC;AND IF YOU PLAN PEOPLE AND PLACES ,YOU GET PEOPLE AND PLACES -FRED KENT The certainty to balance the spaces we have as humans have been now taken over by cars. Our development is through managing roads, parking spaces and maintaining the cars we drive. The recent times talk about the flourishment in Indian Automobile industry and its advances. Life without vehicle is just beyond these days .Space required by a car is similar to the multiple x factor space required by a human.

Age of a Car is as similar to the average livable age of humans or sometimes less than that. The greed of owing cars is consistent in adding more values and demand place for new arrivals .Soon we are going to get overpopulated in terms of automobiles owned as we humans are also overpopulating the planet.to understand the space owned is explained by the term CARCHITECTURE. Carchitecture is used to describe architecture that is meant to be viewed from the car. "Carchitecture has been a long, slow evolutionary response to the problem of accommodating the inherent contradiction of the car; the car will set society free, an automotive society creates traffic, traffic enslaves society."' iBell,Jonathan,ed

THE RISE OF CARS: The initialization of cars started from the period when humans needed more wheels to their slow carts.

There was no replacement but an invention which changed the perspective of transportation and connection within different regions. The strange growth of automobiles started when transportation was made affordable. When the number increased space provision and overlapping happened initially started from the city streets. Joy walkers and Jay walkers was the rivalry names for drivers and pedestrians. Then came the landscape change in the cities by parking issues.

Cars were now meant as an important asset which was valued similar to humans or sometime more than humans. This valuable asset was rewarded through giving special place in the societies all over the world.

Suburbanization was seen as a solution to the over occupied spaced cities. Suburbanisation was shifting

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of population from city to towns because of the availability of connecting link by cars. Then the spaces were designed in terms of cars like the freeways, traffic control service roads.one after the other urban sprawl introduced different car centric terminologies to fulfill different purpose.

The spaces occupied were processed versions which required skilled hands and creative evolvatory approach for their existence and advancement. It also required a certain class which was bound by the economics and the demographic establishments to own the car.

Spaces along a being tell more about the sophistication and nature of it. Similar happened in the case of cars. This paper deals with such kind of spaces which derive an approach yielded through the understanding for the spatial journey of cars and about the personification of cars which share the experience of its journey in its own terms.

The journey starts with the manufacturing which required a single basement for its assembly, maintenance and storage in older times. Initially, the affordability criterion was the prime one .Now a day’s accuracy and credibility is replaced by affordability. Spaces are also defined in terms of scale the industry deals with. 

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THE BIRTH:PRODUCTION HOUSE MANUFACTURING PLANT: Before manufacturing, there’s an effort created on the desk of the designer to suit the trend in the form of concept drawings. Specialization in shell building is required and then approved for trial base.

Manufacturing supposed to be the most important and concentrated process which was not easy to achieve therefore all the tasks were done under one roof with supportive storage houses. Welding, blowers and water supply use to be the services mainly required. Space was detailed with standing platforms for the assembly and painting known as workstations. The process use to take years for its accomplishment. Now it’s just a number with consistent efforts putted together to achieve. The spaces defined in todays are personified through cars itself.

“I am ready to form and acquire a shape. I feel enthusiastic; these high roofs so many hands touching make me feel worthiness that I will carry. The journey starts from the organs I will own. These organs are either delivered or made where I am going to get them form. These organs are kept in the warehouses where they are made ready and checked before implantation .Organs are the defining factor of the class I am going to represent .The first step is to develop the body from the steel which requires heavy press machines with different dies and are placed in series .For various body work various molds are made ready under one roof .Press machine areas are the closed blocked areas where no humans exist due to safety reasons. These press are the heaviest which require a strong base foundation and long ventilated halls for release in heat and tension. Long spans truss for the roof is the need. They are then sent to the dolly area through conveyor belts where they are collected in mass and segregated. Segregation is done because different parts require different detailing and fixtures which will be clamped .This segregation is done by loading the parts on the different belts. These are the parallel process which are done in less time but require more space. Supervisors employed to investigate rest in cubic units in the time of loading, unloading and clamping.”

In between comes the storage buffer zones which bridge the gap of delays in the processes.

PAINT PLANT: After press shop, body shop comes next .welding zone is the first area introduced after manufacturing.

Standing stations, raised platforms are its features .As soon as the body acquires the full form then its sent to a tunnel space where the body will get painted .This tunnel space is a arch based which consist of fixed transparent glass windows on the sides of the walls and are covered by iron grill structure for safety .Here the car is holded through the belt running in the mid of the ceiling. This zone is also prohibited for humans. Tunnel is divided in various zones .First zone is the degreasing and cleaning zone where whole body is submersed in tank and dried off .Second zone is the painting area where grey body gets color of its choice. Base color coating and then clear color coating is done. Each car is painted separately and different colors one after the other are painted at times. Paint shop contains 4-5 Spray machines.

The process of is as follows:

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Body Shop

Storage Buffer

Paint Shop

Storage Buffer

Trim-chassisfinal

Reprocess

Tunnel phase gets over here and to reach the next level car goes through a examination area where its checked and gets its textured look through environment friendly dry separation system which filters the air. 

ASSEMBLY PLANT: Core phase of car production is the assembly .Assembly plant consist of various lobbies which run parallel to the conveyor belt carrying the body and intersects with the paint workshop area .Sometimes separate paint shop is given in the assembly plant for painting the body exterior and interior .These halls are filled with swivel arms of robots attached to the walls of the chambers and are under supervised at every step .Factory cages are formed at every assembly point for avoiding the link of humans with robots.

FIRST ASSEMBLY: Assembly plant is again an open space with toolkits and various base stations all around .Depending upon the part the tool kit and the equipment changes .The anthropometry for the base station varies from human involvement to robotics involved. The power is an important lead which subdivides the energy through different substations resting along with the plants .These spaces has high noise levels Which can be reduced through isolation through vibration, sound absorbing panel walls classifies zones of glass walls.

SECOND ASSEMBLY: The second assembly is about the material attachment. This time the belt is large and heavy .Heavy carriers are also introduced in this flow .Space requires efficient lighting to reach every detail .Belts coming straight from the first assembly are now merged and intersect in the junctions to make a final assembled product .Manipulators spread all over the spaces near the belts for lifting. Repetitive involvement is carried here also.

At last the final stage is where it is finally inspected in a lighting tunnel to spot the irregularities.

Various caged chambers with fixed floor vehicles for the motion check .Display cells regulate this stage. And after the shower check, car goes to the place for its shipping and to the showroom suppliers through car carrier trucks.

FIRST VIEW OF THE WORLD:SHOWROOMS It is the space which defines the precedent journey and decides the future of the car. It is that space from where there active life of cars starts. This space requires the aesthetics in terms interior,exterior and ramp routes to attract the humans which car is going to own . Showrooms have backdoor warehouses and storage halls. They are the most expensive portion which is valued least in architecture. One of the best designed showrooms include Leipzig BMW showroom, Germany .It describes the showroom as building emerging in natural way from trajectories established by the central building, forming from the surface of car park ,extending its surface to form two 2 distinct building parts, pointed outwards in opposition yet seemingly rotating one around the other.

Vertical car cranes and lifts are provided in the ware houses.

“I don’t feel lonely. It’s just the patience and the big number of cars makes me worry about my existence .But I know that I have an identification tag and meant for somebody. I will own a place and a life to start.”

HOME:GARAGE A special place owned by the user of car meant only for the car .These spaces have evolved from the carports space from the century of carts to the century of BMW .Garage can be a shade, enclosed space in the porch, basement of a building or at a certain distant meant for this purpose. This space ranges from simple tin shade to fancy ornamented channeling spaces with enhancive lighting.

Additional space for maintenance and cleaning are also provided.

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Limited parking spaces in residential buildings

Approach from the showrooms

STOPPAGE :PARKING The various stoppages of cars are defined as parking lots. They can either be open, closed or partially both. Many researches have been done to manage this space through different positioning, directions and availability chance to calculate.

LIFE CYCLE:ROADS The connecting links which hold the hands of cars and walk parallel with them are the roads. Roads decide the certain percentage livability of the cars. Roads are the common grounds serving each one equally. They define the destiny and the competition.

The mess of overpopulated beings HOSPITALS:SERVICE STATIONS Areas which act as the hospital for cars and help in the time of misery or crisis.These spaces are not as sterile as hospital but are most important.These spaces provide solution of every kind. The doctors also known as the mechanics are the life givers.blood spread are in the form of grease .oxygen cylinders are also required here.Operations of every kind are taken over in this spaces.These spaces can be under tin shed or can be under designed roof depending upon the location and the class of car dealt with.

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Difference in the service stations for different range of cars GRAVEYARD :DUMPYARD Ultimate space of cars where their existence comes to end. The Dead cars zone is the dump yard. Cars which are broken, old and regenerated are kept in such spaces. These spaces are on the outskirts or sometimes in the maintenance garages which use the working portions of cars for organ implantation.

Dump yard are plain grounds with scenic images of broken cars.

The dead end of cars

CONCLUSION: There are no limits to cite the boundaries of car spaces .The number is huge so is the space required.

Our preference for survival should be in a direction which would stabilize the proportions of human existence comparative with car spaces. There’s a series in the evolution of every single space occupied by car in its journey but are not defined in terms of cars perspective .We have to be more space driven rather than car driven .The need of the hour says that it is important to judge the indulgence of our energy in the areas defining the future aspects of advancement .Cars own a life and occupies much more bigger space than its owner space itself. Different varieties of cars depend on the emotion in form of organs it carries .They are also creating an effort towards sustainable approach through their advancement and enhancement in hybrid character.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank prof. Richa Mishra for her being patient with me , supporting me and guiding me throughout.

This paper had lots of twist and turns with n number of diversions as the topic was less explored and clarity of this topic was required in terms of architecture .

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