Poetics of Construction - An in:site conversation with details - Monsoon 2018, FA, CEPT

POETICS

OF CONSTRUCTION

MAAD

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POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION- AN IN: SITE CONVERSATION WITH DETAILS This foundation studio in Architecture Design aims to set up a disciplinary impetus to the program with considerable emphasis on space as an outcome of synthesis of details. It assumes that the possibilities of serving architectural knowledge at its core rests on systematic methods of investigation and evaluation of form as an outcome of the manner in which materials organize themselves in a structural system. This organization of materials creates a possibility of engaging with similar or different materials varying in their morphology and configuration resulting in details. However, the choice of detail depends on the affordance that the architecture demands within constraints set up by several conditions of the project.

The studio engages in making choices of systems, materials and details that informs an architectural program.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We studio like to express our sincere gratitude to Professor Sankalpa and teaching assistant Avishek for their contribution in structuring the master level studio, devising constructive exercises to make us experiment and gain confidence towards the area of structures in architecture design and its process.

We acknowledge in thanking Prof. Rajan Rawal’s contribution, which he took a course on climate responsive architecture and helping us with constructive feedback on our design studio.

We also acknowledge in thanking our final review jury panel includes Prof. Vinod R. Shah, Ar.Uday Andhare, Ar.Saptak and Prof. Surya Kakani for their valuable time and patience to hear us our ideas and providing with valuable feedback and sharing knowledge.

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COURSE INTRODUCTION (GOALS)

Student shall learn the following

1.To develop an experimental attitude while tackling design problems.

2.To be aware and attempt design as a methodical search.

3.To develop abilities to adapt to design challenges within the constraints of use of basic to latest available technology.

4.To develop ability to critically observe, analyze and elucidate an architectural form while understanding its presence in a physical context.

5.To develop ability to evaluate and respond to an architectural intervention as a set of impact at various scales in terms of its physical attributes as well as its socio-cultural, economic and environmental relationship towards built environment.

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STRUCTURE OF THE STUDIO

1.Introduction to workshop - Making joinery in material 2.Modification of Joinery - Reduction in material and replacement by another flexible material instead to achieve similar strength.

3.Shift in joinery detail - Reconvert the handmade joinery into a joinery that uses the available digital fabrication tools of workshop.

4.Modeling and generating systemIntroduction to analog method of modeling through series of experiments on form deriving.

Shift from analog to digital to expose digital knowledge for form deriving.

Deriving structural system using analog method/ Deriving further iterations using digital method.

5.Selection and Rejection - Selections of a system against other based on structural and detailing consideration 6.Testing

Testing System under forces

7.Development of system - Propagation of system in vertical and horizontal direction.

8.Building as a set of constraints/ Detail as a set of affordance Introduction of program and choosing of structural system based on horizontal or vertical propagation, choosing of material and detail appropriate to the program 9.Design and detailing of project based on program dance of detail and its accommodation in program

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EXERCISE-1

Theme: Abstraction/ Visualization/ Representation

Intention: 1.Students will be able to apply this technique to abstract lines that are regulating the profile of an object.

2.Beginning to identify the constituent parts or units of a doubly curved surface 3.Breaking down a non-developable surface into smaller parts which may be developed, and hence understanding how to construct them.

Material: A4 size paper, Leaves of different profiles and curvatures.

Task: 1.Study to use minimum lines to achieve (Abstract) the profile (geometry) of curvilinear form using Cartesian grid 2.

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try) of curvilinear form using Cartesian grid Procedure:

Select a leaf having a surface which is visibly curved in two directions.

Part 1.

Make sketch in a way that you can communicate the three dimensional form of leaf using minimum lines.

Part 2.

Draw a grid over the leaf and sketch so that you can communicate the profile of the leaf.

Part 3.

Derive a technique using cartesian grid to make a three-dimensional form using high point and low point.

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Theme: Introduction to workshop tools

Intentions: 1.To be aware about the workshop tools and its outcomes.

2.To use workshop tools for developing details, models and prototypes in architecture.

Task: Students shall be introduced to use workshop tools. A demonstration shall be conducted by workshop technician.

Learning Outcomes: 1.To familiarize with workshop tools.

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Theme: Joinery

Intentions: 1.To use workshop tools to make a joinery.

2.To recognize preparation and planning to execute a task.

Material:Pine Wood, carpentry tools Task: 1.Make the given joinery.

2.Identify and document the number of steps required to make it?

3.Find out, if you can reduce the number of steps of making?

4.Find out the application of the joinery?

Please use A-3 size paper for 2, 3 & 4 tasks.

Learning Outcome: 1.To recognize working of tools in relation to the type of use.

2.To use tools correctly to make joinery.

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Theme: Experiment

Intentions: 1.Develop ability to use material in specific orientation to articulate force.

2.To sensitize towards visualizing behaviour of specific material and force.

3.To be able to apply geometrical and material property to make a joinery.

Task A: 1.Imagine that you have one third volume of the existing material.

2.Select any other material that you would wish to add other than the existing form of this material (timber) so that the overall joinery would perform the equivalent task as this material was earlier performing.

3.The selected material to be added shall be more flexible than the existing timber.

4.One should use minimum of the flexible material to achieve the earlier

strength.

5.The reduced one third volume can be used in any form to achieve desired result in combination with the flexible material.

6.While attempting the joinery, the basic sense of the earlier joinery shall be retained as far as possible e.g mechanical connection to reduce fixity achieved in shear (Hints)In order to attempt this task 1.Identify what does reduction in volume does to the overall strength of the joinery?

2.What are the geometrical change as a result of change in volume?

3.What would be the relationship between the reduction in volume and orientation of the section?

4.what would be the modeling experiment you would wish to recreate to analyze behaviour of the earlier and the new joint?

Task B: 1.Make a three dimensional drawing of the proposed joinery while representing sequence of assembly.

Learning Outcomes 1.To identify role of each parts in a joinery with respect to force and the property of material.

2.To create a modeling experiment to study the behaviour of force 3.To design a joinery that is a combinations of two different flexibility resulting in a mutually strengthening combination of joinery.

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EXERCISE 4.2

Theme: Transformation

Intention: 1.To differentiate between skills, tools required to translate analogue method of production to digital method.

2.To differentiate between knowledge and details required to produce analogue and digital products.

Task: Now that you have been introduced to digital tool of the existing workshop.

Convert the derived joinery into a new joinery that uses digital fabrication tools in the workshop and find out while reworking on digital model as to how will the details now be resolved using existing workshop computational tools.

Learning Outcome: 1.To translate and produce details based on constraints of making.

2.To use digital tool as a method of fabrication.

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EXERCISE-5.1

Theme: Experiment

Intention: 1.To be familiar with various types of forces working in a structural system.

2.To be able to articulate structural forces.

3.To work out experiments to study structural system and behaviour of joints.

Material:paper, thread Task: Take a sheet of paper of size 1x17 mm and having length of 150 mm. Attach the paper to a planar surface while addressing the following conditions: 1.The end connection between the paper and the planar surface shall be pin connection as far as possible.

2.The end connection can be of any orientation (parallel or perpendicular) to the plane.

3.The paper given are of two to dif-

ferent length.

Procedure: 1.Attempt to stabilise the paper.

The resultant model shall resist translation and rotation in any direction or along any axis respectively.

2.The stabilized paper shall take 30-100 times it’s own self weight.

3.You can remove material from the paper provided for every volume of paper that is removed an equal volume of paper shall be replaced in a manner in which there is a reduction in surface area of the actual paper.

4.If you are not able to achieve stability using procedure 3; you can use an additional of 150 mm paper of size 1 X 6 mm in parts.

5.You can also change the form of the paper provided the amount of paper does not exceed the limit as prescribed in the task.

6.After the application of rule 4;

make an alternative system where use of thread is mandatory for it stabilization.

Rules: 1.No joints shall be made out of adhesive unless it is required to connect at base.

2.Thread, and a stick of total length 300 mm shall be allowed provided the unit usable length to stabilize it shall be not more than 70 mm. However it is not mandatory to use them.

Learning Outcomes: 1.

To be able to recognize and resolve a detail while addressing direction and magnitude of force.

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To develop systems of joinery based on behavior of forces and mechanism of transfer of load.

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spanning system.

Intentions: 1.To be able to propagate and span system.

2.To be able to differentiate large and small span and it impact on form of material and element.

EXERCISE-5.3

Task 1)Take up the spanning and bearing system of the previous exercise 2)Develop it into a system using vertical and horizontal repetition having atleast one span of 2.25, 4.5 and 9 mts respectively.

3)After the spanning is done the frame structure is to be construed such that it expands 1.5 times itself horizontally and 3 times in the vertical direction.

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To register and respond details resulting out of vertical and horizontal propagation.

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Theme: Transformation

Intentions: 1.

Articulation of structural system to accommodate services and vertical movement.

Task: Consider a cuboid of 9x9x18 m made out of your derived system.The system shall accommodate commercial offices as part of the program.

Insert a staircase and a service core inside the imaginary cuboid.

Learning Outcome: 1.

To be able to design a building a sa response to ground.

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To be able to accommodate services as part of the structural system.

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EXERCISE 6.0

Theme: Program

Provocation The agency of architecture has been constantly criticized to serve the finance or market instead of people. Recent times this has been in the hands of builders who employ architects to design their schemes. In a way the builder’s profession has become an intermediary between the architect and the people to access housing in urban areas.

The work produced by builders has largely been sold as 2BHK or 3BHK or often as floor plates in commercial building. This has led to immense reduction in the way architecture can contribute to people’s life and also this has shrinked up need of people into a universal ‘BHK’ concepts.

However, this in no way means that attempts to reinvent and produce better architecture is not

attempted at various level.There are many examples being tried in various countries; noted among them is Arch.

Alejandro Aravena from Chile. In India, more attempts have been made by architects for community spaces instead of devising need based strategy in an urban area with high density.

This often leads to weather shades converted in balcony and balcony into rooms.It is being increasingly alarming that the affordance is related to quality of life.

Instead of providing a quality life in available resource; often the blame on the cost and eventually put to the quality of building thereby reducing the service of design to higher cost as if the reduction in area isn’t enough.

The percentage of people directly engaging with the architect has still not reached a considerable level or

rather alarming so has been the outreach of architecture as a profession.

But these criticism needs to be relooked and dissected carefully. The questions which we need to ask perhaps should focus towards the type of outcomes we are getting and the processes that shapes up those outcomes. The urban areas are undergoing massive transformation.

These transformations are not one story but multiple stories of India’s urbanity woven into city fabric. The studio attempts to provide one of the possible narrative of future urban developed based on empowering community in the increasing world of specialization.

In a place in Memnagar; a group of Rabari community lies along with some other communities involved in business of waste sorting and recycling. After careful consideration 11

of the manner in which transformation of city is taking place; the Rabari community along with people involved in Kabadi activities decides to make a cooperative to look into their communities need to rework their existing needs.

1.They will pull their land together to make new housing, work, learning and commercial facility.

2.They will equitably share benefits to the members of the cooperative.

3.They will to carve out new opportunity for their community through this venture.

4.They are keen to carve out new and emerging economic opportunity yet make a statement on pressing situation of environment, food and social concerns of the people.

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chitecture with following concerns

1.It should encourage encounter and interaction with people to make it a vibrant and thriving urban space 2.

It should be sensitive towards presence of nature in an urban space 3.

It should be sensitive towards children and senior citizens and safety of all.

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It should also take into cognizance future potential phased development.

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The masterplan should suitably take care of the building with respect to sun, wind and light and the architecture of the building should respond to these three forces.

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A start up facility for young professionals and entrepreneurs.

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Small, medium and large office spaces 3.

Rental spaces for short time and long time work as part of it.

4.Administrative office 5.Conference and training area 6.Eating area 7.IT areas 35-50 2

HighBang

1.A commercial tower with public amenities and some retail at the lower levels.

2.Small, medium and large office commercial offices.

3.Meeting, Conference Space 4.Administrative Areas 35-50 3

UrbAgro

1.An urban agriculture tower to sustain vegetables for the community 2.urban agriculture training facility having meeting space, classroom and workshop facility 3.Lab/ Nursery Facility 4.Storage Areas

5.Sorting and Packaging Areas 6.Retail Areas 35-50 4

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1.A waste sorting and recycling unit 2.Collection area 3.Sorting Area 4.Storage Areas 5.Administrative cum control room 6.Weighing Station 7.Material Lab 8.Exhibition areas <10-15 5

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1.A primary school (class 1-5) with evening and night classes.

2.The total capacity of the school is not more than 150 students at a time.

3.Computer education & Library 4.Dormitory facility for 10 street boys and girls each.

5.Creche/ day care facility for not more than 40 children.

6.Community Kitchen to feed the school children as well as service on membership basis. <10-15 6

3.Material Preparation 4.Design 5.Workshop 6.Storage for finished product 7.Packaging area 8.Retail cum display <10-15 Please note 1.Each building has to take care of its own parking needs 2.There should be facility for temporary parking for two wheelers and cycle.

3.There should be drop off points for public and private 4.All 4 wheeler parking shall be in the basement.

5.Students shall calculate minimum parking for each tower and create provision for it.

6.40% of the program shall be introduced by students based on their design ideas and program need.

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1.A center using primarily waste to produce craft 2.Storage

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PRAKRITI - INCUBATION CENTER TEJASWINI - SCHOOL ASIJIT - COMMERCIAL TOWER

AMEESH - COMMERCIAL TOWER

ABHISHEK - URBAN CRAFTS CENTER MISHAL - INCUBATION CENTER SAIKIRAN - URBAN AGRO TOWER

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ATHIRA - SCHOOL

ASHWATHA - URBAN CRAFTS CENTER

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NAVEEN - URBAN AGRO TOWER

JUAN - WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTER

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PORTFOLIO: POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION

Student: Prakriti Saxena

The studio challenges the conventional design strategies of establishing the ‘key idea’ or founding concept and taking it to nut & bolt details by employing the exactly opposite approach. While designing details that are independent of context, the only drivers are the 5 elementary forces - Tension, Compression, Shear, Bending and Torsion. A true understanding of these forces concieves form, that is further shaped by material studies. This detail is then morphed to fit various physical, socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors that enable it to stand firm in the built environment. The product is not only a well thought out and detailed structure, but also the ability to shape, design and redesign detail; which is the true poetic of construction.

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JAPANESE JOINERY

JULY

Form and forces

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Steps: Sketching and understanding joinery Thermocol working model Preparing wood: Planing, trimming Cutting reqd. lengths for various members Marking wood Making details by sawing / chiseling Filing with Sand paper Polishing in 3 Grades using power tools Weather proofing using Linseed oil (2 coats)

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Abstract & visualise

MASS REDUCTION

Breaking down a nondevelopable surface into smaller parts makes it easier to understand them. A technique is thus used to develop a 3D form by understanding its high & low points.

AUGUST

Keep the shape and behavior Keeping the original idea of the joinery intact, it is redesigned with 1/3 the amount of timber.

SECOND MASS REDUCTION

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Beam redesign

This step required a similar reduction in volume of timber for the beams as well.

ASEMBLE WITH OTHER MATERIAL

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Steel and screws

To compensate for the loss in strength from the reduction in timber, M.S. is used as a composite material in the joinery.

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

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Cantilever, paper and

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The first exercise was a paper experiment to cantilever 15cm of 1mm thick paper. The concept was to study and understand the skeletal structure of a dragonfly wing to observe the proportions of various elements (shaped to carry load in tension / compression) and follow the same principles to design the paper cantilever.

STRUCTURAL CONTINUTY SEPTEMBER

Columns and beams

This was further developed as a simply suppoerted beam, then a column and beam design. The joinery in a four way junction shaped the design of the column.

DESIGNING FOR CONTINUITY SEPTEMBER

Junction study

The columns and beams were designed keeping in mind that they are a part of a structural bay and not independent elements.

TENSILE DETAILING

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Addition of tensile members

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Addition of tensile members in the beam further developed the detail. The beam varied in witdh and depth towards the centre as a direct response to increasing and decreasing compression and tension along the beam length.

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READING SPACES

A quick modelling expreiment helped to establish the relationship the first three floors of a building have with the ground it stands upon. Penetration of light, vertical volumes (double heights, cut outs etc. ) defined the way a structure is perceived by a passer by on a street.

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Relation with the Ground

FACADE DESIGN

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Developing a shading device The facade was developed as a combination of horizontal and vertical vectors that framed the shading device to keep out the sun and let in the wind.

FINAL DETAIL

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Column, Beam and Facade

The column comprised of a concrete base with 3 M.S. plates.

The spanning member was designed as a composite timber, M.S. member with a steel cable.

The facade was optimised using grasshopper scripting.

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INCUBATION CENTRE Ahmedabad, India

The idea behind the incubation centre is to provide young and upcoming businesses the required infrastructure and financial investment to develop their products. The Rabari community can earn steadily through renting out small, medium and large offices in the building with priority offered to residents that wish to use the facilities.

OCTOBER

The program includes various ammenities like a public library, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeterias, conference rooms etc. to be used by all the residents and which can also be made accessible to the public through memberships.

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Community living The site is owned by a Rabari community whose residences surround the perimeter. It is flanked by a main highway on the West creating ample commercial opportunities.

ORIENTATION

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Sunrise and sunset The building sits in the East - West axis in order to keep out maximum solar radiation.

The South facade is completely blocked, the East and West are designed with a building skin that allows for SW ventilation while keeping out direct sunlight in the first and last potions of daylight hours. The North facade opens out maximum to let in diffused sunlight into the building.

MASSING

The top and bottom three floors are demarcated to respond to the sky and the ground respectively. The first three floors expand onto the site as they host various facilities open to the community. The building block is divided into two masses, the larger hosting large and small sized offices and the smaller with medium sized offices. This creates a wind channel providing all workspaces enough light, wind and breathability.

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Max. light and wind

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SECTION

Community living

The first two floors are entirely dediated to livening up the site. It also consists of an exhibition space in the lobby to showcase the procucts on sale at the urban crafts centre in another part of the site. The gym is designed with a peripheral running track. A common restaurant and juice bar sits across the gym. Three levels consist of indoor courts to bring in green spaces throughout the height of the tower. The rooftop cafe being functional beyond regular working hours keeps the building alive even during the night. +42.0m

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PLAN

Community living

40% of the program was left free to include any other functions or activities deemed fit for the building.

The Incubation centre thus incorporates various community centric spaces that not only make the building more accessable to the Rabari residents but also encourages the building to interact with the 5 other structures on the site.

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FACADE DESIGN

Optimisation

The building skin was developed by inputing several parameters that shaped the optimum profiles and angles of horizontal and vertical shading devices. The input parameters were as follows: Floor height Fin depth Wind angle Sun angle start ( sunrise and sunset ) Sun angle at peak ( noon ) Building floor count The derived grid was then used to formulate the shading system that yielded a kinetic facade. Upon detailing the same, it was found that it was more viable to design a static system for the summer sun and introduce a top hung louvered shutter in the fenestration to combat the winter sun.

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12mm M.S. plate 12mm M.S. stiffner

6mm dia. Bolts 12mm M.S. plate 12mm frog in Concrete

420 x 420 x 600mm Concrete

COLUMN DETAIL

380 x 12mm M.S. plate 420 x 420 x 600mm Concrete 6mm dia. Bolts 420 x 150mm Timber beam 420 x 150mm Timber beam

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420 x 150mm Timber beam

18mm dia. Bolts 8mm M.S. plate 8mm M.S. plate

BEAM DETAIL

40mm dia. M.S. pipe 420 x 600mm Composite beam 10mm dia tensile cable 420x420mm Composite column 40mm dia. M.S. pipe 200mm thk. Brick wall M.S. clamp

80 x 150mm Timber 6mm Double pane glass M.S. clamp Louvered shutter

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Composite beam 400 x 600 mm Composite column 420 x 420 mm Tensile fabric shading device Metal framework

Composite column 420 x 420 mm Metal clamp 8mm M.S. plate Metal frame - 40mm dia. pipe Tensile fabric shading device

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PORTFOLIO: POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION

Student: Ameesh

ridging the gap between engineering and architecture .

A unique approach leading that upto dictionary of the stepping into the design .

of starting with a detail and a programmatic solution. The building was complete , before complexities of the programmatic

The architecture language is strongly depicted by its core details. The design solutions are true to their details and hence grounded to reality.

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ABSTRACTION | VISUALISATION | REPRESENTATION Structural form

Abstract lines that are regulating the profile of an object.

JULY

1. Intention

Identify the constituent parts or units of a doubly curved surface.

Breaking down a nondeveloped surface into smaller parts which may be developed, and hence understanding how to construct them.

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2. Task To use minimum lines to achieve the profile of curvilinear form using cartesian grid.

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HAUNCHED MORTIS & TENON WITH STOP MITERED & SUB-TENON

Form and forces

This is a japenese joinery, mostly used in the door frames to take the vertical compression load.

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STEPS :

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JULY

1. Sketching 2. Mock up model 3. Shaping wood logs using the perpendicular tool 4. Marking the negatives for the cut outs 5. Saw and chissile is used to shape the log as per its detail .

6. Sanding and buffing is used to smoothen the surfaces.

7. Oiling is then used to polish the wood peices.

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AN ITERATION OF THE MORTIS & TENON JOINT

Keep the shape and behavior

The iteration of the haunched mortis and tenon joint was derived by reducing the volume of the previous joinery to 1/3rd, while retaining the same dimensions of the previous joinery and introducing another material, which would allow for the forces to coordinate in the same direction.

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MATERIALS :

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1. Wood 2. Cement Sheet

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PAPER MODELING

Cantilever, paper and

threads

To recognise and resolve a detail while addressing direction and magnitude of forces.

AUGUST

To develop system of joinery based on behaviour of forces and mechanism of transfer of load.

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STRUCTURAL DETAIL DESIGN

Having started with the paper model experiment, Structural details were designed before hand for the final project as a dictonary for our programatic design solution.

SEPTEMBER

Various iterations through different manifestations of physical models helped improve the details and their functionality.

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OCTOBER

deriving a system

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TOWER OF COMMERCE Ahmedabad, India

The volumetric manifestation was governed both by the syructural system , as well as the sun path.

The south side has a horizontal projection of its floor plates, to shade the openings. The north side allowed for volumetric reduction in the massing to maximise the terraces and allow for the day illumenance to enter the built mass in abundance.

The east and west side were governed by the openings, which faced against the sun path.

displacement

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The programe has the retail at the first three floors and commercial offices above it.

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The commercial tower is located near the helmet circle , in Ahmedabad.

The rabari community is influential to the urban fabric.

The volume shamphers its ground entry towards the rabari community, to allow for a connection to the ring road.

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DETAILS DICTONARY projects core

BEAM TO BEAM ASSEMBLY

COLUMN ASSEMBLY

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COLUMNS AND WALLS

FLOOR PLATE

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PORTFOLIO: POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION

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Student: ASIJIT KHAN

The studio introduced me to a new dimension in the way we tend to perceive design in buildings. It showed us the importance of details as a defining element in evolution of buildings. The studio brings forth issues of the rapid urbanisation which has lead to the depletion of resources and how we as architects can attend to the cause. The portfolio is a journey of ones intent to understand the existing practice of other craftsmen and then applying that understanding to explore our own language through the articulation of details.

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EXCERCISE 3 TABLED SPLAYED SCARF WITH STUB TENONS AND BLIND PEGS (DAIMOCHI TSUGI)

The tabled splayed scarf with stub tenons is a very old Japanese purlin joint. The stub tenons prevent lateral shifting. If a tabled scarf joint on a beam is positioned above or below a post, the post’s tenon can be mortised through both lapping parts, thereby increasing the joint’s resistance to tension.If the joint is made on a sill resting on a wall, square -shaped pegs concealed within the joint ensure a stable joint.

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EXCERCISE 4 COMPOSITE JOINERY -WOOD AND BAMBOO As per the excersise , 1/3rd the volume retained of the existing material gives me a section of 30 x 300 x 60. The second material chosen for the joinery is bamboo.

The intended purpose of the joinery is that of a lengthening joint or lapping joint.The new joinery is tested to perform the equivalent task as before. The aim is to achieve the earlier strength using minimun flexible material.

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EXCERCISE 5 PAPER EXPERIMENT Theme : Modelling Learning outcome: 1.To be able to recognise and resolve a detail while addressing direction and magnitude of force .

2.To develop a system of joinery based on behavior of forces and mechanism of transfer of load.

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The agency of architecture has been constantly criticised to serve the finance or market value instead of people. Recent times this has been in the hands of builders who employ architects to design their schemes . The constant drive to gain profits from these ventures has lead to architecture that is insensitive and devoid of sensorial qualities. This constant struggle between profits and delivering sensible quality of life to all is a strive to achieve architecture that relates to the community and provokes a better quality of life .

The project is a response to the Rabari community’s needs and initiative. The commercial complex is to carve out new oppurtunities for their community. It is to provide various economic oppurtunities that will aid the growth of the community as a whole.

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The building design is an attempt to provoke a relation between the user and and audience and the introduction of public activities such as the cineplex at the 4th floor level, a gaming arcade at the 5th floor and a roof top restaurant invites the public and encourages public interaction and thus aspires to be inclusive in nature.

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06 Cellular floor system carrying pathways for power, telephone and data transmission.

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Student: Juan Tusso

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ight now, we are suffering from the effects of a world that is increasingly virtual, some of those effects help us reduce the amount of resources required to produce or think, others make it possible to imagine a new world without the limitations that we find in the Earth, and all these new considerations were favorable to develop architecture until some point, we are building new spaces without the sense of the human body, precisely because we are not using it to think and design, maybe we are overestimating our minds.

The studio Poetics of Construction is an invitation to re-think the relationship between our work and ourselves.

In the first part is a very rational exercise to understand the physics within an object, what forces are involved in it, what is the reaction if we push it with new forces.

Eventually, in the process to work over and over with models, those questions are clearer and we made a new structural system. This is the story about that process and the unexpected encounters that we found on the way.

“It’s not about how to be stronger, it’s how to resolve it in the weakness”

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JAPANESE JOINERY

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A simple exercise to put together two elements, this wood joinery shows us a lot of possibilities to solve it using the same material and the forces that can support, to search more options than to use laces or screws.

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Structural form

Recreating with drawings the leaf just to see the clear relationship among form and structural behavior.

MASS REDUCTION

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Keep the shape and behavior

To reproduce the timber joinery resistance changing the material, this model is paperboard without glue.

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Triangular shape

In this model the change in the form had reduced more than half the mass of the elements but the resistance against horizontal forces is less.

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Steel and screws

To compensate the resistance the steel helps to get the traction in the inferior side, the screws and a bend in the steel are keeping together the elements.

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

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The paper beam was made from three segments and the challenge was to think about the intersection and the contact points, with the vertical surface and between themselves.

STRUCTURAL CONTINUTY SEPTEMBER

Columns and beams

What happens if we imagine both elements like one single object that resolved horizontal and vertical forces.

One element in the middle and two more in both sides to extend the structure.

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Surfaces

The adjustment in the element’s contour are to be able to receive other structures in the X and Y axes.

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To fade the limit between interior and exterior the elements don’t have a defined boundary. It is one of the most interesting conditions of the system because it connects the structure with the perception of it.

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After the first models we saw an important resistance reduction in the central element, then we reinforced that area with threads. Therefore, both elements have modifications to cross the threads and make more extended connections.

These structural elements are in charge to support the architectural development, this means that the building and structure are the same object, to enjoy the space is basically see and touch the structure.

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READING SPACES

The first brief was a building to read, and the volume was defined as a cube of 9m. Form the beginning the vertical relations in the internal spaces was the only way to see the structural intention.

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Testing the structural system

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High rise building

Trying to put in a difficult situation the system we made this building growing in vertical. The subtraction of some parts of the structure gave rise to a possible solution without compromising the stability.

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Uniformity in the structural elements, like a single element that is able to adapt itself to different conditions, an element full of rules for the purpose of change.

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Activities

Usually these kind of places are designed like a big space where nobody sees what happens inside, and the waste is treated like garbage. Maybe this is one of the reasons why the space does not attain its true importance and instead should be treated like a chest with an inestimable treasure.

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SEPARATIONS NOVEMBER

Enclosed and opened space

The program in the building is separated in two groups, one is the private spaces like offices and laboratories and the second group is the spaces for waste processing and the exhibition.

HUMAN SCALE NOVEMBER

transition between spaces

Changes in the scale, learning of the first reading space how the vertical relations between spaces make different experiences while crossing inside the building.

STRUCTURAL WOVEN

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Carpenter logic

Like in the Japanese joinery, the effort to improve the resistance of the elements just by changing the geometrical disposition make the structure very strong and give the building some significant detail, closer to the cabinetmaker’s work.

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Some holes in the structural elements are to connect with the same lightness the pivoting windows and the tensile roof.

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Main circulation

Like in the most of the industrial facilities the process to make usable waste is linear.

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Tectonic and stereotomic

The materiality in the private spaces are solid, heavy and without many details to highlight the structure in the main space.

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Parts and materials

To be consistent with the project, the structure’s material is recycled plastic because eventually the same facility might fabricate it. The other elements are steel threads and tubes.

STRUCTURE GROWTH NOVEMBER

Expansion

The design of the end condition of the structural elements permits to change the internal distribution or increase the coverage eventually.

ORIENTATION DICEMBER

Windows and Sun

The windows are using the central hole in the structural elements to rotate the metallic frame in East and west vertically and South and North Horizontally, like in a traditional Indian bed (Charpai), the vegetal woven change in density responsd to the amount of direct light permitted into the building.

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In the shorter sides of the building there are two spaces under the shadow of the trees with concrete chairs to eat lunch and see what is the life outside the project.

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The entire structure is covered with a textile that reduces the weight of the roof and directs the rain water to the collector in the middle of the space. These collectors are the treasure that is protected by the structure.

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The visual relation that the exhibition area has in the entire project is to make evident for everybody who crosses this bridge to understand why is so important to be aware about our waste.

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PORTFOLIO: POETICS OF CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION SSC from Sri Ma Vidyalaya, Mumbai University.

Student: Tejaswini Walunj HSC from Bandodkar Junior College of Science The studio started with an aim to from understand forms B.ARCH Academy natural of Architecture, Mumbai (the leaf exercise)and then followed by analyzing forces (Japanese joinery exercise). The next step was to work My goal is to continue expandWORK EXPERIENCE with materials and their strengths, integrating aspects ing my design skills, knowledge at Roots Landscape like climate and resources.Internship The idea of the whole Architects, process Pune of Architecture and Design.

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The exercise was to understand joineries in timber. The procedure involved introduction to using workshop tools.

The joinery was a junction for heavy panels, sliding folding doors and Japanese panels.

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Structural form

Recreating with line drawings the leaf to analyse the relationship between form and structural behavior.

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Wire mesh, bolts and washers.

The timber was reduced to 1/3 of its original volume and the required strength was provided with substitute material.

The joinery between the two materials was the main focus. The joinery was designed in a manner with no actual contact between the timber and wire mesh.

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AUGUST

Cantilever, paper and

For the 15 meters cantilever beam the idea was to have a deeper end condition which would reduce towards the cantilever portion. Paper strips were used for this experimentation. The beam was constructed in two parts. The first part as a paper strip used horizontally at the end junction to have more contact area to fix the paper beam. The second part of the assembly was folded in a method that reduced the beam at the cantilever part and increased it’s depth to reduce sagging.

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The idea was to split each column in two and tie the whole system with beams. The spans are such that they accomodate various functions of the programme. The whole system acts as one. Space between these columns give the system more stability and balances its center of gravity.

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FACADE DESIGN

The first brief was a building to read, and the volume was defined as a cube of 9m. Form the beginning the vertical relations in the internal spaces conveyed the structural intention.

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Isolated Timber

Structural Simulation only with timber joinery shows incapablility of carrying the required amount of load.

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Structural Simulation only with wiremesh joinery shows incapablility of carrying the required amount of load.

SIMULATION

In structural Simulation of timber with wiremesh joinery shows capability of carrying required load of the structure.

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The whole column system

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The whole column system

The whole column system consists of the metal plate chairs, timber joinery, and bolts inside the wiremesh cage.

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STRUCTURAL SIMULATION Strengh by folding NOVEMBER

Beam is designed to acheive strength by folding. The folded beam is deeper at the ends and reduces in the center. The safety factor in the silumation with the 12 mm thickness metal plate is 15.

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Shorter span

The shorter span beams directly rest on the columns.

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The longer span beams directly rest on the columns. One single beam spans over four columns and ties the whole structural system together.

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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM single floor

Typical floor structural system with light well at the center for light and ventilation. The beams tie the whole structural system.

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Student: Athira Balakrishnan

Poetics of construction is an implied metaphor to a top-down approach to architectural design. The motive is to impart a comprehensive understanding of parts forming a structural system and it’s response to various physical forces. The studio emphasised on realising the dynamics of materials, subject to various systemic forces, and it’s relevance in different scenarios. Hence, deriving a structural system, which remains elementary for all further explorations.

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JULY

JAPANESE JOINERY

Workshop - Half blind mitered haunched double tenon and mortice

The task was to learn to use workshop tools to appropriately make the japanese joinery.

It focussed on understanding the outcomes of different tools to develop details of the joinery whilst understanding the behavior of the material(wood).

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JULY

Abstract / Visualise

The task was to derive profiles (synclastic and antisynclastic surfaces) of curvilinear forms using cartesian REDESIGNING JOINERY

AUGUST

Experiment

The task was to keep the original idea of joinery but reduce the mass of timber by 1/3rd and redesign using a second flexible material.

MS was introduced to redesign the composite joinery of similar strenght as existing japanese joinery.

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

AUGUST

Cantilever, paper and

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Paper experiment was conducted to understand the behavior of forces and mechanism of transfer of load. It started with a cantilever of 15cms with pin joint end connection to take load of 30-100 times its self weight.

STRUCTURAL CONTINUITY

SEPTEMBER

Columns and beams

The experiment further developed into a simply supported system which looked into spanning and segmentation of a system.

TENSILE DETAIL SEPTEMBER

Addition of tensile element

The beams were further refined to take tension by introducing thread. It was also studied to understand the connection of the tensioning element from the beam to column.

READING SPACES

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At later stage, details were refined with understanding of social context. The relationship of the first three floors of a building with the ground is studied to establish a better perception of the building by passer by on the street.

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Further the detail was refined to understand the climatic context which helped in developing details for the facade.

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Climatic context

Final detail was developed by introducing materials for each element.

Timber with MS as a composite section and tensioning rods defined the system.

Also the strenght and sizes of each was studied to understand load and forces.

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THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Ahmedabad, India

Architecture and infrastructure are fundamental aspects in enhancing social development. The primary needs for a society, should be unbiased or unbound in its nature of function.

The Rabari, a community of nomadic herdsmen and ragpickers, is the local social sect, who could immensely benefit out of an architectural intervention focused on social development.

The community dwells around site with the National highway abutting the west edge. The following intervention is of an elementary school for the community, programmed to promote the aspects of education and skill sharing among the dwellers.

With classes for 150 students of ages 6 to 10 years, the school also accommodates a library, a crèche, dorm, and community kitchen. The intervention also looks at other recreational and interactive spaces serving the community for skillsharing and cultural events post school hours. This kind of exchange of spaces helps in enticing a healthy dialogue between the community and it’s infrastructure. The design also visualises the need of a founded structure in which the functions could be laid on, adding to the requirement of solid amenities which strengthens and enhances communities.

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The design evolves around the demand to integrate different activities of varied levels of interaction and privacy.

The building is oriented along east-west axis to keep out maximum solar radiation.

The biggest mass of school with library is placed at the south edge to give shade to the rest throughout the day. Further, the other three activities are combined vertically in a block placed parallel to the school block at northern edge.

Sunken court Playground

The two blocks are connected with a bridge as an extension of the library and promotes various interactions between the activities. The open pockets creacted become the playground and a mutually shaded sunken court.

The school block is lifted up to create a pavilion space as an extension of playground and court and givies porosity at the ground level.

This porous ground promotes interaction of the school with the community. The edges are treated with community spaces and landscape, thus threading the existing Rabari community with newly built.

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MS - Wood composite beam 25mm x 25mm MS box section 8mm clear glass 4mm MS plate screwed to RCC band 100mm RCC band 300mm brick cavity wall 100mm cavity space

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he design is an attempted exploration of a building expression that has emerged through the systematic investigation and analysis of material and its forms . Details have been derived through exercises with physical constrains that helped us arrive at a certain profile and system . These derived forms were further refined to arrive at a building language that has emerged purely on the basis of this study .The urban crafts center is one such attempt of a building expression. Materials such has metal ,timber and ply have been used in different ratios in each element according to the systematic requirement that the structure demands. Also other factors such as climate study and material strength were key forces is deriving the outcome . Certain mechanisms incorporated in the structure make the nature of the spaces more transformable .

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JAPANESE JOINERY

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Form and material

A scarf joint is a method of joining two members end to end in woodworking .The scarf joint is used when the material being joined is not available in the length required.

Once the joinery has been studied and analyzed a seperate study of the geometry is required to be done through the use of a live size model making.based on the approximations of the volume of timer required for the making of the joinery, the timber is procured.

The procured timber is sized and filed to bring it to the appropriate section.

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The concept of abstraction, visualisation and representation of the leaf in understanding the volume further is explored.

MODIFICATION material

Here the timber is reduced such that surfaces that take these forces are retained and along with the introduction of a new material ,in this case -Mild steel.The M.S plate is folded along the profile of the timber joinery to achieve a profile that wraps around the existing joinery .

TimbeR gets its strength through the alingment of fibers that can take both tension and compression , and metal with its high strength ,stiffness and flexiblility allows the joinery to work well .

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

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The paper exercise was introduced to further understand joineries , profiles , materials and systems .

MATERIAL TRANSLATION The aim of the exercise was to understand and achieve systems through spanning, segmentation. material strength through paper.

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STRUCTURAL CONTINUITY Thread was later used in the developed sytems to achieve tensigrity through them. A system of L sections were used to develop a system of beams and columns

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Further these paper systems were refined at each stage through a process of faliure analysis. materials were applied at a later stage to further develop the system.

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ELEMENTAL SPACE

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Surfaces

Also smaller design exercises were introduced in parallel to arrive at a building language that works in sync with the developed system . These systems were refined at each stage as per structure, building material, material strength and geometry.

MECHANISM

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A facade mechanism was developed that helps govern the structural system. A series of interlocking planes with a central pivot helps the plane rotate about its centre.

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Along with the rotation ,the pivot also moves along the surfaces of either planes making the system more dynamic in nature.

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After the development of the building system . Resolution of the language governed by these elements were difined .This exercise helped arrive at the nature of the system and how it would respond to the space .

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he current scenario would help us understand the depletion of resources and materials, the resources are being overused without having in mind the need for them in the future. The amount of resources utilized are to be given back to achieve perfect balance, for which these resurces are to be harvested, other wise solution is to reuse and altar the weakest resources with minimum energy and economy.

The studio is beased on understand the materials, structural systems and forces acting on them which helped in basic understanding of how or where to use the material by knowing the properties of them and using the material to the minimum by combining it with other stronger materials making it a composite design element. The studio helped in understanding of various structural forces acting on a system, transfer of forces, loads etc.,This study helps us to create a solution from the weakest.

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Structural form

The exercise was to understand and study the lines that governs the shape of the leaf and do a simple sketch to understand the forces.

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JAPANESE JOINERY Form and forces

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We started with understanding a simple japanese joinery, its functions and uses. The exercise was to get hold of the workshop tools.

REDUCTION OF MATERIALS

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Keep the shape and behavior

The exercise was to reduce 1/3 rd of the original material used in the japanese joinery and add steel plats, brackets and bolts to attain the same strength as the previous joinery.

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

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The paper’s beam was made from three segments and the challenge was to think the intersection and the contact points, with the vertical surface and between themselves.

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The idea is to underatand the behaviour of the designed beams and columns on a 9x9 layout, and also to study and experiment the transfer of forces in simply support and cantilever structures.

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MODELLING

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Testing the designed beam and columns under a difficult situation on a highrise buildings to study the forces acting on it which inturn helped in the final highrise project.

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ADDING MORE DETAILS

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Fixing walling, roofing and fenestrations.

The next stage was to add more details and fixtures to the existing system.

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The studio is based on understanding structures and the forces, thus a lab to explore new ideas and structural based concepts, which are finally used in the given program.

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he Earth is on the brink of saturation in terms of the resources that it can provide for the architecture to come in the near future. Thus it is our responsibility to rethink the way we are designing and building. The main idea behind the following studio is to overcome the conventional way of designing,construction methodoligies and exploration of materials and methods to incorporate the concepts.

The studio-Poetics of Construction dealt with understanding of forms, synclastic and anticlastic surfaces, making joinery detail with workshop tools, structural exploration, form and force derivation, resolution of the systems developed and finally to incorporate the derived structural components in an architectural buliding to testify its reality.

“It’s not what we are underneath, the things we do defines who we are “ - from a movie [BATMAN]

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LEAF Structural form

The exercise helped to derive profiles [synclastic &anticlastic surfaces]of various curvilinear objects forms.

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JAPANESE JOINERY

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Form and forces

The exercise was to make a japanese joinery using manual and machine tools to get used to the workshop.

The following is a double gooseneck joinery that is used to deal with rotting columns and are to be replaced for structural stability.

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COMPOSITE JOINERY Mass reduction

The exercise was to reduce the material to 1/3rd the original from the previous joinery and introduce a new material that makes the joinery as stable as the earlier joinery.1mm M.S sheet was used in combination with timber as a composite material to replace the 2/3rd reduced mass.

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MODELLING Cantilever, paper and threads

The exerice was to make a cantilever using paper which are of two parts having lengths of 70mm and 120mm making an effective length of 150mm.

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STRUCTURAL UNIT Deriving a system

The exercise was to be able to develop a structural system that focuses on coloumn to column joinery , column to beam joinery and other such junctions and to be able to include staircase as a part of the developed structural system.

SHADING DEVICE Designing fenestration

The exercise was to be able to develop a fenestration system to make the architecture more climate responsive and to be able to design shading device to respond to various climatic factors.

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RESOVING STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS Testing the structural system Developing a structural beam with double cable configuration

The exrecise was to be able to resvolve the structural system and to design the structural systems to cater programme’s needs.

Using the system to connect to the exterior ground, thus system becomes a part of the foreground.

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System used to create an avenue that becomes a spill out area.

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URBAN CRAFT CENTER Primarily uses waste to produce

E x e m p l a r - a way of spatial disposition

“ I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much, it should remain silent and let the nature in the guise of sunlight and wind ” - Tadao Ando

Workspaces in factories are concieved to be amidst high enclosed walls that do not allow a connection between insideout for the workers. What is attempted here is to leave behind this idea and and putforth a language that connects workspaces to the nature. Playing with the section ,spatial disposition and confluence of design , productivity is fostered.

Urban craft centre primarily uses waste to produce something useful. In the design, paper is used as a raw material for crafting. Individual floors are connected to the outside in a manner to make the workspaces uniquely dynamic and thus the monotony of the section is broken.

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The site is situated in Memnagar, Ahmedabad spread over 4 acres of land.

A group of rabari community along with some other communities involved in business of waste sorting and recycling. After careful consideration of the manner in which transformation of city is taking place, the Rabari comminity along with people involved in Kabadi(garbage collection) activities have decided to make a coperative to look into their communities need to rework their existing needs.

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he present rapid growth of urbanization has created a scarcity towards resources and energy.Architecture and construction technology is booming with buildings and spaces with less sesnsitivity towards the resources and its application. Need for the alternative materials, efficient usage of materials and energy consumption is to be addressed. We need to think ahead of our time to overcome the unseen shortage.

The studio - Poetics of construction focuses on attempting alternative methods of material application and detailing of a system.The studio helps me approach design by taking both the strengths and weakeness of a material and utilise that knowledge to resolve the system more efficiently.The studio started with understanding tools, materials and forces and its application towards built forms. Various quick models were made to study the behavior of forces and develop a system that can fit in sync with the form.

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This exercise is to study the use of minimum lines to achieve the profile(geometry) of curvilinear forms using Cartisian grid.

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Form and forces

The intention of the exercise is to use the right workshop tools to make the joinery and study its relation between tools and materials.

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COMPOSITE JOINERY

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An exercise To attempt the with a sence of the previous joinery, using one third of the volume without loosing the original strength. The main intention was to study the behavior of the forces and to design a joinery that is a combination of two diff erent fl exibile materials, resulting in a mutually strengthening joinery.

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FORMAL RESISTANCE

AUGUST

Cantilever, paper and threads.

An attempt to stabilize the paper model with three segments of 150 mm length which shall take 30 - 100 times of its self weight.

The main intention is to be familiar with various types of forces working in a structural system and to be able to articulate structural forces.

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This exercise is to ranslate the derived joinery that has been absorbed from the behaviour of paper model using digital tools.

Also using the knowledge of structure and material properties to transform one detail into another so that it can atleast perform the same task. It helps in studyng the structural system and behaviour of joints.

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Unit to whole

Derived from Iterations of composite joinery where the single unit is multiplied to create a whole system as the fenestration.

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SYSTEM JUNCTIONS Amalgamation

A working model where all the components are joined and detailed out to test the structural system.

ARCHITECTONIC STRUCTURE

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High rise building

A model where all the components are joined to stabilize the whole system by creating a vertical builtform.

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URBAN_AGRO_TOWER

Introduction, Idea & Structure

In the present scenario, the rapid growth of urban population also demands food-security to the city and its people. One key problem of future cities will be transporting large amount of food to serve dense population, and the vertical farm model offers a potential solution to this problem.

The builtform Idea has been responsive to the sunlight as it plays key role in the production.Spliting and displacing the form into two allows sunlight to reach the core of the structure.

The program is structured with public places like retail, learning centre and market place connected to the ground and the floors above with urban agriculture production.The top floors consists of a restaurant to embrace the city’s views, research labs and a green house that functions with abundance of sun light.

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ORIENTATION Block is oriented on North-South axis in order to increase surface area to the sun exposure.

DIVISION Block is divided to play with massing to increase day light penetration.

VOLUME DISPLACEMENT Volume at the top is displaced to let the light into the core of the building.

POSITION OF SERVICE CORE Service core is placed at the centre to stabilize the structure.

AGRO SERVICES GRID

SOLAR IRRADIACE MAP map showing the average sun exposure around the year.

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Greenline showing nutrient supply, blue for the outlet water and red for power supply.

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BEAM ASSEMBLY PROCESS:

Selection of two glulam wood pieces.

Subtracting the wood pieces from the profile.

Joining of two pieces with stainess steel profile and addition of tensile member to support long spans.

Completion of beam.

Application of weather coating for longevity.

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SYSTEM DETAILS :

COLUMN ASSEMBLY PROCESS: Weather coated Glulam wood is fused in between the 12 mm stainless steel plates.

Cross bracing detail.

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COLUMN AND BEAM JOINING : Synthesised column is joined with metal plate welded on top of I-Section.

Cantilever beam showing tensile cable attached to the beam and mullion.

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Reinforcing 8mm steel bars.

80mm x 120mm glulam joists supported by metal bracket holding to the main beam.

Nutrient suppling water pipe.

Hydrophonics root bed.

Hydroponics vertical stand.

Controllable LED strip.

“U” shape section used on tie beam to hold facade treatment with insulation and gives reinforcement to concrete from sidewards.

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205 mm x 254mm Primary beam composed with 2 glulam wood sections with tensile member support through cable.

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