Final Year Architeture Thesis

Proposed New Wing of Mumbai City Bhau Daji Lad Museum at Byculla East, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Location:

The Bhau Daji Lad Museum, is located in the Byculla neighborhood, which is centrally positioned within the city. The museum itself is nestled within the verdant surroundings of Jijamata Udyan, a sprawling botanical garden.

Climate:

Mumbai lies in the warm and climatic zone. The city’s monsoon season, which occurs from June to September, bringing heavy rainfall and occasional flooding. The postmonsoon months, from October to February, are relatively cooler and more pleasant, with lower humidity levels and comfortable temperatures. However, occasional heatwaves occur, particularly in the summer months from March to May, when temperatures can soar, accompanied by high humidity. Certainly, let's delve deeper into the site analysis of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, focusing on wind direction, sun path, and average temperatures:

Wind

Direction:

Mumbai experiences predominantly southwest monsoon winds during the monsoon season. Given the museum's location in the Byculla neighborhood, surrounded by relatively low-rise buildings and open green spaces, it may experience moderate wind flow from various directions, with the prevailing southwest winds influencing overall airflow patterns. The museum's orientation and site layout should be consider for optimizing the structure.

Sun Path:

During the winter months, the sun's path shifts towards the southern hemisphere, resulting in shorter days and lower sun angles. Conversely, in the summer months, the sun's path moves northward, leading to longer days and higher sun angles. The museum's positioning within Jijamata Udyan offers opportunities to leverage shading strategies and landscaping features to mitigate solar heat gain and optimize daylighting within the museum spaces.

Average Temperatures:

During the summer months, from March to May, average temperatures range from 30°C to 35°C , with occasional heatwaves leading to higher readings. The monsoon season, from June to September, increases humidity levels, with temperatures averaging around 25°C to 30°C . The postmonsoon period, from October to February, is characterized by cooler temperatures ranging from 20°C to 30°C

1 Mumbai City Bhau Daji Lad Museum

2 Byculla Railway Station

3 Eastern Express Highway Flyover

4 ES Patanala Marg

The Bhau Daji Lad Museum is connected by various modes of transportation- road, rail, and public transit. The museum is accessible via major arterial roads such as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road and Eastern Express Highway, facilitating convenient vehicular access. The site is served by the Byculla railway station, which is part of Mumbai's suburban railway network, providing direct rail connectivity to different parts of the city and beyond. The museum is within walking distance from bus stops and taxi stands.

1 Mumbai City Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Map Analysis:

The above map denotes the spaces with are under the use of the local residents of the neighbourhood.

1 Rani’s Baugh Playground

2 Residential Buildings

The above map denotes the spaces with are under the use of the tourists who visit the Botanical Zoo and the Museum.

1 Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and zoo

2 Public Plaza ahead of Zoo and Museum

3 Tourist Paths

The above map denotes the pedestrian thouroughfare in and around the site.

1 General Path of a person

The above map denotes the locations where there are maintained and usable footpaths.

In 2014, the Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum sought architectural proposals for a new North wing to expand its capacity to house a diverse range of collections and accommodate essential functions typical of a City Museum. These functions included areas for conservation, offices, workshops, and special exhibition spaces. Despite selecting a winning proposal and assigning an architect to the project, it failed to progress due to local opposition to the plan. The proposed expansion involved appropriating open spaces utilized by the neighborhood as a park, sparking resistance from the community.

The area highlighted above in the grey denotes the area demarcated for the construction of the North Wing of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in the 2014 Competition. This thesis proposal shall be considering the same area as the site boundaries for this thesis proposal.

Concept

“"The city is a collective representation, a concrete totality of different aspects which may combine in a thousand ways and which it is the task of the architect to clarify…. The individual buildings of the city form a fabric, and it is the fabric that makes the city. "

-Aldo Rossi ‘Architecture of the City‘

1 The Heritage Structure

2 Entry to the Site

3 Area for the North Wing

1 A North South Rectangular staring form so as to optimise the north sun and by having all services and circulation areas in the South having a climate efficient structure.

2 A barrier to secure the Museum Area

3 Entry point of the Heritage structure

4 A general path of a Museum Visitor

5 A general path of a public Pedestrian

1 Viewing point

2 West Void

3 Central Void

4 cone of Vision

5 The resulting for after conducting an operation preserving the views of the heritage Structure. Thus making a porous and malleable spaces around the structure in line with the theories of Mehrotra

"The city as a built form is a set of stable objects, or urban artifacts, in which the relationship between the parts is more significant than the parts themselves.“

- Aldo Rossi ’Architecture of the City’

The Design proposes a series of 7 viewing artifacts around the site .

Visitor Path

The lines from the viewing artifacts are projected onto the site and the structure making indexes (Rosalind Krauss) of the particular Artifacts. The indexed portions of the site– remaining unpaved cauisng a folding (Deleuzian) of the urban plaza of Gehl and Piano with the unstraited space of social self determination. The facade and Floors of the structure open along these indexical lines trying to form a becoming with it.

The Site

“The plan is imposed sentence of authority, but people do not simply accept it; they punctuate it with dessent, negotiate its rigid grammar through a series of hyphens and ellipses, appropriations and displacements that represent the tension between policy and Design on the one hand, as against instnctive, customary needs and preffereed behavior on the other,“

-Ranjith Hoskote ‘Hyphens and ellipses‘

Drawings

“The plan is imposed sentence of authority, but people do not simply accept it; they punctuate it with dessent, negotiate its rigid grammar through a series of hyphens and ellipses, appropriations and displacements that represent the tension between policy and Design on the one hand, as against instnctive, customary needs and preffereed behavior on the other,“

-Ranjith Hoskote ‘Hyphens and ellipses‘

Skylight

Polycarbonate exterior screen

Metal Stud Wall

Glass Floored area enabling a view of central void below

Bridge Connecting across the Central Void

Curved Wall with Staircase to Basement

Grass Concrete Pavement

Section DD’

1 Ramp to Basement Parking

2 Ramp to Basement Parking

3 AC Plant Room

4 Plenum

5 Low Voltage Room

6 Visitor Basement Parking

7 Prints Gallery

8 Museum Library

9 Paintings Gallery

Heat transfer and thus Cooling the structure

Cool Southwestern Wind

South Elevation

North Elevation

Layouts

Site Services Layout : (Fire loop; Water layout; Sanitary Drainage layout)

HVAC Duct to AHU Room

Basement Mechanical Layout

Water Pipe to Toilet Shaft

HVAC Layout of Second Floor

Fire Sprinkler Layout of Second Floor

Rooftop Solar Panel Layout

1 60MM THK Poly-Carbonate sheet

2 Steel End Profile

3 ISJC 125 C- Beam

4 215X450MM Steel Box Section

5 750MM DEPTH I Beam

6 Steel Deck Floor

7 ISHB 300

8 Double Glazing Façade Unit

Double Skin Facade

Construction Details

Detail A

1 ISJC 125 C- Beam

2 Steel Grating

4 125MM Angle Cleat Connection with 3 Bolts

5 750MM Depth I Beam

6 60MM THK Poly-Carbonate sheet

7 225MM Steel L-Section

8 75MM Steel L-Section

9 Backer Rod and Sealant

10 125MM Rectangular Box Section Vertical Mullion

11 300MM Angle Cleat Connection with 8 Bolts

Detail C

125MM THK Double glass flooring Panel

2 200MM Depth Steel Deck Slab

3 100 MM Depth Support Member

4 ISHB 600 Steel I-Beam

5 50X75 MM STEEL C PROFILE

6 2Layers of 12MM Thk Plaster Board False Ceiling

7 2Layers of 12MM Thk Plaster Board

8 75X50 MM Steel C Profile

Detail B

1Water proof layer

180MM XPS Foam

75MM Trapezoidal metal sheet

2 25MM Thk double pane Glass

3 Steel Flashing

4 2Layers of 12MM Thk Plaster Board

5 ISHB 600 Steel I-Beam

6 250MM Angle Cleat Connection with 6 Bolts

7 ISHB 125 I-Beam 2000MM C/C

8 50X75 MM Steel C Profile

9 2Layers of 12MM Thk Plaster Board False Ceiling

10 75X50 MM Steel C Profile

Detail C

1 6 60MM THK Poly-Carbonate sheet

2 ISJC 125 C- Beam

3 125MM Angle Cleat Connection with 3 Bolts

4 ISHB 125 I-Beam

5 Steel Grating

6 160MM Depth Steel Box Section(base for glazed façade unit)

7 325MM Angle Cleat Connection with 8 Bolts

8 750MM Depth Steel I-Beam

9 Structural Glass 25mm Thk

10 100 MM Depth Spacer Member

11 2Layers of 12MM Thk Plaster Board

12 Double Glazing Façade Unit

Renders