2020: A Green Odyssey Shlok Patel UI5516
Contents
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Warm up exercises Site impressions and montages
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Tricks of the trade Site analysis, Case studies
03
Winds of change Derivative rules of art, Transforming the Transformers
04
Tailor made Program, Concept, Diagrams, References
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Final outcome Materials, Drawings, Interior Atmospheres
Studio Brief Cities change constantly in the open-ended spectacle of daily life, with new buildings being constructed and the repair or demolition of old and redundant structures. However, within this urban flux, some elements endure; from the major urban spaces, the exemplary architectural works, the memorials to major historic events. Over centuries, these urban-artefacts become symbols of civic identity, embedded in the memory of citizens. Also, there are structures that endure through adaptation, embracing change by suitable new uses to old spaces. This studio explores the “creative” potential of building adaptation. It will focus on suitable “retired” buildings in a city, blurring conventional boundaries between architecture and interiors. We will research every aspect of the existing architectural space, including its history and setting, the essence of its emotional power, and its place in the collective urban memory. We will then design inspiring interior-architectural transformations that will generate new spatial purposes, experiences, expressions, meaning, emotions and memories.
Site Impressions
Glitch
Contrast
Frame in a Frame
Irradiate
Obscured
Play of Light
Balance
Spotlight
Chink
Cast aside
Discarded
Duality
Eroded
Geometry
Scale
Rusted
Mural
Connected
Repetition
Assemblage
Leaned
Parasite
Growth
Scooped
It was an interesting approach to look at the site building in terms of relative attributes and metaphors. This helped in connecting with the building or rather parts of the entire building, emotionally and develop sensitivity towards certain aspects like the rawness and the timelessness, the way it is obscured and covered in the center of a lush green landscape. This helped in understanding the site in an unusual yet interesting way.
Parasite
Frame in a frame
Geometry
Scooped
Contrast
Cast aside
Chink
Balance
Duality
Scale
Assemblage
Obscured
Growth
Leaned
Glitch
Selecting a few attributes from all, these (on the right) are their graphical representation. The decision of taking a framed square and Reflections modulating it according to the attributes came Subjective: Impressions through the building structure itself. It was taken as the base for all the graphical symbols Impression of the site with relating attributes depicting the building structure and andbody. representing them in a graphical manner.
Site Impressions: Montage
Following the earlier stage, this exercise talks about the first narrative that occurs in one’s mind after understanding the site building and articulating it in terms of attributes and metaphors. From those images itself, three attributes were chosen and were to depict them envisioning a basic narrative relating to the site building. Three montages were made with the same idea out of which any one had to be intuitive without considering the attributes relating to it. This one (on the right) is articulated by the words - Contrast - Play of light - Balance
The one on the top is articulated by the words - Glitch - Frame in a frame - Repetition The bottom one was an intuitive attempt visualizing the space taken over by the nature and the building getting obscured by it yet welcoming the wilderness in the same way a mother holds a child.
Threshold Concrete Column
Internal wall with some graffiti
Thresholds
External Brick wall
(1275x 2860) mm
4380
Site Analysis
Windows with old concrete Weather shades 3200
(1275x 2860) mm
Rear side entrances of the site
Apertures
Apertures
The site offered opportunities in many ways and it was a crucial factor to identify them for understanding the possibilities it has in terms of design, that can be later translated in the form of interventions and help in taking stand on the design decisions made. There were six aspects that were to be identified while studying the site. - Threshold - Connectors - Planes
- Apertures - Crown - Blocks
Fenestrations/ openings: Apertures
Connector
Planes The entrance cut outs acts as connectors from the outside to the inside
Planes are elements that divides a space and the exterior walls segregate the interior space from the outside The fenestrations on the internal wall, visually connects the two segregated spaces by the bays
Interior wall segregates the internal spaces
Connectors from the outside to the inside
Planes creating space within spaces
Connectors
Entrances to the bays
Vertical planar elements
Blocks
Crown
Spaces created by the planes, create multiple volumetric spaces which can be considered as blocks
Sloping roof made of asbestos sheet is placed on the slanting surface of the trusses below
The L- section and Tsections are assembled to make trusses
The MS plate becomes the junction for the T- section MS steel members to join
The way asbestos sheet sits on the trusses
Condition of the structure fixed with the wall
As there is no planar surface which gives a sense of division between Bay 1. and 2., both together acts as one single block
Staircase block in itself is an enclosed space which makes it a block
Bay. 3
The trusses are an assemblage of mild steel L- sections, T- sections along with the T- section cross bracings
It is then installed on the building by getting fixed with the external and the internal walls.
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Assemblage of the Truss
Crown: The roofing system
Blocks created by volumes
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Existing building
Case Studies
Base removed
Addition on the upper level
The inside of the 4 facades, the interiors are redesigned within these 3 functional concrete blocks aling with the slabs resting on steel I- beams
The added structure sits on the buliding
Corten steel
Corten steel is cladded on the metal framework
Steel I- beams/ section
Corten steel extension
Existing brick
Existing roof removed
Existing brick facade on the four sides with infilled windows
Project Location Architects
: Caixa Forum (2008) : Madrid, Spain : Herzog and De Meuron
Strategy
: Peeling
Part of the base removed
Concrete
Project:
Caixa Forum
Info: Peeling
Student Name: Shlok Patel
Concrete Raised concrete plinth The intervention is seperated from the existing wall
Plastic gasket Wood
Wood Concrete Rubber spacer
Rubber tile
Plastic tile
Fabric
Project Location Architects
: House of Vans (2014) : London, United Kingdom : Tim Greatrex
Strategy
: Box in a Box
Flooring on the concrete stand alone unit forming the skateboarding pit Project:
House of vans
Info: Box in a box
Student Name: Shlok Patel
Rubber and plastic Tiles
Skateboarding area
Timber
Stoarge Comvert office space on the steps and bastard bowl at the opposite side
Metal I- sections
Metal box section
The office and showroom space is raised by a metal frame work fixed with the steps
Project Location Architects
: Bastard Store : Milan, Italy : Studio Metrico
Strategy
: Box in a Box
Timber planks Metal framework
Metal plate fixed at different levels of the steps
Project:
Bastard store
Info: Box in a box
Structure fixed to the steps Student Name: Shlok Patel
Derivative rules of Art Tobias Putrih
Here, out of a list of 10 diverse artists, we had to select any two and study their artworks. This was to understand the artist’s style and principles for the stage coming further.
Alberto Oderiz
Extraction: - The artwork consists of two elements, Linear wooden member and a pin to connect.
- Members of different sizes with groves placed differently on them, when come together, creates interesting compositions and add structural quality to the sculpture along with a sense of balance.
- There are different sizes of wooden members with holes on different points on the linear member.
Members of different sizes when connected allows addition/ extension in any direction and any form
Pin
Tobias Putrih
Wooden member - When a single module is made after connecting the wooden members, the linear members come together and make a plane/ surface with different dimensions depending on the way the modules are fixed to each other. - After the modules are connected and made into a sculpture, empty spaces are created according to the arrangements of the planes created. - If the pin is inserted into the groves of the wooden members, it allows rotation of 360 degrees, and that point acts like a pivot.
Keywords: Scale Geometry Composition Intersection Connection Repetition Stability Extension Inter dependence
Pin joint (Allows rotation of 360 degrees)
The negative becomes volumetric spaces and the positive members acts as surfaces making those voids.
Single linear member Coming together creating planar surfaces
The planes creates voids which acts like a spatial element
Alberto Oderiz
Keywords: Scale Composition Connection Overlapping Aesthetic Structure Elements Ornamentation Extraction: - All the art work involves • • • •
Visual float Centre of mass and gravity Balance Minimalism
All the products has weight as a common factor and how the artist makes it playful by adding a light support and elevating it from the ground. which adds a sense of minimalism. - The weight on top of the supporting rod/ stick acts as a balanced mass irrespective of any shape or form.
Element showcasing a possibility of treating itself as a spatial element
Can be used a support as well as a connector between two spaces
Transforming the Transformers
The exercise unfolds in 3 stages of operative dialogue based on 3 different attitudes adopted with respective sites. 1. Weave 2. Box-in a-Box 3. Parasite Being mindful of these attitudes, each for each stage not repeating in the other, Interventions like thresholds, apertures, connectors,planes and blocks are to be created taking the principles of one of the artists from the previous exercise and one artist was alloted. Articulating and translating both of their styles and principles, the interventions created should narrate through the selected parts of the site.
Stage. 1 For the first stage, transition spaces were to be created connecting the thresholds to the apertures.
Stage. 2
Stage. 3
This stage was to deal with the crown and the elements connecting it with the other surfaces from inside the building, also creating thresholds.
For the last stage, all the interventions were to be thought of like thresholds connecting to the inside, dealing with the crown and the apertures and in all creating an experience out of it.
Experience
An Odyssey into the world of urban farming Programming the Program
Vision and philosophy One of the major reasons for encouraging such a practice is because urban population is increasing rapidly and on the contrary the agricultural land is decreasing. Having an increase in the population, the demand for food increases as well. As an addition to this, over the years, there has been a huge change in the food pattern in our day to day lifestyle as we have started adapting and accepting global food products and ingredients. It becomes a crucial factor to consider them growing in our environment and region. A practice like urban farming not only elevates the food and farming industry but also encourage innovative techniques and thoughts, and starting from revisiting the abandoned buildings and spaces , and inculcate a program of such sort is a step towards gifting the nature back what we got from it. A gift to the future. A sustainable future. Greendustrial is a gift to the nature and an attempt on how to make it into an experience for people of all ages.
Sensory Experience
Learning
Leisure/ Fun
- Floral growth
- Farming
- Retail area
- Fruit plantation
- Farming workshops
- Plant nursery
- Ingredient library
- Talks and shows
- Restaurant
- Futuristic farming techniques (Hydroponics)
- Farmer’s Market
Extending
Projecting
Protruding
Superimposing
Overlapping
Concept and Strategy
Parasite Growth
Growth
The concept “Growth� was derived considering the life cycle of any living thing (here plant). Growth is the process of any life cycle and the project is of such a kind. Weaving The image of the site in the current situation. This image in particular, conveyed something special of the building. The way how nature subtly has taken over the built by growing and rising inside and the building welcoming it as a child, plants an idea on developing the language of design and interventions to be of the same strategy. The image suggests an approach of weaving through spaces making its way upwards. The way how the termite tunnels rise and utilize the building, can be translated as an idea or a strategy to define the language of the interventions.
Dominating
Intense
Magisteral
Juxtapose
Elevated pods/ structures
Grid like structures with voids and insertions and surfaces
Multiple leveled surfaces
Stacked
Networked vertical intervention
Elevated slabs
Staggered stacked interventions
Ramps
Schematic diagrams depicting Growth
The Design decisions taken for the design interventions were explored keeping the word “growth� in mind and in what all ways can this concept be translated into the design process. These are a few explorations/ interventions depicting the attributes of the concept in terms of -
Projecting Protruding Extending Superimposing Overlapping
Referencing the relevant
These images or references become the inventory to kick start the design and a platform for constantly referring to this imagery showcasing all sort of interior atmospheres, functions or activities that somewhere connects and relates with the kind of an experience the program asks for. The kind of interventions and ideas generated through these references, gives a direction to work further on the design along with the concept word “Growth�.
Sun- path Study
The site analysis helped in understanding the built and how to treat it during the design process. But when it comes to growing crops and greens, one major factor involved for the growth to happen is the amount of sunlight they get. The site had a slanted roof with openings towards the north from where the light could enter inside. The sun- path study helped in locating the area allocation for the crops and the greens to grow.
Material Palette
The materials are selected being mindful of what goes with the existing site as well as the program. The journey talks about an experience that people would take along with them. The soothing color scheme going with the idea of organic and natural. The rough surfaces and finishes makes one touch wherever they go. A sensory experience focusing on the visual and physical aspect through materials is highlighted.
2020: A Green Odyssey Abundance on the plate for the privileged few, us the city dwellers and an empty bowl for a large toiling population prompted a question about the prevalent disconnect and emotional indifference for the roots from where the food that we, the privileged, source. The project is building up on that narrative to bring value to the food that comes to our plates. The sensorial experiences attached with working, tending and toiling the land for the green produce, be it the delicate herbs, the colorful fruits and vegetables or the shady orchards, this project offers a chance to reconnect with the soil, learn basics of farming and turn our cities to be having farming backyards and balconies. It approaches the present abandoned site with a playful language of bends and curves of discoveries in contrast to its stoic and hard shell like container. The project offers forking choices of activities related to farming and farm produce, all orchestrated within the regimental layout of the given structure. However, the generosity of the scale of the given structure is articulated by taking advantage of creating an elevated entry to achieve a hovering experience as being amongst the branches of the trees and its foliage to be looking down at the spread on the ground, here, the platter of green produce growing on the floor of the abandoned factory building. The project Imagines to be a lively place to go to for people of all age groups and everyone wishing to connect with the greens which is not as leisure as in parks but as an active gardener of the greens. In its landscape, it offers greens as experiential space making elements with its colors, textures and fragrances.
Above is the longitudinal sectional perspective showing all the functions in the first bay of the building including the retail market , the farmer’s market, and on the right is blown up section of the Farmer’s market.
SIDE ELEVATION
FRONT ELEVATION
SECTION AA’
SECTION BB’
SECTION EE’
SECTION CC’
SECTION DD’
Interior Atmospheres While entering the building, climbing up the ramp
The following views showcases the kind of interior atmosphere the space has and shows one all the major parts and areas of the project where there is an experience getting narrated.
Standing on the ramp facing the entrance
A view of the farmer’s market from the ramp
Looking downwards at the farmer’s market while walking the ramps on the upper level
Looking below, at the amphitheater from the upper floor
Inside the farmer’s market
In the center of the wheat fields
The area outside the Hydroponics section
Standing at the last bay looking at the other side
A view of the first bay (includes retail market, plant nursery and the farmer’s market) from the upper floor sitting in the restaurant
Approaching the last bay, towards the hydroponics area
Seating area at the first bay
Forgotten | Transformed