Sustainability INDUSTRIAL BUILDING

Studio Guide :- Shrutie Shah & Asijit Khan

The intent of the studio was to provoke students to analyze, introspect and explore the process of design using various mediums. Through this process one estalishes a more informed and aware sense of decision making. The studio focused on deducing inferences from observations through the act of contextual mapping. Further, the students were encouraged to develop intents from their studies, by making exploratory models. These models helped take positions, which further got tranlated into an architectural expression.

Site location : Kanjeevaram, Tamil-Nadu

Site area : 10000 sq.m

Duration : 14 Weeks

Kanjeevarm has a very rich collective memory as it has deep rooted cultural importance and its craft.

It being 60km away from sea-coast has a hot and humid climate. and typology being industrial makes one think about making it a more sustainable structure that can respond to its surroundings and its people.

Here, The intent was to make it a Center for Industry and Experience, by using the Architectural Character ‘Datum’. That encouraging to make it a place for public involvement in enriching and learing of Art of weaving.

It was for the people of the city, THE WEAVERS and their sustainance in the mordern world of machines

Studio encouraged one to have their own definition of sustainability. That experimented through different sets of intent models(Q), where one could understand the strategy to respond to climatic elements like air, moisture, heat, light etc. Then transferring those learnings to sketches(W) and then to smaller zoning models(E)1to have clear understanding about the place making for the program performed.

(W)

Tension cable

Tension cables help in holding up the roof units, thats pulled between beams.

Tension cable

Secondary Beam

Roof units

Secondary Beam

Its function is to keep the primary beams stay connected, & allow the roof units to simply rest on.

Beam Column