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Facade Follows Function Zephyr, Bhawdhan, Pune
Zephyr, Bhawdhan, Pune
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une is one of the fastest urbanising cities in India due to a rapid increase in population and migration of people from varied cultural backgrounds. Here, the potential residents vary from a group of individuals to a nuclear family sharing a unit with more rooms in affordable lesser
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carpet area. Financial crunches and property rate hike are the factors governing the market demand, resulting in high-density housing characterised by towers of repetitive units with poor habitable space-quality and light-ventilation problem similar to any other developing city. This results in loss of culture and identity of the area
taking towards common universal language. Nature of the building facades should be the outcome of the architectural design process with respect to region, technology and cost. One cannot think of it separately. It may be stylised by different materials and methods. The building faรงade acts like