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Design Strategy
Formation of courtyards
Intent Massing
Design Process
Imagination of Life
Interactive Nodes
The current typology of 'Bhaktiyoga' allows for interactive movement and activities within the passage and creates pocket spaces. The small size of the houses opens up life in the common passage which gives a feeling of being together. The low height of the apartment keeps connectivity with the ground.
The design aims to maintain the interaction between the volumes while moving higher vertically. The possibilities of windows becoming a conversation point and the formation of newer grounds can help in reducing the density visually.
The strategies then develop around long and wide passages in terms to bring in the idea of the street through design. It will slowly take the form of small gardens, spaces to operate home businesses, and resting spaces.
Height Massing
Positioning of Staircase Blocks
The narrow bar building which sits on a podium has long passages which are connected to units of a mix user group type.
The options that were developed provided alterations in how the spaces connect with each other and hence the experience they are able to provide. The layout is selected to incorporate the thoughtful positioning of walkways and staircases for creating a movement surrounded by landscape that allows for deliberative experience.
Base Floor Plan
Sections
Details
The Iterations the developed to understand the ways of horizontal and vertical interactions and positioning of passages and staircases accordingly.
The idea is curated to let the flow diagonally through the site while creating series of courtyards slowly opening and forming a market street.
Upper Floor Plan
Life is imagined to open up around the idea of connecting passages. Roof of below floor starts acting as passages to reach tenements on above floors. becomes a way to reach the tenements on the above floors. These long and wide passages create community spaces in between houses.
Moving towards upper floors, the formation shifts horizontally which open up pocket spaces and create connection between two bars. Roof of below floor start becoming passages to reach tenements on above floors.
Section shows void spaces that helps in reduction of large density visually.
The departmental store is designed as an open commercial market space where courtyard becomes spine for the circulation.
Massing models were developed at a scale of 1:500 to understand the sence of scale and service cores.
The idea Podium is introduce to the design to achieve minimum height of the buildform.
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