CHAPTER 4: ACTIVITY, MOVEMENT, SPACE

CHAPTER 4

4 MOVEMENT, ACTIVITY, SPACE

The ‘DANCE IN SPACE’ is a community where all the artistes of different dance forms are provided with a common roof to preserve and inherit the Indian classical dances forms. The major purpose is to provide education and the importance of these dance forms which will help them to create their know culture. The environment created is of a single unified community than an institutional campus.

4.1 USER STUDY

USER GROUP STUDY:

Primary Users: Students , Teachers. Secondary Users: Admin staff, Working staff, Visitors. Tertiary Users: Public, Guests.

POPULATION COUNT:

STAGENT POPULATION (RESIDENCE) - 97

OFFICE BLOCK - 2 STAFF - 10 STUDENTS - 15+15+15+15+15 =75 RESIDENCE – 10 OFFICE - RECEPTION: 1 -3 OFFICE ROOM: 5-7 LOUNGE/WAITING AREA 10-15

FLOATING POPULATION (DAY - EVENING) – 71

STAFF: 5-10 STUDENTS: 10 - 20 WORKERS AND COOKS: 20 WORKING STAFF: 10-15 VISITORS: 50-70 SECURITY: 1

VISTING POPULATION - 120

WORKSHOP VISITORS: 25-30 VISITING LECTURES: 8-10 GUESTS: 5-10

FIG 4.1 Graph showing user study

4.2 ACTIVITY STUDY

The spaces are made for different types of users and their different activities which have to be taken into consideration and design the interior and exterior spaces accordingly. The most important factor in prioritizing the users and so there is different levels of arrangement and privacy for a different user group.

ACTIVITY CHART:

The activity chart provides information about how each activity is interlinked with another. There may be primary or secondary connections that have to be considering while design development.

FIG 4.2 Activity chart

USER - FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP MATRIX

FIG 4.3 User – function relationship matrix

SPATIAL TYPOLOGY:

SPACES DEFINED BASED ON NUMBER OF USERS

4.3 MOTION STUDY

ANTHOPOMETRY:

Movements are mostly 360 degree. Many of the moves are repetitive and continuous in nature. All dance forms has a common disciplinary movements.

FIG 4.4 User – body postures movements STAGNANT MOVEMENT • Movements are direct and repeated in which few are categorized as ‘artistic body movement’, popularly known as Dance- a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected human body movement. • Body language is instinctively interacted by us all to a limited degree, but the subject is potentially immensely complex, and perhaps infinity so, given that the human body is said to be capable of producing 7,00,000 different movements. • There are two classifications of specific traditional Mudras: Samyukta and

Asamyukta- are used in Indian classical dance. Though other body parts also involved in dance, therefore, hand-finger gestures and eyes for expression are considered the prominent parts of the dancer’s vocabulary. Each of these different movements contributes to the rhythmic and visual complexity of the dance.

Movement manifests the experience of spatial qualities in architecture

FIG 4.5 Movement study All the movements in the dance forms have an axis, invisible focal point. The circular movement of hands, legs, eyes, and body movement are common all dance forms. Dance movements are inspired mostly from nature which is around the environment. While the feet are executing the basic step sequence, the arms, hands, and head are also performing intricate movements. The arms are always supported at the elbow, the mudras, convey different meanings according to the position of the fingers and the way the palms are cupped or splayed.

4.4 AREA PROGRAMMING