PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES The design carefully considers the projects future goals of providing economic opportunities for women at risk of human trafficking. In doing so it looks at the context of the Centre and the aspirations of the people who will live and work here. It also realizes the importance of integrating the women into the larger community and looks at
Site as Agrarian landscape
the site as the creating opportunities for events and activities that will go beyond training and become a hub for the larger context that it is located in. Functional and purpose driven yet evocative and familiar, the design has incorporated vernacular typologies, building technologies as well as local materials and craft. The proposal sees the buildings
Radiation study Passive cooling strategies have been used to create building forms that create shaded courtyards and walkways that remain cool all year round.
Programs zoned into production/, training and housing ‘clusters.
H T P
Production Training Housing
An east-west “breezeway” captures prevailing winds as created the pathway linking various clusters.
as an extension of the craft of textiles and weaves and allows for the same empirical knowledge to be brought to the buildings. The ‘primordial’ forms are direct expressions of responses to climate and aspire to create an environment that is familiar yet thoughtfully designed. Placed in rural northern Bihar in the midst of
Roof slopes capture and direct run offs to water bodies, excess is allowed to drain to surrounding watershed via swale networks.
farmlands, the design attitude has been to leave minimal imprint on the site and build in ways that give back to the land rather than take away from it. It does so by allowing the farmlands to creep into the site and the water to flow out and the air to move freely through the buildings.