IR2037
Inside Outside- Performative Envelopes
Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Shivani Natu
Faculty of Design IR2037 Spring 2021
2 nd Year Dhruvi Thanawala Kshanika Patel Nandani Motiyani Saumya Trivedi Zeel Patel Zeeyan Modasiya
3 rd Year Bhowmi Patel Maitreya Pathak Mohammadali Tharadara Nandini Kataria Bhagyesh Patel Vidhi Satodia
Gouthama D M
Janani S
Building facade skin is the medium that divides the interior and the exterior. The designers exploit the potential of the skin to address sitebased challenges with respect to the lighting and cooling needs of the built environment. Students had to answer the question: How to integrate daylighting and effective sun shading through facade design? How to best exploit technology to solve the challenges posed? Can we look at facade design through the lens of climate responsiveness? The objective of the studio was to expand student thinking and help them open up to the myriad possibilities in performative envelope design. In the course of this studio, students learnt how to study the impact of sun movement with respect to their site and responded to its dynamic nature with a performative design concept. Technological intervention was used as a tool to improve the efficiency of the design. Students worked specifically on the element, BUILDING SKIN, and explored the same through exercises in mechanics, kinematics, electronics and material properties. They were taught basics of microcontrollers, material-sensitive products and provided with a kit to work on miniature scaled models of a performative facade suitable to their chosen context.
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