AR2024
Climate Responsive Architecture
Unit Assistant Faraaz Ahmed
Faculty of Architecture AR2024 Spring 2021
2nd Year Anshu Patel Anushka Poddar Nataraja Avaneesh Disha Kothari Isha Sachindra Kruti Makwana Santhan Kerlepalli Navya Pandey Ninad Shroff
3rd Year Abhishek Sondarva Drashti Agrawal khushbu Parekh Prachi Patel Radhika bhakkar
Hiten Chavda
Ravi Kashyap
This studio demanded a resolution of a building keeping in view a contextually strong climatic response. The primary concern was to achieve a thermally comfortable building at its site characterised by extreme climatic context, using passive techniques. The studio worked by building an extensive understanding of climate through sun path diagrams, bioclimatic charts, psychrometric charts and climatic data analysis of different climate zones within individual and group assignments. The literature studies focused on the architecture and its response to the climate and included, both, Vernacular and International buildings. This was followed by simple interventions of unicellular spaces with simple strategies. This semester students designed an Artist’s residence with his studio and home stay. The three sites selected were in Spiti, Cochin and Jodhpur, all in different climatic zones. The designs with reference to their forms, materials and details were validated through climatic analysis, thermal and wind simulation softwares so as to resolve an efficient building envelope. Hence, the form of the building is a resultant of the climatic response, functional resolution and material knowledge manifested in details designed by the student.
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