IR2037 Inside Outside- Performative Envelopes

IR2037

Inside Outside- Performative Envelopes

Focus

Planning and Organizing

Unit Assistant Shivani Natu

2nd Year

Dhruvi Thanawala Kshanika Patel Nandani Motiyani Saumya Trivedi Zeel Patel Zeeyan Modasiya

3rd 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.

Design UG Level-2 Fig 1 Kshanika Patel Ideation options, module motion and shape memory alloy study Fig 2 Nandini Kataria Module Study and Explorations Fig 3 Nandini Kataria Study of Individual Panels and Modules Fig 4 Nandini Kataria Final Proposal- Geodesic Dome Fig 5 Nandini Kataria Simulation and Climate Study Fig 6 Saumya Trivedi 3D views of the proposed Nursery Fig 7 Zeeyan Modasiya Study of light dependent resistors to detect light levels. With schematic diagram of sun tracker Fig 8 Mohammadali Tharadara Exploded view of the mechanism Fig 9 Nandini Motiyani Study of Facade and daylight simulation before intervention.

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