DESIGN THESIS (AUGUST - NOVEMBER 2013) Project: ADAPTATION WITH RESILIENCE Location: CBD area Bund, Shanghai, (China) Site area: 64560 sqft Built up area: 258250 sqft. Studio Professor: Prof. Nirmal Kishnani, Prof. Shekhar Kondepudi, Prof. Nalanie Mithraratne Project Jurors : Ar. Anna Kerr (CPG Consultants), Ar. Li Sau Kei (GreenHill), Russell Col (ARUP), Nigel Greehill (GreenHill)
“Design with resilience�. A building that transforms into a building of different functional use, in the span of 30 years. The site was situated in the CBD (Central Business District) area of the city of Shanghai, China. To decide on the current functional use of the building, real estate trends along with population trends were studied for the city. As per the current real estate scenario in Shanghai, where investing in office sector is much profitable, the building was designed as an office building with a small fraction of service apartments for current functional use. Commercial areas are also to be introduced at the lower floors since leisure and retail habits are becoming inseparable and symbiotic with the stressed work culture. The building design is to be resilient in nature, so to transforms the building functional use from office to residential, with minimum alteration in the building. Structure, M&E, space planning of the building shall cater to both functional use and shall be interchangeable. 7
Project: Adaptation with resilience (September- November (2013)
Site, Morphology & Analysis
Bund being a historically sound area is a blend of old and new structures with the oldest generation of people living in the surrounding residential areas. But due to the rapid increase in floating population has, some of the surrounding residential area had been torn down to accommodate more people. Along with that Shanghai is facing swift increase in ageing population which is estimated to be around 40% of total population by 2030. NORTHERN BUND
Being a water front property situated in the prime CBD zone the site possesses high land value. Property possessing such a high land and historic face value has to be planned in a cautious manner.
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SITE
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Response to site and context
SITE RESPONSE Maintaining the Urban porosity at ground level
Project: Adaptation with resilience (September- November (2013) • The project has been conceived as an urban relieve in the context of shanghai where urban porosity has been tried to achieve by the virtue of massing at ground floor. • Ground floor has been designed as a informal and open plaza where the boundary of private and public has been blurred. • Longitudinal side of the site was East-West facing, but the presence of tall buildings on the west side keep the west side shaded almost the full day. Hence the N-S orientation of the blocks has been tilted to achieve maximum sun light and to protect the blocks from the northern winter winds.
Climate response
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Systems for transformation
Project: Adaptation with resilience (September- November (2013)
DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR TRANSFORMATION HVAC office
HVAC Residential
Toilets office
Toilets Residential
Facade office
Facade Residential
ACTIVE/PASSIVE GREEN
To achieve the smooth transformation between an office building and the residential building certain key strategies are been devised to tackle certain identified key issues. HVAC and Wet area distribution has been planned in a way such that that there is a seamless transformation between two functional use of the two states. Faรงade of the structure also has been devised such that it provides maximum sunlight penetration and as well as flexible enough to provide a balcony spaces in case of a transformation from office to residential building. 10
Details
Project: Adaptation with resilience (September- November (2013)
CONSTRUCTION and CONCEPTUAL DETAILS
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