Masters

Comma

About : Studying adaptive architecture with the help of generative architecture to provide solution to unplanned growth in dense cities

Project type : Design Dissertation

Semester : M. Arch (Sem 2)

Location : BKC, Mumbai

why are cities designed for permanence rather than adaptibility ?

The advent of modern material such as concrete, structures in the city became rigid and has minimum to no flexibility for adaptation and disassembly without creating a large amount of carbon footprint. Cities were designed to be centres of economic growth so the architecture of the cities were driven by linear economy.

Adaptibility

Adaptibility relates to change according to needs of context and time. Adaptive trait can be looked at as a trait which enables a body or an object to adjust to its surroundings. It is a process which brings about incremental changes or adjustments to the body or the object to sustain itself in its context.

In response to the population explosion and economic growth, the cities in the developing countries across the world have grown very rapidly. Due to the rapid changes in city life, the structures do not cope up and they end up being abandoned or demolished once it has run its course, which is a waste of resources and further add to the carbon footprint. Instead of using the abandoned buildings for their

Adaptive architecture can be a framework which uses different traits to create a stable system which responds to its changing context and time Adaptive trait ensure designs which facilitate future changes and disassembly for recovery of systems, elements and materials, and it also ensures that the building can be recycled as efficiently as possible at the end of its lifespan.

Evolution

Aggregating the specified units to understand the connections and to observe the most types of connections which are used in the aggregation.

The haphazard and unplanned growth of metropolitan cities has resulted in urban sprawl and over-densification. The internal stresses of the city and migration from outside of the city are the two main factors that determine the positive or negative impacts of this rapid growth.

This project here tries to create a space within the city which is not build till its permanent stage at once, but rather evolves and develop as the city grows, responding to the needs of its user as the context changes, and the context here being time

Form

The form here follows a new grid pattern, where the site is divided on 4 parts, 2 parts assigned for housing, 1 for existing retail, and 1 for new the new function which is the commercial office/coworking space

The final housing form depicts the chaotic nature of the existing incrementation happening on site, but the new design follows a pattern of incrementation.

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