ENVIRONMENT, FORM, & FEEDBACK STUDIO_M.ARCH.

HARDIK MAKRUBIYA

ENVIRONMENT, FORM, & FEEDBACK

FALL 2020 COORDINATOR - DANA CUPKOVA INSTRUCTOR - LAURA GAROFALO, EMEK ERDOLU

SITE + CLIMATE

The site is located in Sharpsburg, PA, five miles east of downtown Pittsburgh and along the Allegheny River. Site research was conducted through mapping overlays and climate analysis. Through a series of mappings of the site, the visible and invisible relationships were able to be studied and investigated around six mile island. The study is focused on air pollution and the factors affeccting the cause of air pollution to draw out the relation and the condition to mitigate the impact.

Topography

Vegeatation Cover

Street Pattern

Air Pollution Level

Home Values

Flood Zone

Mapping Layers

Mapping shows the impact of topography level on the type of vegeation cover, which responds the pollution level in air that impacts the home value. Highway seems to be prime source of pollution for the neighbourhood of Sharpsburg. It draws the condition that area with lower topography and lacking green cover has more carbon content in the air.

Composite Drawing

Eco-Machine

Green Roof System

A study of green roof systems informs a set of parameters to parametrically design system that responds to plant size and growing medium, which inform the solar access on adjacent vegeation and also differnetiate hardscape and softscape.

Green Roof Components and Functions

Green Roof Energy Flow Anatomy

Each unit is represntation of Green Roof Cell. The surface area of eaxh cell is linked to the depth that is extruded downwards, representing the relation of type of Vegetation to the Planting medium required. Circle above all the cells represent canopy size in relation to the depth of the planting medium.

Green Roof System Configuration

Vegetation Density

Vegetation Height

Low

Medium

High

Less Dense

Highly Dense

Green Roof System Configuration

Hybrid Typology The hybrid typology system translates the ecomachine parameters of green roof system that responds to the solar access, water purificartion & catchment and wind manipulation. The organization and orientation of modules creating the systems is critical to their performative abilities. The typology derives the form and development of architecture language, creating a layered infrastructure that explores the performatice aspects of the Green Roof.

Modulation in surface acts a biotopes that helps to purify the water and different height of modulation allows to specific direction of water flow that purifies the water through the series of the cells. Another aspect of the hybrid typologies is wind channel, wind is funnel through in-between spaces of cells that help to alter the temperature of the wind. The space created can be used for urban farming practice that can help to prurify the air as well as water. This typology can be Transformed to building, landscape as well as bridge scale.

Keeping both the component together can help to purify and collect water at above and in-between close space provide the good comfort environment due to present of ground element.

Staggering the surface helps to connects the both open and enclosed spaces levels.

Addition of the vertical surface help to channel the water from upper level to the lower level. And can also used as a source of accessibility from one level to another. Vertical surface blocks the wind and optimize them according to the comfortable temeprature before entering the space and also allows the light to interior of the form.

System Logic and Perfomative Matrix

Performative Matrix

Punture in the upper surface allow the natural sunlight to enter into bridge that allow the vegetation to grow inside the volume and also visually connects all the levels of the bridge. Vertical surface creates the network of water cascade that help water to filter in series of different levels and opening allows light to pentrate inside for the vegetation to grow inside.

“Form� Derived From Concentric Module

Final Project

Living Woods

This infrastructure integrates housing with four constructed landscpe: a dense linear forest, an agrarian canopy, an understory park and cliff housing. Moreover this layered infrastructure with housing complex provides buffer to the neighbourhood and provides variety of spaces for the community and provides strom water managment.

Like a forest this form is able to provide layer of vegetation and inhabitation. This project gives the experience of being in woods and the farm in the city.

Bird Eye View

The dense forest biome to the north works as a buffer providing sound and air filtration. The agrarian biome at the canopy level integrates urban farming with the housing to provide thecommunity garden plots aswell as a potential source of income for the complex which can help subsidize the housing. The ground level understory biome manages stormwater and accommodates public park.

The cliff biome to the south stacks dwelling units.

Road Dense Forest Biome Agrarain Biome Cliff Biome

Neighbourhood Organization (Plan)

Canopy

Understory

Organization (Section)

Siting and Organization

Site Canopy Plan

Linear Module controls the direction and flow of water to purify.

Section

Concentric Module creates catchment area.

Understory Plan - Hydrological Park

Linear Module created interupted dense buffer.

Section

Concentric Module organise Urban farming.

Canopy Plan - Agrarain Canopy

Form Devlopment

Unit to Cluster Devlopment

Section Showing the Performance aspects of the Project

Space under the Canopy-Prespective View