LA4011_ROUTES OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN | SPRING 2022
SPACE BECOMES PLACE
OPENING GATEWAYS TO ACCIDENTAL MEETINGS Routes of Landscape Design | Spring 2022 Studio Tutors: Nikhil Dhar and Priyanka Kanhare Teaching Associate: Tvara Sharma Hardikkumar agawala PLA20123
Studio Brief The studio aims to reduce or manage the designer’s ‘fear of the empty page’ by making one familiar with various design methods and approaches. The studio will broadly consist of three parts or sections: Part 1. Study & Analysis: readings, films and research papers will introduce students to methods and ideas that connect to landscape design. A number of these will be used to create quick and dirty design options for a hypothetical site/sites. Part 2. Doing/Creation (part 1): real-life site(s) will be studied and certain short-listed design methods will be used to design on these. To minimize the time required for site analysis, a site in or contiguous to the CEPT campus may be considered. A detailed design will be created by each student, using one of these approaches, preferably one that is unfamiliar to the student. Additional readings and connections to methodologies of design will probably also continue through this stage. Part 3. Doing/Creation (part 2): students will create temporary landscape installations of a selected few of the designs. The measurement and recording of users reactions to the spaces may also become a facet of the studio.
Project Brief Multiple explorations based on a comprehension of a series of readings are included in the studio works. Each reading is investigated through exploratory sketches, which are then translated into site design outputs. The final design takes place in the north canteen area in proximity of the Faculty of architecture block and CEPT foundation block. The idea behind the design centered around the concept of accidental meeting spaces, spaces that have met different grouped people. Everyone has space for themselves, and they are partially connected to everyone, but impartially they are separated, and that’s where the merging of different communities happens.
CONTENTS Project Description l Contents Haiku
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Readings
Reading 1 - Avant Gardener’s Concept and Introduction Reading 2 - Introduction to Phenomenology
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Phase 1 - Design explorations
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Phase 2 - Design explorations
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Keywords Avant gardeners - site intro and concept Aesthetic creation theory Haiku Maya Lin Phenomenology Four Trace Concepts in Landscape Architecture (Christophe Girot) Grounding Finding
Final Design Resolution
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Programming and Zoning Concept Development Design Proposal Design Detail
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Annexure
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Studio writings: How music is effecting our lives Writings based on haiku Readings Planting workshop Grounding Bibliography
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HAIKU what the site is now Much noise downtown was watching for relief Noticed Arial fossil
what the site ‘wants to be’ so much chaos around they might need an enclosed space might need cultural space
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Fig - Illustration - Examples of landscape conceptual Source : Author
1. Readings • •
Phenomenology - Introduction and examples Avant gardeners
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Phenomenology - Intr oduction
Group 1 - Hardikkumar Agawala PLA20123 | Drishti Gosh PLA20112 | Devika Shibhu PLA21095
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Avant gardeners Introduction
Group 1 - Hardikkumar Agawala PLA20123 | Drishti Gosh PLA20112 | Devika Shibhu PLA21095
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Fig - Illustration - Design proposal Source : Author
2. Phase 1 - Design Explorations • • • • • •
Key words method Avant Gardeners approach Aesthetic Creation Theory approach Haiku Method Approach based on Maya Lin’s movie Approach using concepts of Phenomenology
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Phase 1 : Design exploration
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Keywords method Site 1
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Narrative of Site --Part of the Old City of Ahmedabad. --Extension of the business of the Kalupur railway station. --Studying from the lens of Kevin Lynch’s theory, it is an important connecting link being a recently developed traffic junction. --The water tank, the bus station, The Madhav Baug for important landmarks in the area. --Layered site- consists of the transportation layer mainly with heritage layer,land layer, built layer, connectivity layer, sparse vegetation layer, human layer, etc. Land layer- Land layer (Open land)- Built fabric layer- The junction/ connectivity layer cuts through the dense built fabric layer- Island layer. --Connectivity layer- public transport- regular vehicular movement- pedestrian movement- cattle movement. Chaos due to traffic. --Human layer- Varied use of space- Walking- Commercial layer- Mixed emotions (Sensory layer where one can feel the weather, the heat, dryness, etc in the environment - Mental layer where one can feel a sense of confusion in terms of direction) - Small vendors on the roadside. Almost no space to walk or to cross the road --Island layer- Series of islands leading to the central island. Traffic island acts as a binding factor between the old and relatively new. It forms a respite amidst the chaos. The islands can be observed in varying scales and usage. The concept of islands are seen replicated in different areas- either as parking lots, gardens, streets, stalls, open spaces in the denser fabric, etc. --The human eye level maybe ignored due to the chaos and confusion but the top view gives an overview of the different elements and landmarks on site. --Water tank being visible from a distance due to unblocked visual access.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Keywords method
Grid of 12m x 12m Ground patterns that connect all the segregated spaces which are divided by traffic island make relief for human activities. The most memorable public places in our cities and towns are generally those places where people congregate on foot - the streets, parks, and squares. These are democratic places that make pathways and cities livable and vital.
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Connecting to islands of urban pockets through the pedestrian bridge gives an experience of confusion. Elevated floors will give another perspective to look at traffic.
Maze in between traffic island will give interactiv maze.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Keywords method
Houses and busy streets need some buffer to grow community activities.
Dead spaces with footpaths insert will activate pedestrian liveliness.
Community structure is the basis for a pedestrian-friendly environment. A community’s transportation system needs to provide a full range of transportation choices in a balanced and integrated manner.
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ve pause. Chaos and confusion will arrive in one’s mind after being in this
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Phase 1 : Design exploration
Visual based approach
Avant gardners method
Grid of 15m x 15m
The theme of this design are developed without the specific context. The design program and the materials for its realization required an incursion into the landscape and suggested blending it with its surroundings. Lightings here will glow up for evening gatherings.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Avant gardeners method
History based approach
Autobiographical based approach
Site based approach
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Phase 1 : Design exploration Aesthetic creation method
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source- https://www.vogt-la.com/hotel_park
Phase 1 - Design exploration Aesthetic creation theory
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source- https://www.vogt-la.com/laban_dance_center
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Phase 1 : Design exploration Aesthetic creation method
Hypothetical design site - Old city - Kalupur railway station
Grid of 15m x 15m
As a whole, the proposed landscape unites the varied existing and new elements across the site, while emphasizing their spatial differences. The landscape design intends to engage visitors in a narrative of the site’s geographic setting and industrial history. In the street space, small inserts are set into the pavement, much like front gardens. In direct reference to the base story, The flow of passers-by and visitors is directed, functional and utilization zones established an wide a filter placed wide spaces.
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As a reflation of the simplicity of Gunther vogh design, these tiny water spouts are made for the cool breeze to come.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Aesthetic creation theory
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Reflective surface will support the lightings on the ground to create a dramatic effect
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The surrounding area has been designed to make user uncomfortable
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Phase 1 : Design exploration Haiku method
why so much chaos around enclosed space they might need they might need culture space Option A
Grid of 15m x 15m
This blurring of the boundaries between above and below, inside and outside, finds resonance in the landscape’s melding of “wall murals” and garden. these murals could be leftovers of the last artist’s work or precisely arranged as park scenery.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Haiku method
The dense, clearly de derness.” Small pock
elineated groups of trees, planted on slight elevations, may appear to traffic junction from a distance. Up close, they are in fact slices of untamed “wilkets meant for small gatherings of small groups.
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Murals will change the character of space over time, over the months and seasons, artists will exhibit their art on the wall and they will express different messages to society.
Each street artist has made murals for some purpose to express their thoughts and emotions. We should not forget that, besides the social and political meaning behind it, street art makes cities and streets more colorful, which means that inhabitants of an area rich in urban art are more likely to experience happiness and joy. And the most beautiful thing about it is temporary and fragile. If there is a need for another art, any other artist can redo or replace new art which can again flourish the experience of the city for months or years.
Phase 1 - Design exploration Haiku method
Option B
Grid of 15m x 15m
In respect of human scale, slops and steps will support the different sizes of gatherings.
The existing slope is reshaped with a geometrical terrace system. The terraces create plateaus of completely different yet always geometrical shapes and sizes, which open up or narrow to a varying degree.
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Grid of 15m x 15m Lawn is wrapped and surrounded by a hard surface made of large-scale limestone-flagstone monolith like structure.
The footpaths are lined by lawned areas on both sides, these also have geometrical shapes, thus increasing the impression of an optical illusion between area and space.
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Phase 1 : Design exploration Maya Lin Site 2
Conceptual landscape depicting the idea of water as a driving element and environment.
The involvement of water as a design element in a home multiplies the beauty of every corner. It is also an expression of comfort and a peaceful environment. The calming and soothing effect of water on most people makes people comfortable to be around it. Grid of 25m x 25m 0
Thaltej lake, Ahmadabad
Deck will create waves that will make the user experience wideness of the space.
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The pathway that creates the excitement of finishing the journey
Grid of 20m x 20m
Phase 1 - Design exploration Maya Lin
Different ways lead to one destination as the concept of ‘one de tion’
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The involvement of water as a design element in a home multiplies the beauty of every corner. It is also an expression of comfort and a peaceful environment. The calming and soothing effect of water on most people makes people comfortable to be around it. Deck will create waves that will make the user experience wideness of the space.
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Phase 1 : Design exploration Phenomenology
Journey through different experiences and colorful environment, supporting amount of light and shadows.
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Intervention site
Fig - Illustration - Design proposal Source : Author
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Landing Grounding Finding
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Matrix of feelings felt by a walk for a different time-bound. This little class journey to the north canteen may feel short from point A to point Y, but it contains different experiences. This experience includes various textures, light quality, smell, and temperature differences. Sense of accidental meeting, volume difference for activities to happen, the informality of meets, co-habitation of avifauna and animals enhance the user experience. At different times of the day, spaces hold other people’s strengths.
Phase 2 - Design explorations Landing
Source- https://www.designboom.com/architecture/neri-oxman-material-ecology-moma-02-24-2020/
At the heart of the exhibition is oxman’s silk pavilion II, a site-specific commission, which continues oxman’s research on the relationship between digital and biological fabrication. Harnessing the ability of silkworms to generate a 3D cocoon out of a single silk thread, oxman and her research group created the overall geometry of a geodesic dome by using an algorithm that assigns a single continuous thread across patches providing various degrees of density. a swarm of 6,500 silkworms were positioned at the bottom rim of the robotically manufactured initial structure, composed of non-woven silk patches, and were tasked with filling the gaps.
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Site analysis
Phase 2 - Design explorations Grounding
Context
Vegetation
Shadow pattern on ground
Levels
Circulation
Tree shredding pattern
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Not so many chairs tho!
Those ramps are far...
So many tables but no chairs!
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Why are Those classrooms always empty? Why is the ramp so weird-shaped?
Phase 2 - Design explorations Finding
kateboard, Why?
Understanding broader subject matters will be more demanding than understanding narrow subject matters because more propositions must be believed and their relations grasped.
I can quickly pass through.
Bare walls and tensile support systems can be most effectively decorated by growing colorful climbers on them. Tree trunks also provide scope for the beautiful climbers to develop and display. It is often felt that the slightest interest is taken in climbers among the various types of ornamental plants, and only a few species or varieties are found growing in a locality. Ex, bougainvillea. The seasonality of shredding flowers will provide users a unique experience every time they visit this place, as time and seasons will be constantly changed.
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View A
Phase 2 - Design explorations Finding
Creepers will be hung on height which will make a backdrop for the semester exhibitions.
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Tensile waved creepers will have lights in them to light up the environment in the evening time.
The floor will be lit up by projector lights and it will montage patterns on it. These patterns can be followed by the shape of the waved tensile structure.
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Climbers which grow quickly and cover the space thickly are mostly used for this purpose.
The floor will be lit up by projector lights and it will montage patterns on it. These patterns can be followed by the shape of the waved tensile structure.
The experience of patterns will be recreated by the spotlight in the evening time.
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Fig - Phisical model - Design proposal Source : Author
4. Final Design Resolution • • • • • • •
Zoning Master plan Site Plan Design Proposal Site sections Planting strategy Material and Lighting Plan Design details
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Zoning
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Phase 3 - Design Resolutions Founding
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Garba ground
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North FA Block
Sagra basement
Sound of footsteps
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Accidental meeting spaces are defined as public spaces used for unintended but communal purposes. Accidental spaces may be classified into people-centered, activity-linked, and event-based. North lawns
Phase 3 - Design Resolutions Founding
CFP Block
The main objective of phenomenology and esthetic creation theory in the context of the north canteen is to trigger broadening perceptions—areas where phenomenology is particularly relevant in the experience of students directly.
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Kanoria arts center
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Section through North canteen and FA block
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Festival or public gatherings at lawns
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Lighting Design
Planting Lighting design Planting Design Design
Tensile up lighter
Wall wash lighting
Wall wash lighting
Bollard lights for floor highlight
LED stips Shrubs Low heighten plats Landscape lighting by highlighting Tensile features and pocket spaces and trees. Strip Light provides accent lighting for stairs, railings and small pockets.
Phase 3 - Design Resolutions Founding
Trees/Plants
Material palate
Recycled Rough Kota stone Bambusoideae, Mangifera indica, Cedrus deodara, Ficus religiosa Polyalthia longifolia, Azadirachta indica, Plumeria, Tectona grandis
Kota stone chips (Artisan pattern on ground) Kota stone slabs with semi rough finish
As these areas are particularly subject to high volumes of traffic and eating, Floorings should be easy-to-clean and resistant to stains, heavy traffic, and slips.
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Fabric tensioning details showing the relation between textile layer.
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Ground clamp detail
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/ engineering/tensile-structure
Wall post holding clamp
Phase 3 - Design Resolutions Details
Wall post holding ‘U’ clamp
Wall post holding ‘S’ clamp
Kangaroo
Ladybug
Source: Simple Tent+Kangaroo2(youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57cz3EWbriw&ab_channel=JunichiroHorikawa
Wall post holding clamp
Ground support
Wall post holding clamp
Wall post holding ‘U’ clamp
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5. Annexure • •
Studio Reading l Write-up Planting Workshop
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Effect of music on our life. Music is part of every known, past, and present society, and is common to all human cultures around the world for its impact on us. Music is just a series of sounds but can do wonders in a person’s life. It can have a profound effect on health. Analysis may require a better understanding of how each note makes different responses. People all over the world value and use music every day! It is used in advertising, remembering facts, exercising, or falling asleep. For many people/cultures, music also plays a major role in culture and self-esteem. Music can have a powerful effect on our lives. It can affect our brain and our emotions. Aside from its pleasant effects on the ears, it has been found that music can have a strong effect on our emotional state. The psychology of music selection speaks to the diversity of minds behind the unique musical selection. (Wikipedia) People love different types of music like rock, jazz, pop, Bollywood, and many more. Music is widely used in these genres of because it has the effect of changing our mood and giving us a sense of joy, comfort, and happiness. Music can attach one with an hundred amount of emotions at once. Just one favourite song can release your all stress and anxiety. That’s why in some public spaces organizers play mild music in the background to have a pleasant atmosphere. It can help to relieve pain so it also can help to improve our overall mood, And if we do it for long sessions it can help us to get better sleep
Street as a pu One Could also question whether Music can have a negative impact on our lives. It will if we rely on it. We need to control the behaviour pattern if it causes disruption to our /professional work life. We need to analyse if it causes problems in our daily life. Do we feel that we have to continue the behaviour despite any negative consequences, because we feel unable to stop? Discussion must be made by the individual. Technology nowadays is associated with music strongly. In the early days, we gifted cassettes to our loved ones or privately, as words could not express our feelings. Spotify has a shared playlist. Facebook has introduced the “Listen to Me” option as a status update, and Instagram allows you to share your favourite music on your news. Today, sharing music has become easier, and it is clear that music can be a bridge of two people’s heart. And for many people, even products, the music associated with them is their extension. Music is a healer to all human emotions from sadness to depression. It is a cause of happiness. Music content has many genres to play. Emotional expressions have been regarded as the most important criteria for the aesthetic value of music.
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The street is where people view their spatial and social environments as a playground of knowledge, a place to see, touch, feel, taste, listen to. Streets are the lifelines of any city. Streets can be the face of the city where one can understand the new city’s culture more. Different streets can have different conditions in which it affects one mind and could drag a strong impression. Associated with different qualities, it could be good or bad. For example – bad street design can turn off one’s day. Elements like traffic, faut smells, junk on streets can deduct the value of what streets are offering. To reduce these negative impacts designers can add different elements to the streets for improvising the special quality. Food joints, public gardens, open museums, community space, street art could be the ones.
Each street artist has made murals for some purpose to express their thoughts and emotions. We should not forget that, besides the social and political meaning behind it, street art makes cities and streets more colourful, which means that inhabitants of an area rich in urban art are more likely to experience happiness and joy. And the most beautiful thing about it is temporary and fragile. If there is a need for another art, any other artist can redo or replace new art which can again flourish the experience of the city for months or years.
Even if we hate it or like it, street art is a part of our culture for many years now. Where even street artists’ works and graffiti, which has made streets one of the crucial city elements that signify the public life of the place. This graffiti can connect one personally, as they are depicting the culture basically. Many cities including London offers street tours which include graffiti experience also. These tours are becoming the main tourist attractions. As directors of Bollywood films also got attracted to street culture, Zoya Akhtar also directed the film gully boy. As it also supports economic value where the famous street artist got all eyes, like Banksy, a famous street graffiti artist
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