02 // Extroverting the Introvert

Adaptive Reuse Assembly Construction academic project

Studio Advisor: Professor Kireet Patel (kireetpatel@cept.ac.in)

Location: Ahmedabad, India // Scale: 16,146 sq.ft

The project proposes an amalgamation of three types of public spaces within the Premabhai hall, Ahmedabad, with a sensitive and critical approach towards adaptive re-use.

The core idea for the concept was to derive an interior assembly system which does not seize any amount of the interior floor area, hence allowing a free, undisputed and clear floor plate. To make the idea possible, the system is dependent totally on the vertical structure of the architecture. Using a truss girder system, two elevated levels connected by a suspended glass tunnel forms the Heritage museum space. Suspended pre-stressed wooden vertical beams in the proscenium allows two intermediate levels inside the rib of the beams to function as the Pole-play theatre.

The Bhadra bazaars (markets) are incorporated on the eastern and western side of the built. To make the bazaar work efficiently, an external facade comprising of concrete pipes inter-connected by escalators are suspended by girders from the top, making the facade interactive and lively from both the outside and inside and making the built-form visually lighter.

Beautifully resonating in the entire space is the direct conflict between the aesthetics of the members and the details of the concept of assembly along with the homogeneous concrete architecture of the built.

Duration: 16 Weeks

Facade system, open elevated vertical transit system

Suspended theatre with material rendering showing the experiential quality and functioning of the space