URBAN PRISM | ECO URBANISM

Project Type – Academic | Urban Design Studio

Scope of work – Urban Design, Architecture

Academic - Fall 2021, Urban Design

Project Overview:

Gateway Marsh serves to be subsequent hotspot for the Beaufort city market and commercial hub. The Urban Prism serves the requirement of the tourist residential; acknowledging the climatic aspects of Beaufort, adapting passive design strategies to reduce the carbon foot print of the building. The design is an attempt to create a holistic approach between humans and nature. Developing a built space with context to the user experience of being in a natural environment and to maximize the use of sunlight for lightning.

Concept:

Binding Beaufort

Develop and Urban Corridor connecting neighboring cities

Conceptual Development:

The design approach for the conceptual planning tends to follow the design principal of “GENIUS LOCI” which essentially means to include the culture, traditions, history and the ecology of the place into the development of our site at Beaufort.

The Marsh Gateway site will be a hub that utilities the Beaufort Marshes and open unused lands to support local hobbies and rural industries, enhance the built and green environment and celebrate the city’s culture through education, innovation and technology.

Form Development:

Urban Ladder

Combining clusters of different building type and placing them to make the masses protrude out to create a mesh planning

Zoning Analysis:

The most prominent areas to attract people into the site

This zone includes the restaurant, hotels which will be impacted because of the catchment site

Integration of spaces:

Because of the increased activity in the catalyst site; due to the impact of catchment site, this zone gets benefited

Social Infrastructure:

Built Spaces

Includes public, private and mix use spaces integrated along with landscape to create harmony with nature

Unbuilt Spaces

Unbuilt environment provides an urban land in the middle of built spaces for the community recreational purpose,

Proposed Master Plan:

Urban Plan Development:

Existing Site Plan

Internal Circulation

Proposed Development Plan

After the master planning of the site; this is an design and planning of the individual structure proposed in the new site developed plan. The building is a hotel which consist of four floors having a restaurant and a seminar hall at the bottom level of the structure.

Floor Plans:

Elevation:

For the facade development, a single unit block is then combined to form a cluster of blocks. Stacking the blocks in layer create a pattern of alternate voids which can be incorporated with green walls. The terracotta pods with planters are fixed on the facade of the structure which upholds the greens which are cladded over the exterior facade.