Portfolio YA J U R V A
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Positioned amidst concrete dense neighbourhood, next to the relic of the robust fort-wall; the site is located on the edge of the old city of Ahmedabad, overlooking the expanse of Sabarmati river.
Animating the rustic fort-wall
Guiding people’s movement by modulating the building envelope
Response to the needs of physicality
Observing the cluster from raised balcony
A shaded Shop-way, next to the fort-wall
Following the local typology, segregating public street and private street by shops
Needs of the users
Balconies overlooking events of the court
Farm as an introduction to the intervention
Locating functions and programme
Alleys among the built masses leading to an event-yard
Continuous open street connecting tunnel to the northern chowk, thereby becoming an extension of the occasional Tuesday market
Passing through the farm, a public street that is modulated by horizontal and vertical built masses that connect tunnel to northern chowk
Occupying the linear site
Journeying to a farm declutters the noise of the city
Revamp the volunteers along the calm of the river
Farm and the farmers in the project
Terrace cafe-farm overlooking the river
Carving the ground to give a direct entry from stepped alley
Orientation and positioning of functions
Bequeathing required space to an institutional building.
Elevated urban farm at the mid length of the site
Response to buildings along site
Openings along the fort-wall near stepped alley
A play of datums from bridge to stepped alley
Rendering light in the intervention by constructing along the fort-wall
A continuous inter-play of mass and void
Overlooking the existing buildings on the site, what remains is a continuous linear expanse that is encapsulated between fort-wall, bridge and buildings along the site. The expanse keeps the dense experience of the context at the bays. Thus because of this distance, a sort of visual silence is felt in the site which is quite similar to what is felt in chowk and at the river-front as well.
Linking the intervention to the urban cluster by continuing street inside the intervention
Establishing visual silence by distancing functions
Opening functions along the apertures
Distancing functions from all three sides
Continuing street as derived in upper diagram
Opening functions along the service using transparency of columns
Deepening the axis to experience the expanse along the diagonal length of the site
LEGEND 1. LODGE 2. INDOOR FARM 3. WASHROOM
INDOOR FARM
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LODGE
LEGEND 1. SHOPS 2. KITCHEN-CAFÉ 3. WASHROOM 4. LOUNGE
ENTRANCE 1
ENTRANCE 2 3. 4. 1.
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ENTRANCE 3
LEGEND 1. FARM 2. KITCHEN 3. LODGE
CONCEPTUAL SECTION 1
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CONCEPTUAL SECTION 2
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CHEF’S LODGE
TESTING KITCHEN
TUTORIAL FARM
WC CAFE
ORGANIC SHOP
LOUNGE GARDENING SHOP VEGETABLE SHOP
KITCHEN
INDOOR FARM WC
LODGE
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