ADS 5 Architecture Portfolio - Year 3 Sem 1 - Al Ras, Deira.

ADS5 Portfolio

Zoran Vinay Rao, H00326781

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Ode To Pause

Residential Rebirth

The Growth of Deira

Precedence Studies

Architectural Drawings

Detailed Sections and Rendered Elevations

Final Artistic Renders and Models

AlRas Co-Housing Mothadd - ﺪﺤﺘﻣ

Density and Diversity - Deira, Dubai

When asked, workers said that they do not have any hobbies and activities that they spend time on after work. They also have no attachment to their environment

Afghanistan 30%

Ar’ Ras Population: 7314 (2018)

Total Area: 0 3041 km2

Population: 24048/km2

Annual Population Change: -19% (2015-2018)

Living Conditions in Al Ras is poor, most residents live with about 6 people in a one-bedroom flat

Residents complain about the hygiene, visitors and residents do not feel safe iand secure in this neighborhood

Beginning with panning out with a 3 KM radius, it informs you of the unruly grid structure of Deira, mo particular set pattern.

The Older Dubai

Before the boom of the Petrol Era, Dubai's people lived far simpler lives with few places of working Electricity and few places to find drinking water, Locals and Residents consisted mostly of Traders, Pearl Divers, and Fisherman.

Some of the oldest pictures of Deira's famous Spice Markets, Little functioning made for bust mornings and afternoons with more calm evenings where shops would usually close early

The Urban Typology consists mostly of 3-4 storeyed buildings almost all of which have little to no space between, quite cramped.

Both lines of the Dubai Metro are relatively close to the Al

The Spice and Fish Markets

A closer look with a 500M raduis shows how the tertiary roads run between the buildings through mostly one-way lanes.

The only surrounding 2 Way Lane is the Main Baniyas Road, all other roads surrounding the site are only one-way lanes.

Ras Area, The closest metro station being the Al Ras Station about 300 meters away.

The Iconic Al Abra Station runs like a spine splitting Older and Newer Dubai Sides. With several stops including the Popular Hindu Temple.

Transport Systems and Urban Morphology

Starting with marking primary roads surrounding the site itself and its 1 km radius.

Progressively marking out tertiary and minor roads within an even smaller radius.

A closer perspective in 3D shows the clear average typology of the surrounding buildings, The only relatively open space in this Area is the parking in front of the selected site.

Deira’s Landmarks and Nodes

The Bur Dubai is known for its bustling streets and it’s lively night-life. It is home to several popular places for tourists including renovated historic buildings and museums. The district has many shopping streets and souqs, Many of which make for great Landmarks and Nodes.

The Heritage House is located on Al Ahmediya Street and was built in the 1890's marking it as one of UAE's oldest structures The house consists of two floors and it was built of coral, stone, plaster, teakwood, Chantal wood, and the fronds and trunks of palm trees.

The bustling Dubai Creek has been the lifeblood of the city for generations and continues to attract visitors year-round. For just AED 1, you can hop aboard one of many traditional boats, known as abras, to cross the creek that separates Bur Dubai from Deira, Dubai’s city centre.

The Heritage House The Abra

The Al Ras Metro Station

The Urban Fabric - Streetscapes

With a large number of alleys and minor roads running through cramped buildings. Bur Dubai presents itself as a new experience completely, the congested traffic, and most buildings being 3-4 stories high, truly make Deira stand out with a traditional charm from the rest of Dubai's more well-known modern- taller storeyed architecture.

Alleyways between buildings offer a refreshing breeze and refuge from the sun and surrounding noiseness

Follow your nose from the Gold Souk to discover tiny alleyways lined with sacks full of fresh spices from all around the region. Several alleyways are also packed with coffeeshops all over the place, Most alleyways with spice and food shops also tend to smell far better than other surrounding places

Several Wholesale stores along minor roads around the Deira Souk. Narrow 1lane and 2-lane streets provide lots of shade from buildings, As well as better wind movement

Climate and Sustainability Properties

Temperatures in Central Al Ras could get quite high with the hottest months being July and August.

Firstly, making diagrams of the directions of which the sun rises and sets. Inferences like keeping track of the shadows formed and solar heat gains should be monitored.

Secondly making diagrams showing diagrams of the wind direction around the site itself. Inferences like tunneling that natural wind and using it as passive cooling.

Humidity temperatures in Al-Ras experience high during winter averaging about 60% during November and January.

The Mashribiya - Solar Shading.

Sikkas and their shading to make for a pleasant walk.

The Barjeels, Traditional Wind Towers.

Rajasthan is synonymous with sandstone as a building material but sadly, over the last few decades, this material has been reduced to a 'cladding 'medium and its potential as a robust and sustainable structural element has not been explored.

Every building element from the basement raft/retaining walls/lintels/door and window stairs/screens etc has been made from stone blocks, either from the quarry or excavated from the site.

"We laid out a simple brief: no material other than stone should be used for construction".

The Stone House - Sections and Plans

The house is arranged around a narrow courtyard that extends into even narrower slits and fissures as it weaves its way through the house, essentially drawing on the proportions of voids and interstitial spaces of traditional dwellings as a method to counter the effect of the harsh summer sun.

Every building element from the basement raft/retaining walls/lintels/door and window stairs/screens etc has been made from stone blocks, either from the quarry or excavated from the site.

Large front and rear-facing glazing are shaded by deep overhangs and operable, hand-cut stone screens to modulate light, privacy, and views.

Precedence Studies - The Stone Hous

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A view from beneath the staircases shows how unusual they are.

Views from the secondfloor corridors show the dining and surrounding bedrooms.

nding and Conceptual Zoning

Public Zones

Private Zones

Ramped Areas (Basement)

Crossed Bridge Circulation

Secondary courtyard space welcomes visitors and residents towards the central-spinal pathway, surrounding windows house small restaurants and tandoors, with provided seaeting for when people eat and want to take a moment

A view of the central courtyard space how people can interact and cummte the four buildings themselves. A multi-functional social space. All publicly-zone ground areas that surround the building also have views towards the courtyard space.

The

Hempcrete is a bio-composite material that contains a mixtures of hemp, hurds and lime

Hemp has been used to construct buildings, bridges, walls and more for thousands of years. In fact, there are extant hemp and mortar buildings and bridges sprinkled throughout Europe today. Some of which are more than 1,500 years old.

The thermal mass properties of hempcrete mean there is less need for aggressive heating or cooling strategies and appliances. And that it is likely to significantly reduce costs related to temperature maintenance.

Less energy consumed to keep your home or business warm or cool means fewer greenhouse gases.

Starting to look at how creative crossed bridges could when having multiple separate building and beginning to adopt a similar bridge style between masses

Courtyard Sustainability

2 joining one-way lanes make it for a very busy street in terms of traffic and pedestrians

2 mosques on either side of the road and certain prayer times can result in a surplus of people

The spice souk attracts a large crowd of tourists, especially during night times.

The closest public car parking closest to the site can be potentially used as a connected parking spaces

Proposing potential entrances or areas of interest to gather people in those areas towards our site.

Urban Strategies-Vegetation and Pathways

Existing vegetation can be scarce in many areas around the site except the near-by mosque.

Proposed pathways should be extremely engaging to convince people to pause and perhaps look around.

Proposing a spinal pathway that runs through the site could potentially make walking not only easier for passer-by's but also urge them to go through your site.

The pathway can begin from the South-West of the site starting from the existing smaller garden and can continue throughout the North-West.

Massing and Concept Development

Site marked in Red, whilst still highlighting zones like the commercial areas and residential areas. Public Facilites and Tourist Hotspots are also marked in Purple and Blue

4 more concentrated important areas of the site are making in 3D, places of worship like the local mosque attract several people during prayer hours.

Reviewing different styles of leveling softscapes to help inspire my design and trying to translate that into my concept. Each level draws you closer towards the residential area.

The Staircased levels are widened in certain areas where movement could be higher, places like the Spice Souk and the public parking will influence future pathways too.

Placing potential courtyard spaces along the central spinal pathway, courtyards are evenly distributed, the central one being the largest and most important.

Progressively forming final massing diagrams, grown directly from negative spaces around the pathways, and surrounding courtyards themselves.

Beginning to dissect the two masses, dividing and forming 4 final masses, dividing them also allows for new pathways to be formed, that finally also link to the central courtyard.

Starting of by forming a unified pathway joining four main points of the site, a central spine is first formed.