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BUILD-ING EXTENSIONS
Community Unit at Goregaon, Mumbai
Building Making
Swara Chavan | Semester 6 | 2023-24
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Course Outline
Building Making interrogated different ways, methods and sections of construction process using high rise services, glossary of architecture terms, site management, details (spatial and technical) as its core anchor points. Design concept were further detailed to reach technical construction requirements whilst maintaining the fundamentals of the original design concept. Working drawings as a tool challenged certain details of material and construction requirement which led to questioning, nudging and negotiating with the set standards of the process. All of these helped understand the nuances of a MAKING OF A BUILDING from having a site within an urban context, its stakeholders, forces and particularities of site to its excavation, construction, fixations, and handover.
Site, Site Forces & Context
"The built-form extends into permanent extensions in form of seats, railings and chaja not only in materialistic way but also increases the affordances to provide pause points, leisure space and safety. The temporal extensions allows transformations of spaces through human interventions as its larger intent. These makes the form of building dynamic in nature as it changes with space and time. The unit built for the community challenges the idea of a building having certain stakeholders after it is completed. Thus transferring the power to the community itself which allows generation of belonging and feeling of home by having operable extensions.
BUILD-ING EXTENSIONS
Temporary and Permanent
"The built-form extends into permanent extensions in form of seats, railings and chaja not only in materialistic way but also increases the affordances to provide pause points, leisure space and safety. The temporal extensions allows transformations of spaces through human interventions as its larger intent. These makes the form of building dynamic in nature as it changes with space and time. The unit built for the community challenges the idea of a building having certain stakeholders after it is completed. Thus transferring the power to the community itself which allows generation of belonging and feeling of home by having operable extensions.