RLDA Architecture Design Research

17/11/2023

05/06/2020

The Adaptive Re-Use and conversion of a Warehouse into an Auditorium and Multi-Purpose Hall for a philanthropic school presented both challenges and opportunities.⁠
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At the outset the existing structure defined the volume of the interior space and its capacity. The need to accommodate more students for various school functions informed the strategy of flanking the existing structure with supplementary spaces and the creation of an open air auditorium for larger school functions. The exposed concrete vaults were a result of the metal pipes that the adjoinning factory made, these were used as formwork for the concrete pour.⁠
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The vaults provide supplimentary spaces to the main auditorium. These include galleries, a cafe, toilets and storage areas. The “green rooms” in contrast are placed between the indoor and outdoor auditoriums. The exposed concrete and brick spaces establish an ambiguous relationship between open and closed spaces. This is further accentuated by the cutouts in the vaults that allow light to pe*****te in and vegetation to grow through it.⁠
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Climatalogically this strategy both protects the indoor auditorium space from heat gain and aids in the natural ventillation of the space and acts as a passive design strategy for the buildings energy and consumption. The floating plane brick walls with their articulated joints form the dominant visual vocabulary of the building. While the cantilevered concrete vaults are joined through an exposed gutter systems that channel rain water into re charge pits. ⁠
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27/05/2020

Distinguished by its use of stone, reed and steel wire, the project abandons a commonplace aesthetic and other such iconographic elements to distinguish itself in favour of a building that draws its aesthetic from the means, methods and modes of its construction. ⁠
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The resort consists of a stone building that houses a storage facility on the lower level and a dormitory on the upper level, a veranda with a tensile roof that frames the surrounding mountains, a cafe and cottages for guests. ⁠
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25/05/2020

The project is located on the banks of the river Ganga near Rishikesh, India. Galvanized gabion boxes that have historically been used to secure river banks from erosion have been filled with stone and set within a concrete frame structure to form the walls of this building.The stones were found on site, remnants of an earlier attempt at the project. Adjacent gabions have been tied together with steel wire.The micro-climate created by the river rusts the wire giving it a red patina and thereby accentuates the verticality of the building. Through the onset of the patina, the building documents the passage of time and seasons. The building's aesthetic is consequently a result of its climatic context and its constructional process. ⁠
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22/05/2020

Distinguished by its use of stone, reed and steel wire, the project abandons a commonplace aesthetic and other such iconographic elements to distinguish itself in favour of a building that draws its aesthetic from the means, methods and modes of its construction. ⁠
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The resort consists of a stone building that houses a storage facility on the lower level and a dormitory on the upper level, a veranda with a tensile roof that frames the surrounding mountains, a cafe and cottages for guests. ⁠
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(project Image : 1/3)
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07/06/2018

I was deeply saddened when I read Shreya Roy Chowdhury’s article, “Bitter battle over design leaves India’s planned National War Museum in limbo”. It was published on the website https://scroll.in/article/880837/bitter-battle-over-design-leaves-indias-planned-national-war-museum-in-limbo on ...