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RESPONSIVE FACADESFOR SMARTER BUILDING

URBAN GARDERNINGTIPS & TRICKS

SKIN ARCHITECTUREpushing the envelope

A VISION FOR INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

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4 EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION -POOJA JAISWAL

6 PAVILION AT GLADE ONE - KHOSLA ASSOCIATES

12 THE CELEBRATION GARDEN -ankur jajpuria

14 RESPONSIVE FACADES FOR SMARTER CITIES

20 NAMASTE TOWER a vision for indian contemporary architecture

26 URBAN GARDENING Terrace gardens have become an Add-on feature with the space requirements for a Residence these days adding to its Economic factor.

32 SKIN ARCHITECTURE Pushing the envelope

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Ar Pooja Jaiswal, Graduated from MSU Baroda in 2014 and have been working as an Academician on the post of Assistant Professor in B.Arch De-gree College in Vadodara and since last two years I am exploring the other side of coin as a part of Architectural Learning and took various Interac-tive Initiatives for the betterment of Architecture Education Methodology.Along with working as a full time Academician , I have written Research papers on Contextual and Sustainable Aspects of Architecture , published in Council of Architecture Journal and various other professional and student magazines .Working professionaly as a practicing architect , I always took special care to make my residential projects climate responsive and serve green initiative. Since two years with my practice i have been associated with The Times of India as a Freelance Columnist and Editor of various mag-azines. Currently I am exploring a deeper grain of Architecture by studying M.Arch at CEPT.

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“Knowledge is the food of the Soul” – Plato

Learning does not require a medium and Architecture per se cannot be taught. In this entire process of Self learning through Reading and Ob-servation, The Architect’s Diary is a Digi(talized) Interactive Magazine to connect and map these trajectories for Architects and Designers. It visions to span over multitude of generations nearly more than one lac people through digital and social media marketing.Breaking the Thumb Rule of gathering information through tradition-al Reading, The Architect’s Diary brings the touch pad generation an interactive forum to visualize the content that they are reading. It cov-ers wide range of topics of Architecture from History to Contemporary with qualitative emphasis on stories that justify beyond hard copy reading.The diary features Audio/Visual formats for its content with supported Animations, panoramic views, puzzles,3 Dimensional visualization and interactive Designing on the website itself. However it is a cross plat-form Digi-Interactive magazine for all operating systems like Android, MAC and Windows.

PAVILION AT GLADE ONE - KHOSLA ASSOCIATES

AHMEDABAD, INDIA


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As part of the overall master plan of ‘Glade One’, a development comprising villas on a 250-acre golf course, with a clubhouse and other amenities, we were commissioned to design an Entrance Pavilion for visitors. The purpose of the Pavilion was to act as an entry and greeting point, as well as display space showcasing the merits and progress of the project to prospective buyers.The other requirement was for the pa-vilion to serve as an occasional hospital-ity venue, which members of the com-munity could use as an entertainment space.A linear proportion for the floor plate was considered for our design, as the entrance to the overall development was fairly narrow.From a wide portico and pebbled en-

trance court, a pathway leads to gentle steps to the main door, flanked by a shallow water feature. On entry, the pa-vilions internal space is a large seamless volume, with formal and informal seat-ing areas flowing into one another and spilling into a generous outdoor wooden patio.An arresting curvilinear feature wall snakes itself longitudinally along the linear east-west axis, stepping down to become a reception table and coffee bar and elegantly dividing public seating areas from other mundane functions. The wall starts at the entrance court, penetrates the internal volumes and emanates at the west end, dipping down sculpturally to the ground.

The gentle curves of the snaking wall rendered in a polished cement finish emerge from a swathe of seamless grey epoxy flooring. Looming above is a sweeping butterfly roof with large over-hangs, clad on the underside entirely in slats of timber.The south facade is composed of large panes of floor to ceiling glass, allowing the interior of the pavilion to interact constantly with the entrance drive and surrounding landscape.The external walls are a juditcious mix of stone aggregate plaster and polished cement offset with timber on the roofs. The color palate of the interior and ex-terior is in earth tones, complementing the rural environment in which the de-velopment is located and the surround-ing green.

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An arresting curvilinear feature wall snakes itself longitudinally along the linear east-west axis, step-ping down to become a reception table and coffee bar and elegantly dividing public seating areas from other mundane functions.




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The Celebration Garden -ankur jajpuria

The garden is based on the ‘Indian Culture’. It tries to establish a link between different components and characteristics which are the essence of Indian culture.The design concept facilitates the creation of spaces which physically represent the inherent characteris-tics of Indian culture. Rich, colorful, vibrant, diverse, traditional, religious are some of its key components. The garden uses elements like color (depicting vibrancy and diversity), pattern (depicting art and culture), design components (depicting tradi-tions and religions), geometry (de-picting rich history).

the Major Design features of the garden are: The peacock feather pattern waterway which is an extension of the water fountain. It is inspired from the efficient ancient water systems, and the pattern evolved from Peacock feather which is the national bird of India.The classical lanterns or stonelamps, traditional in design giving an insight into the history of art, Indian materials & plants.The spatial scheme depicts the ethics of Indian culture like traditional seating, entrance portal, NorthEast orientation (an auspicious direction).


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Façades are the screen wall of cities: put simply, things hang from them. But what kind of smart technologies will we hang from façades in our new, smarter cities?

FOR SMARTER BUILDINGSFACADERESPONSIVE FACADES


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Building Façades are no longer components that are designed for single function, but their scopes are wider. Besides Architectural, Structur-al or building Purposes they are also expected to exert thermal or fluidic dynamics. Dynamic and Adaptive

concepts translate into the fact that functions, features and thermo physical behavior of such building components may change from time to time and adapt to different building components and require-ments. It is very similar to like per-son changing clothes to changing weather conditions.

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RESPONSIVE FACADESA RESPONSIVE BUILDING SKIN IS ONE THAT FACILITATES CO-EVOLUTIONARY INTERACTION BETWEEN THE BUILDING.

Building Façades are no longer components that are designed for single function, but their scopes are wider. Besides Architectural, Structural or building Purposes they are also expected to exert thermal or fluidic dynamics. Dynamic and Adaptive concepts trans-late into the fact that functions, features and thermo physical behavior of such building components may change from time to time and adapt to different building components and requirements. It is very similar to like person changing clothes to changing weather conditions.

An Intelligent Skin may be defined as a composition of construction elements con-fined to the outer weather protecting zone of the building which performs functions that can be individually or cumulatively adjusted to respond to environmental var-iations and keep the inside of the building in a comfort zone.

This practice has fundamentally trans-formed the way in which architects ap-proach building design with a shift in em-phasis from form to performance, from structure to envelope. With ever greater frequency, they are equipped with new performative materials, sensors, actuators and computerized intelligence that sup-

port automated dynamic operations and functionalities, such as regulating a build-ing’s light, air and sound transmission, thermal transfer, and interior air quality. These new parameters have resulted in increased architectural collaboration with the disciplines of mechanical and electri-cal engineering, computing and the physi-cal and social sciences.


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In response, this chapter frames a pro-visional lexicon of descriptive, behav-ioral and methodological terms to as-sist designers in navigating the field of high-performance skins that incor-porate materially innovative and feed-back-based systems. One of the most significant characteristics of smart materials is that they have the ability to transform their physical properties and/or shape, or to exchange energy without requiring an external source of power. Hence, they are extremely at-tractive to building designers who aim to increase functionality and perfor-mance while at the same time reducing energy use. The use of electro active

polymers for kinetic skins is also at the forefront of research in the field, given their speed of response, large potential for active deformation and resilience.A responsive building skin is one that facilitates co-evolutionary interaction between the building, the inhabitant and the environment in a meaningful way. One of the primary performance mandates for high-performance en-velopes has been energy optimization and reduction in the use of resources.


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A V I S I O N F O R I N D I A N C O N T E M P O R A R Y A R C H I T E C T U R E


NAMASTE

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The orientation, massing and location of the skyscraper was strategically planned to benefit from the visual re-lations of Indian Ocean, Mumbai Pen-insula and other constructed towers of Mumbai. To emphasize the theme of welcoming hands, the skin of the build-ing will be covered intricate, swirling patterns that are based on the Mehndi pre-wedding ceremony, in which Indi-an brides-to-be decorate their hands and feet with elaborate henna designs. The light colored façade has striking aesthetic patterns from Indian Tradi-tional Art of Mehndi which is made of Fritted Glass serving its dual purpose of Art and Transparency while acting as a sunscreen to reduce solar heat gain in Indian Climate. Canopies that splay out

on the lower floors will also include so-lar thermal collectors that will provide about 12 percent of the energy need-ed to create hot water for hotel guests. Throughout the many open corridors and atrium areas in the Namaste Tow-er, the designers included open spaces for internal gardens to help improve indoor air quality and promote circula-tion of fresh air. The high-end graphical motifs are exceptional and give a visual depth to the façade cladded in white Al-polic and glass.

Namaste Tower is currently under construction in Mumbai, Lower Parel. It is a 300 Meters high Skyscrap-er with 62 stories including various levels of Office Spaces, Retail, Restaurants, Hotel and Roof Top Restau-rants. Architects from Dubai based WS Atkins aimed to design a building that would stand as a landmark struc-ture for Mumbai – Namaste Tower represents economic and cultural significance of great India. Inspired by the Indian Tradition of Namaste as welcoming gesture, the Skyscraper roots its originality to Indian Subcontinent. With its symbol of Hospitality the tower aims to pres-ent a turning face of Indian Contemporary Architecture by far.


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Height : 316m / 1037 ft

Floor above ground :63

Floor below ground :03

Tower GFA :116000m2

No of hotel rooms : 380

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URBAN GARDENING

Terrace gardens have become an Add-on fea-ture with the space requirements for a Resi-dence these days adding to its Economic factor.

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How great it would be if you eat fresh vegetables from your own Ter-race garden? You have own plate of salad ready from your residence?

Terrace gardens have become the next boom that has got a tremendous response from the user group and builders have got a Healthy reason to have them in their schemes – Cash Bank (Green Leaves = Green money). The concept has become so manda-tory these days that be it a Doctor, businessman, Software engineer or any other client wants a huge terrace garden in their residence.

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In today’s compact cities , having a open terrace of your own and that too equipped with lush green leafy plants make a tremendous mark on our City Trend and also satisfies our psycholog-ical need to be in those kind of spaces . Terrace gardens with a neat lawn to varied pot sizes and types of cultiva-tion can be seen nowadays. Containers of all sizes, shapes, whether of plastic, ceramic, metal or mud can be used. If you are an environment buff, you just need to use your imagination! Your coke bottles, take away plastic boxes, old sacks, coconut shells, old broken buck-ets, your dented kitchen pots and pans , just about everything can be recycled and used as containers. So, in a way it is also a green process because with the garden you are adding to the green con-tent of the city at a small scale and the material used for it are also recyclable. The 3R content – Reduce, Reuse, Recy-cle = Produce!

Editor NotesMs Pooja JaiswalEditor-in-ChiefThe Architect’s diary magazine

In addition to its Edible ad-vantage, Terrace gardens have more good points like Convenience of safe, pesti-cide free, healthy green and fresh vegetables like you are Conducive to a routine of physical exercise, clean air and close to nature , it Increases amount of oxygen in air, Reduces overall heat absorption of buildings, In-sulates the building against heat and cold, Reduces sound pollution, Acts as a habitat for city weary birds and animals, Reduces indoor temperature by and can reduce air condi-tioning cost by Landscape architects, garden planners and small scale urban garden-ers are at your help to devel-op these kind of spaces and more of it even your “maali bhaiya” can guide you.


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skin architecturpushing the envelopE


TEXT BY : pooja jaiswal

Architectural textiles provide an innovative and efficient alternative to the conventional stretch ceiling systems, and an almost unlimited range of inorganic forms and shapes which accentuate its “modern design”.

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The need to switch to a self sustainable lifestyle has reached all areas of life. Urban-ization and scarcity of raw materials and energy resources has reached led to the rediscovery of the principle form of tent as an architectural form, while propagating its development further. The use of textiles is not just limited to temporary structures, but also for permanent buildings.Architectural textiles provide an innovative and efficient alternative to the convention-al stretch ceiling systems, and an almost unlimited range of inorganic forms and shapes which accentuate its “modern de-sign”.In comparison to traditional building ma-terials, textiles are more energy efficient as they use natural day light instead of arti-ficial light with the use of translucent fab-rics. They are even more economic, all the while creating a dynamic structure which gives convention a twist and with the de-velopment of PVC, PTFE, PVDF, and ETFE textiles, the service life of fabric membrane structures now range from 15 to 30 years and at the end of which, deconstruction is

far simpler and more accommodating to recycling.These fabrics have UV resistance, with so-lar protection options for both humans and the building, are low maintenance, possessing self cleaning properties, all the while catering to the distinct environmen-tal needs of every project.Speciality textiles are also available which filter the sun’s harmful UV rays, but do not inhibit plant growth. This not only increas-es the aesthetic value of the project, but also promotes the idea of inclusion of flora to commercial projects as well.Whether it’s the innovative use of architec-tural membranes for shade, or as entrance and walkway canopies or as a roofing sys-tem – the potential for the use of fabrics in construction and design is far from ex-hausted.


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