Vasav Keyur Patel

AR2057

Away from the Scorch

A dwelling for a Manushya community living in a deep quarry in a dry, arid region. This community extracts an illegal drug from the quarry walls, named "Wakati", so their settlement must stay hidden from aerial surveillance. To avoid detection from any kind of hostile beings, the built form includes living quarters for yakshis present at the top of each form, creating the appearance of a normal Yakshi dwelling. The attitude towards design is to blend the architecture with the quarry's natural features, ensuring functionality, sustainability, and concealment in this harsh environment.

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Reimagining an existing space into a movie scene or context.

Imagining a real-time problematic scenario and designing an architectural solution to counteract the problem.

Analysing Manushya species and reimagining their topography and extracting a plot-based story strip .

Decoding the material kit and system catalogue related to the given species.

Visualizing a scenario/challenge and ideating in response to those challenges

Ideation of forms of the dwelling based on the context and the functionality

Extracting line drawing and sampling a render

Working out the fabric draping/placement on the derived form.

Final sectional render

Views capturing different elements of the dwelling and the activities.