Baidehi Rej

AR3043

Challenging 'The Type'

The project focused on exploring one's stance on adaptation, in this case 'Challenging the Typological Approach' in adaptation. Borrowing from the first 2 design interventions, ‘Building Without a Type’ is an integration of relevant design strategies that helps to question the ‘type’ of building by blurring the disjunctions between the following 3 - ‘the existing’ and ‘the new’, ‘the functional specificity’ of a building and ‘the built’ and ‘the landscape.’ The biggest advantage the building itself allows the designer in this case is the existing grid, which, a relic of its history can usher in the new through future narratives and users, allow multiple functions to coexist under the same roof and mimic the organic and regenerative nature that a landscape provides.

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Introduction to the Site | Elaborating on theme - Challenging the Typlogical Approach

Design Intervention 1 | A Biophilic Healing Environment

Design Intervention 2 | Identifying a Disruption

Design Intervention 2 | Strategies

Design Intervention 2 | A Self Sustaining Urban Farming System

Building without 'A Type' | Strategies

Building without 'A Type' | Isometric View of the Neighbourhood and Perspective Section of the Building

Building without 'A Type' | Exploded Isometric View

Building without 'A Type' | The Spaces Inside

Exploded Isometric showing 'The Retained', 'The Demolished' and 'The New'