Kurle Simit Mahesh

ID4042

Coir brings flexibility, texture, and acoustic absorption. Cement provides structural integrity, durability, and load-bearing capacity. Inspiration comes from how these contrasting properties can work in harmony to create a composite with enhanced performance.  
Project Goals: Develop high-performance sound traps using a sustainable coir-cement composite. Optimize the 3D woven coir structure to enhance sound absorption and diffusion. Design a modular system that can be integrated into walls, ceilings, and freestanding units. Balance functionality, aesthetics, and structural integrity.
 Key Learning The most significant learning from this project was understanding how sound resonates not just in presence, but in decay—revealing the importance of silence, echo, and time in spatial experience. Through this exploration, I gained insight into the visual rhythm of form, and how sound is engineered into space through sectional strategies, materials, and surface articulation. By working with coir-cement composites, I learned how material, sound, and space intertwine, and how their amalgamation can craft a truly harmonic environment where architecture doesn’t just contain sound but responds, modulates, and enhances it.