Zarna Govind Prajapati

AR2039

Aasha ne Aakar - Women's Community Center

Aasha ne Aakar, is a women-led and operated community-based activity organization. It includes activities such as three types of selling and administrative and training space. Selling dried agricultural produce, spices, and powdered spices is the first category. The preparation and sale of bakery snacks and bread fall under the second vertical, while beverages and freshly prepared hot snacks/small meals go under the third. The training center and administrative offices are also housed in the building. The climate and site study determine the massing, organization, orientation, opening directions and types, water body, and landscaping. The goal was to protect the building from solar heat gain and design it in such a way that it uses less energy and reuses the waste. 

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Applying Passive House technology to a tropical monsoon climate, which features steady warm temperatures year round but extremely high relative humidity; this building has cutting-edge sustainable technologies providing year-round energy, comfort in the workspace, abundant natural light, low humidity, filtered fresh air, and maintaining temperatures near a constant 24°C. The benefit of these features is reflected in the reduced annual energy use by around 54%.

For the context of the site these analysis are done. This Study shows the climatic analysis on Temperature, Ground Temperature, Rain , wind velocity range and direction and Radiation. Ahmedabad has a tropical climate, with a rainy season from mid-June to September, and a dry season from October to mid-June, due to the monsoon. The landscape is bleak due to the long dry season it is located just on south of the Tropic of Cancer.

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3D Model Views from different of spaces and Sun shadow during different seasons.

Material Exploration for the building and how this reduced the Solar heat gain from outside than before, when only brick was used in whole building.

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