Vijayawada Garden Estate Apartment - The Project Matrix 2
Architectural Precedent
Vijayawada Garden Estate Apartment – Penda Architecture
Key concept
Vijayawada Garden Estate is a high-rise
residential project which belongs to Pooja Crafted Homes. This project mainly
focused on green living building, and creative spaces. Penda Architects is the
project designer. Nowadays, high-rise apartments is becoming the main-stream
way for people and it can effectively reduce the impact of the shortage of
urban living space caused by the increasing population. After the trend of
mass-production in architectural industry, architects should consider space
flexibility and individualism become again. And in 1960s, Japanese architects
mentioned a new theory of architecture development, Metabolism. It means
metamorphosis and transformation in biological way, and it is mainly about the
endless change of interior and surrounding environment occurs in the building. (Raffaele
P, 2004) Among them, Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kurokawa can be
regarded as the representative work.
Although this theory eventually was
abandoned because of technologies and some reasons. But the modular system of
building parts and replacement of old components is gradually be used in modern
architecture. Meanwhile, based on the popularity of sustainable building and promotion
of living with nature, Vjiayawda Garden Estate apartment can be considered as a
good example of the complex of thsing e modular system and green building. Penda
architect separated all essential elements of building, walls, ceilings,
façade, floors, and other structure. Only structural frame and infrastructure
are stable part. Therefore, in this building, most walls, ceilings floors,
handrail, plant pots and balconies can be replaced if required. Even residents
can design their own apartment in some levels. So basically flexibility and
modularity is the main concept and features of Vijayawada Garden Estate
apartment.
Selected design element
For selected design element of this
project, a combination of some units with some removable panels is what I want
to make in this course. First of all, the main feature of this project is
modular system. Therefore, I want to make the stable grid structure, and make
some removable panels for balconies, walls, and ceilings. Basically, it will be
like using boards to fill the frame. For connection, it should have some
grooves in at the middle of the grid structure, then all board can be placed in
those grooves, and there are nails or something else can hold them together. Because
each board as a wall is detachable, thus there are many different changes in
the plan of this model during the making process, so different combinations
will be tried in this model making.
How is the key concept reflected in the design studio?
For the next year studio, my stream is
architecture (non-stream). If I enroll in Housing studio, this concept will be
the direction I want to work on. Or in the work, I will use the features of
this architecture precedent as much as possible into the residential building
design. Because flexibility of residential building means how far the
self-design apartment can be achieved, and it also means what extent owner can
change their living area. For the design of residential buildings, requirements
from residents are the primary considerations and the most important things. Today’s
young people have higher requirements for the design of living environment, and
they may be more interested in the uniqueness and individually of apartments or
houses. Thus, more flexible residential spaces can largely meet their needs,
and this design can provide more possibilities for residential buildings. They can
be set up as high-quality and comfortable office spaces or split more rooms for
different families according to their needs.
Geometrical description of the shape
The original one is a high-rise apartment,
therefore I will only make one unit from one level for this physical model. Which
means this model will have more details than first project. The actual size for
one level is height: 3.2m. The area of one unit will show on the plan. For model
making, the first thing is to cut out frame grid structure, this component will
use balsa wood to cut out, and all grooves will be cut on these wooden frame, then
wooden wall can be cut by laser cutting.
Proposed
scale, material, technique:
1.
Scale: 1:50
2.
Material:
Plywood (laser cut)
balsa wood(hand cut, wood workshop)
Time
commitment, budget:
1.
Digital files
Rhino file preparation: 1 day
2.
Building base and all structure
pieces (laser cutting): 3 days
Budget:
1.
Plywood: $16.00
2.
Balsa wood 9.5mm: $15.35
3.
Laser cutting: $30.00
4.
Glue: $12.00
Total price: $68.00
Reference:
Material price:
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Reading:
Raffaele Pernice (2004) Metabolism
Reconsidered Its Role in the Architectural Context of the World, Journal of
Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 3:2, 357-363, DOI:
10.3130/jaabe.3.357 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3130/jaabe.3.357
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