Enviormental Flows
Cultural thressholds
Loss of culture due to lack of a proper social space, changing house typologies and a hardening tourist edge and the warehouse like unhuman living conditions for migrants/workers are the major concerns in the shehris located behind the Nani Daman fort. So how does one reconfigure the existing public and living spaces to bring back environmental flows and comfort?
Our site was located near the nani Daman fort. The area around this fort has fishing village and sea on the other side. The village was depleting as new settlements , upgradation of hotels and different goverment projects were being introduced. The village had small passages for people to travell which are called shehris and the life started from these shehris towards the coast. But there is promenade developed at the coast which seems to have made a disturbance between the flow of people and the beach.
Site image
this is the nani daman village. The shehri beside the water tank is called Parkota shehri and beside it is Batli st. These house types are portugese structures and there is a pattern seen across the sheri is that the house typology changes as it moves away from coast so the structures near the coast looks like portugese old structures where all the fishing activity used to happen and as we move away there are modern developments like boundaries, parking etc spaces build .
Enviormental change due to developments
Due to change in the development structures and useing space completely the enviorment has been affected. How does ventilation works in this shehris? there are small veins like structure called choti galli which allows wind flow at higher speed and clears out the heat also because of tree's shadow the wind gets coller and bearable. But trees have been cut down in search of space and the galli's have been utilised by people as a garbage space which has been blocked and no ventilation takes place causing heat up at these area and the ecology is disturbed animals needs to find shelter as it makes extremely fatal from sun strokes
Exsisting strucure
Our site is 40 * 40 m. The exsisting structure was a place for outsiders like people working in the village for temporary. Voyagers even used this space to live rest and thrive. But the compund was used by villagers before the place was used by voyagers and promenade for building fishing nets and drying fishes and use the compund space as a community fuction which was highly used for festivals.
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Living Spaces
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Bathrooms
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Hall
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Meeting Space
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Semi-open Verandas
Iterations
Our goal was to increase movements between shehris and villagers. Also to make a place that can be used by the voyagers and villagers to make this happen we planned out few iterations where we introduced concept of varanda. Here we created 2 different varandas and linked them with stilts such that it enables movement of world and adding vegetation and reservoir for ecology.
Iteration analysis
In this image it ois visible how there are fows that are involved. the positioning of varanda and placefor people to meet are calculated and made sure that it improves the way of living.
Project Name
The materials used for this structure will be wood. Combination of wooden joints and strong structures are designed. Wood will have coatings to prevent from rain salt winds and various other things that can cause structure weak. The structureis divided into three parts one is a square shaped hall with one level only secong part is the area which is in 'L' shape and third part is the compund
Cross sections
This structure is usefull for socialising as the people of daman have a specific kind of structures outside thier settlements which are called 'oltas'. A siting space where all gossips and social flows occur. Itis also a hall for people to countinue thier cultural events.
Roads and activity
There are changes that have been seen like the change in structures of houses . Some buildings have terrace where as some have slopping roofs with wooden structures and supports. The market of this village has also seen some drastic changes where there was a long structure that was established during portugese time and now the structure is completely changed by adding buildings and harsh boxes of concrete.