- Space:
402 m²
12 months:
2023
Producers: Hansgrohe, Asian Paints, Benchmark Design Group, Carysil, Crompton, Featherlite, Godrej, Grundfos, Hafele, Hettich, Ikea, Jagnath, Jaquar, Lafit, Marfil, Merino, Mitsubishi, RM Tiles, RV Stonex, Crimson Carpet, +10-
Lead Architects:
Ronak Gangdev and Celia Fernandez Duque
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‘Plot 33’ is an sincere examine about easy methods to obtain a steadiness between inside-outside, work-life, privacy-openness, reused-new supplies, adaptability-single use, and so on. This challenge can be an try to amalgamate the aspirations of an Architect duo coming from various backgrounds – South Asia (India) and Southern Europe (Spain) – within the quickly rising metropolis of Rajkot, India. The location is positioned in a decent city residential neighborhood adjoining to the area’s college campus. It’s a 10 x 24 meters parcel of land, with the northern brief aspect dealing with the street that results in the college. On the other aspect of the plot, throughout the street, there’s a small public park with giant sheltering timber.
The Architects consider that the primary method to a website ought to at all times be primarily based on the local weather quite than this system. The plot location and its orientation led the Architects to begin with a gesture of opening up in the direction of the north (and the park) whereas sheltering the opposite sides by having cavity partitions on the east and west and inserting the circulation core on the south.
After finalizing these conceptual choices over a Plan, the remainder of the challenge was conceived by means of a collection of Sections. A courtyard was proposed on the north edge to behave as a buffer between the liveable areas and the surface. Your complete program was then stacked like a diagrammatic part: The studio is positioned on the bottom degree with an unbiased direct entry; the primary ground is deliberate because the ‘residing’ space, and the second ground is deliberate because the ‘personal’ space. The third ground acts as a multipurpose house with a mixture of visitor and exercise rooms. The ground plates have been optimized primarily based on the world necessities for every of those capabilities, and upon doing so, the entrance aspect courtyard become a cascading quantity, stepping again because it went up. To make sure that the inside-outside steadiness is maintained, all flooring are weaved collectively by means of a collection of overlooking inexperienced terraces.
This dynamic quantity is shielded by a easy system of perforated steel sheets designed to realize zero materials wastage and most stability. This materials permits the courtyard to breathe and stay in sync with the native local weather whereas concurrently including a layer of safety. The photo voltaic panels are organized in a method that their sub-structure shelters the courtyard from the cruel daylight. The road-facing display screen is capped by two planters; the one on the backside blurs the street from the residing ground by merging with the foliage of the timber within the entrance, whereas the one on the prime hides the photo voltaic panels and softens the skyline of the constructing. On the floor degree, there’s a lush champa tree, dividing the entry to the studio and the open stairway to the home.
Your complete structural system is designed in a method that the columns are absorbed throughout the cavity partitions on the east and west sides. The capabilities are sequenced in a method that each one areas requiring plumbing connections are positioned subsequent to the circulation core, with quick access to the upkeep ducts. These ‘moist’ areas additionally soak up the beams and sunk slabs inside their false ceiling parts, permitting the remainder of the slabs to be freed from any protruding structural components. All slab bottoms are left uncovered to exhibit the staggered sample of the 300 x 3000 MM reclaimed wooden shuttering members. To make sure that the long run improvement on both of the adjoining plots doesn’t disturb the character and privateness of any of the areas, a collection of openings and skylights are strategically positioned on the east and west partitions to permit air flow and pure mild to transpire by means of to the interior areas. Following the same logic, the circulation core includes a gently designed light-weight steel staircase that permits air and lightweight to trickle by means of all the quantity.
There aren’t any inside partitions aside from those required for bogs and bogs. All flooring comply with an open-plan configuration, enabling the furnishings items to behave as space-making components. This enables all flooring to be simply reconfigurable as and when the useful necessities change. The flooring additionally follows this seamless logic, with hand-crafted 300 x 300 MM terrazzo tiles made with chips from marble waste and glass bottles; the overlooking terraces have forged in-situ flooring utilizing waste kota stone items, organized in a random sample. The easy but sturdy structure ensures that the constructed setting effectively opens up and shelters itself from the native local weather, all of the whereas guaranteeing that each house maintains a steady visible sensation of being related with the park and the open sky, thus staying true to the distinct core concept behind the making of ‘Plot 33’.