Vidyalaya, Mumbai, Maharashtra
The Practice
2021
The client is a teacher who runs a small scale tuition classes and seeks to build a commercial building which can be partially rent out for additional income and used again in future as extention of his tuition classes. The site is situated in very residential area near local school, which helps tuition centers of the region to get students to teach. The major road adjacent to site is filled with many small commercial businesses of various kinds , which inhabits vibrant activities in neighborhood.
As the project site is situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra, a metropolitan city, it have a very large number of footfall and traffic. In recent research conducted by NEERI by noise mapping, Mumbai comes as the biggest contributor of noise pollution. On the other hand, Mumbai had its own, very rich form of nature in different ways. There is a lots of flora fauna in existence. But also the due to the metropolitan character of itself, the city is full of people and their activities. There traffic in the city comes as the biggest contributor of noise pollution in India. In recent research conducted by NEERI by noise mapping, Noise pollution comes sround 95db. This amount is not very good for the study environment.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Section through the green court
Form generation with inclusion of nature
The architectural intervention as a Craft Village tries to provide a quiet study space for tution center. It approaches to fit a patch of green mass in the middle of the building by placing all the classrooms on the backside of the building to create a sound barrier for the noise pollution in the cityscape. The journey through the building is planned to provide a "Passage-Through-Nature" experience for the student while approaching classes by use of passive therapeutic approach by use of natural elements, mimicking the green environment in the middle of the very busy and bustling city of Mumbai.
Initial Sketches :
Tution center ( Classrooms and other services)
Rentable Commercial Space
Management