BUILDING SYSTEMS

This module focuses on enabling usnto understand that built form is generated through overlapping systems. These systems include spatial organization that shapes inhabitation; structural systems made of building elements; spatial systems of form, volume, scale and materiality; service systems like sanitation that are important to health and hygiene, passive systems that craft the environmental experiences and active energy systems generated through electrical consumption. These systems interact together to produce spatial experience along with resource and utilitarian efficiency. 

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Every space has physical force as its integral part which manifests through material, geometry and structure. This studio tries to enable us to use these forces to achieve the intended experience and behavior through designed speciality. Crafting of material geometry and structure to arrive at an experience intent. This course enables us to develop a systemic and material response for specific spatial engagements. The key objective of the course is to enable us to understand relationships between systems/materials and life (behavior, experience, and relationships) via the idea of space. The module explores communitarian, artisanal, exploratory, and temporal dimensions in the process of design thinking and building making. The materiality and system that are the derivatives of form and spatial experience of the space at the same time requires thermal and visual comfort to the users. The climatic response here hence becomes inherent to the design process.