Micro-climates

Sapna Chopda + Vedija Thakre

The site we were studying was the area inside and outside the Moti Daman fort, Daman. The zone inside the fort wall has all the Administrative buildings, old ruins and residential buildings. While the zone outside the fort holds a defined promenade that forms a barrier between beach and the commercial patch of Daman. The commercial patch holds series of cafe and eateries. This edge also have a historic lighthouse.

Site observations

Existing site condition

Heat map and sun path diagram

Movement Diagram

Wind Diagram

Changing of surfaces and their temperature and we move inside the fort

Arguementive drawing and question

The Moti Daman fort area experiences two different micro-climatic zones that change the human interaction with the space. The landscape and the environmental conditions inside and outside the Moti Daman fort are affecting the micro-environment in the respective zones. The Moti Daman Beach has a well-defined promenade, concrete road, and lesser vegetation. While moving inside the fort the Administrative offices and the residentials are all surrounded by dense vegetation and a well-maintained garden. The wind flowing from the sea to the fort wall and inside the fort wall changes in temperature. The surface temperature in the zones changes with the material. Experiencing this shift in ecologies in and outside the fort affects human life and habitation outside the fort. How can an intervention brings out this micro-climatic condition outside the fort and merges the experience of the zone and hence increase the human interaction in uninhabited space?