07_Ronak Dagha

This Christian shrine is located at the U-turn at Gorai Khadi, where there is the Gorai Jetty point nearby. 

The market settles around the shrine which helps the local economy and there is also a fish market behind the Ram mandir 

There is also a bus and rickshaw stand at the site as well as a local who sells coconut juice, with the market and the Gorai jetty, the entire space becomes an area of dynamic people flow where people either come to buy vegetables from the local market or to go to the Gorai jetty, so the Shrine becomes an important element of the space ; in terms of landmark and creating a space suitable for a market to settle and grow. 

Drawings :

Plan :

In the plan the crowdedness and the kind of conjuncture the market, the jetty and the mandir create in the space. As the vehicles can be seen parked on one side of the shrine and the market settling on the other side and growing into the surrounding area. 

The crowd is seen to be dense around the entrance of the jetty and the area surrounding the shrine

Elevation :

In the elevation drawing, the density of the crowd can be seen clearer. People are all around the place making the shrine a central piece around which the life there settles.

Collage :

Process drawings and models 

In these drawings i was trying to explore the idea of the stepped garden being the shrine. Also how the same stepped garden can acommodate  the parking space for the vehicles as well as a space for the vegetable vendors to settle and sell their vegetables.

The concept of the stepped garden with steps or plinths being modulated to create spaces for resting and for other activities which can fuse syntax with architectonics and as well as the spatiality was something which was interesting to me. 

I associated my design to the kind of feeling orchestral music has, orchestral music has a very crude and a very evident crescendo, which i wanted to bring into my design. 

I tried different ratios and proportions of the steps which would enhance my design and help bring out the orchestra which the structure was trying to compose and communicate. 

This design iteration was one of my crucial points in the process, as it helped me get the scale down, and allowed me to interepret what was needed to be done. 

The height of the structure was too large, it would just look enormous in the site context and not really fit in . This is also the point where i understood of the concept of bringing the symphony in to the design, the symphony was brought in by the variations of the steps; their heights and the lengths and widths. 

The vendors were still missing a roof and i had to acommodate one for them as well as a large enough space on the stepped garden itself for the people to come and rest on it. 

This is my last ideation, where the things that were missing in the design were added. Like the cantilevered steps which would by themselves act as a roof for the vendors and also be a large enough space for people to rest in. 

The shrine needs a large enough space for the people to come and rest. It acts as a thinking space, so it needs to match that criteria. 

Model :

In the last model, the ratios and proportions of the steps were making much more sense according to the design concept i had in mind, the cantilevers were also there to shade and act as a shading device. Although incomplete