Building Making

Pre Construction Processes

Building Making

INTRODUCTION

This course equips the students to carry out detailed development and refinement of building design through technical resolution of structural systems, material performance and experience, member assembly, threshold-enclosure details and process of construction. We aim comprehensively resolve the design from concept to actualization and generate a construction documentation set along with specifications, quantities and estimation. 

The focus of this studio project is three fold:

first to develop an ability in systems-thinking and the ability in detailing (detailing here is the act of putting together different materials and their assemblies in a manner that is conceptually coherent with the overall idea of the building); 

second to develop an ability to make construction documentation drawings that could be used for the construction of buildings; and 

third to develop ability to write specifications, generate bill of quantities and cost estimation for the project.  

SITE FORCES AND CONTEXT

In 1976, between 55,000 and 70,000 people were forcibly moved to Cheeta Camp from the Janata Colony slum by police force. The eviction of Janata Colony was to make space for the expansion of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

In 2001, the Indian Navy raised concerns that the slum was too close to an arms depot. At this time, it was estimated there were 10,000 shacks in Cheeta Colony. There were five schools, a graveyard, a crematorium and four toilet blocks were being built. As per the current estimate more than 1 Lakh people live in the Cheeta camp. The development in this area is restricted and the navy depot which reside in the north to the cheeta camp raised concerns regarding the building infrastructure's Floor levels and were limited to two floors and the ownership of the land is limited to the owner and the government can shift them as they did in 2001.