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Experiencing light through wind
Khushi Bagrecha, Urmi Bhanushali
InShot_20210914_090555519.mp4Scene1
The scene shows the gliding of the plane through the clouds. The movement of air and the object that swiftly glides through the air. The phenomenon of the plane floating due the air pressure.
Scene 2
The phenomena in the scene is light passing through a intermediate surface that amplifies the dark space.. Beams of light.
Principle
Principle
The principle for apparatus was the principle of wind pressure which gave us the form of apparatus i.e. wind tunnel. The working of a wind tunnel is such that it catches the wind and channels it to a tunnel and thus its velocity increases due to the venturi effect .
Pavilion
Pavilion
The wind tunnel itself becomes the space, where wind is caught from all sides through baffled wall that is placed at the mouth of wind tunnel, when the wind collides with this wall its moves inside and the funnel with small diameter helps in increasing the air velocity which falls in space below and due to the closed form the winds start accumulating and thus in order to escape due to high pressure it moves the flap and escapes the space creating play of light due to movement of flaps . creating a sensorium for people in space .
Site
The site we chose was in Pune, taljai hills. It is a public space where a lot of people come during morning walks, jogging , yoga exercise and there are laughter clubs and many more activities . The reason for choosing this site was that firstly it was at a higher altitude and secondly it had a lot of people coming there everyday. Our place of intervention is a small clearing in the jungle at the start of the jogging track .
Site mapping
The form of the building is based on the micro climate of the site such as direction of prevailing winds , heights of trees , entry into the site , existing context etc. Also the form derived from logical formation of volumes on where to channel the wind and create pressure in a certain volume. So the space of intervention we identified was the corridor space which usually becomes stagnant spaces in the public toilet. And also these spaces are smaller in volume which helps in creating the wind pressure that is required.
Plan
Plan
Each corridor has a wind tunnel at its one end which catches the wind and channels it there and thus keeps on building the wind pressure which then escapes through the roof of corridor creating a sensorium of wind and light and makes the corridor a pleasant experience for waiting.
Section
Section
Also the toilet doesn't sit like a box on the site but rather is integrated by creating hierarchies of spaces from ramp , steps to open plinth to semi open in between space between two toilets and then the toilet spaces. Each toilet has an eye like window which lights the toilet spaces and semi open space. This brings in the dynamic as well as static nature of the light.
Structural Details
Wall detail
Opening Detail (skylight)
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