System ontologies
SITE LOCATION: The chosen site is located in Mithaghar, Mulund East, Mumbai.
CLIMATE: Tropical wet and dry climate.
Google Image of the site
Digital context plan of the site
Zoomed in site plan
Reference plan
Site section
About Mithaghar:
Labelled context plan (zoomed in)
Site:- The location of the site is Mithaghar, an area that lies in the Eastern Mulund. It has a historic settlement of the people who used to work in the nearby salt creeks, now known as the Airoli- Vikroli creeks. The hatched area that covers major space in the context plan are the open spaces which are marshlands and vegetation. These lands get flooded during the monsoon season and don't have much accessibility for people to explore it just very very narrow roads (Kaccha rasta) that connects the settlements internally.
The site is adjacent to a Government school, a public garden and a settlement of native Agris are encircled in the vicinity. The site is a barren ground with an area of 1900 sqm.. The southern side of the ground has a large pond, which is used during Ganpati Visarjan by the local people. All these factors helped us to shape our program for this library
Program:
The program is to provide an information centre, providing information about the History of the Mithaghar region and salt curing occupation. Providing an episodic space (which will be temporary), it will change according to the events which are mainly influenced by the lifestyle of locals. This temporary part can become a skillshare centre where people can come discuss and share their skills and knowledge, a system shaped by the natural flows of the people in and out of the site and its surrounding context(the lake, Agari settlements, school, Mithaghar garden)
Design Process:
To design the structure we went with the logic of portal frames. Portal frames are strong and can have wide spans. Our intent was a 15-meter span.
The process started off by trying different orientations and positions of the portal frames that can shape the space.
Starting off with parallel we slowly started deviating the focal point of the roof ridge along the length. By doing so it created a continuous chunk-like structure, which could be much better in terms of ventilation.