Pearl Academy of Fashion
Summary
TLDRThe script discusses the innovative design of a building in Jaipur, India, emphasizing its environmental sustainability within a harsh climate. The architects faced budget constraints but saw an opportunity for creativity, drawing inspiration from historic, naturally sustainable structures. They utilized a simple rectangular shape, internal courtyards for sun control, thermal insulation with 'butter casa', and a traditional step well to harness geothermal cooling. The building also features a 'jolly', a shading screen allowing natural light while blocking direct sun. The result is a green, sustainable building that relies minimally on artificial lighting or air conditioning, challenging the myth that green design must be costly.
Takeaways
- 🏛️ The building in Jaipur is a radical piece of design due to its location and the city's rich cultural and historical background in architecture.
- 🌡️ Jaipur's climate is extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 2 degrees in winter to 50 degrees in summer, presenting a significant design challenge.
- 💰 The project had a tight budget, which was seen as an opportunity for innovation rather than a limitation.
- 🌳 The focus was on environmentally sustainable design, inspired by historic buildings that were naturally sustainable due to lack of choice.
- 🔆 The building's simple rectangular shape and internal courtyard were designed to maximize natural light and minimize heat gain.
- ☀️ The orientation of the courtyards was strategic to block the sun for most of the year, allowing sunlight only during the winter months.
- 🏺 An old strategy of using inverted clay pots for thermal insulation was employed to protect the roof surface.
- 🌡️ The concept of a 'step well' was utilized to harness the earth's stable temperature for cooling the building naturally.
- 🌞 The 'Jaali' screen was used as a second skin to the building, providing shade while allowing filtered light for natural illumination.
- 🌿 The building's design achieved a high level of sustainability, reducing reliance on artificial lighting and air conditioning for 80-90% of the time.
- 💡 The speaker emphasizes that true green design is not just environmentally adaptive but also financially adaptive, challenging the myth that green design is more expensive.
Q & A
What is the significance of the Cadmium Fashion building in terms of architectural design?
-The Cadmium Fashion building is significant as a radical piece of design not only for its iconic standalone structure but also for its roots in Jaipur, a city with a rich cultural and historical background that has greatly influenced the evolution of architecture in India.
How does the climate in Jaipur impact the architectural design of the Cadmium Fashion building?
-The harsh climate of Jaipur, with temperatures ranging from two degrees in winter to fifty degrees in summer, posed a significant challenge for the design team, leading to innovative solutions for air conditioning and power supply to ensure the building's sustainability.
What was the primary reason for taking on the Cadmium Fashion project despite the budget constraints?
-The primary reason for taking on the project was the opportunity for innovation. The team saw it as a chance to explore environmentally sustainable solutions, drawing inspiration from historic buildings and developments from periods when sustainability was a necessity rather than a choice.
What was the initial shape chosen for the Cadmium Fashion building and why?
-The initial shape chosen was a simple rectangle, inspired by the idea of a fort, to create a screen from the industrial surroundings and to utilize the concept of internal courtyards for environmental benefits.
How does the orientation of the Sun influence the design of the courtyards in the Cadmium Fashion building?
-The courtyards were shaped to take advantage of the Sun's orientation, allowing the building to cut off the Sun for about ten months of the year and only allow sunlight through during the winter months, thus naturally regulating the temperature.
What traditional strategy was used for thermal insulation in the Cadmium Fashion building?
-An old strategy of using 'butter casa' or inverted clay pots was used for thermal insulation. These pots were placed over the turrets to create an air cavity, which acts as an excellent insulator to protect the roof surface.
How does the step well in the Cadmium Fashion building contribute to its sustainability?
-The step well, derived from traditional principles, was used to waste rainwater and recycle it from the average underground temperature, which is equivalent to the average room temperature in Jaipur. This system helps to cool the building naturally during the summer and warm it during the winter.
What is the role of the 'Jolly' in the external design of the Cadmium Fashion building?
-The 'Jolly' acts as a second skin to the building, providing shading while allowing filtered light to pass through. It contributes to natural daylighting from both the outside and inside, while keeping the harsh sunlight abstracted from the building.
How does the Cadmium Fashion building achieve natural cooling and heating without relying on artificial systems?
-The building achieves natural cooling and heating through a combination of strategies including the use of courtyards, thermal insulation with clay pots, and the step well system, which together provide a naturally cool environment in summer and a warm one in winter.
What misconception about green design does the Cadmium Fashion building help to dispel?
-The building helps to dispel the misconception that green design is an added-on, expensive layer. It demonstrates that being environmentally sustainable can also be financially adaptive and integral to the design process.
What is the significance of the Cadmium Fashion building's approach to sustainability in the context of modern architecture?
-The Cadmium Fashion building's approach signifies a shift towards integrating sustainability as a fundamental aspect of design, rather than a separate, optional feature, thus challenging the traditional myths about green design.
Outlines
🏛️ Sustainable Architecture in Jaipur
The script discusses the innovative approach to designing a building in Jaipur, India, that is both culturally rooted and environmentally sustainable. The challenge was to create an iconic building within a tight budget in a region with extreme climate conditions. The architect's strategy included drawing inspiration from historical buildings that were naturally sustainable due to the lack of modern resources. The building design incorporates a simple rectangular shape with a courtyard to regulate sunlight exposure, thermal insulation using traditional materials like 'but casa' pots, and the use of geothermal energy by creating a step well to harness the earth's constant temperature. Additionally, the building utilizes a 'Jaali' screen for natural light and shading, minimizing the need for artificial lighting and air conditioning.
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The second paragraph of the script is incomplete, containing only the word 'Oh,' which suggests a pause or an unfinished thought. There is no substantial content to summarize in this paragraph.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Cadmium Fashion
💡Jaipur
💡Historical Implications
💡Climate
💡Budget
💡Innovation
💡Environmental Sustainability
💡Fort
💡Courtyards
💡Thermal Insulation
💡Step Well
💡Jaali
💡Financial Adaptability
💡Green Design
Highlights
Cadmium Fashion is a radical piece of design rooted in Jaipur's cultural and historical architecture.
Jaipur's climate is extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from two degrees in winter to fifty degrees in summer.
The project faced a significant budget constraint, which was a primary reason for taking it on due to the opportunity for innovation.
The project aimed to be environmentally sustainable, inspired by historic buildings and developments.
A simple rectangular shape was chosen for the building, inspired by the idea of a fort.
Internal courtyards were designed to cut off the Sun for most of the year, allowing sunlight only in winter months.
Thermal insulation was achieved using an old strategy of inverting clay pots to create an air cavity.
The building utilizes the constant temperature of the earth below the surface for natural cooling and heating.
A step well was created to recycle rainwater and maintain water bodies, contributing to natural cooling.
The building's design allows for natural cooling through air movement from the underbelly during summer and warmth in winter.
The Jolly, a screen acting as a second skin, shades the building while allowing filtered light for natural lighting.
The building achieves 80-90% of its time without relying on artificial lighting or air conditioning.
The building is designed to be financially adaptive, making sustainability integral to the design process.
The project challenges the myth that green design must be expensive, integrating sustainability into the design process.
Transcripts
well cadmium fashion as a radical piece
of design not simply because it's a
individual iconic standalone building
but simply because of where it is rooted
and where it is rooted as the city of
Jaipur and as we all know Jaipur has a
tremendous history in terms of its
cultural and historical implications on
the evolution of architecture in India
but in addition to that heritage it's
also an extremely harsh climate a
climate with temperatures ranging from
two degrees in winters to fifty degrees
in summer our biggest challenge was a
budget we didn't think it was doable but
having said that that was the primary
reason why we took it on because here
was an opportunity for innovation as it
turned out the most resource dependent
area was a conditioning and power supply
the only means available to us was to go
and investigate into buildings and
developments from historic periods
projects that were build several hundred
years back when naturally
environmentally sustainable not because
they were trying to save the planet
simply bill didn't have a choice
all we really did was take 10 steps bank
to take up one step forward and that's
where the idea of saying fine everything
in this project will be underlined by
being environmentally sustainable
so we started off with a very simple
shape which is a simple rectangle
perimeter and the idea again was to use
the idea of a fort because we're in an
industrial area we want to do screen of
the surroundings once we had this
perimeter we carved out the internal
courtyard from this building and the
courtyards were shaped given the
orientation of the Sun which allows the
building to cut off the Sun for about
ten months of the year and only allow it
through in the one or two winter winter
months that we get
third strategy that we adopted was to
thermally insulated and with which we
did with a very very old strategy of
using but casa other than wave pots
inverting them and keeping them all over
the turrets which provides the air
cavity and air is a great insulator
which helps protect the roof surface we
had to do something more and then the
something MOCA that came to us was that
the temperature of the earth three
metres below the surface is equivalent
to the average temperature of the
Prophet space so in Jaipur that would be
about 27 28 degrees Celsius so we
scooped out the underbelly created a
step well again deriving from
traditional principles how wasted the
rainwater and recycle the water from
this average and use that to keep the
water bodies fed through the year so
that we get air coming through the
building from the from the underbelly
cooling on the step 12 and rising and
cooling the building from the inside and
that strategy proved extremely
successful because basements are
naturally cool through the summer months
and naturally warm to the winter months
but we then turned to the external
perimeter and relied antenna on the
Jolly the Jolly is a basically a screen
which acts as a second skin to the
building shading the building itself but
allowing filtered light to come through
sense providing day lighting from the
outside as well as the quartet's wiring
day lighting from the inside yet keeping
the Sun completely abstract from the
building all five elements put together
absolutely created a wonder we managed
for about 80 to 90 percent of the time
to get a building which would not rely
on artificial lighting or on air
conditioning which was a superb a
building is truly green is truly
sustainable not only if it's
environmentally adaptive but if it is
also financially adaptive if it is
cheaper to build it is not an added on
layer it is integral to the process of
design and that I think is a fundamental
myth of green design that needs to be
shattered and I think the pollak admir
fashion has gone a long way in doing
that
Oh
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