Design Brief | The Drawing Board 2024
Summary
TLDRThe ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition by Mindspace Architects focuses on Madurai's historic Paton Lane, known for its 10 granite pillars. The challenge is to redesign the surrounding buildings to integrate the 400-year-old pillars into the city's fabric, while maintaining the street's silk industry heritage. The aim is to create a heritage walk connecting the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace, enhancing the area's historical significance and urban experience.
Takeaways
- 🏆 The event is the ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition sponsored by Rohan Baders.
- 🎨 Sanjay Mohe is an architect from Mindspace and he is presenting the competition.
- 📍 The competition's chosen site is in Madurai, between the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace.
- 🏛 The site features a row of 10 columns, which are remnants of a palace and are historically significant.
- 🕰 The columns were constructed around 1600, making them approximately 400 years old.
- 🌟 The columns create a unique experience, reminiscent of the Luxor Temple in Egypt, transporting visitors beyond the 4-meter-wide street.
- 🏡 The columns are surrounded by houses and shops, many of which are related to the silk industry.
- 🔍 The challenge is to liberate the columns from their current trapped state and create an open space while maintaining the historical context.
- 🛠 The design brief involves redesigning the buildings along the 10 Pillar Street to integrate the columns into the city fabric.
- 🚶♂️ The aim is to create a Heritage walk connecting the palace and the temple, highlighting the grandeur of the columns.
- 📝 The competition encourages participants to explore different solutions and come up with innovative designs for the site.
Q & A
What is the ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition about?
-The ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition is an architectural challenge sponsored by Rohan Baders, focusing on the site in Madurai, between the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace.
Why was the site in Madurai chosen for the competition?
-The site in Madurai was chosen due to its historical significance, the presence of the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace, and the unique experience of the 10 columns in a narrow lane that evoke a sense of discovery and transport visitors to a different time.
What is the historical significance of the 10 columns in Madurai?
-The 10 columns were constructed around 1600, almost 400 years ago, and are remnants of the palace that survived after the Kingdom's headquarters moved to Trichy.
What is the current state of the 10 Pillar Street?
-The 10 Pillar Street is densely populated with buildings on small plots, typically ground plus two structures, with retail establishments on the ground floor and residences above.
What is the design brief for the competition?
-The design brief is to redesign the buildings indicated in blue hatch along the 10 Pillar Street, making the 10 pillars an integral part of the city fabric while retaining the rest of the structures as they are.
What are the architectural constraints for the redesign?
-The redesign must ensure that the ground coverage is 50% with an FSI of 1 and 1/2, and the height cannot exceed 12 meters. The ground floor should predominantly feature public activities related to silk weaving or retail.
How does the competition aim to enhance the heritage of the site?
-The competition aims to create a Heritage walk connecting the palace and the temple, giving extra importance to the 10 columns and integrating them into the city's fabric.
What is the significance of the emboss Shivlingam sculpture on one of the pillars?
-The emboss Shivlingam sculpture with a niche for lighting lamps is a unique feature of one of the pillars, adding to the historical and cultural significance of the site.
What is the expected outcome of the competition for the 10 Pillar Street?
-The expected outcome is to create an open space around the pillars, liberating them from the trapped feeling, and enhancing the ambience while maintaining the relationship between the old silk shops and the historical columns.
How does the competition site relate to the broader context of Madurai's heritage?
-The competition site is part of the broader heritage context of Madurai, connecting two significant monuments, the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace, and aiming to highlight the importance of the 10 Pillar Street within the city's history.
What is the role of the public in the redesigned space?
-The public plays a crucial role in the redesigned space, as the ground floor is expected to feature public activities that emphasize silk weaving or retail, making the space vibrant and integral to the community.
Outlines
🏛️ Rediscovering Madurai's Architectural Treasures
Sanjay Mohe, an architect from Mindspace, introduces the ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition, sponsored by Rohan Badhe. The competition's chosen site is in Madurai, between the Minakshi Temple and the Thirumalai Nayakar Palace. Sanjay describes the site's historical significance and the experience of discovering the 10 columns, which were constructed around 1600. He emphasizes the challenge of integrating the columns into the modern city fabric while preserving their historical context and the surrounding silk industry. The goal is to create an open space that liberates the columns and enhances their grandeur, potentially by developing a Heritage walk that connects the two monuments.
🏰 The 10 Pillar Street: A Historical and Design Challenge
Sha from Mindspace Architects provides a detailed overview of the Drawing Board competition site in Madurai, known as the Paton Lane or the 10 Pillar Street. The street is historically significant, being part of the Swara Vasam Palace, now the Thirumalai Nayak Mahal. The 10 granite pillars, remnants of the palace, stand along a 4-meter-wide street, surrounded by buildings with retail establishments on the ground floor and residences above. The design brief for the competition is to redesign the indicated buildings to integrate the pillars into the city's heritage fabric, while retaining the existing structures and their connection to the silk industry. The challenge includes creating public spaces that emphasize silk weaving and retail, with specific building regulations such as a 50% ground coverage, an FSI of 1 and 1/2, and a maximum height of 12 meters. The aim is to make the pillars a focal point of a Heritage walk connecting the palace and the temple, inviting participants to explore innovative solutions.
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Keywords
💡Sanjay Mohanty
💡Drawing Board Competition
💡Madurai
💡Meenakshi Temple
💡Thirumalai Nayakar Palace
💡10 Pillar Street
💡Heritage Walk
💡Silk Industry
💡Architectural Heritage
💡Design Brief
💡Public Activity
Highlights
Sanjay Mohe, an architect from Mindspace, introduces the ninth edition of the Drawing Board competition sponsored by Rohan Badlani.
The competition has seen an increasing number of participants, making it more exciting each year.
This year's competition site is in Madurai, between the Minakshi Temple and Thirumalai Nayakar Palace.
The site features a row of 10 columns that create a surprising and fairy-tale-like experience.
The columns, constructed around 1600, evoke a sense of history and imagination about the space's past.
The incompleteness of the site invites participants to imagine how to complete the picture.
The columns are surrounded by houses and shops, many of which are related to the silk industry.
The challenge is to create an open space around the columns while maintaining the historical and cultural context.
The goal is to liberate the columns and create an ambiance that respects the old silk shops' relationship with the columns.
The competition seeks to make the columns a part of the city fabric through a Heritage walk connecting the palace and the temple.
The design brief involves redesigning buildings along the 10 Pillar Street to integrate the pillars into the city's heritage.
The street is named after the 10 granite pillars that are remnants of the Swara Vasam Palace.
The pillars stand 12 meters high with a circumference of 1.2 meters, featuring an emboss Shivlingam sculpture on one.
The design challenge includes maintaining the ground floor for public activities related to silk weaving or retail.
The competition encourages participants to explore various solutions and create innovative designs.
The organizers express excitement about the potential of the small space to inspire creative and impactful designs.
The competition has a history of inspiring students to come up with amazing solutions over the past 8 years.
Sha from Mindspace Architects provides a detailed explanation of the competition site and design brief.
Transcripts
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I'm Sanjay Mo architect from mindspace
uh this is the ninth edition of the
drawing board competition sponsored by
Rohan baders we have been getting
amazing response there have been so many
participations and every year it is
becoming more and more exciting more
participation so this year we have
chosen this site in madurai the site is
between these two exciting monuments one
is minakshi Temple which all of you know
about and then there is one Palace which
is called tal nayakar Palace when I
visited that site for the first time it
was quite amazing you walk through these
very narrow lanes and you encounter
these huge 10 columns in one row
something which you don't expect you
know it's like a fairy tale where a boy
gets lost and suddenly opens a door and
find something you know treasure within
that room this is almost like that you
know disc discover a treasure on that
street I had been to this luxa temple in
Egypt almost 40 years back and uh in the
afternoon I was alone in that you know
looking through these columns and when I
saw this which is hardly a 4 M wide
space this is almost like a metaphor you
know where you see those columns and you
imagine yourself to be in that luxur
Temple it really transports you there
and till the time somebody on the bike
honks and then you suddenly look up and
say oh I am in this space so so it
creates that amazing kind of experience
uh of transporting you beyond that 4 M
wide Street into something much more
Divine much more uh you know powerful so
that's what something which made us
choose this site secondly these columns
were constructed in about, 1600 so
almost like 400 years back so the moment
you see this the history gets triggered
you start imagining how that space must
have been how what kind of context would
have been there the third thing is the
incompleteness of that you just see the
columns and nothing else and then you
start imagining how do you complete this
picture and each one of us you know
complete try to imagine it in mind and
complete in so many different ways and
that's what creates that very powerful
kind of situation these columns are
surrounded by houses and shops on either
side it was supposed to be a silk tread
which used to happen there historically
so most of the shops are connected with
the silk industry we would like to sort
of retain that relationship as well
right now those columns feel absolutely
trapped between that space those houses
and they're almost asking to be
liberated asking for that some open
place around so how do we create that
how do you create that openness uh you
know release them and uh you know create
that kind of Ambience yet keep that
relationship between that old Silk you
know shops and those columns the history
the the connections and all that is one
of the biggest challenges that uh we
have to tackle one of the things what we
were looking at that this is such an
important Monument but somehow it
doesn't get noticed so when you create
this Heritage walk between these two
monuments can the Heritage walk go
through this space covering these 10
columns and you create a pause point in
that process of that Heritage block and
give extra importance to that so we have
done some exercise to to see how many
shops could be removed how many to be
retained and within that fabric you have
to create that experience
where you actually
admire um you know the presence of that
grandure and that's the skill that's the
challenge that you have beyond that um I
would like scha to explain um the entire
problem in detail in terms of how the
entire configuration would be I'm sha
from mindspace Architects so this year
drawing board competition site is
located in maduray this is The Paton
lane or the 10 Pillar Street which is
located to the north of the tiar nayakar
palace these pillars have a very rich
History located within the premisis of
the swara vasam palace which is now the
tumar Nayak Mahal the pon was a part of
ranga vasam built to accommodate tyal
nayak's younger brother the 10 Pillar
Street is off one of the streets which
is connecting the temple and the palace
so as one walks into this Lane they just
tumble upon this 10 pillars and one
wonders why these pillars are there what
are these pillars for these 10 pillars
are the remnants of the palace that
survived after Kingdom's headquarters
moved to trich the street which gets its
name from these pillars features a row
of 10 Granite pillars along a roughly 4
M wide thoroughfare the densely
populated buildings along the street on
small plots are typically ground plus
two uh structures ground floor has
retail establishment the upper floors
are all residences the pillars are made
from stacked round Granite Stones
standing 12 M high with a circumference
of 1.2 m one of these pillars features
an emboss shivlingam sculpture with a
niche for lighting the lamps so the
design brief is to redesign all these
buildings which are indicated in blue
hatch along the 10 Pillar Street uh this
is to make these 10 pillars a very
integral part of the city fabric the
rest of the structures have to be under
touched and have to be retained as it is
and these plots are connected with some
of these very narrow Lanes which measure
about 1 and A2 M and also there's a
courtyard in tucked in between these
plots so each of these plots the ground
coverage will be 50% with an FSI of 1
and a/2 and the height cannot exceed 12
M it can be ground plus two floor
structure and the ground floor has to be
predominantly a public activity which is
beeing or which emphasizes the silk
weaving or the retail part upper fls can
be residences so by opening up these
structures the idea is to make these
pillars a part of the Heritage walk
connecting the palace and the
temple so when we formulated this
problem um we all very excited about it
that small space has so much energy so
many possibilities and uh we want you to
really get into that find out different
solutions and come out with something
amazing the way students have been doing
it for last 8 years and coming out with
some amazing Solutions so wishing you
all the best thank you so much
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