Bouches d’Ahmedabad
Thematic Exploration 1:200@A2
A Subway Water Infrastructure Shahpur Metro Station An Exemplar Metro Station for Ahmedabad Metro
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Bouches d'Ahmedabad contemplates architecture and its devices as the mouths of Ahmedabad. This design thesis investigates the culture of circulation in water, sewage and people in the city. It proposes an architecture that alleviates and responses to the temporal wetness in terms of the daily usage of water and the seasonal natural water distribution in this city of dust.
The design thesis researches the accommodation of the local water cycle by codifying architecture as a sophisticated living organism and drawing inspirations from anatomy where consumption, digestion, absorption, detoxification, and excretion are referenced under close examination. One goal that directs the design decisions of the thesis is the flourish of life in the architecture. This flourish is indicated by how well the plants and the people, both carrying elements of water, would prosper and be enhanced by the architecture.
The proposed architecture breathes, filtrates, and blows life into the city by reconciling the water body with an embedded water infrastructure through the heavy-rail metro network. While it is a challenge to express the drama behind a water infrastructure, the architecture manifests its purposes as a cavity that not only swallow and vomit passengers, but also renew much desired water and nourish plants, which are signature of each station, to scatter residues of garden across the city.
As the embodiment of a water treatment plant, an urban oasis (gardens) and a transport hub, the design finds its form as a porous structure which screens, permeates and repatriates water elements in the atmosphere of Ahmedabad.