CitySpinning » bamboo http://cityspinning.org Temporary Architecture Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:11:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ the second prototype for CANOPY@ChandniChowk http://cityspinning.org/2008/12/the-second-prototype-for-caopy-chandni-chowk/ http://cityspinning.org/2008/12/the-second-prototype-for-caopy-chandni-chowk/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:52:36 +0000 Prayas Abhinav http://cityspinning.org/?p=583 Across the last few days I made a second prototype of the CANOPY@ChandniChowk with the help of Ajay Mayekar, Dhaval Shellugar and Rutwik Sath, who are architects from Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi, the school of architecture in Mumbai.

Vaibhav Kaley, Vir Singh…

]]> Across the last few days I made a second prototype of the CANOPY@ChandniChowk with the help of Ajay Mayekar, Dhaval Shellugar and Rutwik Sath, who are architects from Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi, the school of architecture in Mumbai.

Vaibhav Kaley, Vir Singh and Gaurav gave very valuable inputs for the design of the second prototype.

How it differs from the first prototype:
1) It is self-supporting structure and doesn’t need to be grouted in the ground (i.e. you don’t need to dig the earth)
2) it uses bolts for all the major structural joints and not ropes and so is muh more stable and sturdy
3) It is much more lighter and cost-effective/cheaper
4) It can take the load of at least two-three children who climb the first level to water the plants hanging from the second level

Some photographs of the new structure:

The initial drawing drafted by Ajay and Ritwik after our first discussion:

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2008/12/the-second-prototype-for-caopy-chandni-chowk/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/in/ the first prototype for CANOPY@ChandniChowk http://cityspinning.org/2008/11/prototype-for-canopy-chandni-chowk/ http://cityspinning.org/2008/11/prototype-for-canopy-chandni-chowk/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:43:27 +0000 Prayas Abhinav http://cityspinning.org/?p=542 Last week, before leaving for Delhi, I made and tested a prototype of the first canopy in Bangalore. I designed this with Kiran Kakde’s help. Kiran is Rashmi Kakde’s brother who lives and works in Dubai.

It was made by Nizamuddin…

]]> Last week, before leaving for Delhi, I made and tested a prototype of the first canopy in Bangalore. I designed this with Kiran Kakde’s help. Kiran is Rashmi Kakde’s brother who lives and works in Dubai.

It was made by Nizamuddin and his colleagues from Bamboo Bazar in Bangalore.

A labeled picture of the prototype.

This canopy will:

  1. offer a few tea shops shade and cover from rain
  2. offer street children in the vicinity space to grow vegetables and mushrooms
  3. offer incentives to the tea-shop owner to be friendly with the children and encourage them to use the space
  4. (maybe) have a LIVE solar mobile charging station
  5. (maybe) have a fog collection utility for local water production

This design/prototype has already been evolving into something else with feedback from a lot of children and friends.

Next post: drawings and brainstorm transcripts for the next prototype.

More picures:

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