Concept
Charles Correa creates Kanchanjunga in one way that the building deals with the problem and the advantages of the plot the building is placed on.
East-west orientation because than you have a nice view on the Arabic sea and the harbor. But this orientation gives also problems. An east-west orientation in India means that you have to deal with the heavy monsoon and the incoming sun.
To solve this problem Charles Correa works with a kind of verandas, referring to an old tradition in the Indian typology, Using as kind of a buffer around the main living areas.
Of course, this is a nice visible solution. It makes the building ideal for the plot, for a specific place. Although I have some doubts that with this veranda you have found the solution to deal with all this problems.
This is the aspect, adapting a building to a site, make the ideal building for a site, I would like to usedto make a research.
The first idea, because the Kanchanjunga apartments are very static, is to make a building that moves, like a sunflower that follows 24 hours the sun, to have always the ideal position towards the sun.
I make some pictures how I think a building could move, using a very flexible material that can always return to his original form.
I went looking further to the sun path of Mumbai, sun diagram, the rainfall, the wind direction because there are very important issues when you want to make an ideal building that fit to his plot.
By thinking of that, I thought that maybe the building should not move, but should have the intension that it moves. So I start working on the façade, with the influences of the sun and the wind of the façade. But then, you get a quite formal façade and very difficult to handle it, and control the façade.
I just switched this façade to the inside when I was thinking about with kind of material I could use.
First I was thinking about rubber bands( they are very flexible and always return in a position) but very soon I start working about foam.
The nice thing about foam is that in the beginning you use a little bit foam, and then it start to transform, to blow up, to become bigger and bigger. It is going to adapt to the box, the model it is put in, and is going to find his own way. At the end you get a strong end result/material that has a different texture inside and outside. Soft inside, strong outside.
But it also adapt itself to an ideal position of is environment.
So, that why is switched the façade inside, an blow the foam in the model instead than in the verandas.
Im now at the point that I have to decide, will it be a always transforming process, so that the building is really movable, like il ciravelo, or should it be a very static building, that have the intention to move, or like the foam, adapt to the environment, go from a flexible building to a static building, and during this process will become the ideal building for the plot and his environment. But then losing some of the idea of adapting to the weather conditions.
19-03-2008 om 16:40
geschreven door tomaz 
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