Student Work
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Title
Architecture of Transition
Project Description
The Bengali landscape is one of transition, changing from an agricultural field to a cyclone-threatened land in a matter of hours. Because of its unstill state, the architecture built requires stability in its structure, and culturally for its people who use these buildings at the scale of the domestic to the scale of an institution. The proposal is a cyclone-shelter, clinic, and agricultural facility that shifts programmatically as locals need, within a radially distributed plan with modular spaces. Centered around a water reservoir alike to its vernacular, the architecture shields this resource with layers of programs that evolve from hyperspecific to un-; where these spaces interact are a series of lightwells and water-collectors. The project reads as ambiguous, neither interior or exterior, on purpose, instead reimagining the buildings that stand against cyclones and what it means to shelter.