Renewal-Zone：孟加拉文艺复兴发源地旧宅的适应性演绎︱Arthshila文化综合体
与罗宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔有着紧密的联系，桑蒂尼盖坦成为了孟加拉文艺复兴的发源地，这里的红土和空气都透露出音乐、艺术和文化的气息。受这种独特环境的影响，这里演变成为在文化和遗产方面与孟加拉不同民族群体都有着深层次共鸣的自然中心。坐落于此的Arthshila，是首个集工作室、展览空间以及室内和室外艺术画廊于一体的文化综合体。
一位建筑师22岁时在他的教授的帮助下，构建了一座带有混凝土斜坡屋顶的住宅楼。数十年之后，Takshila教育协会的创始人委托ADS将3BHK住宅改造成文化中心，原有的梦想得以延续。对于任何建筑师来说，将不同的功能纳入同一建筑地块无疑是一个独特的梦想。
设计采取了简约的策略，为了保留原住宅楼的轮廓，在建筑的同一坡面上进行扩建，同时以此为开放广场营造出精美的遮阳装置，使其免受酷暑阳光和持续季风雨的侵害。延伸出的屋顶具有双重功能，成为诠释空间语言的特色设施，并为建筑增添了文化体量：将一个简陋的住宅变成了一个供公众聚集的宏伟展馆。
底层的室内房间被改造成画廊，而顶层的房间和露台被改造成为图书馆、画廊和客房。
为了致敬周围的环境，项目在扩建后复原了场地的所有成树。屋顶被扩建加高，通过天窗引入自然光线并投射出长长的阴影。
屋顶上的赤土砖和 MS结构是项目的主要元素。室内地面铺以磐多魔材料，室外是黑色Kadappa 石材地面。
外部景观也融入了建筑之中，多功能草坪成为了用作展览的“雕塑庭院”。周边还设有食品售卖点和户外座位，可以用作表演空间或作为参加活动的观众坐席。室内外并置的座位通过趣味布局，营造出一个柔性的界限。
通过这种微妙的设计干预，设计试图只调整旧建筑的尺度，保留了建筑原有的魅力和本质，使其成为一个高度灵活的空间，在任何特定时间容纳更多使用可能。
作为公共论坛，现在Arthshila成为了桑蒂尼盖坦文化活动的重要组成部分。项目将一栋古老住宅改造成一个文化中心，不仅融入了柔美的乡村景观，同时致敬了该地区独特的建筑遗产。项目是对于“适应性改造”的典型演绎。
Santiniketan is the cradle of the Bengali Renaissance, primarily because of its close ties with Rabindranath Tagore. This is the place where the red soil and the air breathes music, art, and, culture. Inspired by this unique setting, a center amidst nature emerges as a cusp of culture and heritage which resonates with Bengal’s ethnicity in a different spectrum. Arthshila is a first-of-its-kind confluence of workshops, exhibition spaces, as well as indoor and outdoor art galleries.
A 22-year-old architect, with the help of his professor, sketched a vision of a residential building with a sloped concrete roof. Decades after, when the founder of Takshila, an Educational Society, approached ADS to restructure a 3BHK residence into a cultural epicenter, it was a dream that came true. Definitely, it is a unique dream for any architect to subsume a different function onto the same building footprint.
The strategy taken was simple: to retain the profile of the old residence, an additional extension to the same slope of the house is introduced. This creates an elaborate shading device for the open plaza to protect it from the harsh summer sun and torrential incessant monsoon rain. The extended roof serves a dual purpose by also becoming the unique feature that narrates the language of the space and adds a cultural scale to the building – it transforms a humble home into a grand pavilion for public gathering.
The internal rooms in the Ground Floor are converted into galleries while the top floor rooms and terraces witness their transformation into a library, a gallery, and guest rooms.
To pay homage to the immediate surroundings, this project after extension has restored all the existing full-grown trees and yet navigates the roof for a higher extension to cast long shadows & bring light through the skylight.
Terracotta tiles on the roof and MS structure are the primary elements of this project. Pandomo flooring is seen in the interior whereas the exterior is cladded with black Kadappa stone.
The exterior landscape becomes a part of the building as it is used as a "sculpture court" – a multipurpose lawn to showcase displays. The peripheries also accommodate a pantry and outdoor seating which can be repurposed as a performance space or as seating for the audience that attends an event held in the AV Room. A soft threshold has been established through the playful arrangement of seating blocks that sits at the juxtaposition of the indoor and the outdoor.
With such subtle design interventions throughout, it is attempted to only tweak the scale of the previous house into a space that accommodates more users at any given time, without losing the charm and essence of a home when one enters the space.
Today, Arthshila acts as Santiniketan's vital part of cultural activity since it acts as public forum. It is that one project in which a redo of an age old residence is transformed into a center that was born from a desire to fit into the soft rural landscape and pay homage to the site's unique architecture. This is an exemplary rendition of a true "Adaptation".
Project Name: Arthshila – a Cultural adaptation Re-using private infrastructure
Office Name: Abin Design Studio
Office Website: http://www.abindesignstudio.com/
Social Media Accounts: https://www.instagram.com/abindesignstudio/?hl=en
Lead Architects: Subhasish Dey
Design Team: Abin Chaudhuri, Subhasish Dey, Mayank Nigam, Sreemoyee Ray, Rukmini Mukherjee
Completion Year: 2022
Gross Built Area (m2/ ft2): 425 sqm
Project Location: Shyambati.Santiniketan, Bolpur, West Bengal 731235
Program / Use / Building Function: Educational
Photographer: Niveditaa Gupta
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