Challenging 'The Type'

The project focused on exploring one's stance on adaptation, in this case 'Challenging the Typological Approach' in adaptation. Borrowing from the first 2 design interventions, ‘Building Without a Type’ is an integration of relevant design strategies that helps to question the ‘type’ of building by blurring the disjunctions between the following 3 - ‘the existing’ and ‘the new’, ‘the functional specificity’ of a building and ‘the built’ and ‘the landscape.’ The biggest advantage the building itself allows the designer in this case is the existing grid, which, a relic of its history can usher in the new through future narratives and users, allow multiple functions to coexist under the same roof and mimic the organic and regenerative nature that a landscape provides.