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UG - BARCH - Studio - 3 | Spring 2023 | Aquamorph : Dining Pavilion at Auroville
  • Student Ambar Agarwal
  • Code UAR20011
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Tutor/s Balaji Rajasekaran
  • TA Dixit Tank

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Aquamorph, the dining pavilion at Auroville, is a product of iterative digital computation using Grasshopper. Tailored for Auroville's communal dining habits, the pavilion features a spatial hierarchy to accommodate varying group sizes. Informed by master teachings, the design process evolved from exploring soap bubble techniques to manifesting a 1:1 scale Ferrorest furniture. The lotus pond enveloping the pavilion imparts a floating ambiance. The culmination of this academic journey was the construction of the 1:1 scale pavilion at the CEPT Workshop, exemplifying the fusion of computational design methodologies with a nuanced understanding of communal dining dynamics.Click here for full portfolio.

Acquiring knowledge from masters and contemporary gurus to comprehend the intricate interplay between form and forces.
Exploring soap bubble experiment as a technique to generate minimal surfaces
Exploring minimal surfaces through the utilization of digital computation on Grasshopper.
Ferrorest, conceived as a seating furniture, embodies a minimal surface design principle. The manifestation of this concept materialized in the form of a 1:1 prototype, wherein ferroconcrete was employed as the construction material.
Deriving a Genrative form of the Dining Pavilion, informed by learnings from previous exercises
Plan at +2400 mm
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The pavilion's ethereal light quality, enhanced by its floating ambiance and lotus pond embrace, transcends physical boundaries, creating an immersive dining experience that seamlessly merges architectural precision with a sublime play of light and space.
Exploded Isometric View with Shell Analysis
1:1 Dining Pavilion at CEPT Workshop in ferroconcrete