LOCATION: Bhogpur, 30 kms from Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

SITE ANALYSIS:

Climate: Subtropical climate. Up to 40 degrees during summer

and below 5 degrees during winters.

Rainfall: 1285mm per annum

Accessibility: 6 kms away from Dehradun airport.

Terrain: Fragile terrain, built on the foothills of the Himalayas.

Geographic features: Good range of viewpoints of the mighty
Himalayas. Soil type: Brown forest soil.

INTRODUCTION:

The Ganga maki studio is a collaborative project which is undertaken by the maki studio

from japan and commissioned to one of India's leading architecture firms’ studio Mumbai. The project is an innovative
combination of traditional craft and local materials.

The complex took 4 years to complete. It was designed by the architect Bijon Jain and his team, the time was taken to
innovatively and carefully combine different natural materials to produce a finely textured, functioning facility.

Architect: Bijoy Jain

Firm: Studio mumbai, Maki studio,

Japan

Project size: 1300 square meters

Completion

date: July 2016

Sumptuously lit, earthy and comfortable, the studios accommodate weavers who sit
at their looms in the central mostly men, sky-lit area. Women who knit, stitch and spin
yarns cosily use the raised workspaces.

INFERENCE:


An innovative combination of traditional craft and local materials propels us to rethink how craft is understood.

The design of studio shows how to incorporate both weavers and the designers at a same place by giving importance to
both.

This project says that virtue is gained not because of impressive array of natural materials, nor because it was handmade.
The value is gained because of how the materials are used in keeping with their intrinsic character and the purpose.

Famous architect Peter Zumthor said that ‘materials in themselves are not poetic, they can assume a poetic quality only if
an architect is able to generate a meaningful situation for

them.’ The remarks resonates with the current project.

Diffused light is used in the studios. Innovative roof techniques can be seen in the

MATERIALS USED:
project.

Locally available materials are innovatively used for the construction. The main spaces are made of bricks, finished with Courtyard spaces are centred to give inclusive feeling to the people working in the

lime, and are covered by asbestos free cement sheet roofs, and paved with stone floors. Adjacent working areas have studios. Dyeing unit is placed separately to avoid fumes and heating.

lime floors and stone slab roofs.

GANGA MAKI STUDIO, UTTARAKHAND

NAME: NEELAMBIKA S

USN: 1MS19AT033

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