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Portfolio 20
Portfolio 20
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT
PORTFOLIO-
01
Prof : Ingrida Povilaitienė Prepared By : Gopu Pandaran Jayan
Here’s what you’ll find in this Competency Portfolio:
SUSTAINABILITY COMPASS BY
PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS OF THIS
BUUR
• Select the object;
• Evaluate the sustainability of that object using the Sustainability Compass developed by BUUR (consider not only
the final result but the entire process).
CONCEPT
•
OF PATTERN
Provide recommendations to increase the sustainability of this specific object.
LANGUAGE BY CHRISTOPHER
ALEXANDER
• Select the object;
• Preliminary identify the group/scale of patterns that might be relevant;
• Read the description of the patterns in the group and find the first one which describes the situation/problem suitable for
the object;
• Please identify the related patterns of higher and lower hierarchies and check if they suit you;
• Make the final list of the patterns and create a checklist of the architectural/urban features which, according to
Alexander, are important for evaluation (Scenario-making for your projects).
INFORMATIONAL OPTIMALITY OF
STRUCTURES BY NIKOS A. SALINGAROS
• Select the object;
• Select and justify the visual field for the analysis of the optimality of visual information;
• Generalize/extract the patterns of the selected façade/street elevation/urban structure;
• Perform calculations of harmony (H), temperature (T), attractiveness (L) and complication degree (C);
• Explain the results and suggest what could be done to achieve optimal pattern of visual information.
FRACTAL
ANALYSIS
• Select the objects for the comparison and for the fractal analysis;
• Prepare black/white jpeg/tif images;
• Calculate fractal indexes while using the box-counting method in sFractop or Fractalyse software;
• Explain the results and perform the comparison of the earlier selected/calculated objects.
SUSTAINABILITY COMPASS BY
01 BUUR
AUROVILLE CITY OF DAWN
CONTENTS
TABLE OF
CONCEPT OF PATTERN
LANGUAGE BY CHRISTOPHER
02 ALEXANDER
GARDENS OF HARMANDIR SAHIB -
AMRITSAR
03
INFORMATIONAL OPTIMALITY OF
STRUCTURES BY NIKOS A. SALINGAROS
VISAGE BEAUTY & HEALTH CARE OFFICE
FRACTAL
04 ANALYSIS
BERMAGUI BEACH HOUSE & INTERSECTION
HOUSE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
SUSTAINABILITY COMPASS BY
BUUR
A U R O V I L L E C I T Y O F D A W N
ABOUT THE
PROJECT
Auroville City of Dawn is an experimental
township in Viluppuram district, mostly in the
state of Tamil Nadu, India, with some parts in
the Union Territory of Pondicherry in India. It
was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known
as "the Mother") and designed by
architect Roger Anger.
THE
MATRIMANDIR
In the middle of the town is the Matrimandir, which was conceived by
Alfassa as "a symbol of the Divine's answer to man's aspiration for
OF AUROVILLE
SUSTAINABILITY
perfection". Silence is maintained inside the Matrimandir to ensure the
tranquility of the space, and the entire area surrounding the Matrimandir
is called the Peace area. Inside the Matrimandir, a spiraling ramp leads
upwards to an air-conditioned chamber of polished white marble referred
to as "a place to find one's consciousness".
WASTE
CLIMATE MANAGEMENT, AUROVILLE ECO-
SERVICE
It is included in the sub-humid tropics (wet-and-dry tropical Auroville's EcoService manages solid waste for the international township of
climate) situated on a plateau region with its maximum Auroville. An EcoService team collects waste from households, communities,
elevation of 32 m (105 ft) above sea level located in the guest houses, restaurants and units, and another team processes it at a sorting
Matrimandir area. The annual rainfall average is 1,200 mm shed in Kottakarai. Waste is then either sold to recycling dealers, or landfilled at
(47 in) mainly from the SW monsoon (June to Sept.) and NE the Auroville landfill.
monsoon (Nov to Dec) with a dry period of approx 6 months.
The average maximum temperature is 32.2 °C (90.0 °F),
average minimum 20 °C (68 °F).
THE GREENBELT
The Green Belt Zone has broadly three main categories of uses, viz. agriculture and farming, forest and land regeneration and
recreation. Their development is designed to promote biodiversity enhancement, environmental management, land regeneration and
water management, with technology transfer of the above activities for wider application. This will make the Green Belt not only an
asset for Auroville and the surrounding villages, but also a National Resource Centre (NRC) for sustainable development.
NOW
CONCLUSION
• The Green Belt Zone of auroville has broadly three main categories of uses, viz. agriculture and farming, forest and land
regeneration and recreation.
• Here the green zone focus more for the sustainability process.
• Auroville's Ecoservice manages solid waste for the international township of Auroville.
• The Self sustainability of the township makes it more feasible design and supports the nature and surroundings to
maintain the ecofriendly nature.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
G A R D E N S O F H A R M A N D I R S A H I B
A M R I T S A R
The design iterations for the Guru Ka Bagh incorporated within them
Sikhism’s understanding of Natural Elements, Seva, Formlessness and
Ek On Kar. They paid tribute to the 10 Gurus whose lives became the
norms by which the Sikh community leads its life.
What has been developed as the final design for the garden is not
about the conceptual pursuits of the designer, rather, it keeps at all
times at its Centre the religion – finding a common ground between
the devotee and the space.
CONCEPT OF
GARDEN
CONCEPT OF
GARDEN
GARDENS OF HARMANDIR SAHIB
THE GARDENS
A place for quiet meditation for the People, the Gardens are spread over an area of 300 Sq.m – occupying half of the Harmandir.
They are formally known as the Gardens of Harmandir Sahib. The space includes gardens, vibrant flowerbeds and topiaries,
green lawns, and a 3 acres of water body. It also includes ancient fountains and sculptures. The Gardens, themselves, represent a
harmony in nature. It hopes to remind mankind of their original status in the larger scheme of things. The gardens are divided into
distinct landscape styles – understanding of Natural Elements, Seva, Formlessness and Ek On Kar.
THE TREES
The Golden Temple complex originally was open and had numerous trees around the pool. It is now a walled, two-storey
courtyard with four entrances, that preserve three Ber trees (jujube). One of them is to the right of the main ghanta ghar deori
entrance with the clock, and it is called the Ber Baba Buddha. It is believed in the Sikh tradition to be the tree where Baba
Buddha sat to supervise the construction of the pool and first temple.
A second tree is called Laachi Ber, believed to the one under which Guru Arjan rested while the temple was being built.The third
one is called Dukh Bhanjani Ber, located on the other side of the sanctum, across the pool. It is believed in the Sikh tradition that
this tree was the location where a Sikh was cured of his leprosy after taking a dip in the pool, giving the tree the epithet of
"suffering remover.
SANCTUM OF HARMANDIR SAHIB
THE
WALLS
The floral designs on the marble panels of the walls around the sanctum are Arabesque. The arches include verses
from the Sikh scripture in gold letters. The frescoes follow the Indian tradition and include animal, bird and nature
motifs rather than being purely geometrical. The stair walls have murals of Sikh Gurus such as the falcon carrying
Guru Gobind Singh riding a horse.
THE
SANCTUM
The sanctum is a 12.25 x 12.25 metre square with two storeys and a gold leaf dome. This sanctum has a marble
platform that is a 19.7 x 19.7 metre square. It sits inside an almost square (154.5 x 148.5 m2) pool
called amritsar or amritsarovar (amrit means nectar, sar is short form of sarovar and means pool). The pool is 5.1
metre deep and is surrounded by a 3.7 metre wide circumambulatory marble passage that is circled clockwise. The
sanctum is connected to the platform by a causeway and the gateway into the causeway is called the Darshani Ḍeorhi
(from Darshana Dvara).
THE POOL
For those who wish to take a dip in the pool, the Temple provides a half hexagonal shelter and holy steps to Har ki
Pauri. Bathing in the pool is believed by many Sikhs to have restorative powers, purifying one's karma. Some carry
bottles of the pool water home particularly for sick friends and relatives. The pool is maintained by volunteers who
perform kar seva (community service) by draining and desilting it periodically.
PAT T E R N S - H I G H
Conflict
We came from the water; our bodies are largely water; and water plays a fundamental roles in our psychology. We need
constant access to water, all around us; and we can not have it without reverence for water in all its forms. But everywhere in
cities water is out of reach.
Resolution
Preserve natural pools and streams and allow them to run through the city; make paths for people to walk along them and
footbridges to cross them. Let the streams form natural barriers in the city, with traffic crossing them only infrequently on
bridges. Whenever possible, collect rainwater in open gutters and allow it to flow above ground, along pedestrian paths and in
front of houses. In places without natural running water, create fountains in the streets.
CONCLUSION
SANCTUM 30%
GARDENS 60%
POOL 10%
OPTIMALITY OF STRUCTURES
03 BY NIKOS A. SALINGAROS
Visage Beauty & Health Care office
NORTH WEST
ELEVATION
FAÇADE
FUNCTIONING
Optimality
Calculations of patterns
T (Temperature) Straight Lines : 2
Intensity of colors : 1.5
Contrast of colors : 1 Total : 7
So here the building is more attractive and have a good optimality vision in real life.
These mathematical numbers help to identify the optimality features of the
building in real life.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT
04 FRACTAL ANALYSIS
Bermagui Beach House &
Intersection House
EXAMPLE 01
Intersection
House
EXAMPLE 02
comparison
Calculated fractal dimensions and
Bermagui Beach House
Fractional Dimension = 951
Intersection
House
Fractional Dimension =
1393
The example 02 intersection House has more fractional dimension. Because it has more linear patterns
and similarity in grid dimensions. The façade design is highly reccomendable in example 02.
Reflection On Learning
Here from these four tasks I get the systematic and blended learning information about the Sustainability. These
tasks are much important for the calculations of a object about its sustainability and the factors coordinating with
the environment.
1. The sustainability compass studies gives information about how to develop and increase the sustainability of
the specified object. From this task we can easily identify any object in our day to day life.
2. The pattern Language helps to identify the patterns. Here in this task we can identify the high patterns and
low patterns.
3. The optimality of structures helps to study about the visual information’s. In this task I get proper
information about what could be done to achieve optimal pattern of visual information.
4. The fractal Analysis by using the java script software we can understand the fractal dimensions of the objects.
By using this we can compare two or more objects in our daily situations when we need.
THANKS
gopu.pandaran@ktu.edu