Name : SHRUTI KABRA CLASS: 5th Year B.Arch. ( C ) Batch No.

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THESIS PROJECT

PROJECT AND LOCATION: Commercial Development (Office

facility and Retail Activity) , Kasaba Hobli, Bangalore North Taluk,
Bangalore

CRITERIA OF SELECTION: M/s. Embassy Group, a leading

development firm in real estate commenced.
Embassy groups is a pioneer in leasing office space and
developing integrated office parks around the site.

PROJECT & SITE CHALLENGES: The proposed project site is in

the Northern part of Bangalore. . The general topographical
features of the area reveal that the proposed project site and its
surroundings is generally a plain land with gentle slope. The land
around the project site indicates a mixed land use pattern; there
are Residential Apartments, Layouts and few Commercial
Establishments.
Site Area – 4 hectares (40,000 sqm.)
STAKEHOLDERS: M/s. Embassy Group
JURISDICTION & GOVERNING BODY: BDA (Bangalore Development Authority
BROAD REQUIREMENTS: Retail shops, Offices tower, Some recreational zone, landscaping

TENTATIVE BUILT-UP AREA : 11,000 sqm.

PRE-DESIGN STUDIES: Corporate office for India Glycols

Urban Business Center, Gurgaon.

DISSERTATION TOPIC

AREA: Theory & Design /Technology

TOPIC: Kinetic Architecture.
HYPOTHESIS. Does kinetic facade design aim to improve occupants’ visual and thermal comfort simultaneously?
INTRODUCTION: During these years a vast amount of ideas concerning flexible architecture have been produced.
The term flexible architecture has been understood as an architecture that responds to change, as a "fluid architect at
becomes complete once people inhabit it and use it.
The outside world of today affects us in the most intense and disparate ways, our way of life is changing more rapidly
than in previous times. It goes without saying that our surroundings will undergo corresponding changes. This leads
us to layouts. spaces, and buildings of which every part can be altered, which are flexible, and which can be combined
in different fashions. "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most not that survives it is the one that
is most adaptable to change"
SCOPE OF WORK: The aim is to study how the buildings could be flexible to adapt to the changes happening in the
surrounding environment in order to make it sustainable and also providing a comfortable shelter for the people.

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