BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
BUILDINGS | BODIES
TRANSMUTATING COVALENCIES
Project: Swiss Alps Wellness Retreat_ Competition Entry
DECONSTRUCTING
GENDER ROLES
City: Saugor, Madhya Pradesh
The
Fitness club
The Gymnasium is designed as a linear spatial Matrix rather than a closed Formal System to allow the tension between the built and the unbuilt , between the object and the process, between the interior and the exterior and typically between the gendered body and the 'spectator'.
The creation of a community that the Gymnasium tends to create are open ended processes. The gymnasium tends to make visually and spatially explicit- the stereotypical associations of certain spaces with male and female bodies, eventually in the surge to avert them.
The Gymnasium thus becomes a 'Fitness Club' at times whereas at other times becomes a play space in the market plaza for the city.
The idea to break the constructs of Gender here associate to breaking the constructs of popular culture of societal notions of what a Gym Space typically is !
THE MYTHS AND GENDERED NARRATIVES
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The feminist Body seems to follow Bubble Laws the space that is available to the Female Body is frequently of greater radius than the space she uses, inhabits, leading to "existential enclosure". For a body , link between position of the body and it aiming to reach 'yonder' is created by movement. However for the feminine body, there is discontinuity, between aim and capacity to realize the spatiality.
The Provisional Needs _ Body and Site
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The Fitness and Social Club is a leisure space for respite and Expression and becomes a vantage point of Reflection of Bodies and their performances in the Public Realm irrespective of the hypertensive Self Imagery produced.
DESIGN INTERVENTIONS
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"There is a common myth which says- Feminine existence lives space as enclosed or confined , that the feminine always demands settling down"_(Merleu Ponty and De Bouvoir's concepts on the Feminine Body _Dhal Ankita. 2019. Unscripting the home: women making home in the city. Mumbai. Dissertation Semester 9. School of Environment and Architecture.)
The public Edge is made dynamic and is proposed as a porous journey of amenities that privelege women and impart free time. Meandering, Exploration, Exercise, Rejuvenation - All occur through a transactional space that permit Eyes on the street. The fitness club and its building edge make it possible to allure free movement and make it less hesitant and awkward to move in the space.
Humanizations and Assertions of Identity are addressed through various degrees of tactics of claim on spaces- Social and functional- like the making of a creche in the club and working through intricacies of elements- mirrors, polycarbonate partitions, metal stands, and rails, wooden operable mechanisms
Exercising Freedom of Body and Independence of the Mind _ The idea of Projection and visual performance of 'claiming space by women', for the public in the market is important.
The Spectatorship from the Street
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The self and the Community - The experiential journey of women and their discovery of the city - extending activities beyond the built into the neighbourhood.
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Theme Reading : The Gym Culture And The Construction Of Gender
Thomas Johansson
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FACTORS OF DECONSTRUCTION
BREAKING THE DOUBLE SPATIALITY
THE CONSTRUCTION OF
BODY IMAGE
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GENDER PERFORMATIVITY
