BHARATI VIDYAPEETH’S COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE,

NAVI MUMBAI

DESIGN DISSERTATION PROPOSAL

Name of the Student : Prarthana R. Nair

Roll No. __________Year:- 5th Year

Mobile: 9870032014

Email: prarthananair97@gmail.com

Thesis Title Proposed :- Visitors centre for recycled textile.

Location: City/District /State :- Gujarat

1. PROJECT JUSTIFICATION

Brief Narration on the Need of the Project: (Use statistics / Diagrams to explain)

An alarming bell is being rung by nature again and again to become serious about
saving natural resources. Textile waste is generated in abundance and has various
adverse effects which need to be recycled or up-cycled like other harmful toxic,
nontoxic, liquid or solid waste. Since a very long time various textile recycling and up-
cycling activities were performed at craft sector or household levels. Purpose of those
recycling and up-cycling was lack of resources by poor class but Contemporary
Recycling and up-cycling techniques has emerged with new motive to overcome the
adverse effects of excess use of resources. The new inventions in recycling and up-
cycling techniques by designers, researchers and industries are very interesting and
give opportunities to work in various creative and experimenting directions.

The textile industry is considered one of the most complex and polluting industries. This
is complicated because it involves a very long and variegated production of raw
materials, textile manufacturing, garment making, distribution and disposal. It is polluting
because not only production but also consumption produces a lot of waste. Textile
manufacturing processes also uses an extravagant amount of natural resources used in
extraction, agriculture, harvesting, processing, manufacturing and shipping. For an
efficient management of the textile and its waste, it is necessary to consider all the
stages of the manufacture of the textiles from fiber to fashion fashionable fiber. There is
immense need for recycling and up-cycling of textile waste to stop its adverse effects on
nature and its creatures.

The purpose of this project is to bring about awareness amongst the common people
about the adverse affects of textile waste on nature and to bring about awareness
amongst the people of the fashion industry about zthe new styles and technologies in
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sustainable fashion designing. The space, a platform for interactive, educational and
commercial spaces shall attract the tourists and professionals in order to bring about a
change in the outlook of recycled textile waste which i9n turn shall benefit the nature
and the nation.

This visitors centre shall hold spaces like display areas for showcasing the process of
recycling, benefits of recycling, apparel and craft items made of recycled textile,
workshop areas, seminar halls, museum theatre, a trainees hostel and spaces like
shops, cafes, etc.

2. ARCHITECTURAL AIMS

The aim of this project is to create a Green Building which provides the apt environment
for people to visit and learn

3. IDENTIFY OBJECTIVES TO ACHIEVE THE AIMS SET.

a. Creating spaces for display of 2D and 3D objects.

b. Showcasing the collection, recycling, manufacturing and design process of textile

waste through display and interactive spaces like workshops spaces, etc.

c. Providing seminar areas and workshop areas for students and professionals.

d. Provision for stay for students and employees of the fashion industry.

e. Provision of purchase of recycled apparel other items in the centre.

Scope

1) Creating awareness.
2) Involving people’s participation through interactive spaces.
3) Creating scope for sustainable fashion design through workshops.
4) Revenue generation through commercial spaces.
5) Employment generation.

Limitations

1. Damage of display products.

2. Management problems.

5. Research Component

Key Questions you hope to answer/delve into during the course of the thesis
1. How to achieve maximum natural light and air ventilation?
2. How to design the circulation pattern of visitors?
3. How to design interactive and transitional spaces?

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 4. How to achieve an economic project on a large scale?

6. SITE SELECTION CRITERIAS AND JUSTIFICATION

(Use maps, satellite images to identify the site)

Site selection shall be based on the following criteria:-

• High tourist and local footfall.
• Site access shall be convenient.
• Large site area.

7. CASE STUDIES
(Identify case studies and its purpose required to understand the project
proposed, provide some photograph and plans to support. The case studies need
to be selected based on the basis of the project planning, technology, services,
sustainability, climate responsive and other required issues)

a. Calico museum of textiles- Ahemdabad, Gujarat

b. Kasturi Sreenivasan Art Gallery and Textile museum

c. Sanskriti museum of Indian textiles- Delhi.

d. Fashion and textile museum- London.

e. The textile museum- Washington DC.

SCHEDULE OF THESIS WORK

Submission
Term - 1
Thesis Proposal Submission

Literature survey and review

Thesis Site Selection and Analysis

Thesis Case Studies and analysis

Space Requirement

Design Criteria’s

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Term -2
Conceptual Design

Preliminary Thesis Presentation

Design Development

Final Design (Internal presentation)

Final Presentation Drawings / Model / Report

Final Presentation to jury

THESIS PROPOSAL REVIEW 15th / 16th April 19

Approved / Modification required / Disapproved

Prof. Akhtar Chauhan Prof. Shomika Sarkar Prof. Ritu Deshmukh

Thesis Guide Co-ordinator Principal

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