This document discusses how architecture can be responsive to its environment and users. It explores how entry spaces, seating areas, public squares, and public art can be designed to better engage with surrounding social, cultural, and environmental contexts. Adaptive architecture is presented as architecture that evolves over time in response to various parameters like weather, energy demands, and user needs. Examples are given of bioclimatic and vernacular designs that are more responsive to their locations. The document concludes that entry spaces and seating areas are major drivers for successful public spaces when designed in consideration of the local public and context.

1. SENSE OF SPACEARCHITECTURE IN RESPONSE:
Entry and Seating spaces…

2. KEY POINTS…
• INTRODUCTION…
• ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION…
• ARCHITECTURE IN RESPONSE…
• ENTRY SPACES…
• SEATING SPACES…
• PUBLIC SQUARES…interaction hub
• PUBLIC ART…a driving factor
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

3. Responsive architecture aim to refine and extend the discipline of architecture by
improving the energy performance of buildings with responsive technologies (sensors /
control systems / actuators) while also producing buildings that reflect the technological
and cultural conditions of our time

4. ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION…
• Adaptation as a process has been conceived
in various disciplines with similar approach
and goals.
• This definition offers a direct translation
into architectural conceptualization. We can
consider the building to be a system which
adapts its behaviour to information
acquired about its users.
• Information external to the building
(system) could also be integrated into the
process, for example weather data, energy
prices, demands of neighbouring buildings,
etc.
• Adaptive Architecture thus has the
capability to respond to a number of
parameters with time.
• Time is an integral factor driving adaptation
in architecture. Thus adaptive architecture
can be said to be Responsive Architecture
evolving with time.

5. ARCHITECTURE IN RESPOSE
CLIMATIC
SOCIAL
SPATIAL
CULTURAL
VISUAL
CORRIDORS
MOVEMENT
CORRIDORS

6. BIOCLIMATICS
Manuela Moureaux Architecture + Design is a project in which the architects sought to create a
'refreshing atmosphere with a palpable sense of nature and climate
Bioclimatic architecture seeks to create an architecture which is fundamentally more responsive
to location, climate and human needs

7. TYING A
BUILDING
TO ITS
ENVIRONS
Yellow Tree house Restaurant, Auckland, New Zealand

8. CULTURAL ENCLOSURES…
Courtyards resulted as direct
consequence of the Indian culture and is
an integral element in the subcontinent’s
architecture. It forced britishers too to
acknowledge its inevitability
A modern adaption of courtyard

9. MOVEMENT
CORRIDORS…
A movement corridor is characterised by attributes which
relate to its place in the hierarchy of its circulation and the
function it performs as a low or high volume carrier of
people or transport
Over the highway wildlife crossing and sky bus metro: smart solutions

10. VISUAL CORRIDORS
Streets that are visually enclosed avoid the impression of being a
thorough fare, and provide a better setting for architecture
housing development modelled on a cluster of floating icebergs in Denmark : view point of the city
For the creation of pictorial and architectural effects…both
symmetry and non symmetry are valid as a basis for achieving a
sense of perfect visual equilibrium perfect to the solution

11. BUS STOP…
socially responsive
transit space
Promotes common
culture, no bar for any
social class or gender,
vernacular and modern
touch, dhabas and
kiosks as prominent
bus stops in rural India
Air conditioned bus stops in Dubai brings upon the notion of modern advances in technology but question
of social responses being given a room still remains bleak

12. ENTRY SPACES…
Entry spaces use signage as a tool to emphasize
upon its category whereas some directly showcase
their character due to their uniqueness in form of
texture or any of those criteria’s that create a focal
point of attraction
With context to public realm they provide a direction to the mass. Whether it be monumental or small they give
the same message of exclusivity

13. ENTRY FACETS…
Whether it’s a museum, a temple where spaces become holier after every entrance, a long entry into a fort or
an entry of the mall at the corner lane…each has its own identity and meaning

14. ENTRY FACETS…
Interplay of proportion and scale, light and shadow play a vital role in determining the nature of entry
spaces. Functionality influences the entry spaces too in form of number and materials

15. CONTRASTING COMPARISON…
Jodhpur: Entry spaces old and new( a replication)…evolution in form and function both

16. SEATING SPACES…
. The benefit of people spending more time in public spaces is that spaces then become more self-regulating
entities, and also focal points for the expression of a city’s particular identity and culture.
Increasing the amount of
quality seating increases the
liveability of a public space.
In places where positive
approaches to seating are
taken, people are more
attracted to stay for longer
periods
Well positioned public
seating allows
opportunities to relax and
observe the life taking
place on the street and
under-tree as an age old
seating space

17. SEATING FACETS…
FURNITURELESS SEATING: Importance
of grass as a natural seating space fulfils the
need of public realm
Ground becomes furniture…gateway of india, The playground encourages parents to bring their children to the mall, It also
accentuates the various view corridors like here the seating arrangement on the cargo gives a mesmerising view of the river

18. PUBLIC SQUARES…interaction hub
Intelligent ideas can make squares more liveable and attractive, Planned public spaces can improve pedestrian and
transit response, busy junction in Kathmandu. The space loosing its quality as a square
Seating allows people to linger and enjoy
the presence of others directly or
indirectly, along with the sights, sounds
and smells of a space. If seating is
designed to cater for an assortment of
needs, then older people, pregnant women,
those who are tired, or who simply want to
sit, eat or chat can all avail of it

19. PUBLIC ART…a driving factor
The common mosaic art: a regular feature of metro
stations in Kolkata, and an another example of public art
in front of the Seagram building : public art not only
invites people but also enchant a tale of their life and
culture in multiform

20. CONCLUSION…
Entry and the seating spaces are a major driving force for any
public realm whether at large or a small scale. The sensing of space
in this context is only possible if the applied spaces fit to the
context of the public desire
Traditional otta in jodhpur, interior seating facing a transparent media and uniqueness of entry form becoming
an identity facet

21. REFERENCES
• http://www.wikipedia.com/bus-stop.htm
• http://www.topofthe stops.co.uk/
• http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/
• Bus stop observations II: Shannon hill design-
okaybutwhy.wordpress.com
• http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83454714d69e201
6766a686d3970b
• paris: "the bus stop of the future"
• Dubai: Land of Air-Conditioned Bus Stops-manonthelam.com
• Socially Responsive Architecture | Demotix.com- www.demotix.com
• ttp://www.regjeringen.no/pages/38429132/PDFS/STM201220130026
000EN_PDFS.pdf- www.regjeringen.no

22. THANK YOU