Nexus in Proximity: A Business Commercial center for the building design and construction community in YEIDA

Abstract

This thesis enquires about the physical inter-relationship between the building design and construction community, identifies the gap, analyses it, and serves through a physical typology. The building design and construction community consist of stakeholders like designers, architects, material vendors, contractors, builders, clients as identified while studying a sample supply chain of a building design and construction project. The stakeholders together form our community and are one of the major contributors to the national and global economy. While understanding the inter-relationship and how they interact at different stages and steps of a project various problems were identified which could be omitted by physically knitting the community together under one roof. Thus such a typology if made will include programs like a retail material complex, offices, support functions like warehouses, printing shops, etc., and a spine of social public space to boost interaction further. The thesis addresses the nexus at different levels and aspects to form a rationale of design, development, and location. Catering to each function individually and to third spaces, the thesis understands the need for a sustainable model socially, economically, and environmentally. Establishing the components and their relationships spatially, functionally, and qualitatively in isolation (Architects and associates offices and material vendors), then understanding how multiple units of each work in a complex rationale builds up. Keywords Building, construction, design, material, vendors, retail complex, shopping, mixed-use, office complex, third spaces