A proposal for weaving centre by the jain community for women at pindrukhi village, m.P.

Abstract

The major links between textile and architecture are when the textile is connected as a material and when the textile is used as an inspiration or metaphor for architectural design. Textiles and architecture can be linked under three major categories. One being the textile treated as a structural component or space making component of architecture wherein how the use of woven fabric as an architectural material affects the qualities of space in terms of the physical environment, the psychological response, phenomenology in such spaces and the structural qualities which enhance the building envelope. Second, is the relation between textile and the weavers who weaves. In this case, the tangible and intangible factors or quality of space affects the process of weaving, the anthropometry involved with the weavers in the workshops, the use of materials involved in weaving, the climate-responsive spaces, the ethnicity of such spaces linked with the vernacular architecture of the weaver's society and their memories of the tradition and history of their weaving art. The third relation serves as a conceptual metaphorical relationship between the process of weaving and the architectural design process. It involves the idea of processes involved in weaving such as the collection of raw materials (cotton), preparation of threads, dyeing and drying of yarn, treating the threads, beaming them on the handloom machine and preparing it for weaving, following a set of design in repetition manner, certain tradition knowledge, inspired from the local context and history and finally portraying them on the product to be woven by a human user. All these layers of processes are similar to an effective architectural design process, where an architect design a spatial experience for a user through various woven not linear processes of site studies, conceptual frameworks, ideas from context and history, suturing space with the existing urban fabric, preparing pattern and design ideas, constructing a space that provides a sense of identity to the user group with the traditional aesthetics of their culture or vernacular. The Integration of the two stated approaches one Women and second Weaving, best represents symbolically the first primary shape in architecture which is a CIRCLE. Circle is a symbolized, introverted figure that is normally stable and self-centering in its environment. They are often used to ymbolize Harmony and Unity. Circles are most frequently used to represent things of the same shape that we know and create a Sense of Completeness. Therefore, Circle is taken as a predominant architectural component in my design.