This project explores the potential offered by containers as ‘temporary’ ‘movable’ and modular’ systems in architecture. The brief was to design a ferry terminal to activate inland waterways in Goa. One typical station, of the several which were planned along the rivers and seas of Goa, was designed as model for the others.
The design of these stations evolved mostly from understanding the modular nature of the containers, the spatial quality that it offers both internally as well as externally, the stacking systems that are inherent in their production and the material durability to the coastal climates.
Efficiency in placing containers alternating each other was explored, ensuring that there was no multiplicity of surfaces for walls, floor or ceiling that can occur in the standard way of placing directly one against each other. The pyramidal stacking in Baina helped in using the voids between two containers as part of the interior spaces and utilising the roofs of the containers as terraces for upper level spaces. The vertical container at the back houses the staircase.
Location: Vasco, Goa
Site Area: 170 sqm
Built-up Area: 2,900 sqft
Project Status: Completed, 2018
Design team: Harsh Patel, Bhavana Hameed, Krishna Adka, Dennis Peter, Ross Perez
Structural Design: Yogesh Bhobe
Industrial Design: Anindya Roy, Freehand Studio
Contractors: John Lobo, Crest Engineering
Photo Credits: Krishna Adka
