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Brucaito Food Factory
Brucaito Food Factory - 2017
Area : 375 Sqft
Built-up Area : 375 Sqft
Status : Completed.
Location: Airoli,Navi Mumbai
Project Description :
In growing towns such as Airoli we come across a phenomenon of growth that does not fear to use peculiar methods to grab attention as well as find its own place to be called “ Unique”. We in architecture deal with the burden of creating something “New” and often find ourselves at the cross roads of art or engineering or science or even mysticism. This project saw us standing at the cross roads of architecture and engineering.
We started with an ambition to get rid of a host for the café and replace with instead a self service system of writing one’s own order and passing it to the kitchen. The Conveyor belt system , a largely popular theme in Japan was chosen as a starting point and slowly started to make its way up to the false ceiling once it was established that it would be strictly carrying orders and not the food. The rest is a minor piece of community coming together and celebrating a spectacle of architecture and engineering. The tests on the speed and torque were done through scientific methods but physical testing proved to be an even bigger challenge as the steel rods attached to the gears had to be of a certain length to withstand the torque as well as allow easy movement of the chain and gears.
In the end we had to work out the perfect hand to note pad ratio alongside shaft length to gear ratio to get the whole thing working. What’s important to note is from this exercise we learnt how to get communities together . Architecture must never play the leader in any sense of word but must rather opt to be the jester or the wise sage that listens and speaks when necessary. This project was constructed with almost 80% of all its materials being salvaged from the local scrap yard.
Area : 375 Sqft
Built-up Area : 375 Sqft
Status : Completed.
Location: Airoli,Navi Mumbai
Project Description :
In growing towns such as Airoli we come across a phenomenon of growth that does not fear to use peculiar methods to grab attention as well as find its own place to be called “ Unique”. We in architecture deal with the burden of creating something “New” and often find ourselves at the cross roads of art or engineering or science or even mysticism. This project saw us standing at the cross roads of architecture and engineering.
We started with an ambition to get rid of a host for the café and replace with instead a self service system of writing one’s own order and passing it to the kitchen. The Conveyor belt system , a largely popular theme in Japan was chosen as a starting point and slowly started to make its way up to the false ceiling once it was established that it would be strictly carrying orders and not the food. The rest is a minor piece of community coming together and celebrating a spectacle of architecture and engineering. The tests on the speed and torque were done through scientific methods but physical testing proved to be an even bigger challenge as the steel rods attached to the gears had to be of a certain length to withstand the torque as well as allow easy movement of the chain and gears.
In the end we had to work out the perfect hand to note pad ratio alongside shaft length to gear ratio to get the whole thing working. What’s important to note is from this exercise we learnt how to get communities together . Architecture must never play the leader in any sense of word but must rather opt to be the jester or the wise sage that listens and speaks when necessary. This project was constructed with almost 80% of all its materials being salvaged from the local scrap yard.