Geothermal Health & Wellness Centre: Thesis | Akanksha Garg

GEOTHERMAL HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER

A Hydrotherapy Health & Wellness Center based on use of Geothermal Aquifers in Manikaran, North India.

Bachelor of Architecture Thesis

Description of Purpose

In India, the therepeutic potential of the geothermal reserves is vast but unexploited. Most of these thermal springs are known as a prominent pilgrimage sites relating their healing capacity to religion. The envisioned program designed a step-by-step intervention meant to reactivate and complement the existing urban structure as a:

New thermal health and wellness complex:
The scale of the thermal complex itself was designed to extend the urban fabric of the existing pilgrimage sites, to create a new plaza that enhances the space around the shrines, and to encompass the variety of contemporary thermal treatments.
Cohesion between the existing and the new:
The design established a dialogue between pre-existing and new, topography and the built environment. Its form shall be generated by the water flow, the tectonics, natural slope and vistas towards the historical center.

METHODOLOGY & SCOPE

SYNOPSIS

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MAJOR FUNCTIONS IN BUILT COMPLEX

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

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SITE ANALYSIS

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PLANS

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SECTIONAL VIEWS

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VIEWS & SKETCHES

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TRANSPARENCE

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OIA EMPORIA

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