Revitalization of Mysore Lamps Factory, Bangalore

Abstract

The primary aim of the thesis is to study the design factors in conversion of industrial buildings. These factors can be ultimately determined as an opportunity or constraints. An opportunity or a constraint in design is related to the concept in any design process. In industrial buildings, as a typology, the opportunity lies in exploring the scale whereas the constraint is to accommodate a function into an architecture which is not at all meant for it. In other words, the crude roughness of an industry, from its materiality to its structure, is a total contrast to any other functions apart from what it is meant for. How these industrial buildings have changes the notions of such interiors. Apart from that, industrial buildings take a huge amount of space in the city and in this era, due to deindustrialization these factories and industries are becoming dysfunctional or been abandoned.