Budget has nothing to do with good designs
DESIGNING BUILDING FACADE WITH KATHROT [ALUMINIUM PLATE]
I was encountered with a challenging task where I strived to innovate the building facade with a different element and simultaneously reducing the cost by 50% of the basic average costing.
I was assigned a task which was challenging, I was ready for the challenge even if it sounded questionable. I was in search for the materials but if was a handful job figuring it out, just when I decided to draw something basic , I witnessed an argument between 2 kids nearby my site, I asked the kids what they were fighting for and one of them handed me out an aluminium plate also known as KATHROT. I saw the element and, I decided at that very moment that this is going to be a part of my elevation, I asked them if I can buy them a new kathrot to stop the fight and ended up getting one for myself too for the brainstorming of our new designs.
I firmly believe BUDGET HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GOOD DESIGNS A good design needs a good perspective and an eye to visualize things at different levels.
Alppesh Mod
Following that, I thought of various different things I could do with a single plate and it was crazy how we look down to the beautiful objects that are used in our day to day lifestyle, it was like reinventing the vision all over again, several patterns were designed to achieve the edge for treating our witty elevation, but I thought for the longevity, I wanted something that could make it last longer and something which wasn’t done before. From all the options we had, we opted for ANODISING it. (Anodizing is an electrochemical process that converts the metal surface into a decorative, durable, corrosion-resistant, anodic oxide finish.)
After that, our team did the market survey as we needed to bring down the price as much as possible which also included the expenditure of anodising process of plates.
Finally, it was decided to include the element to have an elegant look of the building from outside. In addition, linear patterns were designed and the plates were anodized with one colour having distinct shades.