Community Initiative Spot-Fix in a Public School Benaulim School Transformation was executed through the idea of ‘spot-fix’ by an organisation called ‘The Ugly Indian’. The initiative, funded and initiated by Leena Prakash, brought together citizens from different walks of life and multiple backgrounds to clean, paint and re-organise the outdoor spaces and the […]
Rural Housing Concept Under the PMAY scheme, each unit is entitled to 100 Sq. Meters of land in the villages. The proposal looks at the possibility of creating a set of ‘ingredients‘ and not ‘recipes‘ that will enable the poor to build for themselves. The design looks at five configurations of 100 Sq. M land – […]
Redesign for a New Edition A collection of Charles Correa’s essays, A Place in the Shade is a seminal book authored and edited by Correa as an assimilation of a lifetime of writing. The texts in the book touch upon critical issues that were central to Charles Correa’s ideas on architecture, urbanism and housing. The […]
Biennial Architecture Award and Critical Review The Merit List [TML] is an initiative by Matter and Takshila Educational Society to recognise projects of critical relevance in terms of design and thought in the context of contemporary Indian architecture. Each past cycle of TML received about 500 project submissions and nominations from across India. The jury […]
A House, a Studio and a Workshop with two Private Courtyards Designed on a long and narrow site that opens out to lush paddy fields, the approach is to carve out a mass into inhabitable volumes and spaces. With a program that imagines the ground and the first floors as two independent units. Two courtyards […]
Private Residence with Borrowed Garden The Kokum House is programmatically designed as a private residence situated in a village called Quitla, near Aldona. Half of the site belongs to an orchard zone, and the house thus is contained on a small footprint of 9m x 12m with five bedrooms, one kitchen, toilets and living spaces. […]
Design of a Learning by Making Campus Designed as a juxtaposition on an existing old house, the Thinkering Campus is a ‘Learning by Making’ space led by Avik Sarkar – an Industrial and Furniture Designer. The site for the campus flanks a village football ground in Nachinola – an idyllic […]
A Courtyard House in the Hills Envisioned as a solid with a carved out central courtyard, the House in Coonoor is located on a sloping site opening out to the hilly landscape. Within a site populated with wild vegetation, the courtyard facilitates a secret garden – capturing a space of delight and […]
Design of a rural crematorium Responding to the need for a formal structure in which cremations for deceased locals can take place, a Crematorium has been designed and conceptualised on an existing site in Narindrapur, Bihar. The structure aims to gently formalize the rituals and activities on site, by raising a plinth and enveloping the […]
A Pavilion and a Small Indoor Sports Centre for Parivartan Campus The Parivartan campus in Siwan is a multi-cultural space that reaches out to more than twenty villages in immediate vicinity. One of the mandates of the institution is to coach football to girls and boys teams formed from the nearby villages. This pavilion is […]