Design of a Small Shrine and a Public Space Under the patronage of the local care-taker family, a small shrine in the village of Asaon had much cultural significance for the village. A plinth with a deity, the original street-side shrine was redesigned keeping the deity intact and by enclosing the sacred place with […]
National Competition Entry On a historic site – one of the six ‘Petals’ flanking the India gate in Lutyens’s Delhi, The National War Memorial was a competition to design a fitting place to commemorate the martyrs of India. Designed as a subterranean structure, our approach was to imagine a monumental gesture […]
A Centre for Skilling The Smeeta Memorial Centre is a small public intervention is one of many public buildings we have designed through the patronage of Parivartan and Takshila – an organisation working extensively in Siwan, Bihar at the grassroots. It initiates a discussion on the nature of infrastructure, where the programme of the […]
National Competition Entry The Government of India floated a national competition to design a war memorial and museum on two adjacent sites on the Lutyens grid flanking the India Gate. The site for the war museum had old trees and linear warehousing structures in an orthogonal footprint. The strategy […]
Digitising and Archiving of a Historic Document. In 1985, a landmark exhibition on ‘The Architecture of India’ curated by Charles Correa and commissioned by Pupul Jaykar travelled the world. The exhibition was accompanied by a printed catalog edited by Charles Correa and a multi-screen projections system authored by Imtiaz Dharker. The exhibition and the collaterals […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]