Architecture Storytelling Competition In vain, I attempt to describe my visit to the Fabled City of the far, Far East. Let me tell you right at the beginning that there are only two ways to experience it – within and without. It is known that travellers to this mysterious city have always returned with distinct […]
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 Goan setting with a typically […]
Restoration and Refurbishment of a Goan House. After careful documentation of the deteriorating structure, a process of minimal intervention was undertaken. The client wanted the house to act as a workspace for an NGO all the while refraining from changing the basic layout of the old structure. […]
Graphical Interpretation of the 2011 Census Data Every decade, the Government of India produces, through an incredible logistical organisation, a document that records essential data on the citizens. While the document itself registers a wide range of human data, there are a few critical indicators that refer to the condition of human settlements and therefore, […]
Rejuvenation and Public Space Intervention for Village Well The historic well in question was built about three hundred years back using ‘Lahori bricks’ – a special variety of flat cakes that was prevalent in western India. When discovered, the well was completely silted and the place around was full of acacia overgrowth. 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 […]
Documentation and Publication of Making-Process https://vimeo.com/345269854?fl=pl&fe=sh The Indian Patent Stone (IPS) was, until the 1990, omnipresent flooring type across India. Made by mixing metal-oxides with a combination of grey and white cement, the labour-intensive floor is losing its appeal in the mainstream construction industry. The IPS documentation by […]
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 […]
Proposal for Temporary School Moving School is an organisation that runs independent charitable schools in Goa and Gujarat for communities that find access to education difficult for their children. This specific proposal is an outcome of a joint workshop with the stakeholders from the Moving School for a prototype to be built […]