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 […]
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 […]
Small Infrastructure for Segregating Village Waste As per the mandate issued by the Government of Goa, every village is required to segregate waste locally before dispatching the same waste management facility. To enable this process to manifest efficiently and humanely, a set of prototypes are proposed – a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]