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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]