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 […]
Six Conjoined Villas on a Site with a Complex Geometry A set of small yet self-sufficient houses with access to the ground, the difficult geometry of the site is taken advantage of in creating six unique units – each with special features. Designed as variations of a theme, the houses step back as they rise […]
Corporate Interiors for an Acclaimed Digital Agency Located in BKC, Mumbai, the space for the office boasts panoramic views of the area with a wrap-around glass facade. The challenge of the project was to respond to the unique work-culture of the organisation, maintaining an open-plan while creating opportunities for seclusion, collaboration, relaxation and the occasional […]
Housing and Convention Facilities for Students Designed on an 11 x 56 meter footprint, the ‘Sangat’ building at Parivartan is an extension to the existing campus. A housing with four dormitories, common facilities, rooms for faculty and an assembly hall on the narrow site. By moving the structure away from the skin of the E-W […]
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 cheaply and effectively […]
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit Working with stone and metal has very specific spatial requirements. For metal, the volume has to accommodate the very high temperature of the smelting furnace and the design has to account for rising hot-air. For carving stone, the […]
Auditorium and Classrooms for the School Complex The Delhi Public School in Pune is a beautiful campus spread over four acres and contains excellently maintained facilities for study and play. The brief was to add an auditorium space and a set of classrooms by adding a floor on top of a square central block. After […]
Two Small Buildings on a Tight Urban Site Designed on a small triangular island-plot in Vasco, Goa, the brief was to accommodate an Anganwadi and a Rural Medical Dispensary for a local resident community. The approach was to create linear structures along the two edges of the site. The simple plan allows both […]
Multipurpose Buildings for Studying Farming The Ganges river valley is one of the most fertile river-basins in the world. For this site in Koliwar, Bihar, we propose an idea that the best place to study agriculture is amongst the fields. Through a simple, geometric frame, we create ‘Nodes’ or small buildings that occupy […]
Documentation and Publication of Making-Process 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 Matter focusses on chronicling the process of making […]