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 […]
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 […]
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 environment has to be open and easy to […]
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 […]