to do architecture 2016
DRAWING #
banganga _ caretaker’s homes in a crematorium
bengaluru international centre _ building as an olfactory shield
tvm house _ mother’s demands for a house (#additions - staircase corner/ ironing board corner, design sewing machine table, shoe rack on entrance porch, reconfigure study room, additional storage in master bedroom, layout family photo wall, living room table redesign, electrical plan audit with provisions for solar and wind energy use, outdoor plumbing layout, rainwater harvesting, terrace garden, acoustic redesign, waste management)
ktm house _ uncle’s demands for a house (#brief - repair and upgrade, refurbish house furniture, family grave stone redesign)
dehradun 01 _ community housing and ancillary facilities, uncle and friends’ demands for a house
dehradun 02 _ convention centre, building in a landscape
unesco bamiyan _ exhibition space accommodated in a sensitive site
guggenhiem helsinki _ what is the future of a museum corporation to take shape in a foreign country?
indian national war memorial museum _ early experiments in green architecture
church 01 _ design within constraints of space, budgets and ideas
church 02 _ addition to a building on stills
jerp gate house _ entrance facilities to an industrial complex
surul restroom 01 _ truckers rest facility in panvel
surul restroom 02 _ pastors retreat centre in daman
notions of a nation _ create a symbol in architecture and engineering representing contemporary india
communal harmony centre _ what is the arena of exchange of resources?
museum of man _ what can be a narrative museum its form and content which explains the formation of man?
analysing igdir _ understanding critical regionalism
analysing gandhi ashram _ understanding critical minimalism
postmodernism & deconstruction _ curating works of khareghat, hafeez contractor, nuru karim, sanjay puri, sameep padora
making the dymaxion _ background research on drawing a map
100 houses _ analysis of 100 national private home plans as published @archdaily
100 villages _ design of a mile high and mile wide city
public space paradox _ review of urban public areas as sites and plots (building as open space and open space as public building)
between churchgate and cst _ planning a transport interlink between the two train terminus
WRITING #
25 buildings by simon urwin _ a study of a list
form follows site _ template to assemble set of parameters to solve any design problem, limits to consider
viral architect & architecture _ shifting role of the magazine editor form an individual or agency to the crowd
pritzker as design exercise _ reimaging the prize
big videos _ investigation into the work produced and disseminated by a 21st century practice as built on their video files
from academics to controversies _ work of zaha hadid curated from ZHA archive
fulcrum fat _ personal reference archive of fat (fashionarchitecturetaste) work + fulcrum (aaschool) reads
open source architecture _ what is the relevance of calling a select group of projects as open source
a pdf architecture library 2008 - ‘15 _ papers, books, collections and miscellaneous items
materials library _ what are the opportunities in building a material library as service?
delhi walk around 2015 _ jantar mantar
delhi walk around 2016 _ glass buildings
community architects and architecture _ imaging a church architects collective and their possible contribution to the associated society
panvel school of design _ practices generating from a specific school
cultural database 01, buildings _ finding patterns in cultural building types from the archdaily blog tag cultural
cultural database 02, precincts _ locating cultural precincts from various parts of the world and observing their characteristics
big guys at the state _ second generation indian master architects
architecture week _ discussions with third generation popular indian architects
things I had to learn after I realised I spent INR17500ish at the state _ reading of an exhibition on the basis of a document set created from all material produced and sold as result of it
politics of recognition _ review of popular local agencies who give awards to architects, with a focus on representation, practice and publishing’s effect on the design profession
mumbai architects collectives _ bandra collective, collective of spatial alternatives, plural, collective research initiatives trust, mumbai study group, the bombay collaborative
mumbai millennial practices _ design variable, csa, made in mumbai, anuj daga, saachi mishra, siddharth menon, deepshika jain and rajesh krishnan as beginnings of next generation practices
internet practices _ Eric Reinholdt, BlankspaceNYC, bldgblog, Oliver Wainwright, architizer
disappointments _ findings and things learned in the first fifteen years of practicing architecture
theory in the age of information _ architecture musings on the internet
geometry, composition. colour. code. grammar _ principles 01
architecture. curation. urbanism _ principles 02