MILAREPA “A MURDERER TURNED SAINT”

CONCEPT

The great Milarepa is believed to have meditated in this cave. Every year thousands of people from across the world comes to visit this cave as pilgrims or trekkers and also people living in the area pays daily visit here. The way to this cave from the village hasn’t been established yet: Walk across the village then through the fields we reach the landmark with prayer flags and small gompas. It marks the base of the mountain from where the travelers walk on steep stone stairs to the cave. The way from village to the landmark hasn’t been developed, people can’t cross the fields during harvest season and take a different path away from village across the kholcha (River). This is dangerous and the villagers have to compromise their crops.

”PATHWAY AS A STORYTELLER”

Milarepa’s entire journey to enlightenment is experienced by the users. Play of light to evoke emotions.

Milarepa’s life story is broken down into 7 parts to be portrayed as an experience

Lavish childhood, Milarepa was born to a prosperous family in TIBET.

Tragedy and betrayal after his father’s death. Treated like a servants for many years

Search for tantra wisdom in order to take revenge o

Vengeance, wreaked havoc of thunderstorm and hailstorm destroying everything and everyone

‘BUILDING AS A LANDCAPE’

From the dark room to search for tantric wisdon. Light guides and hits the eye level at exit. Tree of new life. Birth in Tibetian mountains.

Landslide of vengence and the struggles of the survivers. A Reflection into one’s deeds.

Enlightenment courtyard

13 steps towards the greatest goal.

Preaching and travelling

After several years of intense penance under the guidance of his gurus, he was able to reach the state of Nirvana .

“Milarepa’s life story shows how one can progress from being caught in the cycle of confusion, known as samsara, to becoming a student entering and practicing the path of dharma, to eventually becoming a teacher oneself and taking on the responsibility of training others.”

School Design Studio Ii

Board And Paper Games

“Designing school with school memories.”

Separate building blocks are a necessity for low rise school layout. As all the different blocks have different functions and role to play, the plans of the building block were guided by different games.

MASTERPLAN ACADEMIC BLOCK MONTESSORI BLOCK ADMINISTRATIVE LIBRARY/CANTEEN

Monopoly board Puzzle pieces Dots and Boxes Tic tac toe Tic tac toe

Like different places in the monopoly have different values: the school blocks have different functions. The car goes around the board in the monopoly that forms a pathway in my master plan around the square area occupied by the four academic blocks .

How the puzzle fits only in its unique position similarly a building must fit in the environment it is built in: meaning the orientation, sun path and wind directions are to be considered before designing.

ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK

MONTESSORI BLOCK : Dots and Boxes Open courtyard for outdoor games – Privacy and safety within the block with no disturbance from the outside Circular classes with the capacity of 15 students-Playful environment and circular socio-petal layout for safety of the children.

Municipal Building

KALEIDOSCOPE19-20, National Round

ASIAN PAINTS DESIGN COMPETION

A student design competition for an, an extension to facilitate the growth of the existing Metropolitan city.

Located at the key junction of a historic stupa, a busy Commercial complex and in between the rich Newari Architecture of the valley, the design is approached within the context and BLOCK A.

Borrowing elements from traditional architecture of the valley and responding to the existing block.

Stupa , a cultural significant structure in the site is taken as a point of design departure. An axis drawn symmetrically across the stupa divides the entire site for zoning. 18’ chamfered entrance in response to the site that creates visual connection to road. Creating angled breakage into the courtyard