AOA PLUS WEEK 2020_21

3 WEEKS 9 TOPICS 360 IDEAS

ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE

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AOA Confluence AOA Confluence is a platform for students to share their learnings and engage in a dialogue on their fields of education and their complementary disciplines. It allows a perennial flow of a discourse of academic pursuits accompanied with practical architectural practices. It promotes a cascade of synergy amongst the fraternity of teachers and the student body, offering them a medium to demonstrate their understandings and skill sets in a prompt collaborative environment, which is co-joined in both, the horizontal and vertical axes of learning and knowledge. It helps in showcasing student talent and assists collaborative learning, through critical thinking, and strategic and progressive debates. Confluence aims at developing a ‘Critique’ on processes involved in various academic fields of knowledge building by drawing in a set of teams with a mixed bag of proficient students and experienced faculty.

The confluence is a reflection of the Institute’s teaching principles, which allows a free flow of thoughts and interactions, and also acknowledges a critical, yet immersive learning experience that operates within a domain of creativity, enthusiasm and innovation.

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Plus Week 3 WEEKS 9 TOPICS 360 IDEAS

We’ve been caught up in a whirlwind with the pandemic spreading quick and our routines have not been the same ever since. With the adoption of Integrated Course Delivery at AOA, the academic year 2020-21 was to be a milestone in our journey, even though the nation remains in a state of lockdown. But, it takes a lot more than a lockdown to dampen our verve and keep ‘Academite Dynamite’ alive! With the core curriculum being planned for online teaching modules, we initiated the year with the concept of ‘Plus Weeks’ to gear us into the digital platforms. It was simply structured to go on for 3 weeks, where 3 faculty teams have assisted 3 different batches each, and it usually involved the study of a text and its translation into a design exercise. Students have conversed with the works of Buckminster Fuller, Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas, and also Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray, Pink Floyd, and Eisenstein, from lateral mediums of creativity. We designed contraptions, devise teaching models of structural principles, envisaged invisible cities, frame video clips and came up with fascinating graphics.

This could be termed as the first ever online exhibition curated by the students of AOA, reflecting upon the notions of ‘Thinking, Creating and Communicating’. The students have done a splendid job with the assistance of teachers, and its time dive deep into their works!

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SECOND YEAR

Technology and Jugaad

THIRD YEAR

Visualising the Invisible

FOURTH YEAR

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Technological Innovations and Architecture

Crafts as Design Process Pink Flavour’d Reimagination

From Tagore to Learning Decoding the Built

Mini Liminality - Transitions Stress on Culture, Strain of Structure

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Technology & Jugaad Week 1 29th June 2020 - 3rd July 2020 Batch Second Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Rohit Shinkre Ar. Shruti Barve Ar. Amey Ghosalkar Ar. Tushar Shetty Er. Amodh Luman Technological advancement has historically been a major factor of human societal development, with constantly evolving techniques being present at the cutting-edge of civilisational progress. From the early stages of human evolution all through to the present, technology has boosted the pace of our social & economic development, and has continually transformed the way we live and work. The effectiveness of technology and its invisible gains are passionately evoked in Buckminster Fuller’s vision for the future, in his book ‘Critical Path’. In the same vein, ‘jugaad’ is an inborn ability to take advantage of a given situation - from making tools adapted from natural objects, to assembling usable objects out of whatever is available. How might jugaad technology help us design innovatively, in spite of the conditions and limitations imposed by the lockdown?

For Part.1, students were required to read a segment of Fuller’s ‘Critical Path’, and with a forward-looking view, they responded to questions that emerged from Fuller’s vision, and formulated an opinion on the application of technology in architecture. And proceeding further, Part.2 required students to assess the various practices of their current everyday life, with the objective of spotting an inadequacy or a problem that could be resolved by a simple yet innovative idea, and be subsequently realised as an operational tool, device or item of furniture, capable of facilitating an activity of routine, leisure or recreation - applying simple jugaad technology to combine recyclable materials, that are found or readily available around them.

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Abhishek Hurkat

Aashi Jain

Aayush Kapse

Ruchi Pathak

Sneha Jaiswal

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Hand Sanitising Machine When I first heard of jugaad I got a question that jugad is a hindi word, and if the solution is known as “samadhan” then “what is jugad”?

Then I came to the answer that when a problem (samasya) occurs for that a solution (samadhan) comes and when that solution (samadhan) becomes a problem for some reason and then for that problem a solution comes and that solution is come to known as Jugad . As we all know we are in a problem of COVID 19 and there are n number of solutions and one of the solutions is sanitizing your hand. In this situation, the sanitizing machine was developed and that cost around 1000/Now there was a solution for the problem but 1000/- was a problem for many Indians. As we know because of this COVID 19 situation we have seen an economical crisis and in this situation, very less people of India would be able to buy this machine, so this has become a problem for other people. I have done jugad of making that machine in only 200/- that too you have to spend only if u don’t have some material with you (which maximum of us have). With the help of this machine, you can sanitize your hand at the entrance.

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Abhishek Hurkat- abhishek19@aoamumbai.in

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TECHNOLOGY AND JUGAAD

Othello Game

The initial idea was to design a game that could be played with family members with objects available at home. But then, by working on it further it was made in such a way so that it could be played with neighbors as well, ensuring safe distance. The emphasis on indoor activities has increased due to the lockdown situation. By analyzing my own situation, I realized that board games were a way to ward off boredom during such times. So the idea was to create a grid to play games like Othello, connect 4 and tic-tac-toe by also ensuring the safe distance between players. So to execute this idea the object chosen was a hanger stand.

Why? So the hanger stand was chosen as it already had the parallel horizontal lines and only vertical lines were to be added in order to make a grid.

Another advantage of the object chosen was that it’s width already provided the safe distance that was required between players. The other material used was a file card (for the base), corrugated sheet (for vertical lines), clothes drying clips – 4 (used to attach the lower layer to the hanger stand), and buttons or bobbins (used to play the game). The other beneficial thing about the object is that it is flexible and it could be placed anywhere in the house, in the lobby, on terrace or balcony.

Also, one more thing that was to be focused on was to keep the original function of the object intact as it was an important object in day-to-day life. So the game was designed in such a way that if the base layer was removed it would act as a normal hanger stand and if it was added it would act as a game.

One more thing that I realized during the lockdown was the lack of exercise and the tendency to sit lousily while performing various tasks thus deteriorating the body posture and this happened a lot while playing board games, so the hanger stand also solved this issue as the players would be required to stand or sit on a stool in order to play the game ensuring a good body posture. This game can be played by people belonging to any ‘age group’.

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Aashi Jain- aashi19@aoamumbai.in

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COVID Pro Transformable Furniture The product that has been developed involves an assemblage of cloth hangers (hexagonal arrangement of hangers for base and top, tetrahedral arrangement for supports and adjacent placement for secondary supports) in a specific way, such that in one of the product’s arrangements, it serves as a stool while in the other it becomes a table top. The entire design was evolved through a series of experimentation with various joineries possible just with ordinary plastic hangers, and through an extensive process the final stable transformable structure was given to the product. There is a sense of extensive modularity yet, a subtle simplicity in the assembly of the parts, that makes it suitable for people of all ages to use. In addition to the both of the major tangible major functions, the utility of the product can be enhanced by joining more hangers to serve as supports for canvases, back rests etc.

The arms, hooks and edges of hangers, which are not under a play of any kinds of tensile/compressive stresses are intended to be put to use for suspension and holding of mugs, purses, satchels, spectacles, headphones etc. This helps prevent unwanted contact of your belongings with un-sanitized surfaces. The multi-functional furniture can be your ultimate travel companion as it’s modular and easy to assemble, so that one doesn’t have to get in contact with public seats and common desks. This can replace our idea of having common seat-sharing arrangements at airports and railway stations, all you need to do is, take your kit along with you and modify it to serve as your seat or table top. This furniture although, has a fun side to it as well, as a recreational process, one can toy with the idea of the various arrangements that could be tried out to transform the hangers into newer and innovative arrangements. The residual three dimensional geometric arrangement of the hanger stool also serves as a very nice shadow pattern caster( when a source of light is kept below it) which creates a beautiful ambient lighting , and helps you to have a nice camp-like leisure time with your family within the constraints of your home.

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COVID Hook

TECHNOLOGY AND JUGAAD

In this current covid-19 situation, whenever we go outside we try to avoid any kind of touching in public places. In our daily routine which we used to follow, this touching happens numerous times. It may be during buying tickets, holding handles, opening doors and many times. Thus to avoid such direct touch we can use “Covid Hook”. Covid hook is basically an extended hand which helps to do these daily activities without any direct contact with an object or person.

As the name suggests, the product has various hooks, with each a unique purpose. There are 4 hooks which can be used together.

Each hook has its specific purposes for the tasks we carry in our daily routine. The biggest one has a soft grip to hold which can be used to hold the train/bus hooks.

The spring like hook can be used to exchange bags without direct contact of hands of the second person. The clamp like hook helps to exchange notes or to receive tickets. And the last one can be used to open door handles or for operating switches. The material it is made of can be easily available at home to make the covid hook yourself. It is also easy to carry and a efficient product to continue daily routine in this time of crisis.

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Ruchi Pathak- ruchi19@aoamumbai.in

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Transformative Workspace It creates a versatile economic workspace with utility products as per COVID social distancing requirements. Goal to keep it portable enough, easy to construct and efficient. The sequence map was divided in two steps: Entrance to the home which is the main touchpoint and hence the most critical sanitization unit of the home & the workspace: where all activities like reading, writing , sitting, cabinetwork, tea breaks, electronic use etc happen THE SANITISATION UNIT: Clothes sanitization unit for the upper body (Jet spray gun mechanism). A temporary shed room made of curtains/blankets supporting on ropes with clothespins , a highly powerful automated vapour gun (used for hair) is filled with dilute sanitised water and placed at the height of the average torso (flexible height mechanism). Hence, when a person enters the home, he first enters the isolation unit which has nozzles off spray gun at openings and he takes a turn inside the space thereby sanitising his clothes. Footwear sanitizing UV rays or heat systems for those who remove their footwear, automatic footwear cover dispenser mechanism for those who wear their footwear inside THE WORKSPACE SET UP: Folded fan divider materials found around the house! Used wood to create the ends of the chinese fan mechanism; use the fabric of phera (turban cloth) for its plastic like properties along with fabric like stability; hinges and nails to create the mechanism; one elastic band; a metal hook; adhesive, joinery measures

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PROCESS: Simply joining the two logs of wood in L shape using hinge mechanism which helps it flap and sticking folded fabric using glue guns and strong tapes. Attaching hook on top of the L and an elastic band at the bottom. Idea behind it is to help the chinese fan stand erect by simple tension in the strings. Also create a portable effective barrier mechanism which is easy and cheap to make.

Sneha Jaiswal- sneha19@aoamumbai.in

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Crafts as Design Process Week 2 6th July 2020 - 10th July 2020 Batch Second Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Y. D. Pitkar Ar. Shripad Bhalerao Ar. Karan Danda Ar. Juhi Prasad Ar. Prerna Thacker Crafts have been part of human life from the early civilizations and its making includes practice, development, creativity, innovativeness and problem solving process.

The concept of an informed relationship between materials, form and function is reflected in Bezooyen’s (2014) theory of ‘materials-driven design’ in which materials are introduced at the early explorative stages of the design process. Crafts have many common aspects with architecture such as material considerations and potential process of making and constructing, function, human interaction, identity, aesthetics etc. Throughout centuries, crafts have been embedded as a culture and tradition in Indian communities.

The idea of the project is to understand one craft from India dealing with any material like metal, wood, textile, mud, clay and looking at it as a design process; understanding the process of making considering aspects of material, tools and techniques, aesthetics and process outcomes. Each project looked at designing innovative furniture inspired by the principles of the chosen craft and/or its material potential, construction, detailing, proportions or aesthetics. Study models and a hands-on approach was one of the key aspects of the project.

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Craft of Living Bridges

Palm Leaf and Jute WeavingMoungu Akku

Terracotta Craft of Bishnupur

Cane BasketryKhopi

Wicker and Bamboo Craft

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Craft of Living Bridges What is Living Root Bridge Craft Of Meghalaya ?

The craft of creating living root bridges establishes the relationship between the human and nature and how a symbiotic relationship created by the evolution of the thought or the exigency and need that emerged at the time.

It has a deep bond with the people of the community of Khasis as it is a part to their inventiveness. It is a craft that has direct and indirect relation to the community and their aspirations. Direct in the sense because it led them to travel and pursue trade, let them connect to the people and surrounding, explore their vivid imagination of a bridge to grow on as directed and come to their use after a wait of 10 -15 years. It has definitely connected the roots of their community and identification.

Indirect way of looking at it can be that other than using it as a bridge or a commodity , people now go there to feel the essence of the bridge, to enjoy it as a fancy thing and celebrate its craft which connects many points as in the tourist growth rate , providing them trade and source of income, giving the community emphasis and connecting it to the world for its growth and trade both! The aspect of ‘emotion’ is central to most makers and so are almost all craftsman influenced by an emotion (central to the cause).In this case the cause could be the need to connect to people , places around or the result of a substitute inventory of sustaining example or a completely new inventiveness of the people due to the geographical conditions that washed away the original bridges during monsoon or a social or political pressure to connect or travel to other parts of the state. Living bridge is a true example of the need to integrate knowledge gained from experience and emotion to acknowledge the craft .

What do you mean by Craft and Craftmanship ?

Craft has been defined through various ways, languages, theories and explanations. But my understanding of the word craft is the reaction or expression we put worth in a situation, exigencies, atmosphere or emotion caused by changes that are certain, or the presence of a belief, thought or action. Craft has no boundaries or set rules or guidelines , it is the reverberation of inevitable thought process in the human mind ,that evolves through the stages of comprehension and solution. We as humans have the capacity to understand problems that are common or not, but to address the apprehensions such that a solution to it is varied and well. We begin to think about it ,comprehend and address it uniquely but craft has certainly existed bound to many sensibilities to materials as well as material understanding. It can also be bound to the surroundings of the person. Craftsmanship is what cultivates the inventiveness of a puerile to a mature thought.

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CRAFT AS DESIGN PROCESS

Aayush Kapse- aayush19@aoamumbai.in Shruti Desikan- shrutid18@aoamumbai.in

Prathishtha Johar- prathishtha19@aoamumbai.in Jeeva Shetti- jeeva19@aoamumbai.in

Aditya Singh- adityas19@aoamumbai.in

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Palm Leaf and Jute Weaving - Moungu Akku What do you understand about crafts and how craftsmanship has always been a basic activity in human society?

The term "craft" denotes a skill, usually employed in branches of the decorative arts, or in an associated artistic practice. A key feature of crafts is that they involve a high degree of "hands-on" craftsmanship rather than just skill with a machine. Some crafts that are practiced by artists working alone are sometimes referred to by the vague term "studio craft". Metal work, wood turning, glass blowing, & glass art are examples of "studio crafts", as is pottery notably the studio pottery movement exemplified by Bernard Leach in Britain. Craft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful & decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools. It is a traditional main sector of craft & applies to a wide range of creative & design activities that are related to making things with one's hands & skill, including work with textiles, moldable & rigid materials, paper, plant fibres, etc. One of the world's oldest handicraft is Dhokra; this is a sort of metal casting that has been used in India for over 4,000 years.

With examples of crafts similar to the nature of the craft (chosen by your group), explain the relationship of these crafts with people, communities, and their aspiration. Also explain the role of climate and geography of the region in development of the craft?

According to me the tribe of Andhra Pradesh wants to continue their tradition of weaving and making the objects that were made by their family and ancestors. Products like basket , Matt , carry bags and even curtains are made from materials like jute and palm leaves. They are very well skilled with the making of the objects. The craft and the skills have has became a source of income for them. The climate of andhra pradesh is hot and humid since it is located near equator and near sea. The geography helps them by giving natural material of palm leaves and jute(bimli) which are cultivated at huge scale.

In the ancient age people use to make shelter with this technique of weaving with palm and jute which when processed can withstand the climate like heavy rains and even cold climate because it's material aspects ( dried plant do not soak or absorb water) . So more objects from such materials were made by this weaving process and now people have understanding the efforts and the skills of the tribal people and use those products. They even made the products more interesting by adding natural dyeing colour to it , to give the beauty to the object.

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CRAFT AS DESIGN PROCESS

Prathamesh Panchal- prathamesh19@aoamumbai.in Shubham Pawar- shubhamp19@aoamumbai.in

Harshita Vanga- harshita19@aoamumbai.in Rohan Aukirkar- rohan19@aoamumbai.in

Poras Sadgune- poras19@aoamumbai.in

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Terracotta Craft of Bishnupur What do you understand about crafts and how craftsmanship has always been a basic activity in human society?

Right from the first few ages for the homo sapien species, man in general has sought of ways to entertain himself and to basically relax himself. We have oftentimes done the same which in turn has turned some activities into a pursuing nature turning it into a hobby. A certain amount of effort put into the hobbies or activities as such turns any one of us a bit experienced with that topic and a certain level of craftsmanship is always improved upon and developed.Hobbies in this sense may only stay as hobbies or rise up as a detailed profession too and if it governs some materiality then it gives rise to developing a skill based job which we could refer to as craft .This in turn may branch out to various types and kinds mostly depending upon the materials or techniques involved.A person that practices such an occupation overtime acquires a good connection with this craft while never deviating from the primary function of a material specific craft. A craftsman is an important part of the general society, who would be the most experienced with materials in a physical aspect, the innovator that functions to build stuff that holds ground.

With examples of crafts similar to the nature of the craft (chosen by your group), explain the relationship of these crafts with people, communities, and their aspiration. Also explain the role of climate and geography of the region in development of the craft?

The prerogative of cultural geography is to analyse how space, place and landscape are shaped by culture. It focuses on people’s relationship to the natural world and the modification of that natural landscape into cultural landscape. Cultural landscape is tangible outcome of the complex interaction between human groups with its own practice, preferences, values, aspirations and a natural or modified environment. Thus, each and every place has its own cultural identity. Bankura district is famous as a hub of small cottage industries in West Bengal, and “terracotta” cottage industry plays a great role in this sector. The terracotta art-forms of Bankura horses have made entry to modern households as a priceless addition to home decor. If you are looking to get home just one Indian souvenir, you do not need to look beyond Bankura horses! Bankura horses are featured as the logo of All India Handicrafts. Soil is the main raw material of the terracotta cottage industry. Except soil, the other important raw materials are sand, colour, rice- straw, leave and dry cow dung, water, basket etc. which are bought from various areas.

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CRAFT AS DESIGN PROCESS

Mahir Mody- mahir19@aoamumbai.in Kaankshi Shah- kaankshi19@aoamumbai.in

Aditya Shanbhag- aditya19@aoamumbai.in Anmol Thakur- anmol19@aoamumbai.in

Jayraj Mistry- jayraj19@aoamumbai.in

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Cane Basketry - Khopi What is Khopi ?

Khopi cane basketry is the craft of kholoma village of Nagaland. The main purpose and use of these baskets are for local needs. People generally carry water tubes, food while they go farming. It is also designed considering the hilly terrain of the village. The materials used are locally available in the area, that is cane and bamboo. According to me the shape and the size of the craft depends upon the materials and facilities of the surrounding. Also, the function of this craft depends on the profession of the people which is mostly farming. Geographic conditions play an important role in the making of the craft. Also, there is a huge contribution and a great economic factor involved in craft making.

What do you mean by Craft and Craftmanship?

Most of the traditional crafts has the vernacular essence in them. It helps preserve the richness of that craft and so it keeps itself to some geographical extent eg. Khophi basket from Nagaland, and terracotta handicraft from West Bengal. Most of these crafts gets lifted to such scale in those area because of either climatic condition or availability of materials in huge amount. Like as in making of khophi the cane bamboo is used in good amount.

Bamboo is found extensively all over Nagaland. The State is blessed with abundant resources of bamboo coupled with suitable agro climatic conditions for propagation of bamboo at large scale. The utility of bamboo resource for the Nagas is indispensable.

The skill that they have developed with the weaving pattern and style also helps them to work easily. Growing bamboo does not require much labour and the rate at which it grows is fast. So, it can be used in large quantity without spending much. Similarly, the terracotta handicraft has the vernacular effect in it like it used mostly in making of the depiction in the temples of most of the horses and elephants. And the geography effects as there is a lot of flooding in Bengal and most of the stone breaks. And alluvial soil is found vastly, and terracotta is easy to make from alluvial soil. So, most of its usage is going to be found in that area. So, the craftsmanship is isolated to one particular region itself. Now like cane basketry is one of the major craft that revolves around every house of Nagaland it is considered as very important essential in most of their festive or significant occasions. The Nagas consider it as jewel and most significant artifact in their homes. It is believed that Naga tribes begin their lives in a cradle of bamboo and end their lives in a coffin of bamboo. So, it plays much greater role into their lives as any other object.

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CRAFT AS DESIGN PROCESS

Ruchi Pathak- ruchi19@aoamumbai.in Ishita Phatak- ishita19@aoamumbai.in

Aranya Dev- aranya19@aoamumbai.in Tarun Punjabi- tarun19@aoamumbai.in

Vaibhavi Tolamatti- vaibhavi19@aoamumbai.in

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Wicker and Bamboo Craft What do you understand about crafts and how craftsmanship has always been a basic activity in human society?

Craft has always been an important aspect in our society as it narrates a story. It briefs about the culture of the society, ambitions, thoughts and skills. Craft is a language that can be spoken by acquiring skills and combining it with the imaginations those benefits human. Craft is where you have the liberty to come up with solutions to a problem. Craft is mastering an art and then finding ways to do it better sometimes in our society, craft is regarded as a menial job, which causes loss of its essence. I think craft is like a response to the needs and problems of humans whereas art is more like a response to emotions of the human furthermore, I feel the major difference between art and craft is that, craft weaves a narrative which is common whereas art weaves narrative which is often left to people’s interpretation. According to me, we can’t separate art and craft, as they go hand in hand. Art and craft are means of expression. These are the mediums to escape reality. Craft requires you to have a good knowledge of the material, tools, methodology and techniques but there is always a space for innovation .

With examples of crafts similar to the nature of the craft (chosen by your group), explain the relationship of these crafts with people, communities, and their aspiration. Also explain the role of climate and geography of the region in development of the craft?

Bamboo grows in warm temperate, tropical climate, it grows up very fast. In West Bengal, India, basket weaving is an ancient art. Indigenous communities developed special shapes and patterns of baskets based on their needs, requirements, techniques and local traditions. Numerous things are being made using this craft such as furniture, toys, and baskets etc. as per the demands, needs and requirements of the society. This craft has a lot of potential because the material used is cheap, highly available, presentable and light weight. This craft is an earning source for the skilled artisans. By using various interlocking patterns, they successfully create various artefacts that can be used and sold in the market. The craft doesn’t involve the usage of any other mechanical fittings or joineries rather work on just one principle of ‘weaving’. The bamboo baskets are made of various shapes according to the need for it, besides basket weaving bamboo is also used for fencing, and construction. Craft is always linked with a group of people or a community. It has the power to depict the way of living of that community, their culture, needs, techniques and value for detail.

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Aashi Jain- aashi19@aoamumbai.in Aakanksha Patankar- aakanksha19@aoamumbai.in

Dhruvi Jain- dhruvi19@aoamumbai.in Nandini Thakkar- nandini19@aoamumbai.in

Bhavya Mewada- bhavya19@aoamumbai.in

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Pink Flavour’d- reimaging scale at My home Week 3 13th July 2020 - 17th July 2020 Batch Second Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Nachiket Kalle Ar. Sulakshana Bhanushali Ar. Harshada Shintre Ar. Saurabh Mhatre Ar. Nitesh Avhad Pink Floyd is famous for creating metaphorical songs and concept albums. They wrote about madness, anger, drug addiction, isolation of the problems plaguing contemporary society. Their music is full of theatrics, drama and even storytelling which makes listening to it not only a musical experience but triggers an emotional response. With metaphorical songs, what you see is never what it seems to be; rather, it is a representation of something more intuitive, an intense, overwhelming feeling that overtakes you. The lyrics and music put together strike a deeper nerve.

Using that as a base, Part.1 of the exercise involved 2 explorations - firstly, of the conditions & events that surrounded Pink Floyd at the time they composed a particular song, and secondly, of the meanings that were projected into that song. The objective was to discover the connections between (a) the physical reality of the band’s circumstances, and (b) the imagined reality of the song.

Part.2: to create a narrative that demonstrates similarities & differences between conditions/actions in two scenarios: physical reality in one case, and an imagined reality in the other. Both cases were to be enacted/animated together, in video format, and choreographed with a segment of Pink Floyd’s music - bringing together a normal human and a tiny human, both engaging with a set of household objects, that are common to both of them.

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Dhruvi Jain

Jayraj Mistry

Aakanksha Patankar

Mahir Mody

Sukriti Sharma

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Deepest guilt within you is echoing -echoes The song “ECHOES “of the Meddle album of Pink Floyd is one of the most completed songs of the band. The melody of the song is uncertain while listening to it you will feel pain. It is 25 minutes long track, although the music is a dominant background it as a whole carries the essence of the song.

The song Echoes of Pink Floyd is different for each one of us. Hearing the song for the first time, it echoes in your mind. My first time eavesdropping to this song was, it has such a massive part of instrumental music going on for eternities. But through the lyrics, it was something different. Firstly, by analyzing the lyrics, it gave me an idea that how a new era came into the world. Where people now are more into things that have extra materialistic value. And this being the reason for people to lose morality from mankind. Everyone became voracious. Listening to it through the day I had a shift in the whole idea of the song. Now the song meant feeling the pain when you lose your companion and just then jumping to the thought where you for a moment, you think about what if they would be there with you. The thought piles up as you start to see a part of yourself in them, the past that you shared with each other. Lastly questioning, will it be promising to get back together.

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PINK FLAVOUR’D REIMAGINATION

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Dhruvi Jain- dhruvi19@aoamumbai.in

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The sad truth is that, the truth is sad - High hopes The Division bell deals with themes of communication and the idea that communication can solve many problems. People can invent and relate to a song in their personal ways, the Division bell seems tearjerker for someone with an overriding passion. The album also gives out the uncomfortable whiff of middle-age and graying sensibilities.

Gilmour, who has become Pink Floyd’s leader, in particular, seems bored. On “what do you want from me” does Gilmour sounded from which basically I understood that people pretend to be present in different ways but their minds are really somewhere else. This song has the capability to take you away from your state, to where you wish to be. It is the difference between human experience and our true nature. It starts with we being kids, the world is a miracle for us, everything was in unity, but this was undone by everything we have been taught to believe, things changed when bells of division started ringing. When we were young, we always have high hopes that life doesn’t respect. We can reach a high altitudes because our thoughts were free but all dreams slowly disappear and a slow decay starts. Life continues, something is growing but the freedom is not the same. That purity cannot come back. We can be close to that feeling but unable to be free like that. Life is a river it only flows in one direction. Everything is in balance here and now. Life is what it is and it will always be this way .it also tells me that somewhere we have lost the connection.The real connection has to do with our inner selves. The connection has to come from a place where an individual truly is, on a level that goes beyond everyday human things. It shouldn’t be like turning on the light in darkness with an empty smile.

NARRATIVE Lost in the complex network:The background of my painting is the pattern, so for a normal person it is just a simple pattern but for the shrunken person this is the huge complex and complicated network of roads which is very difficult to understand. Even the small dots are obstacles for him which are present in quite large numbers. For him, it is very confusing and the mysterious space all around wherever he sees ,that shows the reality of the world that how complex and mysterious the world is..., second is an ocean of colors: on the other end of the painting, it is totally covered with acrylic paint having highly intense and vivid colors as compared to the monochromatic atmosphere on another side.it also has a glossy layer above it when it gets dried so we get a smooth and shiny reflective surface which I used to create the illusion of horizon. So by putting a small source of light at one end indicating the brightest part of our life we had in past, when seen from a small person's perspective it seems like an ocean of color indicating the freedom of mind we had and the illusion of horizon just makes it infinite space of freedom of mind, then comes the threshold space: so here my threshold space is my color plate just like if I take 2 color, mix it and apply it so this is the space where the transition of colors takes place .in the same way it has the essence of both conditions of being rough in terms of texture and intense and vivid in terms of quality.This gives the essence of both conditions of either side, all have different colors that evoke different emotions. He realizes it was not the same way when he was walking with freedom on a smooth surface. This indicates the bond still exists but with more complexity, so the story starts with that the person is lost and finding his way in this complex network, then as he took some steps behind a ray of hope appears through the handle of the color plate so he gets attracted towards it and when he comes closer he has a new experience of various colors around, so he started exploring the spaces with different colors which gave him different emotions at every time, at some point he reaches the level when he can see the whole scenario on the other side and he enjoys like his soul has found an ocean of infinite colors where he was walking through the complex network. He doesn't stop here he started going deeper into the spaces but as it was kept at an angle as he moves further the angle of plate became stepper and the whole scenario disappeared from his vision and what he can see the same complex network he was passing through. So this was the cycle in which he came back to the same scenario he was passing through. This shows that life is unfair too, we can step back and can have the essence of the purity with more difficulties but we need to move forward.

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A Journey of a thousand Miles begins with a single step -High Hopes “It’s the best track on the record. It is all David. It knitted together the album. It’s a monochrome, high-contrast musical painting, surrounded by a few little colourful elements, that form a wrapper around it. But the essence of the song is very stark. It’s peculiarly English. And when Floyd are being English, they are at their best.

Sometimes they are almost Dickensian. This song is to try and bring forth the reality of life, a mirror of some sort for the society that the people are trying to run away from. The main theme of this album is of communication and the idea that talking can solve many problems. We as people fall into a trap of “growing up” for the sake of society and adopt practices that we may not like in place of the ones that have defined our life till now. It comes to a fine line after a point where everything turns impossible in the sense that the newer practices don’t work and the older ones are already obsolete. Therefore, we are all lost in this enigmatic show, that is life.

“High Hopes” is an evocation of David Gilmour’s youth in Cambridge, the expression of a profound nostalgia, a world of magnets and miracles in which our thoughts strayed constantly, where the grass was greener, the light was brighter, and nights spent in the company of friends were inexhaustible sources of wonder. The narrator, who seems to have come to the end of his days, and thus to have reached the time of judgment (the division bell), recalls this period (before time took our dreams away) with abundant emotion. It is clear that his friends have disappeared or are no longer friends, that his life has been strewn with obstacles and consumed by slow decay, and that the dreamed-of world is in reality crushed by the weight of desire and ambition. For the character in the song, life has flowed like an endless river and now he is trying to look for his place where all this suffering can end and he can retire peacefully.

On a larger scale, the lyrics also emote the idea that our dreams are materialistic and driven more by greed, we no longer find satisfaction in reality. The self-indulgence and narcissistic behaviour of man has made him a shadow of his former self. We are no longer a part of our culture. We should be proud of who we are, not be subdued by others' opinions; try and take a stand for ourselves, not feel alone amongst the crowd.

In this day and age, we are in sort of a rat race, where the person that comes first is awarded, (and it doesn’t matter if he has followed unfair means). Not the one that has chosen the right path, done all the back breaking hard-work, invested large amounts of time into that project. This person is not even considered or recognised as the people are busy celebrating the person who has shown the wrong path, but because he was the first one, he should be revered.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain For this very reason I have chosen the setting of my video inside the interior of a computer unit. The miniature person is trapped in this new modern and technological world, driven by greed and inhumane behaviour. The obstacles and failures we face in our life are depicted in terms of falls from a great height, and learning from them is our progress. Taking those large risks not knowing where it may lead to, is what makes us unique, helps us to gather more knowledge as compared to others. This is because we have faced more failures, as compared to any onlooker.

Time and Tide wait for no one. In this world running on wheels; no one waits for anyone. Something’s that were relevant yesterday might become obsolete tomorrow. By accepting the idea of modernization, we have adapted ourselves to this system of change. This is in turn beneficial for us, which makes us extremely alert and conscious of our actions. We don’t view our past as a failure, but as a stepping stone, and place to learn for the future. We start viewing the future with hope that the things which could not be achieved in the present or past, we will learn from them eventually and someday our dreams will come true.

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ESCAPE! the ritual of lunatic being-Brain Damage NARRATIVE Through the song brain damage the lyrics has tried to draw our attention towards the social and political threads that tie a person into their own stigmas. Nowadays, media plays a great role in influencing citizens, that might alter the decision-making process as well as even the mind. Dash set off the person, as stated through the worst referring to newspaper, having Lunatics and the mention of a person in the lyrics is head which is actually not him. Meanwhile, it can also draw the explanation regarding how our generation is drowning in the vicious cycle of drugs. An other sedatives. This is also with context to the lyrics is., who writes the song in the memory of one of his band members who was a victim of drug overdose. For example-“ The lunatic is on the Grass”, through this the lyrics cyst recalls the cherished memories of his childhood that both Gilmer Ann said fostered. While,” the lunatic is in the Hall” coma. The Heat at first to their workplace or the whole, wherein they used to have their jamming sessions together. The song mentions 'Eclipse', which in this context refers to The world which has come under shade of power systems and a lifestyle that force them and manipulate them to become lunatic, in order to control them to their accord. The manipulative environment in today’s world tones even a sane person into a lunatic, being, by sequestering his own opinion and thoughts and simultaneously brainwashing them. The causes Include the never ending quest for power, greed, success., that is turning the world mad and desperate for them. The subtle and melancholy tone of the song elaborates the depth and removes of losing oneself to this manipulative world, and eventually turn into this evil worlds definition of 'sanity’, which is actually madness.

EVENTS In the quest to reach down to safer place, The protagonist leaps down the earphone wires, which acts as its initial Medium. [EARPHONES: Communication medium].Ultimately, rests in a medicine box.[ COTTON : Hallucination, MEDICINE BOX : Drugs and Sedatives ].Out of curiosity, he slides through the mobile cover to explore more flashy and colourful surrounding.[MOBILE COVER : Mobile / Social Media ].On observing his reminiscence in the flashy glares of the CD drives, he gets manipulated.[CD DRIVE : Media ].Eventually he is drawn towards the enlightened jar, which is carefully bubble wrapped to conceal the trap.[BLUE BULB : Pseudo Enlightenment and reliability ].Inside the jar, the protagonist is lost amidst the tissue scraps, and unable to locate the way out.[ TISSUE SCRAPS : Blurred Vision / Loss of Direction ].ROLE OF REAL WORLD HUMAN: Initially , the real world human walks away with earphones. This is the indication that everything belongs to the ones with bigger status. Hence ,influenced by them as well. At the end, when the protagonist successfully ends up in the jar, the power systems that is the bigger human takes the tumble jar and places it on the counter where the protagonist can easily be observed, struggling with his own consequences.

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Sukriti Sharma - sukriti19@aoamumbai.in

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Running away from our voice- echoes Pink Floyd was formed in 1965 by a group of friends which was known for its psychedelic choice of songs. The song which I have been working on was echoes, which was a part of the album, Meddle. Meddle was released in the year 1971. Meddle was born after Syd Barret left the group. Creatively speaking it was the pinnacle for the group as there was no dominance per say. The group decided that they would start by compiling their individual work by maintaining a common theme. Echoes was born from this concept itself. Originally echoes was known as the son of nothing as the band believed that the song was born of nothings.

According to me this song describes the self-conflict which man constantly goes through. We all are filled of good and bad, and there are moments when one of it overpowers the other. Also I feel there is an obvious play of contrast in our minds which is beautifully portrayed by the music as well as the lyrics in this song. The fact that all the band members had an equal contribution in the making of this song is seen through its diversity in the overall composition. In my stop motion I have tried to convey this self-conflict by the contrast of dreams and realities.

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Visualising the Invisible - Abstracting my City Week 1 29th June 2020 - 3rd July 2020 Batch Third Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Nachiket Kalle Ar. Sulakshana Bhanushali Ar. Harshada Shintre Ar. Saurabh Mhatre Ar. Nitesh Avhad Calvino’s Invisible Cities, published in 1972, imagines a fictional conversation between the Venetian explorer, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan, the 13th century ruler of the Mongol Empire. In each story, Polo abstracts a single facet of a wondrous city, which is a different name in each story - which is geographically unspecific yet imbued with glimpses of reality.

Calvino has uncovered various aspects of Venice city, aspects that are usually invisible. These abstractions will be manifested as a lucid dream, but at the same time they will consciously wake you up to start observing facets of your immediate urban reality. This question of architectural imagination and abstraction is at the core of all inquiry about cities and architecture, from ideal cities in the past to ideas about sustainable buildings and settlements in the present.

The project will begin by keenly recognising the architectural stories, envisioned as characters/events/places which function together as a city in each story narrated by Calvino. The further part of the exercise would require to step into the role of a production designer to recognise sites, in the immediate context of reality, within which the storytelling would operate as a performance of conditional alignments that lead to productive encounters with the physical tangible reality, the intangible reality and the abstraction of that reality.

It will explore concepts of the built environment consisting of various urban forms and archetypes in the various organisations. The objective of this exercise was the ‘abstraction’ of one facet from the complex multi-faceted ‘physical reality’ of Mumbai city, or another real city in which the student has lived (corresponding to the facet of the fictional city expressed in Calvino’s story, which was given to the student) .

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Diksha Lalwani

Neha Raut

Varada Avachat

Vedika Shirapure

Vinay Pingle

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Armilla Whether Armilla is like this because it is unfinished or because it has been demolished, whether the cause is some enchantment or only a whim, I do not know. The fact remains that it has no walls, no ceilings, no doors: it has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the doors should be: a forest of pipes that end in taps, showers, spouts, overflows.

Against the sky a lavabos white stands out, or a bathtub, or some other porcelain, like late fruit still hanging from the boughs. You would think the plumbers had finished their job and gone away before the bricklayers arrived; or else their hydraulic systems, indestructible, 'had survived a catastrophe, an earthquake, or the corrosion of termites.

MY UNDERSTANDING The city of Armilla seems to be as a labyrinth of pipes where everything is connected to each other in the form of a network. The place does not have many residents but do have some of the mysterious elements which stands out in this similar fabric of pipes which is spread all over. The place gives the feeling that it has gone through a disaster or chaos but now its all over and everyone is content.

The author says that every time he sees there is someone or the other out there that means the place is not all isolated but still has many activities going on.The city seems to be relaxed now and people are enjoying their lives again.The author has an appreciation for the natural elements such as glistening of water in the sun,the fountains which bursts out of the pipes and the porcelain which shines out.

The city of Armilla seems to be adventurous and exploring in itself when the nymphs and naiads who has the possession of the place play their new games and unravel new experiences KEYWORDS ● INCOMPLETE ● ABANDONED ● NETWORK ● NO BOUNDARIES ● RELAXED

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APPLICATION TO AN EXISTING PLACE The city of Armilla is being compared to the Dhobi Ghat of Mumbai,India. Dhobi ghat might look just like another slum area of Mumbai but being one of the largest open laundry space it is distinct in its own way.Dhobi ghat for that matter has a similar kind of characteristics like the city of Armilla in terms of its streets which are connected to each other just like a network.

An outsider will never know which street ends up where.The cement cubicles for washing clothes kind of stands out in the whole place of Dhobi ghat and the clothes which are hanging are just like the fruits hanging from a bough.

Armilla city is kind of abandon but is not deserted as you can see some or the other woman relaxing in there.This reminds of the afternoon time which is apparently the best time to visit Dhobi ghat as the washermen has washed all their clothes and they had put them for drying and they just like the women in Armilla who are arching their backs and relaxing for some time before the hustle begins again.

The glistening of water in the sun is surely a view spurting out of taps in the washing cubicles at Dhobi ghat.One of the feature in Dhobi ghat is that everyone has their own washing cubicle in front of their house just for their convenience and which kind of also shows the possession of the person living there.These people just like nymphs and naiads wake up everyday to unravel a new aquatic adventure in their life.

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Penthesilea To tell you about Penthesilea I should begin by describing the entrance to the city. You no doubt imagine seeing a girdle of walls rising from the dusty plain as you slowly approach the gate, guarded by customs men who are already casting oblique glances at your bundles. Until you have reached it you are outside it; you pass beneath an archway and you find yourself within the city; its compact thickness surrounds you; carved in its stone there is a pattern that will be revealed to you if you follow its jagged outline.

MY UNDERSTANDING The city that Calvino describes in this is named as Penthesilea . The city that doesn't have a demarcation. You don’t realize whether you are inside or in its outskirts. The city has similar looking structures like pale buildings with many fields , plank fences, corrugated iron sheds. They don’t have a hierarchy but it surprises you with vague spaces like a rusty suburb of workshop and warehouse , cemetery , carnival , shambles at corner of streets .

When you try to understand where exactly the city is you realize the city is all around you which spreads for miles .

Some people come to work there and others come to sleep at night.

That is the living of people over there. The place depends on people's perspective ,it is different for everyone.

When you try to get out of the city , you are lost and you feel that you are again passing through the place and never manage to leave it .

KEYWORDS ● NO HIERARCHY ● BLURRING OF IDENTITIES ● LOST MAZE ● AMALGAM ● BUSY ● SIMILAR ● DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

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APPLICATION TO AN EXISTING PLACE I relate this to Kalbadevi Mumbai. The area has many chawls , lanes and markets which look similar . It has buildings of old colonial style with the same material, similar built form because of which we cannot demark a particular market . The different markets and lanes cohesively merge with each other .

The place is spread in a large area and merges with its surrounding area like Dalal Estate, Bhuleshwar , Kamathipura , Naal bazaar which have similar settings so you don’t understand where exactly you are .

There are many lanes and bylanes which makes us lose our way which looks like a maze and we get trapped in there .

In these busy streets there are vague spaces like the Juma Mosque and many other temples which have different atmospheres . Every lane and crossing has something that surprises you .

The place not only lost its way back but also lost its multiculturalism.

Different cultures are followed by different people living over there .

Hindu, Jain, Islamic culture is followed . The place becomes home of Mumba Devi’s fair during Navratri and fair for Ramzan. The place is interpreted differently by everyone . The place is home ,workspace for some and chaos for others.

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Irene MY UNDERSTANDING A city can be experienced when we visit it. The experience is different for different people and even the same individual can experience the same city differently based on different timing and place. Marco says that people up above can at a certain length see what is happening below in Irene but they can only wonder about it. For an outsider the city might appear different than for a resident of that city.

Within the city itself people experience the city differently. They have varied impressions of the city. And along with an individual’s frame of viewing the city; over a period of time the city also keeps changing itself. Along with it your experience also keeps replenishing.

KEYWORDS ● VISIBLE ● SPREAD OUT BELOW ● THE WIND BRINGS A MUSIC ● CONJECTURE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING ● EACH DESERVES A DIFFERENT NAME

● LOOK DOWN ● CITY IN THE DISTANCE ● SPOKEN OF IRENE UNDER OTHER NAMES ● MAGNET FOR THE EYES AND IN THOUGHTS

APPLICATION TO AN EXISTING PLACE Narrative 1 - I find two different narratives here, the author describes Irene’s appearance as seen from above; he can see and listen faintly to the happenings in the city but is still unsure of what the city holds and thus one can only speculate and wonder about what meets the eye.

Leh has a lot of settlements located in the valleys. Passing by a winding, curving road through the mountains we can see a settlement or two down the valley with white or brown colored houses, carved windows, coniferous trees, colourful flags, small chortens (stupas). These settlements might look the same at times but they also must be having unique characteristics. Some are sparse, some are dense, some are green, some have less vegetation , some have a waterbody near by, some are situated in the stretch of a vast desert. But they do have similarities too.

Many would have a monastery at the top of a hill. The route to the monastery might be through that settlement or by some different road.

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Looking down at the settlements below from the monasteries we visited we couldn’t decide if the current settlement functioned or had a life similar to the previous one we saw. Or was it similar to the village we were staying temporarily at. Though they had unifying physical and cultural features, geographically they differed as well.

Narrative 2 - Everyone experiences a city differently. Both physical and timely factors govern one’s experience of a city. For an outsider the city of Mumbai is very different. Mumbai is a congested city for people from Nagpur. While for people from Thane, Mumbai might not appear much different. Within Mumbai itself the people from Dharavi experience it in a different way, people from South Bombay have a different experience, or people from the suburbs have a different experience. Together they all have similar fast paced lifestyles, together they might be a city that never sleeps, together they face the similar geographical features like humidity, heavy rain , etc but the memory of Mumbai in everyone’s mind is different. The experience of this city differs individually. Mumbai during the times of covid pandemic is different; during the influenza pandemic it was a different city, during the riots it held a different character. Thus time also plays an important role in how one experiences a city.

An eagle flies above the city with a varying fabric, high up he wonders how the places below are. For when he swoops down to catch a prey and changes his eye level the same city appears in a new light. The city is like a pixelated image from above giving you only hints and clues when you look at it. As you near the image develops more clarity; furthermore the image speaks different words to different people.

Varada Avachat - varada18@aoamumbai.in

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Phyllis When you have arrived at Phyllis. you rejoice in observing all the bridges over the canals. each different from the others: cambered. covered. on pillars. on barges. suspended, with tracery balustrades. And what a variety of windows looks down on the streets: mullioned.

Moorish, lancet. pointed. surmounted by lunettes or stained-glass roses; how many kinds of pavement cover the ground: cobbles. slabs, gravel. blue and white tiles. At every point the city offers surprises to your view: a caper bush jutting from the fortress' walls. the statues of three queens on corbels, an onion dome with three smaller onions threaded on the spire. "Happy the man who has Phyllis before his eyes each day and who never ceases seeing the things it contains." you cry, with regret at having to leave the city when you can barely graze it with your glance.

MY UNDERSTANDING The story is about a city, Phyllis, which has different types of bridges, different types of arches, domes and a variety of windows looking towards the street. There is description about different types of pavements, ornamentation of the city with statues, rose windows etc.

As the narrator travels along the city, he is surprised by the streets and the people. The narrator regrets leaving the city, and thinks that the people staying here would be so happy. But later he observes that the city has faded from the eyes of inhabitants. The place no more is interesting to them.

The people no more see the city, but follow the memory of it. The story is of a place which has an architectural feature or has an architectural importance. This may be experienced by the people who visit it for the first time. But for the inhabitants the place has remained the same and had no changes. The city becomes a space in which routes are drawn between points and suspended in the voids. The place seems boring to them as they have been seeing the same for a long period of time. It depends on people how they interpret the city, which may also depend on their interaction with the people and the city.

KEYWORDS ● SURPRISES ● ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION ● CITY FADES ● BETWEEN POINTS SUSPENDED IN VOIDS

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APPLICATION TO AN EXISTING PLACE Vedika’s Phyllis is a city which is rich in heritage. It is a pilgrimage centre and also a place which holds various architectural elements ( Godaghat, Nashik). The cluster of houses, having specific character, the setting of the place, its location near the river etc. attracts the tourists.

But the people staying here are so used to the place, that the beauty of the place is sometimes not observed by them. There are wada’s in the city which is located near the river banks. There are many temples, bridges which have stone carvings, paintings.

Due to its location and architectural features, the city is an attraction for artists, photographers, pilgrims, tourists. But the people here are so used to the place that they no longer admire the city. They use the place as a route or as a place where they earn. Due to less changes in the city, their memory of the city defines how the city functions.

Vedika Shirapure - vedikas18@aoamumbai.in

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Moriana MY UNDERSTANDING So the traveler described the city in a very luxurious way and the beauty of the city. The first part of the story describes that Moriana city had beautiful nature where he crossed the river and passes from mountains then he describes the alabaster gates which are transparent in sunlight, the coral column supporting the pediments ,its villas all of glasses like aquariums where the girls are dancing beneath the chandeliers.then traveler described that if journey is not for first time then you will come to know about. Hidden face of the city where he describes the darkside of the city. Walking in a semicircle will bring a person to an expanse of rusting metal, sackcloth , planks with spikes , pipes black with soot, piles of tins , blind walls with fading signs and ropes only good for hanging oneself . Here the traveler describes a more scary part of the city which is hidden . The city seems like it is continuous in perspective but it is just a sheet of paper . so the person can look at one side of a city at a time.

Rather all cities and places had a dark side no matter how beautiful and good they may look on the surface.

KEYWORDS ● DARKSIDE ● BEAUTIFUL CITIES ● CROSSES THE RIVER

● EXPANSE OF RUSTING METALS ● SPIKY PLANKS ● SOOTY PIPES CITY

● MOUNTAIN ALABASTER GATES ● CORAL COLUMNS ● VILLAS OF GLASS

APPLICATION TO AN EXISTING PLACE Narrative 1 - Each city has a dark side. so the Mumbai city the ‘city of dreams’ also known as ‘mayanagri’ from the stunning bandra worli sea link to the pristine white Haji Ali dargah ,Mumbai’s architecture is complex,rich and exceptional. Marine drive whose lights form an arc which seems like a queen's necklace.

Mumbai is the wealthiest city in country. Where the headquarters of multiple financial institution are located. From Bombay stock exchange to reserve bank of india and also many other industries. Mumbai is the commercial capital of india.

As the story describes each beautiful city as a darkside so the city of dreams hidden face shows many difficulties as Migrants are increasing day by day in search of work and better career prospects.Behind the glitz,glamour there is a different reality of city. The city landscape dominated massive increase in slums ,some of the biggest in the world.It consist large number of slum areas and some additional settlements between Mumbai’s two main suburbans lines,the western and the central railway lines.The characteristics vary from geographic region but all the

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people living in slums are poor and not provided basic facilities.the situation of slums is terrible. Inhabitants of Mumbai slum lack basic standards of livelihood such as sanitary facilities, hygienic conditions and medical care. Unknown people can look at one side of city which is beautiful and luxurious but only few of them know about hidden face of Mumbai city which is full of struggle,suffer and hard work Narrative 2 - Another example from smaller part of Mumbai which is were well known for the beauty and luxurious of the city ‘Queen of suburbs’ Bandra. Bandra has transformed from locality with old architecture buildings to become one of the most popular suburbs of city it also called as ‘Queens of the suburbs’.Bandra in Mumbai,has emerged as an attractive destination for lifestyle homes ,from an investment perspective.with luxurious sea-facing flats,this suburbs is home to several film personalities.

Bandra has a mix of old and new,where Portuguese architecture and old churches sit alongside large,trendy residences. The area has a good social infrastructure with several schools,colleges,designer jewellery showrooms,art galleries. As the story says each beautiful city has a darkside so the ‘queen of suburbs also have an darkside as the migrants are increasing day by day for their better life and carrier there is massive increase in slums of bandra like lal mitti bandra reclamation and bandra east slums . The slums lack basic standards of livelihood such as sanitary facilities, hygienic conditions and proper way of living life. The land mass of slums is the precious vote bank for politicians. Every politician nurtures them and they do it through their chamas the living conditions are downcast and miserable. Where the unknown people only know about the luxury and beauty of bandra only few will understand about the hidden face of the ‘queen of suburbs' where the situation of slums is terrible.

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From Tagore to learning Week 2 6th July 2020 - 10th July 2020 Batch Third Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Rohit Shinkre Ar. Shruti Barve Ar. Amey Ghosalkar Ar. Tushar Shetty Er. Amodh Luman

Guru Rabindranath Tagore has been an inspiration and a Guru for all the age groups. His ideologies are timeless. How many do we know or have tried to find out? And how many of us have its influence in our daily life. Talking from grass root observations to its impact on humanshuman and their its surroundings, Gurudev has always shown us a new direction in life to life.

We all have been students and have experienced various teaching learning environments. As student of architecture and design you all must have certain insights about the college premises you inhabit for the last for last couple of years.

Based on the article ‘MY SCHOOL’ by Guru Rabindranath Tagore, students had to express their thoughts about nature and nurture.

The article give rise to the design thinking, which states: What If we decide to follow Gurudev philosophy on education for our college building? What would transform?

Students had to think and derive design interventions for the learning space or any other common space in the campus of AOA, following Guru Rabindranath Tagore thoughts about ‘My School’.

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The Co-existence “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Rabindranath Tagore had a very contradicting thought to the current scenario of schooling and learning. There is a big gap between learning and understanding something. This gap needs to be bridged by having practical hands-on analysis. In the field of architecture, it is very important to have a practical knowledge of what is getting designed or built. There shouldn’t be a restriction laid for a creative course like this. Restriction not just in thoughts but also in space. Workspaces should be liberal and adaptable.

Lessons of life and tradition are as important as academics. The best design would be a one that involves all the senses to connect to the surroundings. Nature-based learning is not about learning amidst greenery but connecting and merging with the open surrounding. Any classroom or work station needs to have certain aims- self-realization, intellectual development, love for humanity, co-relation of objects, moral and spiritual development, and social development.

Intervention 1: Niches are created in every studio to break the monotony and rigidity of a typical structured classroom and helps in opening up the minds by giving a better atmosphere for students to work. This facilitates more sunlight to enter the room & creates a different informal workspace for students and the faculties to explore.

Intervention 2: This space is designed such that there is an amalgamation between nature and regular college activities. Small study pods are created in the semi-open space breaking the boundaries of a workspace. This space stimulates the human senses with a more liberal form of acquiring hands-on knowledge.

Hrithika Chandramouli- hrithikac18@aoamumbai.in

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What we see around us are only dead and common things , none of which have the life nor emotions to express themselves . Bringing about a change in these surroundings might make the classrooms more interesting and enjoyable to learn in. It's not only about benches and black boards , however it is about the overall display of things in and around these classrooms. Sir Tagore explained that it was essential to have some standards which can help develop one's life. He sent his son to rural places to experience and explore them , which according to him not only helped in gaining knowledge about the surrounding environment but also exposed him to a life outside the city.

Knowledge comes from many aspects but our teaching methods have restricted it to mere textbooks and lessons . Children need and aspire to seek knowledge beyond the textual information that their books provide and should be able to learn within and from their surrounding environment as well.

Intervention 1: Many seniors and juniors in our college meet together at the library to interact, share ideas and solve each other's doubts. Many a time when we are free to work by ourselves, we need a place where we can think and regenerate new ideas . In our college , the library is the best place to learn and so for this purpose I have proposed the following intervention so that more people are encouraged to meet here. Hence I have introduced the Mezzanine Slab with a design in which more light and ventilation can be brought in. This helped in creating a more spacious and well ventilated extension to the library.

Yash Umekar - yashu18@aoamumbai.in

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Reconnecting with Earth In this article, Tagore talks about the ideas behind his school, Shantiniketan, with his aim of taking education beyond the four walls of the classroom. Tagore talks about his ideologies, views, theologies, and pedagogies in the article. Following are a few of the key points from the article Students should have a thirst (curiosity) for knowledge, education shouldn’t be spoon-fed with a fixed curriculum (not provided knowledge)- that gives them personality & individuality.

Classroom education (confined within 4 walls) is restrictive & growing up closer to nature that nurtures us. He talks about learning of knowledge (from life and nature) vs data (from dead books and curriculum). Activating the senses ie, “feet”. The understanding body reacts to the senses and spiritual vs physical; pursuing the innermost truth of life

Tagore talks especially a lot about the feet and the experience of feeling the ground while walking. The whole paragraph makes me think of the 5 senses and the 5 elements of nature being interrelated to each other. The senses playing vital role in the exploratory nature of want for more knowledge.

Five senses: Visionary, Auditory, Olfactory, Tactile, and Gustatory. The five elements of nature, work with the senses to bring out experiences of life, to learn through them.

Hence, the varied use of these senses should be incorporated in architecture too.

Education should incorporate the elements of nature, interacting with the sense, to evoke the mind, body & soul, through hands on learning, rather than bookish knowledge, by connecting with nature.

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Intervention : Tagore speaks about evoking the senses while educating, connecting with Mother Earth.

A phrase from my school days was “work is worship”. A place of seeking education is a pious place, almost like a place of worship.

Connecting back to Tagore’s literature, we should remove our shoes once we enter the college premises.

When we are barefoot, we connect to the earth. We feel the material that we walk on and become more sensitive about our surroundings.

When one is barefoot, we tend to keep our surroundings clean as we are directly in contact with it. We are more sensitive.

The idea starts with removing one’s footwear after entering college premises and walking barefoot. To have grassy mounds beside the canteen space extending across the back of the college opening up to the sky; These grass mounds act as a space to relax, sleep, sit, and talk, many interaction activities in an open space as we are often confined to our closed studios. Open spaces open up one's mind…

The canteen area also transforms into a mud-plastered platform on getting rid of all tables and chairs hence opening up space for more cross-legged floor level sitting.

Manasi Petkar - manasip18@aoamumbai.in

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The Ramp According to Tagore schooling is mainly about the experiences that are created rather than the theoretical knowledge that it bestows upon the students and it should be conducted such that individual habits and peculiarities are catered to rather than forcing a common pedagogy on every student. He believed that while knowledge may provide one with power, it is only sympathy that can help one attain fullness.

Tagore stressed on the fact that the highest quality of education is the kind that helps one attain equilibrium with their surrounding world and that humans should exist in harmony with the world around them. Furthermore he believed that It is only through poverty and discomfort that one learns the best lessons and that the furniture and walls restrict one within a space which hinder their process of observing and learning from their surroundings.

He professed that a school is not just for imparting knowledge to young minds but also for providing them with shelter and within this shelter the relation of a teacher and a student is more than just that of the provider and receiver of knowledge, however it is a stronger bond where both the disciple and the pedagogue intake life's learnings and lessons together.

Our educational system sets a benchmark for every student to reach rather than understanding the unique skill set that every child possesses in order to churn out uniform results. Not only does this put blinders on a child's observational and learning process, it also curbs the development of any unique skills that he or she is gifted with. Another mistake that is made is that children are taught about the benefits that they can reap from exploiting the nature around them rather than the importance of it. This could mainly be because one cannot truly understand the bounties of nature by studying about geography from books while being trapped within 4 walls. One can only learn to respect,value and learn from nature by experiencing it in its most primeval form.

Factors that can help one connect with his surroundings: Sight, Hearing, Touch, Taste.

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Intervention 1: Schooling is mainly about the experiences that are created rather than the theoretical knowledge that it bestows upon the students. This line from tagore's lecture struck me the most. Especially in Architecture where learning is not restricted within 4 walls why have those very walls obstruct our look into the world that surrounds us. For humans to exist in harmony with the world around them, they must benefit from it not just through the consumption of its many bounties but also learn from it.

I have designed this rampway in place of the pre existent stairway.

While doing this i was taken back to the ARD ART sketching exercise that we did in the first year.

This rampway not only provides the perfect space to observe the area surrounding us but also a space for students to interact with each other, with their faculty and also work outside their stuffy studios if they wish to do so. According to me, a change of setting and a little fresh air can cure any creative block and this ramp way would be the perfect place for that.

Sanyukta Raul - sanyuktar18@aoamumbai.in

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Classroom under the Tree (Tree Chi) Sir Rabindranath Tagore was well aware of moral, religious, social, political and environmental conditions of his time. He believed that in order to free oneself from their present sufferings, he/she had no other choice but to seek help from the Supreme reality and connect with nature .

This may have been the reason for his poetry being religious in nature and shantiniketan being so nature oriented.

God resided in his thoughts and actions, and nature coursed through in his veins.

He truly believed that nature and education should go hand in hand, which is quite evident in Shantiniketan’s humble and down to earth atmosphere. He wanted to set up classrooms such that they provided a connection with the real world and believed that nature did not end or begin in a classroom but way beyond it. He knew nature was the supreme almighty that would keep a man close to his mitti/ mother earth.

Shantiniketan has scattered buildings where subjects are taught by various gurus but the core that holds the educational system together is nature. An environment surrounded by greenery enhances physical activities and creates more awareness of its surroundings thus helping humans develop focus and sensitivity towards nature and coexist with it.

What a tree meant to me, when compared to education: ● The roots represented how deep education is rooted in our minds. ● The foliage showed me how vast & ever growing education is and represented its ability to shade and nurture life. ● Branches were synonymous to the strength and support that education provides us.

Intervention 1: Under a tree with no chairs / tables but green grass around the tree with shelves that could hold plantation like ivy , money plant , flowering plants/ ferns which will help in air purification.

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Intervention 2: Second intervention is created in a way that there is a divide and stepped seating is provided with grass cover. The seating is such that one can sit inside the circular seating spaces that are created by carving out soil from the ground in order to help students submerge themselves into the the arms of mother nature or mitti. This is done to provide a new setting apart from the library where the lectures can take place out in the open.

The tree chi concept Trees are considered to be the most spiritually advanced plant on Earth because of their constant meditation with subtle energy. You can establish a relationship with trees so long as you understand their language, and once you do so, they can help you open up your energy channels in order to cultivate a calm persona and vitality. Furthermore even they can benefit from you when you help them eliminate their blocks and devitalized parts. Like any other relationships, you benefit from each other by the constant cultivation of your connection. There is an exchange of energy or chi between humans and trees whenever they connect.

Shreya Tengle - shreyat18@aoamumbai.in

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Decoding the Built Week 3 13th July 2020 - 17th July 2020 Batch Third Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Rohit Shinkre Ar. Shruti Barve Ar. Amey Ghosalkar Ar. Tushar Shetty Er. Amodh Luman Architecture is a product with a longer shelf life than most bespoke items but it requires a lot of efforts to make it a universal medium available for all users alike to access and experience it freely to its maximum potential. Our country also has a great advantage of being situated in a tropical climate which one can fully take advantage of through passive design techniques to be energy efficient whilst also being least compromising in terms of design; materials & techniques. Over the years we have seen great examples of institutional architecture which has been hugely successful in terms of post-occupation user experience in terms of comfort specifically towards our varying climates.

The exercise revolved around post-occupation analysis of Institutional Architecture examples in India from a passive design techniques standpoint. The students had to bring out the Design USP of the selected projects in a graphic format to explain the narrative of the project through a visual medium.

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Shrideep Kshirsagar

Anushka Satpalkar

Iqra Shaikh

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Indian Institute of Health Management Research Indian Institute of health management research resides near the Sanganer airport. The site chosen for the institute is very calm and away from the urban fabric of chaos. The structure claims to follow critical regionalism architecture with the material it has used to be built and has successfully attempted to practice environmental sustainability.

The institute is a compact and simple form achieved with the pinkish-grey quartzite. This stone is quarried from the nearby quarry of the Jhalana district.

The Architect gained a plus point by creating the structure with those stones as they were easily available thus maintaining the essence of the context.

The heavy walls of this load-bearing structure are delicately handled with the fins which are made from the precast concrete. These fins show off the jaali pattern which is the local art of Jaipur. Basically, with this, the regionalism factor is handled gracefully in the structure overall.

The evaporative cooling system provides the cooler air to the classrooms and faculty rooms. Jaipur being hot and dry this system provides easy and cheap solutions to maintain the temperature.

Fins and chajjas provided are in a grid pattern. The windows are provided with the jaali fins and those fins help to pass sufficient light required for the building. The square glazing panels at the top of the window helps to pass light for the backend of the indoor spaces.

The ventilator is given at the bottom of the window. It serves a dual purpose. It is an adjustable outlet for the air distributed to each space by an evaporative cooling system. So the complete window system of this structure maintains the format of division and connection followed throughout the campus. The balconies from the rooms create a connection to courts.

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Pearl Institute of Institution, Jaipur Sitting on the outskirts of Jaipur, away from the walled city, Pearl Institute of Fashion has environmentally responsive passive design methods to tackle the typical hot, dry and desert type climate with temperatures ranging from 2 degrees to 50 degrees. The city has historical and cultural background along with its vernacular architecture.

Keeping in mind its context, Indo Islamic features of Jaipur like open courtyards, step wells or baoli, jalis have a modern adaptation in the design of this building. These features form an intrinsic part of the daily life of students keeping the contextual experience the same. The immediate context being an industrial and corporate sprawl has influenced the design of the institute to be a modern contemporary one.However, the legacy of the overall context of Jaipur, is maintained by infusing the new forms with the traditional features.

The building is surrounded by a double skin layer which acts as the jali element placed at a four feet distance away from the facade. The Jali which serves as the outer skin maintains privacy thereby allowing diffused light and lowering the temperature of air since it gets compressed while passing through the holes. The rectangular rigid form is inspired from Jaipur forts to screen off the surroundings thus focusing on the interior more. The interior form is carved into courtyards. The upper floors above the courtyard have voids with a rhythmic form designed according to the orientation of the sun which allows the building to cut off the sun for about ten months of the year and only allows it for one or two winter months. Again, the form gives a modern look through passive strategies. The proportion of the built solid to the void is a question to analyse as per how it controls the sunlight through its peculiar form. Combining all these elements, the usage of artificial lighting and air conditioning was reduced by 80 to 90 percent of the time, thus keeping the building sustainable.

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Krushi Bhavan, Bhubaneswar Krushi bhavan is located in an area of administrative buildings but it definitely stands apart from the rest. It is a one of a kind building that not only caters to the government officials but also to the common folk of the city. A masterpiece that brilliantly incorporates Orya cultural influences into its very design. While that is a factor that makes the building extremely unique, something that must be noted is how efficient the structure is in terms of its sustainability and usage of passive energy.

The entire building employs a number of different techniques to aid their more eco-friendly approach, ranging from the use of solar panels, to rainwater harvesting, to the use of a night purging system to remove the hot air from the premises, inter-alia. The one feature that stood out to me was the presence of 100% day-lit work spaces.Bhubaneswar has a hot and humid climate, with temperatures going up to 37 degrees during the day. To tackle the heat, preventing its entry, while still letting sufficient light in, is a challenge.

A challenge that the team at studio lotus has creatively overcome, ensuring the entry of just enough light, neither too much nor too little.The major technique is the reduction of direct light entering the building, which they have done in a number of ways.

The structure itself has staggered massing, which allows areas to self shade. The entire structure is raised on stilts, which allows all of the ground floor to get indirect light, while remaining sufficiently cool. The mass of the upper floors also extrudes a little and creates a small overhang for the ground floor. The use of smartly placed solids and voids, recessions and extrusions, helps to create the necessary shading.

The height of the walls around the central courtyard also prevent the entry of harsh sunlight directly into it. This blocks out the heat of the overhead sun from almost all the public gathering spaces.The first floor onwards, a double skin is created with the help of brick louvers. These fixed louvers let in sunlight, but the buffer space in between the inner and outer walls reduces the heat entering it.

The angling of these louvers also provide shading from the movement of the sun throughout the day. The openings on the northern side make use of the softer light entering from that direction. Along similar lines, jaalis are used in several places, which again filter the light coming in.

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There is a variance in the size of the windows that open to the exterior and the windows that open indoors, into the courtyard. The courtyard facing windows are much larger and allow a greater amount of sunlight in.The exterior windows, while being smaller in size, also make use of extremely deep recessions which again reduce the direct sunlight and help the entry of a softer, more ambient light.

These recessions provide the effect of a built in overhang, which blocks the direct rays when the sun is at a particular altitude. This is paired with the strategic usage of external chajjas and overhangs in particular spaces to provide extra shading and protection.

The reduced window-to-wall ratio on the outer sides reduces the solar gain that occurs through large openings, while allowing enough natural daylight in to reduce the usage of electrical energy.The entire premise also has a lack of extremely polished or highly reflective surfaces, which prevents any unwanted glare. The materials used also create a high thermal mass which allows a more even distribution of the heat that does enter the building.

All of these smaller elements work together like a well oiled system in order to ensure that it is only the necessary light which enters, not the unwanted heat.

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Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology CEPT) The Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) is an educational institute that has made use of basic passive design details, and features in constructional details in addition to the basic planning and clustering principles applied in order to respond to the hot and semi – arid climate of Ahmedabad. It was initiated in 1962 by the Ahmedabad Education Society, and is situated in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat.

Ahmedabad has a hot, semi – arid climate, with three main seasons: summer, monsoon and winter. Apart from the monsoon months of June to September, the climate is extremely dry. The main source of rainfall is the South-Western monsoon winds. The climate is extremely dry, and non - humid. Cold northerly winds are responsible for a mild chill in January.

The classrooms of CEPT university are made in a way that they allow maximum natural light and wind to flow in.

The south façade of the classroom blocks are adorned with PV panelled windows, which are tilted according to the angle of the sun, to allow maximum light to flow in. Additionally, there are windows placed on the north façade, to allow north light for day lighting. Clerestories and light shelves on the south façade are present to bring in diffused and indirect light. The classrooms are double - heighted at certain areas, to increase the light coming in, and also to keep the lower areas cooler since warm air has a tendency to rise, and it would get more volume on top. That would thus make the classrooms flexible, and classes can be conducted on the lower or the higher floor, based on the heat and the time of the day. The buildings have a stack effect design with large pivoted doors and windows, and contain a solar chimney on the top storey, which helps in natural ventilation. The walls and roof are insulated, and certain classrooms are present even below the ground to keep the classrooms cool even in the heat of Ahmedabad.

The library of the university is designed with a large number of passive design strategies. The building’s modulated, louvered facade can be manually adjusted to allow less light or more ventilation into the building Located at - 4.0 m and - 8.0 m below ground level, the book stacks and study spaces benefit from natural lighting that pours in through the louvered facade as well as the natural cooling effect provided by the surrounding earth. In this way, the design of the building has borrowed its principles from passive ventilation, lighting, and traditional cooling systems in South Asia.

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from the sun’s rays, certain densely populated areas of the university are capped with a stretched fabric covering, which shelters the area below from the sun’s rays, automatically making the space usable in all seasons. In most areas, the ground is paved with concrete due to its high thermal capacity, so as to slow the process of heating up of the ground in the extreme sun.

The North Lawns is a large area that is completely open, that enables the space to be comfortably used as a recreational space by all students, almost through the entire day.

The skin of most of the building blocks of CEPT have been designed with materials that would help in insulation or atleast cutting out as much heat as possible. The primary material used is brick in most of the buildings, which is a naturally insulating material, and does not easily allow conduction of heat.

The material mainly used for structural purposes is RCC. Certain regions of the university are also situated underground, which naturally remain cool due to the thermal mass of the mud. Glass is used, mainly as openings, only in certain areas to allow light to come in, however in most areas, the openings are made as pivoted timber doors.

The clustering of the buildings also helps in dealing with the climate, since the grouping of buildings increases the shaded area in between the buildings, thus making them more usable. The courtyards formed by these clusters, bring in a lot more wind, thus, keeping the building blocks cooler and well ventilated. The buildings are grouped according to usability. This limits the movement between clusters, and does not compel the users to be out in the scorching sun for long.

Krish Mewawala- krishm18@aoamumbai.in

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Indian Institute of Health and Research Management, Jaipur The Indian Institute of Health and Research management, located in Jaipur designed by Ashok. B Lall, is an excellent example of architecture responding to the context, user requirements, and climatology. As one enters the premises, predominantly built on a north slope, to gain less heat radiation, as sun paths from east to west via the south, you'll notice that the buildings are rectangular boxes extended along the east-west axis to absorb maximum heat. They are typically two-storied as most Rajasthani vernacular houses are so that the buildings shade each other. The modules are then added and subtracted to form utility zones and courtyards. The classrooms and the hostels are also managed on a grid since it's the best way to deal with climatic conditions of Jaipur being a hot and dry zone. There is compactness within the modules, which explains the maximum heat loss, and also proves effective during dust storms. Courtyards form a very important role in IIHMR. The ratio between the height of the building and the length of the courtyard is managed so that there is efficient ventilation, heat loss, and shading, (this also explains why the buildings are two-storied). The courtyards also form a core of interactive zones, having concepts like "academic court" and "faculty court".

The dense landscaping on the western part forms the idea of a cool court and warm court. The wind which flows from the west along with landscaping carries all the cool air to the inner surroundings. Fountains and water channels increase the humidity, which leads to the hot air dissipating faster, and also help in rainwater harvesting.

The material used for construction is a locally sourced stone, forming a thick wall, which acts as thermal mass due to diurnal changes. It also has made it energy efficient by being economical, with no transportation energy required, and less usage of steel and concrete. It has added on to the aesthetics of the place. Most of the spaces are air-cooled using a centralized evaporative cooling system, which provides a high level of comfort in hot dry climate at very little cost. The windows have chajjas to block the overhead afternoon sun and vertical fins adorned with jallis, to block sun of harsh summer months. The jalli on the fins helps the air lose energy, thus making it cooler. There are two distinct ventilators, one above the window and one below.

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The one above brings in light to the back ends of the room, and the one below is a simple outlet of warm air or serves as space for window ac. At the end of the site, there is a causeway which helps elevate the water table by collecting water during rainy months. A system of shaded walkways and pergolas enhances the user experience of navigating throughout the campus.

The vegetation grown is completely "wild" and doesn't require any special maintenance. The leisure valley, that is the modified landscape, makes it a pleasant habitable space. It is an amalgamation of architecture that focuses on critical regional environmental sustainability.

Urvi Khadakban- urvik18@aoamumbai.in

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Materiality, Technological Innovations and Architecture Week 1 29th June 2020 - 3rd July 2020 Batch Fourth Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Y. D. Pitkar Ar. Shripad Bhalerao Ar. Karan Danda Ar. Juhi Prasad Ar. Prerna Thacker Technological progress has always influenced the architecture of any period be it in the realm of new innovative materials, new methods of construction or new concepts, theories, or design principles.Architecture, without technological progress, would have remained stagnant, stereotypical and devoid of the many facets, which impart truth, beauty and goodness to the structures. Exploring and understanding the innovative exploration of Materiality, Technology, Innovations in architectural design and form-finding is a key part of architectural study.

The students were made to study the work of any two architects / Engineers from the past 100 years who have experimented with technology and materials through their own unique approach and influenced the direction of architectural exploration. (e.g. Felix Candela, Frie Otto, P. L. Nervi, Santiago Calatrava) Taking inspiration from the essence of the technological innovation, thinking methodology and architectural styles they studied, the students had to design the envelope of a tennis stadium that houses two courts and viewing stands.

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The Court Conjunction

Stadia Terra Firma

De-Massive

The Arc Arena

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The Court Conjunction Inspiration from Bjarke Ingels: Experimenting with new forms, dynamism in the structures, use of sustainable construction materials, response to their surroundings -culturally, socially and architecturally in the best way possible is the key to Bjarke Ingels’s projects with humongous impact. He believes that "Buildings should respond to the local environment and climate in a sort of conversation to make it habitable for human life, drawing, in particular, on the resources of the local climate which could provide a way of massively enriching the vocabulary of architecture.”

Inspiration from Sameep Padora: Sameep Padora is known for the use of local materials, resources, the art of taking inspirations from various countries and merging in such a way that it fits in the respective setting well, adhering to the climate, soil type and other natural factors. Thus, making it relevant to the context. His designs have the materials are exposed with open floor plans and allowing the surrounding nature to flow in the structure. He always works with a motto of giving back to people and nature what they deserve.

Design Principles: The design looks forward to incorporating the styles of the above-mentioned architects an is inspired by Bjarke Ingles form exploration and Sameep Padora’s material technology and incorporating the surrounding. Considering the cold climate, the design merges with the surrounding earth by using an earth berming method with a geodesic dome as a roof.

Materials and Technology: ● Instead of using glass for the dome, ETFE polymer sheets are used. They are 95% lighter in weight than glass. They are sustainable and recyclable. ● They don’t degrade under UV light or sunlight and its life span is about 50 years. ● 3 layers are used for the polymer. In which air is pumped between them so that it becomes a pillow. It helps in controlling sunlight inlet and temperature inside the dome. ● The construction technique of the geodesic dome is explored and how stresses work on it.

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Ritika Mehta - rithikam17@aoamumbai.in Trisha Raote - trishar17@aoamumbai.in

Jayesh Sharma - jayeshs17@aoamumbai.in Vedant Khedekar - vedantk17@aoamumbai.in

Niharika Bhagwat - niharikab17@aoamumbai.in

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Stadia Terra Firma The two architects that inspired us are Shigeru Ban and Neri Oxman. Both of these architects can be considered as pioneers and humanitarians in the field of architecture. Shigeru Ban showed the world that architecture can mean so much more, as it essentially boils down to not but a shelter which should make a person feel safer and dignified. These noble intentions lead to the need for a material that facilitates the massive demand and supply and were durable, strong, stable, and it has to be available in abundance so that there is cost-saving. Paper-rolls took his attention. Proper treatment and its handling, turned these rolls into a strong, durable member. Thus, eventually, he was able to create various structures with the same element, the same material.

Neri Oxman is a leading pioneer in biomimicry, she has proved that the best architects are not us human beings but animals and other living things and that the best architecture isn’t the one that is created by us but the ones that are present in nature, we just have to try to look. She proves it by the various experiments such as the silkworm experiment or the use of Chitin, a very strong material. She has infamously termed the phrase “Material Ecology” which constitutes the relationship between products, buildings, systems, and their environment. It can be said that Neri Oxman is spearheading a change in the future of architecture and how buildings are made, with futuristic and modern technologies such as 3D printed concrete or “Fiber Bots” which can weave materials in cylinders and make various patterns and grid-like structures.

The designed stadium roof not only incorporates the materials and technologies but their values too. The use of the ramp not only facilitates the form but provides a simple yet very important function of the access for the disabled and also provides a comfortable passage for the audience where they can experience the Bamboo facade and the recycled plastic that is woven by the fiber bots to encompass the courts. The chosen material not only promotes the values of sustainability but adds the idea of architecture doing more. The structure itself dictates the form and the material helps us get closer to the nature that gives us and the structure its life.

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Pradyumna Vikharankar - pradyumnav17@aoamumbai.in Aishwarya Balsekar - aishwaryab17@aoamumbai.in

Ganesh Beniwal - ganeshb17@aoamumbai.in

Twisha Gandhi - twishag17@aoamumbai.in

Harshvardhan Jhaveri- harshvardhanj17@aoamumbai.in

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De-Massive Inspiration from Arata Isozaki: Arata Isozaki was fourteen years old when his hometown was destroyed by atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After experiencing the destructive event he was assertive about the fact that destruction is never considered as a good sign. Thus, he had a strong opinion that there is no need to beautify every structure and appreciate the incompleteness. Taking inspiration from this ideology, the tennis court roof was initially, a solid mass and then some of its parts were taken out as voids to get that sense. To follow the principle of “deconstructivism”, both the courts were separated and covered with a homogenous roof; placed a bit asymmetrically with varying heights at different points.

Inspiration from James Law: James Law is the founder of “Cybertecture” which aims at a design of all things for the world to become intelligent through new pieces of architecture, interior space, artwork, technology, and strategy. He also finds ways through his architecture to make a statement that makes people aware of certain real issues, such as lack of space, depletion of resources.

Technological advancements are his inspirations. Though most of his structures have glass resting on the diagonal grid framework, they have the potential to stand out as “intelligent and smart buildings”. Incorporating this in the design, the tennis court roof has a structural steel framework and The use of glass in place of voids. As a thought to the futuristic approach, the court roof can be placed adjoining to the bridges to cater to the leading problem of space crunch.

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Falmai Chheda - falmaic@aoamumbai.in Mayura Paranjape - mayurap17@aoamumbai.in Rajaswi Patil - rajaswip17@aoamumbai.in sharayug17@aoamumbai.i Shravani Shinde - shravanis17@aoamumbai.i Prajwal Pembarti - prajwalp17@aoamumbai.in

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The Arc Arena Inspiration from Santiago Calatrava: Art, Architecture and Engineering go hand in hand and Calatrava strongly believes in it. He also promotes that inspiration can be found in any and everything that we could see. Thus it makes him special in the way he gets inspired by the human body, nature, and develops a stunning form. Because of the unique shapes or the use of materials, all of his buildings have their sense of charm and identity to it.

Inspiration from Renzo Piano: Innovation is another name of Renzo Piano. His main motto behind his structures is that he tries to make his structures very light and transparent, so abiding by his motto we have tried to incorporate his principles by providing louvers at the top of the roof hence helping it to become more light in nature and the louvers also help the structure to breathe.

Design Principles: The design looks forward to incorporating the styles of the above-mentioned architects. The basic construction technique is inspired by Calatrava’s works and the way the structure is responding in terms of its light quality, materiality, and appearance is inspired by Renzo Piano. The louvers act as the key elements of the stadium, controlling the environment inside and also helping the structure to be light.

Materials and Technology: ● Glass is a heavy, brittle, and rigid material. So, to replace glass, the construction industry has come up with a new alternative for glass since the past few years – polycarbonate. ● ●

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This contemporary material provides maximum transparency like glass, but without the other disadvantages that glass has to offer.

Polycarbonate is transparent, yet strong, durable, impact-resistant, and flexible.

Moreover, it comes with an additional UV protective layer that lets in maximum sunlight, while keeping away the harmful UV radiations of the sun.

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

Manan Hingoo - mananh17@aoamumbai.in Ronak Gala - ronakg17@aoamumbai.in

Mansi Kothari - mansik17@aoamumbai.in Hardik Mandaliya - hardikm17@aoamumbai.in

Harshil Jain - harshilj17@aoamumbai.in

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The Knup Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect. Kuma’s goal is to resuscitate the tradition of Japanese buildings and to reinterpret these traditions for the 21st century. Thus bringing back the tradition of japan and nurturing its identity. He is also working towards an architecture of relations, respecting its surroundings instead of dominating them. Kuma’s projects maintain a keen interest in the manipulation of light with nature through materiality.

Inspirations from his work-Reinterpreting tradition, Symbiotic relationship, Composition to explore materiality, Tectonics, Recovering space, Transparency, Connection of spaces within and inside-outside, Ambiguity (even if he uses stone, he slimes it down, thus dissolving walls to express lightness and immateriality), Material innovation to support local traditional craftsmanship and to build self-sustainable buildings.

Debora Mesa Molina is an architect who makes space for experimentation in a highly regulated profession. Debora Mesa Molina designs and builds architectures that use overlooked materials and discover the beauty of the mundane. Balancing imagination with reality, art, and science, their work innovates typologies, technologies, and methodologies to address issues as diverse as the construction of the landscape to the prefabrication of the house. She has always believed that the world around us is an infinite source of inspiration if we are curious enough to see beneath the surface of things.

Inspirations from her work - Use residual materials, Balancing the structure, Beams as walls, Prefabrications, Large spans, Context-driven, Transparent, Natural making techniques.

The design strategyThe objective of the tennis game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. Considering this, the design is inspired by the trajectory of the ball which goes criss-cross so does the structural system responds to this trajectory. The design incorporates the inspirations from the architects and the game itself.

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Shruti Sahsrabuddhe - shrutis17@aoamumbai.in Adish Rathod - adishr16@aoamumbai.in

Soham Tulaskar - sohamt17@aoamumbai.in Sanath Totade - sanatht16@aoamumbai.in

Prajwal Satwidkar- prajwals16@aoamumbai.in

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Mini Liminality-Transitions in my Building Week 2 6th July 2020 - 10th July 2020 Batch Fourth Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Nachiket Kalle Ar. Sulakshana Bhanushali Ar. Harshada Shintre Ar. Saurabh Mhatre Ar. Nitesh Avhad In the everyday functioning of a building, there are many daily routine activities that are performed through the day, within and around its built environment – and no matter what is being done, every activity involves the confluence of (a) line/s of movement, (b) actioning of event/s, and (c) configuration of built/unbuilt space. Is there a way to graphically portray the sequence of a particular confluence of ‘space, movement & event’ which abstracts that confluence’s form & structure? And, which captures/fixes the instances when an activity’s spatial & operational aspects combine? Yes, Bernard Tschumi’s ‘Manhattan Transcripts’ (MT) is one such method for providing a detailed inside look at the locus and spatiality of such activities, and to encapsulate them graphically.

The objective of Part.1 of exercise was to pin-point similarities & differences between the pattern of activities performed during the functioning of 2 different buildings – Rachana Sansad building, and each student’s residential building. The process involved reading a chapter from the book ‘Skyscrapers’, watching a movie 'Playtime', and then applying them in a comparative analysis of both buildings. And Part.2 was aimed at the application of MT-method, and its process involved (a) observing, (b) mapping, and then (c) graphically representing a selected activity in each student’s residential building – in a sequential, formal & structured manner.

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Ansh Gala

Ganesh Beniwal

Harshmi Acchra

Manan Hingoo

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Far Apart Yet Close To The Heart While a home is a home, academy of architecture, our college would not be placed much away from home in our hearts. From working overnight here to waking up and using the college bathroom to freshen up and sleep for some time in the morning, we have left no stone unturned to make it our second home. While both these buildings run starkly differently as a whole, let's go ahead and explore how they do it.‘Sabari aangan’ becomes active right from early morning around 5.30 am where firstly the milkman, newspaper distributor and the car washers keep the lift and doorbells of each apartment busy. Daily the early risers from each apartment are seen using the stairs to go down for a morning walk and keep themselves fit.

Their incoming and outgoing continues till 8 am after which there is a surprising pause in the activities at the corridors. Probably everyone is back from their fitness run or have completed their duties to supply the residents with their requirements.

Our college on the other hand starts functioning later, at around 7am when the watchman first goes around with bunches of keys opening doors of each classroom for all the students. The activity of students begins from 7.15 and the density of students at the security table becomes highly dense by 7.40 when you can feel the haste in all the students to make it to their classrooms on time for attendance. The ground floor in these morning hours is a great place to document activities. It provides a large spectrum of emotions of fear, tense students running late, relief as many students and faculties sip their cup of morning tea or coffee while you can also see a few pepped up faces who are excited to meet others at college.The building sweeper starts from the topmost floor and conveniently moves down with the garbage container banging loud while it is being dragged down each riser. This constant ‘Dang- Dang’ notifies the residents that the garbage is now to be collected.

The corridors once again go silent after 11 am and now make noise only occasionally when a house maid or a visitor arrives. Constant hustle bustle and movement keeps the ground floor totally engaged. While quite often when you listen to it carefully, one can also hear the table tennis ball go ping pong in the basement. That is often students who have walked out of a studio comfortably and started a break on their own. While moving upwards the staircase is forever an active place where students do all kinds of activities; from bunking lectures to completing assignments or having faculty discussions well (well that’s usually the first years).My residence building in contrast is now a very boring dull block with none of the neighbours even talking to one another. The most social person with respect to the building would be the watchman when he is busy all day on the intercom calling every flat for every new visitor they have or the delivery they’ve received. Having no young kids or older men/women, makes the compound really dead during the rest of the day. The only liveliness is brought by a group of drivers if they gather while their bosses are back for lunch. If one ever visits the building and meets another tenant, suggestion is just smile at them or maximum say ‘Hi!’ Anything more will make the conversation awkward and you will keep thinking about it for the rest of your time.

The college in contrast cannot be made socially inactive. Even after the working hours are over for us and many students are leaving, a whole new lot of students are finding their way in as their course begins. Amidst all this in and out, there are few who are carrying their belongings from one class to another finding a suitable class for them to occupy. They mostly end up in the dull and torn out class on the third floor and share the class with all students of the course. This is actually when the fun part begins. Music starts and on a good day you can also find your mates showing off their moves to keep everyone entertained. . Phew! Now, by 8 in the evening we have the security alarming us to empty our studios and often also threatening us to leave the premises. Although all the hell that we have made of our college, it still belongs to us and we belong there, hence we can call it our second home with pride. My residence building and the college will never be the same, and for good.

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The ‘Garbage Journey The transcript records the movements of the protagonist - sweeper in the vertically elongated architectural space. The pattern of movement is denoted using lines and colours. While the images are to give a precise obectification of the scene. The event proceeds from one physical level to another, with limited variety of adjacency.

Ansh Gala - anshg17@aoamumbai.in

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Circles It’s strange isn’t it, a circle shouldn’t have a start, but this one does.This one starts with me waking up at 5:30 a.m. at my hostel room, walking with quiet steps. I rush up and get ready for college and run down to get some early arrangements for breakfast from the cook, sometimes just rushing towards the bus stop with my food still in my hand so that I don’t miss the bus that starts my journey to college.

The Guard hurriedly opens the gate and collapses back on his bead, obviously irritated.On the other side we can observe the dedicated waking up by our dearest guard uncle at the college building. After waking up he goes on and unlocks the classes so that the functioning of the college can begin. The cleaning staff start pouring in and change into their work clothes and do a preliminary check to see that the classes are clean and arranged for which we cannot thank them enough.After I leave the cook prepares proper breakfast by 7:00 a.m. for all the people who are getting down for a warm meal in the morning. By this time the warden has also woken up and gets her food delivered to her room by the cook’s helper, and our beloved, Alphonso. She sometimes comes out and takes a round around the mess to see if everyone is getting proper nutrition (or excess thereof). The cleaning helps arrive and start cleaning the common areas while everyone is leaving for their colleges.

The morning newspaper arrives and the warden orders food for another day for the mess.After enduring the atrocities of the three modes of travel that I use, I run to make it in time for attendance on the way of which I encounter and greet various colleagues and if I’m lucky, our stationery mogul, Kumar. I rush up the stairs just as various teachers are dispersing for their classes. With a good morning here and there, I reach my classroom out of breath by 7:45 a.m. just in time to hear my name being incited for attendance.By 8:00 a.m. additional services like library etc. are fully functional and people start occupying it as and when possible. Manohar combs through the structure to present tea or coffee to faculty (and sometimes students) on demand. As and when the day approaches the afternoon the Administration staff arrives and starts the management parts of the structure.

In the afternoons the crowds are scarce but they come down for the lunch nonetheless. After the lunch there is a preliminarily cleaning of the premises and the accountings of materials take place. Also, if there are some repairs to be done the handyman does it at this time so that the hostelers are not disturbed in their afternoon nap. The hostelers start coming back from college and occupying their rooms.At around 1:00 p.m. most of the people who are free start having lunch. I sit with the Management staff and Kumar to have lunch and share it with them. The cleaning staff and the watchman uncle go down in the basement to have lunch, enjoying their time with little gossips. After lunch the structure starts emptying, but it also starts filling up again. Confusing? I know it is! The architecture branch, or those who stay back are then filtered into minimum classes possible and the classes of other fields starts beginning. The Cleaning staff starts rearranging and cleaning classes sequentially.In the evening at around 5:30 p.m. a snacks counter is temporarily setup for quenching the hunger pangs of the hostelers.

The Warden goes out for an evening walk as do the other hostelers for pursuing various physical pursuits. Some people mull around the T.V. watching random television shows and some play on the table-tennis bench present in the common area.After the college composition shuffles, I go down and have a hearty conversation with Kumar as he reluctantly gives stationery to children leaving for their homes and those rushing to get to class. In the late evening students are rushed out of the structure so that the cleaning staff can arrange and clean the structure. As soon as the people exit the structure and leave for their homes a kind of comfortable silence spreads across the structure as it prepares for its slumber .At around 8:45 p.m. the hostel is closed from the inside, now only allowing entries to hostelers who had put a request for a time extension. Alongside the mess starts distributing dinner and I go down with my roommates after reaching my room from college to have a hearty meal with even heartier conversations with the cooks and the helpers. The warden takes a round of the mess after reporting the attendance to the commanding office. The activities go on till 11:00 p.m. and after there is the time out and lights go off. The lights go out and soon do the hostelers (except for the naughtiest who stay up like hooligans and disturb others sleep). The cook, the guard and we sleep peacefully waiting for another day to hit us like a storm.The Guards sleep to take rest after the work they did throughout the day in the dreams of having a day when they don’t have to prompt the students to wear their ID cards.

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The Acquirement It will not be easy ,but alas I have no other choice than to give into their demands. As I venture out to acquire what is required for the survival of my family, I see all the people I should know but don’t because of this situation that we are in,wondering what could’ve been this experience about had it not all collapsed in on itself , but now I just need to make sure I reach home alright.

Ganesh Beniwal - ganeshb17@aoamumbai.in

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Spatiality And Sociality Of The Shared Components The outer environment creates a huge impact in understanding the two contrasting studies of the buildings in terms of where it is located, surrounding activities, scale of activities, etc. Surrounded with high rises, the college building stands out with its yellow walls amidst the commercial activities happening around it, while the other building happens to be surrounded by other residential buildings, greenery and a small river at the back. Two contrasting surrounding creates an image of two different places and different set of activities in the common spaces. The shared spaces in every building or the typology of the building acts differently and also the number of activities keeps changing as per the type of building, the scale of the activities also changes. Following the sequence, starting with the main gate in both buildings act similar, facilitating all the deliveries of parcels, security offices, recording entries, and the major hustle throughout the day.

The college compound consists of a canteen which starts with tea and breakfast early in the morning and later continues with different snacks and lunch till evening snacks, fully filled with people during different time slots. The amphitheatre becomes a hub for everyone to chill, eat, talk, gather and occasional lectures under the sky.

It’s also the most occupied place because of the constant movement to Kumar’s store. Some commercial activities like a bank in the compound allow various people inside the building, who sometimes use the canteen area for lunch. While the college compound is filled with various users throughout the day from surrounding buildings as well, the building compound is filled with the residents that gather in the evening to chill and talk while the children play. Some temporary visitors like the maintenance people for generators, solar panels, reading for meter room come as per requirement or on timely basis.

The lobby in the two different buildings acts differently, in the college building, the lobby is highly active during the morning because of the early morning lectures, the students, faculty, staff members and the rush for the lift to reach their respective classes. It functions as a common point to access the canteen, amphitheatre, Kumar’s store, and auditorium. As per respective class schedules, the main lobby is constantly full, while the lobby of my building is least active in the morning as few children go for their school first and then the bustle of people starts around 9-10 am to head to work. The lobby here is mostly active in the evening and in the night where the residents gather and children play. The staircase in both cases act differently, of course it is mainly to vertically transport the people, but in the college building, it is also used for sitting and chilling and eating or to hide while you bunk the lectures; the niche is the most happening space for students when they wait for the silent juries or just a place to hang out. Starting with the main gate to the building compound to the lobby, the activities are more or less the recreational activities but because of the type of the building the scale of the activity changes too. The shared spaces are same in both the buildings but the functions of the spaces are highly contrasting.

Considering even the basic space like the staircase; it works differently in the residential building as compared to the institutional place because of the users and typology of the building.

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Transcripts of A Parcel A transcript that describes the process of delivering the parcel (milk pouch) to the main user from the different actors performing at a specific time of the day.

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The Twin Tale I live in a bungalow so it will be very different from other buildings and societies in the given area. In the morning at around 6:30- 7:00 a.m the watchman brings the milk from the dairy and the watchmen shift duties. The next person is the newspaper vendor. He starts to distribute different newspapers as per subscription to different buildings including my own. The next person to enter the premises is the car washer. The keys are handed over to him by the watchmen and he starts doing his job in the stilt and the compound area. In the next 2 hours people working in the family leave for their respective jobs. The watchmen’s job is the busiest during these hours because along with handling the gate he even has to water the plants, switch on the pump for the tank, wash the stilts and sometimes even hand over the garbage bin to the truck. There are other building watchmen who also help him during his work sometimes because they all look after each other’s duty. The next person to enter is the fruit and the press guy. They take some time to count and collect money from their customers and then leave the premises. There are no shops at any level so there is a total absence of any commercial activity. The maid comes in the afternoon and at night. There is no further maintenance which happens at any time. There are a different set of people who also come to perform their activity but in a shorter span. For example, there is the hardware guy for some repair issues, the amazon delivery or Swiggy delivery boy. So, such kind of people fall under a different category because they don’t have to come here daily and perform their activity.

Rachana College has a variety of people and activities that take place throughout the day. The college gate is opened by the watchmen at around 6 a.m. And the watchmen monitor the entry of the students from 7 a.m. Kumar’s shop and the canteen both start at around 8 a.m. The canteen starts to fill out during the late morning where people from all the departments come down to either eat from the canteen or sit down with their friends. There is a mix of people seen in the canteen during lunch time. It is during this time and the time the college ends when the canteen is the busiest. Manohar starts to deliver tea and coffee to different faculty members in different classes. There is even the use of basement where many students and even faculty go to hang out and play different indoor games. The use of the space between the staircase also plays a significant role in the college as you can see various people spend their free time there during the college. The college officially ends at about 3 p.m. for architecture students and later on those classrooms are dedicated for students from other departments. It is during this time that the housekeepers come to clean all the classrooms. The students are allowed to stay inside the college till 8:30 p.m. In the end we can see that the range of people differ during the entire day and that also depends on the opening and closing time of the college.

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The Removal of Garbage The garbage is collected in a dustbin which then travels through the steps to reach the outside of the house. There is transition of the subject as well as the object. The watchman then takes the dustbin and empties it into the larger bin. Keeping the safety measures in mind, the dustbin is sanitised and is kept back at its initial position.

Manan Hingoo - mananh17@aoamumbai.in

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Contrast The day begins, the sun rises, there is a watchman uncle who comes and opens the gate and, in the compound, an older uncle called ‘khhalo’, opens the gate of our compound to go for the morning prayer. The comparison of the high rise building with the low rise is with to respect the spaces and activities where some are common and some are different, however, the concept of multipurpose spaces applies to both scenarios. The day starts at 5:15 in the morning in our neighbourhood. The aforementioned older person, ‘khalo’ opens the door of the compound to reach the morning prayers. After returning from the prayers he brings some snacks like ‘samosas’ and ‘khari’ for breakfast. Now at 5:45, everybody in the area wakes up. The ‘greerrrrrrr’ sound of a motor machine comes from our neighbour’s house. It’s a motor which pumps water from the main pipeline. This is how you know it’s the day water comes from its 6-day cycle. .On the other side, at around 6:45 to 7 o'clock the canteen staff and the cleaning staff come to the college. The canteen staff goes to the back of the canteen and the lady staff and cleaning staff go to the underground level for some refreshment and a little chit-chat. They enjoy this little break till the students start coming college. Here in my locality, everybody has taken out their buckets, ‘handi’ and water drums in the compound, near the water pump machine to store water. ‘Khalo’ holds the pipe from the metal bed near the motor and fills all the ‘handi’ and buckets turn by turn. Me and my neighbour stand there and have a little chat about the day while waiting for our turn.

When our turn comes they first fill the drum which is placed near his house and then the buckets. In the house there ae two sections of water storage; first is for cooking and the other one is for cleaning purposes.While this is the rush-hour of storing the water in my locality, on the other side the rush hour has just started for students with a box of some models in one hand and a folio on the other shoulder.

On submission days some students hurry to take their prints from ‘Rajeshwari’ or from ‘Sagar’. While Kumar opens his shop, the student who gather around the counter tell him “ke bhai please Puja bad me ker main ko yah chij De De”, At the main gate a van stops, and a police man comes out with a set of water bottles to fill water from the canteen water purifier. During this time the cleaning staff have divided themselves and start cleaning from the top floor.In our locality, the water is gone now, but our neighbour has the new connection with the new Municipal pipeline, so they are still filling the water after-time. When they’re done, they pass the pipe from the wall so we can store water too. At this time, the aunties in my compound are making breakfast, after which they start washing clothes. As the time passes, the sun rises. It's 8:30 now and the aunties are done with washing. The ‘dudh wala’ mama comes on in his bike and parks it in front of the gate while the aunties come with bags to collect milk.In college, at 7:30 all the hustle bustle has calmed down, except for some late comers like me. The juries and studios have started.

On a routine schedule, Manohar goes all the all the studios to serve tea and coffee to the faculty.It’s now afternoon, and the sun is at its peak level. The students are done with their jury, after which most of the students go out; some to pay the xerox guy, some to Madhya, and some for a little breakfast. However, most of the student have their breakfast in canteen, while the faculty have theirs in the staff room. After breakfast, all the students who have studios up to 2 o'clock run for the lecture which has started by now. In the staff room, Nandu is trying to place all the submissions in studio format. It is 2 p.m. in the afternoon, all the hassle is over, all the juries are done and all the studios are done. Most of the students are in a hurry to leave college, while some students work in their studios for the next jury and some have a small snack in the canteen. This wraps up the studio working hours in college.

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The Water Storing Transcript This is the routine of storing water in our area (Aurangabad),where the water is supplied in 6 or 8 days in once. This series of photograph shows the act of storing water and the diagrams show the activities of the person and the movement of water from the main pipeline to the area where the water is stored. These all activities happen in the front yard(multi-purpose area)of my house.

Ibrar Shaikh - ibrars16@aoamumbai.in

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Stress on Culture, Strain of Structure Week 3 13th July 2020 - 17th July 2020 Batch Fourth Year B.Arch UA Studio Conductors Ar. Rohit Shinkre Ar. Shruti Barve Ar. Amey Ghosalkar Ar. Tushar Shetty Er. Amodh Luman

Stressing the need for highlighting ‘cultural identity’ in Indian films, Satyajit Ray in ‘Our films, their films - what is wrong with Indian films’ argued for placing content over style, and for relevance over glamour. He had a certain outlook towards cinema of both the west and the east. A lot of time has elapsed since 1948, and yet, Ray’s views apparently continue to be highly relevant to the present-day Indian context. Meanwhile, stress and strain also feature in two other senses - (a) in the analysis of the structure of buildings, and (b) in the study of structural theory. To appreciate the enormity of the latter sense, imagine the photograph of Sachin Tendulkar raising his bat and his eyes to the heavens after successfully completing a dogged century against a formidable Aussie attack... his emotional expression exactly reflects the emotion expressed by every student of architecture upon successfully clearing the final Theory of Structures exam.

In Part.1 of the exercise, students were asked to broaden their outlook and understand Ray’s rationale for foregrounding cultural identity through the medium of cinema.

Subsequently, they formulated an assessment of the relevance of Ray’s rationale when considering (a) the conditions prevailing in present-day Indian cinema, in parallel with (b) the conditions of architecture prevalent in present-day India. And for Part.2, students were asked to make things easy for their juniors... by explaining the first principles of structural mechanics, with the help of illustrations, teaching models and videos. Henceforth no junior student would have to undergo any stress & strain when engaging with the issues of loads, transference, forces, moments, deflection, free-body diagrams, triangulation etc. All they would have to do is watch the videos made by our students.

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Working of Buttress

Buckling of Compression Members

Pre-Fabrication and Pre-Engineering

Columns Under Water

Types of Frames

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Working of Buttress

Charmi Gada - charmid17@aoamumbai.in Harshmi Acchra - acchrah17@aoamumbai.in Aanchal Kanojia - aachalk17@aoamumbai.in

Buckling of Compression Members

Vedant Khedekar - vedantk17@aoamumbai.in Ritika Mehta - rithikam17@aoamumbai.in

Pre-Fabrication & Pre-Engineering

Ibrar Shaikh - ibrars16@aoamumbai.in Amey Kodalkar - ameyv15@aoamumbai.in

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STRESS ON CULTURE, STRAIN OF STRUCTURE

Soham Tulaskar - sohamt17@aoamumbai.in Prajwal Prembarti - prajwalp17@aoamumbai.in Pradyumna Vikharankar - pradyumnav17@aoamumbai.in

Types of Frames

Trisha Raote - trishar17@aoamumbai.in Niharika Bhagwat - niharikab17@aoamumbai.in

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