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HOUSING 101
Category : Post-disaster Integrated Resettlement Housing
Location : Panipokhari, Dolakha
Area : 39642.49 Sq. m. (77-14-3-0)
While Thami people travel all the way to Panipokhari, their livelihood still revolves around Boshimpa that does not anyhow mean Boshimpa is suitable for living conditions. Every year the village suffers from a huge loss of life and property as it belongs in landslide-flood-prone areas. That could be the reason why the government proposed the resettlement of the Thami community in much lower lands. The resettlement housing proposed by the government was the relocation of only the people but not their livelihoods with their agricultural fields and livestock left behind. The design that has been proposed had to resettle on the different dimensions it had to attribute to the larger prospect of Dolakha City.
Year : 2021 Type Academic
With urban sprawl turning cities chaotic, increase needs and opportunities might deteriorate the true essence Panipokhari today is likely to offer. It might be another example of another city of Dolakha, Charikot which extended up to the level only where the highway reached. The design tackles the site not just to cater to the present need of Thami community, but for the next future that it is out to bring through the expansion capacity it adapts through the north-south linear axis.
The post-disaster resettlement housing in Panipokhari not only respects the incrementality in the prototypes but also on the whole site which would adapt the needs of the society is likely to offer accepting flexibility in housing demands in the coming future in emerging rural cities.
In collaboration with District Level Planning Sector - Dolakha
PaniPokhari
Boshimpa
Dolakha - Singati Highway
Total 3 prototypes are placed where number of users and the activity of the users determine the size and shape of prototype.
The individual site of tentative area 170 Sq. m. is placed in the site connecting the road and housing modules, provision of community center, health post and temple area.
Provision of 6m major axis road marks, a commercial street is developed along the road where the prototypes are allocated accordingly.
Cut and fill to provide road along the site to provide infrastructure as transportation, water supply and drainage facilitues to every household in the housing settlement.
Provision of green belt in the east-west axis to preserve the environment as well as the character of the place.
SUPERFUTCHE
Category : Future Classroom
Location : Dhoksan, Nepal
Area : 50 sq.m
With the future proceeding with so many possibilities, an idea of a future classroom rests on education not bounded by walls but connecting different parts of the world through a portal. A portal behaves as a progressive channel screen which breaks the typical ideology of egg crate classroom. With a new approach to pedagogy, the building itself acts as a teacher and gets connected around the globe.
The classroom in future is encouraged in establishing spaces that affect the five senses of a child’s brain. When one enters the classroom from the mezzanine floor connected through a courtyard, one is exposed to a communal space with a portal on the ceiling. As descending to the lower space, a learning area with a mini library along with some secluded spaces encourages students to learn by themselves.
Year : 2020 Type Competition
Alongside the advancement of technology, the future classroom focuses more on physical activity of children through kinetic floor tiles. The tiles help in transforming the footsteps of children into energy that can be outsourced for the classroom itself. Virtual and augmented reality are being developed rapidly and one day these technologies will be used in the class room that demands movement and will let children learn by being part of the physical space.
The structure encompasses the use of recycled corrugated sheets and polycarbonate sheets between bamboo frames. Between two layers of CGI sheets, a spray foam insulation is provided for thermal and sound insulation. The facade comprises colored CGI sheets influencing cognitive abilities and stimulating a child’s brain.
In collaboration with Supertecture & Patrizia Foundation
BEAUTIFUL EVERY TIME
Category : Reintegrating Campus Block with Landscape
Location : Thapathali Engineering Campus, Kathmandu
Area : 2500 sq.m
Year : 2022
An architect demands a space to be creative that broadens their horizons. The space designed is a remembrance of the author’s childhood after a long class, where the center court served as a turn off button to relax. Why doesn’t a similar arrangement be adapted in our daily workplaces where studios are surrounded by serene places? The space could be for one to think, stroll, be inquisitive or whimsical, but most of all, be comfortable with themselves. We are losing sight of the fact that our minds require peace and serenity in order to calm down from our hectic lives.
The space is an escape in creating innovative ways to arouse the primary senses through irregularities in nature, which can fill the mind with a sense of awe and endless possibilities.
The lush wild grass, varieties of plants, warped hammocks, and a big old maple tree reveal the space to know us and perceive our thoughts. Nature and it’s iregularities bring a balance in the space we feel alive. We all deserve a space that accepts us for who we are and the moment we feel is beautiful every time.
Type
Academic
In collaboration with Thapathali Enginnering Campus
