Winter School - HYDERABAD

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BIRIYANI NIGHT

Lumbini Park

GOLKONDA FORT Light and Sound Show

RAMOJI FILM CITY

ANANTAGIRI HILLS

SHILPARAMAM

Ram Ki Bandi

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Bright Horizon Academy designed by DESIGNAWARE

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FRACTALS WORKSHOP with Ar. Takbir Fathima.

DAY 1 FRACTALS WORKSHOP Hussain Sagar Lake

DAY 2

DAY 3 Prasad Theatre

FRACTALS WORKSHOP & EXIHIBITION

ANANTAGIRI HILLS

DAY 4

DAY 5

DAY 6

DAY 7 DURGHAM CHERUVU

IKEA

GOLKONDA FORT

DAY 8 Charminar

Heritage Tour

& the future

Faculty Co-ordinators

Ar. HEMA MALINI “Ar. Hema Malini found her passion in interiors and did her master degree in Interior Design.

She has experience in project management and design on commercial, residential and hospital projects. Her area of expertise is management, as she’s great with people and communication. She believes that design lies in the beauty of understanding the clients and being part of their design sense and emphasizing on them.”

Ar. PRITHVI MAHADEVAN Ar. Prithvi Mahadevan is a young architect with an increasing love for ecology and the social aspects of the society. She has been involved in research and mapping of ecology in the city of Chennai, with special focus on the water resources. She is also actively involved in using the research projects as a container to conduct the Urban design Studio.

Er. KARTHIK “Mr. Karthik, an Electrical Engineer has his extensive knowledge to make the toughest problems to be an easy one. His way of teaching motivates students to perform well in their exams and career. Also, he guides students to excel in aptitude exams and competitive exams.”

Ar. TAKBIR FATHIMA DESIGNAWARE

Ar. Takbir is an architect, educator and entrepreneur, and she runs the experimental design and architecture studio, DesignAware, and the Fractals Workshop. Some words of inspiration from her: “I write to make sense of my thoughts and spark relevant conversations. My aim is to give back to communities through socially-relevant projects alongside architecture and interdisciplinary design research. I believe design and technology should not be confined within the bounds of a single discipline or become the forte of a select few, and I’m on a mission to make design more inclusive and democratic. I work across built and natural environments, and real and virtual worlds.

I co-founded BuildAware (in the middle of the pandemic!) to streamline construction and fabrication processes and gain better control over the quality of built spaces. I’m a part of the sustainable design and research initiative, ard.

I also design virtual spaces in the metaverse on UPWorlds.

I’m associated in a teaching capacity with CEPT University, the Boston Architectural College, Digital FUTURES, Turenscape Academy, and Meta Open Arts (formerly Facebook Analog Research Lab). I’ve written for The Wire, Indian Architect & Builder magazine, Architecture Live!, the Journal of the IIA, Gulf Construction magazine, and Mvslim.

I’m a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and a TEDx speaker.

I’m intrigued by craft and different ways of making, designing and solving puzzles, speculative design/fiction/ multiverses, storytelling, and the fine line between utopia/ dystopia.

I’ve lived in many different places all my life, and work across borders, and I consider myself the New Nomad.”

BRIGHT HORIZON School Visit DESIGN by : DESIGNAWARE ARCHITECTS

ACADEMY

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design & details

A charity school that had been run by a zakah-funded, not-forprofit educational trust for the last six years finally required a building. The site is located on a hill top, in the unplanned settlement within the walls of the majestic Golconda fort in Hyderabad. This school had been functioning out of a large shed with partitions to create classrooms. The project was riddled with multiple challenges. Since the school is run solely based on individual donations, the budget was extremely tight. Material choices had to be economical as well as durable. The ensemble team working on the project was mostly devoting time on a pro bono or non-profit basis. The site is highly contoured and covered with sheet rock and boulders that are 250 million + years old (a topographic trait of the Deccan Plateau) buried under a blanket of garbage piled on over decades. Articulating the peculiar and difficult topography of the site and its surrounds posed a major challenge: due to proximity to heritage structures and dense urban context, most of which is residential, blasting the rock was not an option, and preserving the rock was one of the project aims. There is also a height restriction in the Heritage Zone.

Campus Visit

FRACTALS Fractals as a mode

The Fractals Workshop is a generative design and computation workshop that combines logic, geometry, natural systems and structure. This workshop is an adaptation of the teaching methods practiced at the Design Research Lab at the AA School of Architecture in London.

The focus is on developing prototypical design systems from the bottom up using analog algorithms versus designing from the top down. The method is inspired from the organic growth of natural systems, parametric architecture, structural systems, mathematics and geometry, and algorithms. The workshop encourages teamwork, design thinking, 3D thinking and logic.

FRACTALS WORKSHOP

fractal, in mathematics, any of a class of complex geometric shapes that commonly have “fractional dimension,” a concept first introduced by the mathematician Felix Hausdorff in 1918.

FRACTALS WORKSHOP For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines, mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc.

Abstract fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over.

A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scale They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems – the pictures of Chaos. Geometrically, they exist in between our familiar dimensions. Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full of fractals.

Fractals are distinct from the simple figures of classical, or Euclidean, geometry— the square, the circle, the sphere, and so forth.

Many fractals possess the property of self-similarity, at least approximately, if not exactly. A self-similar object is one whose component parts resemble the whole.

This reiteration of details or patterns occurs at progressively smaller scales and can, in the case of purely abstract entities, continue indefinitely, so that each part of each part, when magnified, will look basically like a fixed part of the whole object.

Fractals are a paradox.

Amazingly simple, yet infinitely complex.

ALPHA

Reshmitha Nisha Aarthi Hari haran Arunthavaraj

PEAKY BLINDERS

Prathibha Neha Sriram Thaswanth Aishwarya

AMIGOS

Keerthana Samritha Naveen Bhuvanesh Yahya

SPARTANS

Kaviya Kaaviya Martina Hridhya Rohan

FIVE

Sadhiq Afeefah Preethi Keerthi Julie

FLEX

ZELMIRA Maha Yaswini Rikesh Sruthi Ugendhar

DAUNTLESS

Shrawanthi Tharanya Ahmed yasheen Arunachalam Kirupahari

EUNOIAS

Shanmathi Swarnika Divya Beeshma Tejaa

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Qutub s h a h iTOMBS

Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate

The Qutub Shahi Tombs are located in the Ibrahim Bagh (garden precinct), close to the famous Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India.

They contain the tombs and mosques built by the various kings of the Qutub Shahi dynasty. The galleries of the smaller tombs are of a single storey while the larger ones are two storied.

In the centre of each tomb is a sarcophagus which overlies the actual burial vault in a crypt below. The domes were originally overlaid with blue and green tiles, of which only a few pieces now remain.

The complex was put by UNESCO on its “tentative list” to become a World Heritage Site in 2014, with others in the region, under the name Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate (despite there being a number of different sultanates).

TOMBS TOMBS

The tomb complex lies north of the outer perimeter wall of Golkonda Fort and its Banjara Darwaza (Gate of the Gypsies), amidst the Ibrahim Bagh.

The tombs form a large cluster and stand on a raised platform. They are domed structures built on a square base surrounded by pointed arches, a distinctive style that blends Persian and Indian forms.

The tombs are structures with intricately carved stonework and are surrounded by landscaped gardens.

GOLCONDA LIGHT & SOUND SHOW @

A unique perspective on one of Hyderabad’s historical treasures at a 3-hour Sound and Light Show at Golconda Fort, with private transport.

Be chauffeured to this ruined hillside fort outside the city, and enjoy a 1-hour entertainment extravaganza, as colorful lights and music, plus commentary

by Indian movie star Amitabh Bachan, bring the medieval complex to life.

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GOLCONDA HERITAGE WALK @

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LIGHT & SOUND SHOW

It was initially called Shepherd’s Hill (Golla Konda in Telugu). According to legend, a shepherd boy came across an idol on this rocky hill. [citation needed] The information was conveyed to the ruling Kakatiya king, who constructed

a mud fort around this holy spot.

After 200 years, Bahamani rulers took possession of the fort. Under the Bahmani Sultanate, Golconda slowly rose to prominence.

FORT VISIT Golconda Fort - “shepherds’ hill”, is a fortified citadel built by the Qutb Shahi dynasty (c.

1512–1687), located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Because of the vicinity of diamond mines, especially Kollur Mine, Golconda flourished as a trade centre of large diamonds, known as the Golconda Diamonds. The region has produced some of the world’s most famous diamonds, including the colourless Koh-i-Noor (now owned by the United Kingdom), the blue Hope (United States), the pink Daria-i-Noor (Iran),

the white Regent (France), the Dresden Green (Germany), and the colourless Orlov (Russia), Nizam and Jacob (India), as well as the now lost diamonds Florentine Yellow, Akbar Shah and Great Mogul.

The complex was put by UNESCO on its “tentative list” to become a World Heritage Site in 2014, with others in the region, under the name Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate (despite there being a number of different sultanates).

Heritage Walk

Knowing the story of the sultans

Hike up the fort

Ariel view of the hyderabad city and fort

Knowing the rich history

OLD CITY HERITAGE WALK

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The Charminar (lit. ‘four minarets’) constructed in 1591, is a monument located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The landmark has become known globally as a symbol of Hyderabad and is listed among the most recognised structures in India. It has also been officially incorporated as the Emblem of Telangana name=Symbol”Kakatiya arch, Charminar in Telangana state logo”. as Eid-ul-adha and Eid al-Fitr,[3] as it is adjacent to main mosque of the city Makkah Masjid across the road.

The Charminar’s long history includes the existence of a mosque on its top floor for more than 425 years.

While both historically and religiously significant, it is also known for its popular and busy local markets surrounding the structure, and has become one of the most frequented tourist attractions in Hyderabad.

Charminar is also a site of numerous festival celebrations, such as Eid-uladha and Eid al-Fitr, as it is adjacent to main mosque of the city Makkah Masjid across the road. The Charminar is situated on the east bank of Musi river. To the west lies the Laad Bazaar, and to the southwest lies the richly ornamented granite Makkah Masjid.

It is listed as an archaeological and architectural treasure on the official “List of Monuments” prepared by the Archaeological Survey of India.

The English name is a translation and combination of the Urdu words chār and minar or meenar, translating to “Four Pillars”; the eponymous towers are ornate minarets attached and supported by four grand arches.

O L D CITY H Y D The Old City of Hyderabad is a walled city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India, located on the banks of the Musi River built

by Qutb Shahi sultan Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 AD. There used to be a wall surrounding the Old City, most of which is destroyed.[3] Mubariz Khan, the Mughal governor of Deccan Subah, had fortified the city in 1712 and was completed by Nizam of Hyderabad.[4] At the center of Old City is the Charminar, and region contains major neighborhoods of the city including Shah Ali Banda, Yakutpura, Dabirpura, Afzal Gunj, Moghalpura, Malakpet and Falaknuma.

Today, Hyderabad has expanded far beyond the boundaries of the Old City, and the crowded Old City remains the symbolic heart of cosmopolitan Hyderabad along with HITEC City.

The area is a tourism hotspot, and the heart of Hyderabadi Muslim culture. There used to be a granite wall surrounding the old city. The wall was constructed during the 17th and 18th centuries, during the Qutb Shahi, Mughal and Asaf Jahi periods. The wall had thirteen gateways called darwazas and thirteen smaller entrances called khirkis.

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hITECH CITY The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Indian information technology, engineering, health informatics, and bioinformatics, business district located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

HITEC City is spread across 81 ha (200 acres) of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli,

Kondapur, Manikonda, Nanakramguda and Shamshabad. The combined technology township is also known as Cyberabad with a radius of 52.48 km (32.61 mi) surrounding approximate area of 6,100 ha (15,000 acres).

HITEC City is within 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills.

industrial VISIT

Lumbini Park, officially T. Anjaiah Lumbini Park, is a small public, urban park of 3 hectares (7.5 acres) adjacent to Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad, India. Since it is located in the centre of the city and is in close proximity to other tourist attractions, such as Birla Mandir and Necklace Road, it attracts many visitors throughout the year. Boating is one of the best part and people go to the Buddha idol placed in the middle of the tank band in the boats. Constructed in 1994, the park is named after the former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh T. Anjaiah.

The park is maintained by the Buddha Purnima Project

Authority that functions under the directives of the Government of Telangana.

In 2007, it was one of the targets of the 25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings that killed 44 people.

Lumbini Park

Handicraft Centre & Cultural Art Centre

S h i l p a r a m a m

Sudha Car Museum Museum of unique cars

Sudha Cars Museum is an automobile museum located in Hyderabad, India. The museum displays “crazy cars” that resemble everyday objects. These cars are handmade by Kanyaboyina Sudhakar (known mainly as K. Sudhakar or K. Sudhakar Yadav) who started it as his hobby in his school days and opened the dedicated museum in 2010.

Different types of balls as cars

Toilet seats as cars

Cycle trollies

Train carraiges

Computer Cars

Sudha Car Museum

Prasad Theatre

IMAX

Prasad’s Multiplex was the first multiplex theatre in Hyderabad located in Necklace road.

The highlight is that this Imax theatre has the rare screen in the entire Asia.

It is bigger than any other 70 mm theatres where one can enjoy movies especially 3D movies.

Ramoji FILM city

Ramoji Film City is an integrated film studio complex located in Hyderabad, India. Spread over 1,666 acres, it is the largest integrated film city in the world and as such has been certified by the Guinness World Records as the largest studio complex in the world.

Bahubali Set Carnival Rides Making of a film and film set Themed Gardens City within a city Bird Sanctuary

It was built by Telugu film producer Ramoji Rao in 1996. The Guardian described Ramoji Film City as “city within a city.”

It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing natural and artificial attractions including an amusement park. Around 1.5 million tourists visit this place every year.

BAHUBALI Mahishmathi set in RAMOJI FILM CITY

durgham cheruvu

70 mm Dosa

Biriyani Night 3

Biriyani Night 1

EXPLORING F O O D IN HYDERABAD

Biriyani Night 2

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Deccan Tails An Adventure Activity & Campsite in Hyderabad.

Deccan Trails is a getaway-from-it-all retreat in the serene Anantagiri Hills in the lap of mother nature, just a mile off the Vikarabad highway.

Close enough to reach within an hour’s drive from Hyderabad’s outer ring road and far enough to be away from the din and mad scramble of busy city life.

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Deccan Trails

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• Rock Climbing • Zip Line • Rope Walking • Swimming Pool • Trekking • Staying in tent

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