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CONTEXTUALISING INTERIOR SPACE MAKING
Interior Architecture Hospitality Design informed by the local context Architecture, exterior or interior, can be considered to be a result of an appropriate response to a physical context which can be summarised as ‘Form Follows Context’. A deeper understanding would include ‘culture’. The studio explores the interface between interior architecture and its ‘context’ in hospitality design. If the design of a hotel could showcase the context, it would be an enriching experience for the visitor, while boosting the local economy and preserving the local culture. The understanding of “critical regionalism” is necessary since it will define the manner in which local architecture, interior and culture will be studied and reinterpreted.
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FORGOTTEN / TRANSFORMED
Cities change constantly in the open-ended spectacle of daily life, with new buildings being constructed and the repair or demolition of old and redundant structures. However, within this urban flux, some elements endure; from the major urban spaces, the exemplary architectural works, the memorials to major historic events. This studio explores the “creative” potential of building adaptation. It will focus on suitable “retired” buildings in a city, blurring conventional boundaries between architecture and interiors. We will research every aspect of the existing architectural space, including its history and setting, the essence of its emotional power, and its place in the collective urban memory. We will then design inspiring interior-architectural transformations that will generate new spatial purposes, experiences, expressions, meaning, emotions and memories.
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The Social Incubation center is a place where people working in different fields throughout the Ahmedabad can come contributing to the civic projects that AMC is carrying out providing their inputs. It will lead to more involving and awareness among the people of Ahmedabad. Its also a place where skilled individuals or communities are provided a platform to get commissions on projects they can work on hence generating revenue and place of opportunities for the people of Ahmedabad. to early stage social entrepreneurs in three stages- testing, building, and growth This program will support people of Ahmedabad to: 1.Share and develop their knowledge of social enterprises and their context in Ahmedabad 2.Discuss live examples to deepen their understanding of the realities of running and being part of a social enterprise incubator, through peer learning 3.Interact and exchange experiences with incubators, incubatees and others who share goals of supporting sustainable social impact, providing an opportunity for collaboration and co-incubation
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5.5- 3D Renders Interior and Exterior views
View of the Courtyard seen while entering the site
View Leading to the cafe.
View of the passage leading to the cafe seen when entering the site
View of the site seen when entered from the busy road
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5.5- 3D Renders Interior and Exterior views
View of the Permanent Exhibition on the ground floor
View of the Temporary + Exhibition space on the first floor level of the site
View of the Cafe looking towards the two roads surrunding the site
View of the Display unit on the first floor exhibition space
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BEYOND DETAIL
The Beyond Detail Studio will explore the issue of creating emotionally immersive retail space at every stage in the process and at every scale from the overall design the smallest detail. Particular focus will be given to crafting the immaculate details essential to delivering the quality of retail experience now required.
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NOT A CHILD’S PLAY
Spaces for children often follow a set of stereotypes dictated not by what children want or like but rather an adult’s perception of a child’s needs based on their own biases and insecurities. In this studio, students learned to negotiate and strike a balance between a child’s and adult’s vision for a built space in the context of a Primary School. Learning is the central activity in schools. This studio dealt with developing a Spatial Pedagogy that facilitates learning while placing the spotlight on the physical and psychological needs of children. An added dimension has been to explore the idea of primary school design in two different site contexts –rural and urban. While the key question that was investigated through this studio was ‘what do children want with respect to the spaces they occupy?’, other aspects that were delved into such as ‘are children in urban centres different from those in rural centres?’
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REIMAGINING THE VERNACULAR Vernacular in the broader context can be stated as ‘for the people, by the people.’ As per the oxford dictionary, vernacular is defined as “of an artistic form or feature: native or peculiar to a particular country or locality; esp. (of architecture or interiors) consisting of or concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings.”
The studio will be an attempt to understand the vernacular furniture / objects of Gujarat/Rajasthan and understand the shift in the way these types of culturally rooted furniture and the associated lives are perceived within the urban context. And develop a new perception and imaginary contextualization which will lead to an immersive experiential exhibition that will try to challenge the traditional notion of the field of craft as well as its public display.
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Wood
Stone WOOD WORKSHOP 3.Takhat1 4. Takhat 2
1.Patla 1 5.Basni 1 7.Pidha 1
STONE WORK SHOP 16.Silbatta 17. Chakki
2.Patla 2 6.Basni2 8.Pidha 2
15. Chowki
19.Sinhasan 1 20.Sinhasan 2
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10.Jhula 2 18. Bench
Volume circum flow The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum seeks to serve the community as an institution dedicated to excellence in cultural education through exhibitions and different visual and intellectual media.
2 Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
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13.Majju 1
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21. Paniara
The whole museum is divided into two parts the ground floors is referred to as the industrial art gallery and the top floor is called Mumbai and its journey.
Aadivasi (tribal) museum caters to a vivid collection of the various artefacts provides a vivid visual picture of the different facts of tribal life, culture and art. The museum is divided into four parts which is connected by a common circulation space. The four spaces depict the various distribution of the tribes that still live in their old habitat and the tribes that have migrated to cities.
1 Aadivasi Museum
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Decoding ‘Poetics of Space’ by Gaston Bachelard
I have learned to understand poetry that a space has to offer. Each and every space has a story to tell about the memory attached to it.
“In order to learn the difference between the discursive ventures of the mind and the powers of the spirit, we must meditate upon the following thought: “the lyrical spirit takes strides that are as vast as synthesis while the novelist’s mind delights in analysis.” Bachelard uses the term “Intimate Immensity” to describe the poetic experience of being lost in thoughts and contemplation, its capacity to extend beyond the intimate, private space and into the vast, limitless possibilities of our imagination. The limitation of our imagination is not restricted by physical size or boundary, but is part of our inner constitution as meaningful and poetic individuals. For me the notion of interior spaces has a double meaning for the body- what it houses inside and what it experiences on the exterior which is the context or the environment it is in.
Corner for Nature
Corner for Music “representation is dominated by imagination……………….. ……….values become condensed and enriched in miniature….. one must go beyond logic in order to experience what is large in what is small.”
Representation of a personal space in a frozen environment seems impossible in the starting but the value that the topography holds starts giving the space a shape one must look beyond the practicality like imaging life under the frozen lake in the voids created by the air gaps and inhabitation above mountains. Also making miniature rich in detail.
Corner for Books
Corner for Creativity
“familiar objects become the miniatures of a world. macrocosm and microcosm are correlated.”
Just like everything in this world is related with each other every site is related to its context which is very curtail. The context gives the final picture of how things are gonna look and what kind of a view one must see daily in a frozen world.
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“from the interior he discovers interior beauty. here we have an inversion of perspective, which is either fleeting or captivating”
“the slightest value extends, heigh or multiplies them. either the dreamer becomes the of his image, absorbing all its space or he confines ~self in a miniature venion of his images.”
Just like every space has its beauty frozen land has its own from mountains to the frozen lake that one can walk on felling the harsh sun in an extreme climate one finds beauty that cannot be expressed in words but can only be felt.
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Case Study Learning OutcomeUnderstanding of other designer’s Work
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Length: 3.589 km
Chimanlal Girdharlal Road
North end: Sardar Patel Stadium Crossroads, Navrangpura South end: Mahalaxmi Crossroads, Paldi
Chimanlal Girdharlal Road, colloquially the C. G. Road, is one of the major roads of Ahmedabad. It has been ranked as the costliest retail location in the city. It is named after Chimanlal Girdharlal, one of the major businessmen of the 1960s in India. C.G.
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