Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 08)

Conceptual idea level design: Time problem (4-5 Hrs)
Studio Apartment.

Character and Context:

• Select a character you want to inhabit in your apartment.
• Identify the behavioral and psychological characteristic of your character.
• Select a suitable site and context for your studio apartment.

Exercise:
They had to demonstrate of

• How and what kind of changes/ transformation your studio apartment is going through in various situation?
• How emerging technologies can be integrated in the design?

Presentation:
Can be in any form; preferably collage or other visual formats

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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 07)

Members
Vaibhav, Ritu, Navita, Anshika, Ayesha


Character
Dexter and Dee Dee

• Brother and sister
• Aged 8 and 13 respectively
• Complete opposites

1. Dexter: mad scientist, evil genius, secretive, highly intelligent, introvert, nerd and irritable
2. Deedee: shopoholic,extrovert, annoying, talkative, irritating, alpha female

Site
Chandani Chowk, Delhi

• Place to be linked with jama masjid
• Hidden- place beneath, in movement, camouflaged
• Crowded place in the bazaar
• Light a crucial factor

Collage
Yet to be received

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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 06)

Members
Farheen, Arshia, Purva


Character
Mermaid.

• A strong, dynamic, female who has an emotional link to the water
  
• Professional
• Designer/ inventor

Site
On and in the Hudson river, New York

• With an optional link to the land ( New York City)
• With water treatment and –water-drawn energy systems.

Collage


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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 05)

Members
Abhinav, Swarnabh, Sambit


Character
Techie Hacker/ Information Pirate

• Pirates information for clients. 25 yrs of age
• Needs apartment to be off the grid to hide excessive power consumption
• Musician

Site
Seaside apartment, completely self reliant, off the grid

• Transportable pod
• One of the middle floors, not on the ground, not on the top

Collage


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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 04)

Members
Anant, Shivani, Divya, Siddhartha, Sakshi


Character
Captain Jack Sparrow

• Self obsessed
• Sea obsessed
• Black Pearl obsessed
• Moves to a metropolitan city

Site
Man made island

• View of land as well as the sea 250 m above ground
• New york city overpowering the statue of liberty
• Rotating as well as movable house
• The house is alive
• Black pearl diving into the sea….hehehahaha

Collage


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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon, (Post 03)

Team Members
Kanika, Gunjan, Kriti, Sunetra

Character
Film Director- Hollywood

• Specialized in fictional movies such as Charlie n choc fac, lord of the rings
• Big foodie ; needs food to work
• Loner; whose only close friend is his home

Site
The hill where the Hollywood sign board is

• Gets the view of the whole Hollywood
• Connected to a theater hall

Collage


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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 02)

[ Student teams- work in progress ]

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Workshop @ Sushant School of Arts and Architecture, Gurgaon (Post 01)

[Viraj is presenting his research work to the student body]

Recently, I was traveling to Delhi that's when I conducted a two days workshop at Sushant School, Gurgaon during February 09.

It had all started by proposing a combined initiative along with my friends Viraj Kataria and Sagarika Suri (both practicing architects in Delhi). We had got an idea of making a collaborative proposal because all of us dealt with the concept of transformation and change in built environment.

With parallel to my workshop objectives, Viraj’s proposal focuses in the area of mass housing; while Sagarika’s study picks up the case of traditional house form (pol house) of Ahmedabad.

Viraj gave an opening lecture about his undergraduate research work before my workshop began for the first session.

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Seminar @ R.V. College of Architecture, Bangalore

[ I don't have more photographs for this seminar ]

I got an opportunity to conduct a workshop with the third year students of R.V. College,Bangalore during November, 08.

This time, my presentation got updated with audio-visuals. It helped a lot to strengthen the arguments discussed during the theoretical session. Workshop turned into a more sort of seminar format. There was a brief debate on this topic in the second session.

One of the students had made an important point by questioning the methods of integrating emerging technologies into buildings from the point of view of sustainability.


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Workshop @ Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai

This workshop was proposed as a part of annual academic festival of Rizvi College during August,08.

Both sessions were well received by the enthusiastic student body of Rizvi College. I was not able to realized the design exercise because of some unavoidable circumstances and other limitations of time allotment.

I'm putting a few photographs of the seminar/ presentation session in this post.


Sincerely,
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