CEPT Excellence Awards Monsoon 2020 by CEPT University

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EXCELLENCE AWARDS

MONSOON 2020

About TLC CEPT University set up the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) to support and strengthen new directions in pedagogy and learning. The role of TLC is that of a facilitator and a collaborator. It supports the functioning of the ‘Course Approval Committee’ as its secretariat and functions under the guidance of the Deputy Provost. TLC facilitates the following: 1) Preparation for studio units and courses through structured workshops. 2) Innovation in teaching methods by partnering with faculty members. 3) Faculty development through Online learning resources and peer learning. For more information please visit our website, Teaching and Learning Center at https://cept.ac.in/tlc

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Contents

About CEPT University

Excellence Awards

A Note from the Review Panel

L2/ L3 Studio Units

Student Projects The Architecture Co-working hub Ahmed Shabeer Pudukode

House at the lake edge, Udaipur Adhrita Roy

Social Learning Malay Bijal Pandya

Hers, His, Theirs Trivedi Bhavaya Snehalbhai

From Private to Public Ketki Sandeep Nandanwar

Ice and fire Srushti Kanheyalal Mehta

Parody Museum Vagadiya Anuj Pravinbhai

Narratives in Architecture | Pondy bazaar Almitra R

Of Zest and Rest: A melange of staircases Shreya Shridhar

An interactive workstation Patel Driti Hiren

Municipal and Ward offices and Public services Dwij Nirav Hirpara

The Transfiguring Pavilion Ruhani Adlakha

The Pol of the Passer by Banker Aahana Alay

SVA A Vision of Self- Sustenance Dharan Korduvar Ukiyo: End of anthropocentric interventions Mehta Parth Pareshumar

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Studio Projects Tectonic Operations Smit Vyas

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Social Learning Catherine Desai, Freyaan Anklesaria

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Narratives in Architecture Meghal Arya

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Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City Sachin Soni

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Time, Public and Architecture Kaiwan Mehta

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Un-Gendering the Everyday City Sahiba Gulati, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna

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Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation & Design 146 Prasanth Narayanan, Tulika Nabar Bhasin Eco Warriors [edible to productive landscapes] Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti

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Jury Profile

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About CEPT University Established in 1962, CEPT University, a 50 year old institution in Ahmedabad, India, focuses on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. Its teaching programs aim to build thoughtful professionals and its research programs attend to the deepening of the understanding of human settlements. CEPT University also undertakes advisory projects to further the goal of making habitats more livable. Since the very beginning the University has functioned as a collaborative between academics and professionals, with support from philanthropic civil leaders and the government. CEPT started with the establishment of ‘School of Architecture’, in 1962 at a time when the country was going through a transformative phase to establish institutions of modern India. Balkrishna Doshi, Rasu Vakil and Bernard Kohn initiated this institute with the support from Kasturbhai Lalbhai and Ahmedabad Education Society. In 1972, the Faculty of Planning was established as the ‘School of Planning’ with key inputs from Christopher Benninger who set up the first curriculum in collaboration with Y K Alagh and Doshi. Rasu Vakil, the then dean of CEPT in collaboration with G N Tambe and S N Banker helped set up the Faculty of Technology in 1982. Then known as the ‘School of Building Science and Technology’, it was focused on engineering and construction. In 1991, Krishna Shastri helped set up what was then known as ‘School of Interior Design which deals with habitat related interiors, crafts, systems and products. Recently, CEPT has also established the Faculty of Management which focuses on Urban Management. Started with one school and 30 students in the early sixties, the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology or CEPT became CEPT University in 2005. Our ethos reflects most clearly in our liberal pedagogic regime that integrates the departments of the University and expands learning options for our students by making it possible for them to easily move across faculties and programs and to explore different intellectual worlds while allowing each to go deep into respective areas of focus and expertise. Programs at CEPT allow potent cross pollination of ideas among disciplines through choice based curriculums and a vast array of electives.

Excellence Awards Since Monsoon 2018, CEPT University has established awards for excellence to honor students’ studio work done in Under Graduate programs. These awards have been introduced as an effort to ratchet up excellence in teaching and learning and in recognizing and celebrating the best of students’ projects. The awards intend to complement the respective regular grade that students receive from their tutors. In Jan 2019, the University conducted first exhibition titled “Honor’s exhibition” and published a catalog. Based on the feedback received after the first event, the title of the awards was revised to ‘CEPT Excellence Awards’ for further semesters. A special review panel appointed by the University independently reviewed the work of all the students as displayed during the semester-end exhibition. The review panel selected individual student projects that showed the best work in terms of concept, resolution of the concept, detailing of material and structure, and ability to evoke quality and experience of the designed space and its context. There were also studio units that collectively produced excellent work. The review panel recognized such studio units as well for the excellence awards. To begin, the review panel first shortlisted the projects with potential for winning the excellence award. For the Monsoon 20 semester, thirty individual works and fifteen studio units have been shortlisted for the excellence award presentation. The shortlisted students and studio units made a presentation along with their exhibition panel to the reviewers. Based on the presentation, the review panel selected the excellence award winners. A total of fifteen individual student projects and eight studio units have been recognized for their excellent work. Each student awardee and studio unit tutor received a certificate at the opening of the Excellence Awards Exhibition. Further, from these selected student projects, the jury awarded five CEPT Gujral Foundation Excellence Awards.This award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh each, supported by the Gujral Foundation. Overall, the jury felt the outcome, of student works, is all the more remarkable under these very difficult circumstance of online teaching and learning due to covid-19. With this, we congratulate all the students and studio units selected for this exhibition and in addition to this all other students as well, who contributed to the larger academic environment through their works in the studio and in multiple other ways in being on a part of the community.

A Note from the Review Panel To be invited by CEPT University to be a member of the Board of Reviewers is an honor and a privilege. The 4 member panel listed below enjoyed reviewing all Level 2 and 3 studios across the faculties of Architecture, Design, Urban Design and Construction Technology as part of their overall review responsibilities. We also welcomed the additional responsibility of selecting student work that we considered to be of an excellent standard from the Monsoon 2020 semester. The Excellence Awards selection panel consisted of: Bobby Desai Archana Shah Dinesh Sharma Steve Smith

– Architect and Chair of the selection panel – Textile Designer and Entrepreneur – Product Designer – Architect and Urbanist

The Excellence Awards selection process is an independent assessment. It is not intended to assess a student’s compliance with the university’s other academic and technical requirements. Each semester the jury panel, together with the Teaching and Learning Centre, seeks to refine the assessment process in order that the best work can be rewarded. For the Monsoon 2020 semester, each Studio was asked to nominate three students for possible inclusion in the awards exhibition. The Jury panel reviewed not only all the nominations, but all student work across all studios, including work by students who had not been nominated. The objective of the Excellence Awards selection process is to select the best work on show; therefore, the principal focus of the selection panel is on assessing the clarity and quality of the presentations and project communications. The purpose of any presentation, particularly in the context of an end of semester exhibition, is to communicate with clarity, the following: • • • • •

The concept, it’s relevance and ‘raison d’etre’ The resolution of concept Key aspects of detail Key aspects of materiality/structure An evocation of the quality, character and experience of the space/object proposed and its context.

The panel looked for high production values and inventiveness in the approach to the presentations, inventiveness not for it’s own sake, but in order to better communicate the project objectives. It is how well the above objectives are met that determines if a student’s work is considered to be of an excellent standard. 8

Through the review and selection process, the following 3 categories of excellence emerged: 1. There are individual works of excellence across all faculties. Sometimes a project was excellent and occasionally a single drawing was remarkable enough to warrant a citation. In some cases, more than one project/student was selected from a studio, which is a positive reflection on the studio and the quality of the teaching. 2. With some studios the panel felt that, although there were no single works of excellence, due to a focus on collective working or other factors, the teaching was progressive and relevant and that this should be recognized and supported by the university. 3. In some studios, the overall quality/research initiative of the work in the studio was consistently higher than their peer studios, which is a direct result of the learning culture of the studio and ultimately the quality of teaching and personality of the tutors. The panel agreed that this was important and should be recognized even if individual projects within the studio have been recognized as excellent. Each member of the selection panel, naturally, brought different values and predilections to the selection process, which is a great strength of the process. The final list was submitted to the Teaching and Learning Centre after a considerable and lively discussion and final agreement. Bobby Desai and Steve Smith have prepared the citations, from notes taken at the time of the selection process and subsequent discussions with the full jury panel. It is clear that, since the inception of the Excellence Awards five semesters ago, the standard of work has improved across all faculties. This upward trajectory has not only continued, this semester, but it is fair to say that there has been an exponential increase in the quality, diversity, inventiveness, relevance and maturity of work. This is a clear indication that the strategies and teaching infrastructure that the University has been implementing are paying great dividends. The outcomes this semester are all the more remarkable, considering the acute difficulties of teaching, learning and living under the dark cloud of the pandemic. The panel would like to thank CEPT University for the opportunity to review this semester’s work. We congratulate the university, and it’s leadership, on all the steps it, tirelessly, continues to take to ensure that CEPT University not only retains its status as a world-class educational facility, but also continues to strive to be the very best. And finally, we congratulate all students and faculty on a semester of outstanding design thinking and drawing. Bobby Desai (Chair of the Excellence Awards selection panel)

Archana Shah Dinesh Sharma Steve Smith

L2/ L3 Studio Units In Spring 2018, CEPT University revised its learning pedagogy, laying emphasis on the new Studio Unit system. Within this system, learning and teaching is centered on the studio or unit, each of which comprises of about 12 to 15 students. Each five-year undergraduate program is organized into three levels: a common one year foundation is followed by Level 2 (L2) and Level 3 (L3) integrated studios. L2 studio comprises students from 2nd and 3rd year and L3 studio comprises of students from 4th and 5th year. The studio units have small groups of students led by one or two tutors; design studios have a greater curricular weightage in terms of credits and time—the semester calendar allows 4 weeks of uninterrupted studio work towards the end of the semester. The studios have a focused approach with specified learning outcomes. L2 and L3 are designed as integrated studios to enhance peer learning and to function as a learning community. These integrated studios emphasize the belief that learning happens when a small group of students tackle problems on their own, under the review and close mentoring of tutors. L2 studios clearly focus on developing one of the skills: Visualizing and Communicating, Analyzing and Designing, Constructing and Specifying, Planning and Organizing. In addition, all Level 2 units develops the skill for: Building Arguments and Rationales. In L3 studios, the students use multiple design abilities to solve complex design problems. They evolve their aptitude to exercise architectural and/or design judgments. Design problems are defined based on a specific theme, approach (along with its rationale) or a theoretical position. The site and the area of program may be defined by the tutor or by the student.

Level 2 The Architectural Coworking hub Ahmed Shabeer Pudukode

House at the Lake edge, Udaipur Adhrita Roy

Social Learning

Malay Bijal Pandya

Hers, His, Theirs

Trivedi Bhavya Snehalbhai

From Private to Public Ketki Sandeep Nandanwar

Ice and Fire

Srushti Kanheyalal Mehta

Parody Museum

Vagadiya Anuj Pravinbhai

The Architecture Co-working hub Ahmed Shabeer Pudukode Tectonic Operations Smit Vyas

Construction and Specifying Faculty of Architecture AR2016 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

An excellent technical exploration of architecture at a detailed level where design propositions are tested against the harsh realities of construction craft. Design Description

To inspire and provide for aspiring architects, this co-working hub was designed to promote collaborative practices as well as individual excellence through the provision of spatially connected workspaces and recreational spaces. The structure was developed with two inclined RCC sheer walls with alternate staggered slabs spanning from one wall to a central spine. The staircase consists of a series of dog-legged flights offset along the direction of the inclination to accommodate the staggering levels. The inclined south facing facade was developed with mezzanine spaces for each studio, to be Inhabited as a zone. Both of these elements have a light steel framework, cladded with softer materials such as timber for where the user comes in contact with them, and for an overall visual contrast to the concrete shell in which they sit.

Fig 1 Concept Iterations—Extrusion of the roof to generate a new volumetric relationship

Fig 2 Ground Floor Plan 15

Fig 3 Wall section, and exploded view 16

Fig 4 Front Elevation, and Section

Fig 5 Staircase Detail

Fig 6 Models alteration 18

Fig 7 Interior Views

Fig 8 Sectional perspective 19

House at the lake edge, Udaipur Adhrita Roy The Joy of Architecture Rathin Goghari, Sagar Trivedi Planning and Organizing Faculty of Architecture AR2023 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

An excellent exploration of a the design of a home and workplace on a very small constrained site demonstrating great skill in the manipulation of space, light and architectural form revealed through evocative drawings and models. Design Description

Set within the clustered houses of Udaipur, this house starts as a home for a family of three—a space where they can enjoy the essence of Udaipur in peace. As the house grows, the house shapes itself to still retain its privacy while giving Usha’s venture the freedom to flourish. The house grows as does the family. Whether it be the scale of their business, the helpers coming in to assist with the work or it be their daughter. The house grows to accommodate spaces for all these people—bringing them together yet also giving them their own space.

Fig 1 Analysis 21

Fig 2 Plan 22

Fig 3 Section

Fig 4 Plan & Section 23

Fig 5 Model 24

Fig 6 View 25

Social Learning Malay Bijal Pandya Social Learning Catherine Desai, Freyaan Anklesaria Planning and Organizing Faculty of Architecture AR2027 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

An intriguing and original school proposal generated through the power of spatial analytics used intelligently to inform more intuitive design methods. The project demonstrated a rigorous, evidence based, approach to architectural synthesis. Design Description

The school is designed with the help of space syntax which is a system of analysis allowing us to measure spatial organization. The school creates a system where areas of high integration are spread across different levels. This makes many active spaces where interactions occur, and people gather to work in groups. To contrast this and facilitate focused learning, the classrooms are made private, almost cut off from the activities in the corridors. The school spatially upturns some established hierarchies, for example, by placing a part of the staff room in a corridor and reinforces some others, like placing the principal and administration being in a separate wing. The major pedagogical change seen in the school is the presence of separate private levels for the children to work in during free lectures and after school hours. This is done to ensure that the children are completely free when they go home and can invest their time in extracurricular activities.

Fig 1 Justified graphs

Fig 2 Programmatic collage 27

Fig 3 Abstract Analysis 28

Fig 4 Section

Fig 5 Floor Plan 29

Fig 6 Right Elevation

Fig 7 Left elevation

Fig 8 Roof Plan 30

Fig 9 Isometric

Fig 10 Section with activity. 31

Hers, His, Theirs Trivedi Bhavaya Snehalbhai

Un-Gendering the Everyday City Sahiba Gulati, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna Visualizing and Communicating Faculty of Planning UR2016 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

A well-researched and authoritative proposal for an alternative conception of urban space for all with a particular focus on the creation of urban space for women. This is a great proposal with the potential to make great impact. Design Description

In the Indian context, it is evident that greater access and ‘right’ to the city lies with men, indicated by ownership of assets, financial autonomy and other social norms and practices. Through research and analysis, the project identifies that gendered patterns extend to spatiality, manifesting in our built environments; it proposes an ungendered re-imagination of the city which is inclusive for all its inhabitants and users. It focuses primarily on the most marginalized user group—the woman of a lower to middle economic class who must take care of her children, her home as well as engage in paid work to support her family. Adopting a methodology of extensive research and analysis, it derives design strategies and interventions which are then implemented on a predetermined location in Delhi, India.

Fig 1 Site Analysis

Fig 2 Visualizing an ungendered city 33

Fig 3 Community Place—Isometric View 34

Fig 4 Transport node

Fig 5 Elevation

Fig 6 Elevation 36

Fig 7 Isometric view

Fig 8 Elevation 37

From Private to Public Ketki Sandeep Nandanwar The future of everyday urban spaces Kiran Keswani Planning and Organizing Faculty of Planning UR2018 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

This proposal engages with the fundamental urban issue of the design of public space and the street. The design envisages public space management, street furniture and landscape design that support the diversity and vibrancy of Indian urban space. A clear and vividly illustrated proposal addressing real urban needs. Design Description

Owing to the regular events brought together by various stakeholder groups as they walk through a street or engage in street socio-cultural activities, Indian streets in particular have often been a challenging site to deal with. The Indian context makes a street act more than a connector—as a container of all these everyday activities that bring life to it. The future of these urban spaces depends on the ways in which we facilitate them with a better understanding of how the everyday activities could be contained and motivated to engender convenience for the stakeholders. In this scenario of the pandemic, one would start noticing how it is very important to make more people centric streets. Now after observing the kind of emergencies a place can go through and how the human activities change drastically in different situations especially around certain places that are connected to fulfilling basic human needs, it became mandatory to come to a neutral ground in terms of enhancing the everyday activities in a normal situation while still providing opportunities for such activities and making walkable neighborhoods in the times of emergencies. This is exactly the need that the project is aiming at.

Fig 1 Identifying the Onsite Issues

Fig 2 Proposed Plan—Food Zone 39

Fig 3 Proposed Design Interventions 40

Fig 4 Isometric View

Fig 5 Isometric View 42

Fig 6 Section

Fig 7 Section 43

Ice and fire Srushti Kanheyalal Mehta Fictional Spaces Jay Thakkar

Visualizing and Communicating Faculty of Design IR2028 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

Dreaming, storytelling, fantasy are combined in a design for a virtual imaginary landscape of possibilities vividly described in drawings and through the commentary to an animated presentation. The proposal extends interior design thinking into the virtual realm. Design Description

With the world in turmoil, where can we find new inspirations? Finding the answer to this began with my story, my memories. It further led on to a journey learning from experiences of my friend. From discovering creations and recreating styles of graphic designers and artists, bringing out Kate Moross’s vivid use of colors to Philip Guston’s tragic sides to art, it opened the doors to imagining, from stories to movies. A dystopian world of Ghostly Presence came to life, and animation movies introduced stories of fictional worlds. Inspired from Frozen, I recreated the character of Simi (Andhadhun). In an ice-cold world, she was ice and she was fire. Featuring layers of personalities, in contrast and belonging together, I rewrote the story as The Silver Blade. The story of a woman, a warrior: The story of Simi. Ever wondered what happens When ice and fire come Together? The aura of this stark contrast is Simi. She is fire and She is ice. With multiple sides to Her character, this is her story. Portraying a warrior in an Indian Royal setting, she draws attention with elements of the drapery of her Saree, bindi, armour, glowing blade and the ice flowers.

Fig 1 Conceptual Studies 45

Fig 2 Thematic Components

Fig 3 Space Recreation 46

Fig 4 Scenario of Gomorah

Fig 5 Frozen films Analysis 47

Fig 6 Ruins and a Piano 48

space forand bothFire locals and visitors celebrating the traditional street life of Jaisalmer Fig Hallway of Ice Fig 17 Public 49

Parody Museum Vagadiya Anuj Pravinbhai

Designing spaces in Reinforced Concrete Rachit Sheth, Kruti D Shah Analyzing and Designing Faculty of Technology CT2018 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

A convincing design proposition providing the context for a thorough technical and structural analysis of how the conception would be realised backed by structural calculations. Very impressive work. Design Description

Parody museum is a project developed using truss as a structural system. The fundamental test was to utilize Truss members with the end goal that it upgrades viewer’s experience through a promenade. In addition, landscaping played a prominent part in a more enriched vision. Using the RCC truss as the structural system gives you an upper hand for designing large column free spans as in our case up to 25m as well as for an aesthetically pleasing experience in the building. We kept in mind that utilizing the truss as a basic part we had the advantage of having cantilever floors which added an extraordinary appearance to the structure. Ribbed beam slab was opted for to support the large column-free spans. The museum has a central atrium that is connected with the staircase which gives one an extremely consistent and astonishing experience. The difference in the floor height gives us a way of leading into the predetermined function of the building. The building’s outer facade is entirely out of glass which connects it with the site which is the Sabarmati Riverfront.

Fig 1 Conceptual Diagram 51

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Fig 3 Plan 52

Fig 4 Exploded view—Circulation 53

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Fig 7 View 54

Fig 8 View 55

Level 3 Narratives in Architecture | Pondy bazaar Almitra R

Of Zest and Rest: A Melange of Staircases Shreya Shridhar

An Interactive Work Station Patel Driti Hiren

Municipal Ward Office And Public Services Dwij Nirav Hirpara

The Transfiguring Pavilion Ruhani Adlakha

The Pol of the Passersby Banker Aahana Alay

Sva: A vision of self-sustenance Dharan Korduvar

Ukiyo: End of Anthropocentric Interventions Mehta Parth Paresh

Narratives in Architecture | Pondy bazaar Almitra R Narratives in Architecture Meghal Arya

Faculty of Architecture AR3011 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

A narrative transformation of infrastructure into an intensely used, living part of the city created through the intelligent use of storytelling supported by clear and evocative illustrations to convey a very imaginative proposal. Design Description

In a prime shopping center of the city, a flyover spans across the stretch of the bustling or rather chaotic street, witnessing over years the increasing influx of vehicles, the attentive eyes, and ears of people contesting over the rapidly moving vehicles; and changing places for safety and security; and sheltering the livelihood and dreams of many. A place that began as one for social gathering for the immediate residential areas now stands as a nexus of activity only shaped by the act of consumption and transaction. At random, two people tread the path: A man who has occupied the same place for the past 17 years and a man who stops by to buy.

Fig 1 Site mapping

Fig 2 Space mapping—public to private 59

Fig 3 Elevation 60

Fig 4 Plan 62

Fig 5 Exploded Isometric view

Fig 6 Section

Fig 7 Sectional perspective 63

Of Zest and Rest: A melange of staircases Shreya Shridhar

Narratives in Architecture Meghal Arya

Faculty of Architecture AR3011 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The proposal for architectural installation within the liminal and frequently ignored spaces of the city to create a new form of sociable public infrastructure compellingly illustrated and communicated. The project demonstrates great creative courage to reveal hidden aspects of the city ignored by conventional viewers. Design Description

The onset of the pandemic has gotten us reminiscing about life before the outbreak. Activities such as playing, eating, and having a normal conversation have all been replaced with quick greetings, glances, or rushed exchanges. At the time when we most need it, there is a severe loss of sense of community, leading to an increased feeling of isolation. With our lives turned inside-out, this design aims to create a space to interact through another pre-existing inversion— external staircases, unique to my neighborhood in Bangalore, while exploring the idea of degrowth through minimal inserts. Analogies were derived from the structure of a narrative to weave a story which could be experienced through architecture. The staircases are sufficiently integrated as a part of the house, yet at the same time are dissociated enough to have the potential to either become or host a network of in-between spaces that act as a mediator between the inside and outside. One can use them as a base to add inserts, one expands their function beyond a transitional element to create a programme with no defined function, just a shared, unified space where opportunities to interact can be created once again. In order to create this interplay of dynamism and calmness, a story was written from the lens of a child, using the staircases and the interventions to be introduced as their playground. By borrowing these in-between spaces from the private realm, a plethora of newer spaces and environments can be made available to choose from, each with the potential to host a memory of an interaction, specific to an individual. One can recreate a place to play, dine, gather, lounge—a place for one to be able to catch up with a friend, an unfamiliar neighbor or even a stranger. This series of extensions would integrate itself along the walls of the residences to create a collective public space, bordering the private spaces: a unifying space. Its mere existence would provide a relief from the publicness within one’s home. It would become a remnant of a world before the pandemic and a reminder of what was.

Fig 1 Mapping of Staircases

Fig 2 Sections—Dynamism, Chance Interaction, and Hidden Alleys 65

Fig 3 Observe—record—extract 66

Fig 4 Conceptualization—Story Board , Dynamism & Interconnectivity

Fig 5 Layering of Movements and Pause 67

Fig 7 Axonometric View 68

An interactive workstation Patel Driti Hiren Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City Sachin Soni

Faculty of Architecture AR3017 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

A highly sophisticated design exploration of a complex urban and infrastructural proposal drawn with great conviction and skill. The energy and work rate of this student is very commendable. The overall proposal is a great achievement. Design Description

Metro System connects people to places. Can we design a metro station to connect people to people? The project grapples with the idea to stitch the interaction gap that the city life has created. With the raising of the boundary walls, people have disconnected themselves from social life. Public infrastructure such as a metro station can be a way to revive this lost communication through an environment of co-working. Situated along a busy road of Nava Wadaj, Ahmedabad, the metro station becomes a hub for the empowerment of homemakers and entrepreneurs. Reimagining the role of a metro station not just as a transit facility but as an identity of Wadaj, which can shift and change as the community grows and can be deeply associated with, by all. The metro system not only provides facility to commute but it also provides the opportunity to and learn. How can architecture become a catalyst for such interaction in the city?

Fig 1 Design process

Fig 2 Spatial Strategies 71

Fig 3 Section

Fig 4 Design Resolution 72

Fig 5 Design Resolution 73

Fig 6 A shaded street between Gujarat housing society and station

Fig 7 The commuters overlooking into the co-working environment 74

Fig 8 Design resolution—floor plates & vertical connections 75

Municipal and Ward offices and Public services Dwij Nirav Hirpara

Time, Public, and Architecture Kaiwan Mehta Faculty of Architecture AR3024 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

A very clear presentation of the exploration of architecture and urban theory using many media that resulted in a well-defined final proposal convincingly illustrated using graphics, drawings, modelling and rendering. This is a very thorough and well-presented portfolio. Design Description

The final project evolves from several research and design exercises conducted through the initial half of the academic semester. The idea of the project is to insert a pacemaker in the ageing heart of the town of Anand in Gujarat. The site selected is an abandoned factory premise which once boasted of a building larger than any other in the vicinity. The insert now hosts a large machine-like building block that houses municipal ward offices, the scattered folly that provides for outdoor reading rooms and a separate entity that acts as a Balwadi. The movement allows the public to trespass while observing the reminiscence of the past and the present. This project is a manifestation of various ideas of Time, Public and Architecture. Visit the following website to know more about AR3024: Time, Public and Architecture https://dwijhirpara.wixsite.com/ua2416

Fig 1 Design development—Conceptual sketches 77

Fig 2 Isometric view—Overall idea and architectural language and relationship of the design 78

Fig 3 Conceptual Sketches

Fig 4 Plan level 1

Fig 5 Plan level 2 80

Fig 6 Sections

Fig 7 View 81

The Transfiguring Pavilion Ruhani Adlakha Time, Public, and Architecture Kaiwan Mehta

Faculty of Architecture AR3024 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

This is a very clear presentation from this studio of the exploration of architecture and urban theory using many media. The concluding design of an urban theatrical space was well-defined and convincingly illustrated using graphics, drawings, modelling and rendering. This is a second very thorough and well-presented portfolio from this studio. Design Description

The project locates itself on an abandoned Open-Air Theatre which was last in use about a few decades ago. The agenda was to activate an otherwise tranquil setting and also replenish this open-air theatre. This project questions/highlights the very many architectural notions of a pavilion through its various episodes of time and public.

Fig 1 Design Alteration 83

Fig 2 Taking from the Neighborhood

Fig 3 Plan & section 84

Fig 4 Site Views 85

Fig 5 Space collage 86

The Pol of the Passer by Banker Aahana Alay Through Words Soumitro Ghosh, Nisha Ghosh

Faculty of Architecture AR3025 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The project explores the potential of a modular system of street furniture that allows for the adaptation of public space and creation of diverse street life functions and community facilities. The ambition is to create self-generated spontaneously ordered urbanity. The intriguing idea is clearly and vividly illustrated both at the level of the system design and in its application in a number of alternative configurations. Design Description

The word Chaos, has evolved from its literal meaning shifting from an immeasurable space to utter confusion, which led me to question the very notion of how people have perceived the word. Having associated the word often with a variety of choices, a multiplicity of emotions and an array of possibilities, an attempt was then made to draw comparison between these two contrasting approaches towards the same word. The program aims at creating a Spontaneous Order, which would be the result of human actions, and not of designs. It would rather use these designs as catalysts to create such an environment. With a lot of its structures being over 500 years old, Mandvi ni Pol calls for ways to remodel these spaces, while still being mindful of its cultural history and significance. The design aims at providing a very tactile, functional yet immersive solution in bridging the gap between the old and the new, while allowing for flexibility and a possibility of manipulating itself in order to fit the changing times and needs of the community. Taking up the inherent quality of temporariness that is deeply embedded in both, the residential activities as well as the spatial forms, the program weaves the concepts of the pol and that of the word chaos, translating into a scaffolding, a world of shifting, changing activities, posing as a tool for both: civic engagement, as well as the infusion of the old into the new.

Fig 1 Chaos | The Play shop: A reinterpretation of the characteristics of Chaos translating into a cognitive learning and developmental environment for children

Fig 2 Initial translations: Crowding the site with structures in places less explored while leaving spaces untouched, with minimum intervention at areas brimming with movement, thus establishing a controlled chaos 89

Fig 3 Design Process

Fig 4 The Atom:A 1m*1m unit, which Fig 5 The Molecule: The molecules explore various can be used individually and combinations of the 90 horizontal and vertical in combination to form a atoms to create larger structures catering to various larger structure functional demands. 90

Fig 6 The Compound: The compound explores larger spatial layouts to cater to different functions, accommodating the smaller molecules and atoms to form a larger structure 91

Fig 7 Street Elevation

Fig 8 Pol House Analysis 92

Fig 9 Section

Fig 10 Isometric view 93

SVA A Vision of Self-Sustenance Dharan Korduvar Eco Warriors [edible to productive landscapes] Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti

Faculty of Planning UR3005 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The exploration of an alternative approach to the provision of urban infrastructure based on a decentralised model of self-contained neighbourhoods presenting a model for sustainable future urban living. The proposals are well researched and very clearly presented. Design Description

According to UN World Urbanization prospects, in the past 40 years, the global population has grown by 80% and in nearly 50 years the Urban population will reach about 70% of the global figure (world population prospects,2006). This Dramatic shift from the rural to urban areas can cause a great number of environmental and social problems that the world can face in the coming decades. One of them is the food crisis. Taking into account that cities currently contribute 70% of the world’s CO2 emission, rethinking the city for the better environmental performance is now in the priority in the global agenda. To attain an efficient urban environment, it is necessary to defy the existing rules of production and management of resources in the way they have worked until now. By Integrating Productive landscape in the everyday life of the people I aim to design an ideal sector which is totally self-sufficient. My design premises include: Food, Water, Energy, Waste, Bio-Diversity. In Ideal Sector each household has self-owned productive landscape which includes compost pit, farms and solar panels whereas on the sector scale it has food towers, which would cater to the overall need of food in the sector, a wetland which cleans black water of the households and an urban forest which increases the biodiversity of the sector and also acts as the larger public space for the sector. These Ideal Sectors can be multiplied in the City to make the city more self-reliant.

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Ukiyo: End of anthropocentric interventions Mehta Parth Pareshumar

Eco Warriors [edible to productive landscapes] Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti

Faculty of Planning UR3005 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

An imaginative, well illustrated alternative vision for a more sustainable urban future that embraces the challenge of supporting nature and wildlife in the city. A series of inversions of common assumptions about the primacy of human needs is expressed through the design of innovative and challenging architectural installations in a wild landscape riverside setting. The proposal presents a useful challenge to orthodox thinking on this topic. Design Description

The project questions the anthropocentric development and the dominance of human activity in taking over nature. The stretch of river edge in Gandhinagar is still left unexplored offering a matrix of plantation, villages, and a wilderness patch which should not only be preserved but also enhanced to support biodiversity. The project would also be a great amenity for the residents to come and explore. Thus the project tries to create a harmonious relationship between human and nature, which today is imbalanced so that they both coexist . The idea here is to create “Ukiyo’ or almost transient, unobtrusive architecture interventions that will allow minimal human exploration in a sensitive micro-ecosystem that is taken over by nature with time. The overall design methodology applied on this site addresses the importance of preservation of existing, potential pockets for future development that can be accessible in the most sensible way and do not create fragmentation within the site. After analysing existing topography and landcover overall swale and water catchment network was formed with juxtaposition of natural trails. With extremely cautious footprint of less than 1 percent of overall site, sensitive architecture is introduced on the site which supports vegetation to grow on it and provides sustenance for other beings. The structure which now becomes the part of the site allows humans to be part of it as a viewer and acknowledge the mysteries of nature around. The light infrastructure is taken over by nature with time due to its intricate details which allow life to grow on it and with time becomes a ruin for humans and a house for other beings.

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Fig 3 Response to Ground Conditions—Transient Architecture: Plan & Isometric 102

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Fig 5 Planting palette & Architecture with time—Various Ground Conditions 104

Fig 6 Vision Plan, Gandhinagar 2030 105

Studio Units

Tectonic Operations Smit Vyas

Social Learning Catherine Desai, Freyaan Anklesaria

Narratives In Architecture Meghal Arya

Realizing Nollis Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City Sachin Soni

Time, Public, and Architecture Kaiwan Mehta

Un-Gendering the Everyday City Sahiba Gulati, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna

Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation & Design Prasanth Narayanan, Tulika nabar Bhasin

Eco Warriors [edible to productive landscapes] Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti

Tectonic Operations Smit Vyas

Focus: Constructing and Specifying Unit Assitant: Vihar Sangani

Faculty of Architecture AR2016 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

This is a very well-grounded course engaging students in architecture based on a thorough understanding of construction craft. Although the focus is construction craft, each project journey is underpinned by a strong conceptual idea, which is made manifest through meticulous detailing and construction rigour. Unit Brief

The studio explored ways through which outdated buildings can become sites for creative thinking about construction processes. New programmatic parts were added to buildings of an old precinct, necessitating actions of repair, replacement or introduction of alternative parts in them. By way of this, new formal, structural & material conditions were tested against the existing ones in an attempt to find a wholesome architectural expression. The play of building elements, systems & technologies was anchored into the work as both- a specific response to the given site and functional requirements as well as a manifestation of personal imagination and desire which the author is free to explore. Undertaking a small renovation project allowed students to gain knowledge of different agencies involved and explore a much wider range of design development processes. Each student, along with formulating a new schema, also learned staircase details, doors & window details, flooring drawings and toilet design. Above all, students learned to see existing buildings from the point of view of structural possibilities & scope for intervention and also developed skills for identifying building language and developing its grammar through the detailing out of architectural elements.

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Social Learning Catherine Desai, Freyaan Anklesaria Focus: Planning and Organizing Unit Assitant: Abhishek Thakai Faculty of Architecture AR2027 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

This was a research studio. Space Syntax spatial analytics software was used to test the success of subjective and intuitive design impulses. Students researched various celebrated learning environments. This culminated in spatial morphology diagrams, not conventional final design drawings. The diagrams and their inferences informed, through adjustment and negotiation, the design and planning of the student’s projects. This is likely to become an increasingly important part of architectural practice as computational power and modeling tools become ever more sophisticated. This is a very worthwhile subject area with great potential. Unit Brief

As designers of the built environment we shape the social lives of the inhabitants of the spaces which we design. How much do we know about how our designs impact social organisation by way of spatial organisation? This semester we designed schools as a way of exploring this question. We began by analysing 15 iconic schools, and students then developed pedagogical programs and briefs based on the New National Education Policy 2020 for India. Designs explored, first conceptually and then in measurable terms, the way that spatial layouts facilitate social organisation, interaction and movement. We used analytical methods and software developed by Space Syntax, a research lab at the Bartlett UCL, to understand the nuances of this relationship. This methodology allowed students to make informed and evidence based decisions in the development of designs which addressed the core function of the school - to gather in order to learn in various different settings to meet pedagogical ambitions. “However much we may prefer to discuss architecture in terms of visual styles, its most far reaching practical effects are not at the level of appearances at all, but at the level of space.” The Social Logic of Space, Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson

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Deekshiit S Kruti Makwana Malay Pandya Ninad Shroff Simran Mashruwala

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Zoeanna Upadhyay 3rd Year

Baidehi Rej Dhrumin Patel N Jatin Khushi Patel

Manali Kapadia Repalle Sajanish Riya Kohli Shashank Shankar Snehil Tripathi

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Fig 1 Khushi patel Views of the interactive spaces Fig 2 Dhrumin Patel Justified graph drawn from the entrance Fig 3 Baidehi Rej Perspective of teachers through the prep rooms Fig 4 Ninad Shroff Path Isovist showing teacher’s journey Fig 5 Ninad Shroff Perspective showing the courtyard spaces Fig 6 Ninad Shroff Axonometric View showing a typical day at the school

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Narratives in Architecture Meghal Arya Unit Assitant: Priyanshi Jain

Faculty of Architecture AR3011 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The use of narrative and storytelling to enable the students to imaginatively engage in the lives of clients, the public and the city is fully explored in this course. The techniques seem to allow students to break out from the confines of their personal experience and deploy design skills for the service of others. The student work engaged with design at every scale from the city to the requirements of intimate personal spaces. The very impressive work is beautifully presented. Unit Brief

The act of storytelling has been a powerful tool to communicate and disseminate meanings and values. Art forms like theatre, cinema or installations use storytelling as the central device of their process. Architecture claims to communicate meaning and yet, the idea of narratives remains limited to few theoretical expressions. This studio aimed to engage with the narrative as a device to structure and unify the design process. Components of the narrative were used to establish relationships between diverse elements of the design process like program, site, intent or concept. The thematic intent of the studio was triggered by the current crisis of the CoVid-19 pandemic. Global lockdowns caused human beings to retreat within their homes, and the infiltration of public life within the private domains of people’s homes has become ubiquitous impacting the complex and dynamic spatial constructs of human inhabitation. ‘Degrowth’, reorganization of public space and the co-inhabitation of the private and the public are amongst the prominent questions that have emerged. The studio aimed to debate these questions through student design projects. Interpretations have been arrived at through reading, drawings and the design of public space with public institutions.

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Aishwarya Gupta Almitra R Daksh Goel Namrata Ukani Shreya Shridhar

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Twisha Vaghasia

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Bhavya Jain Chintan Mewada Dhaval Patel Durva Patel

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Fig 6 Bhavya Jain Storyboard Fig 7 Durva Patel Storyboard Fig 8 Almitra Roosevelt Exploring construction method as a ’kit of parts’ Fig 9 Twisha Vaghasia Section of the intervention responding to the established critique of consumerization

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Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City Sachin Soni

Unit Assitant: Netra Bafna

Faculty of Architecture AR3017 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The course allows students to explore the architecture of urban space, infrastructure and private space though the design of a metro interchange. Students are able to fully examine the transformative potential of urban architecture and its engagement with the city making process. The scale of thinking, quality of drawings produced, energy and work rate of students is very impressive. Unit Brief

Nolli’s map of Rome holds unique significance for architects and urbanists these days. It presents dialectical relationships between buildings and their milieu, countering a tendency to see buildings as isolated objects outside the very context that gives them life and meaning. Inspired from Nolli’s map, this studio focused on developing a conceptual and critical approach to architectural design where buildings are not seen as ‘isolated events’, but are deeply and intrinsically embedded in the fabric of the city. Studio aimed to reimagine typologies of civic/infrastructure projects which constitute a major part of urban development in Indian cities. Most of these projects do not respond to their immediate context due to conventional architectural approaches and end up becoming inaccessible parts of the city. This semester, the studio looked at typologies of transit focusing on upcoming metro-stations in Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. Based on strong contextual awareness, the studio investigated and explored various programmatic strategies and architectural alternatives which make projects more accessible and public in character.

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Drashti Kanabar Varisha Chauhan Vatsal Sanghavi

Bhavya Ratadia Driti Patel Kanxa Shah Karan Tanna Neha Maturi

Nilanshi Agrawal Malav Desai Nikhil Makhijani

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Fig 1 Driti Patel Exploded Isometric of Vadaj metro station, Ahmedabad Fig 2 Nikhil Makhijani East elevation of Usmanpura metro station, Ahmedabad as seen from Gujarat Vidyapeeth side Fig 3 Nikhil Makhijani Concourse level plan at Usmanpura metro station, Ahmedabad Fig 4 Nikhil Makhijani West elevation of Usmanpura metro station, Ahmedabad Fig 5 Nikhil Makhijani Sectional perspective through central court, exhibition area, classrooms and operational areas at Usmanpura metro station, Ahmedabad station, Ahmedabad

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Time, Public and Architecture Kaiwan Mehta Unit Assitant: Siddharth Bansal

Faculty of Architecture AR3024 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The course introduces students to a broad overview of the contemporary literature of architectural theory to provide a foundation for architectural exploration. Students engage with reading, writing, photography, drawing and modelling during the course producing highly engaging and vividly illustrated design propositions as part of an intense and worthwhile learning experience. The course will allow students to explore many alternative forms of future practice within the broad field of architecture. Unit Brief

This studio explored the ideas of TIME and people as PUBLIC in the design and architecture of a building. The studio focused on the notion of TIME in Architecture and the City (neighborhood): Architecture and the sense of the city/neighborhood are always imagined in a linear sense of Time often explained as historical growth or development, and justified chronologically. Another notion of Time, i.e. memory, is also often invoked in architectural or urban imagination, but it is also treated as if suspended in Time or located only in very specific situations. This studio proposed TIME as: material and spatial histories that allows us to see the changing and ephemeral nature of the built world. The second focus of this studio, which flows in a way from the former, has been the notion of people as PUBLIC and their formal/informal relationship with architecture and urbanity. How do we understand the tenuous and evolving relationship that people have with operations and networks that get orchestrated in architectural propositions within neighbourhoods of the city, and the nation? Exploring form and tectonics within changing time, and changing relations/ networks of people - the conditions of contemporaneity, the final design project in the neighbourhood was to build a Municipal Ward office with a Balwadi, a reading room and some allied programmes.

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Anokhi Brahmbhatt Dwij Hirpara Kush Patel Prarthi Marfatiya Aakash Bala Saravanan

Nirali Vaishnani Vikas Gajera Drashti Nakrani Prachi Patodia Garima Patel

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Un-Gendering the Everyday City Sahiba Gulati, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna Focus: Planning and Organizing Unit Assitant: Abhishek Thakai

Faculty of Planning UR2016 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

The course examines the highly discriminatory way in which the urban citizen is characterised in the design of urban public space. In particular the way in which women’s needs and rights are routinely ignored. Students examined these issues and describe the transformations necessary to correct these gross defects in urban design. The results are proposals for more humane, inclusive and delightful public spaces vividly drawn and described. This is a very worthwhile course with the potential to expand to explore many aspects of spatial injustice in urban design. Unit Brief

In India, vehicle ownership usually lies with men, whether it is a car, a twowheeler, or a bicycle, to say nothing of auto-rickshaws. Our cities, however, are imagined around the automobile. How do we imagine a city which recognizes that half of its population does not own a vehicle? How do we imagine a city where half of the population is women? Through research conducted by various authors, ranging from Phadke, Ranade and Khan to Ayona Datta, and personal research, it is apparent that the street as a public space belongs more to a man than a woman.According to Ayona Datta, a woman’s presence in the public street is legitimized by the production of her morality; according to Phadke, Khan and Ranade, women constantly exhibit their purpose to be in public space; they are never there without a reason. The city constantly legitimizes domesticities for women, especially women from poor households. How then does one normalize the presence of a female in the city, and a growing female workforce? How then do we re-imagine the street? And by re-imagining the street, how then do we re-imagine the city itself? The studio focused on three areas of concern in this regard: connectivity, accessibility and right to the city for women,especially those from underserved communities. 2 nd year

Bhoomika Patel Ishika Jain Juhi Desai Moksha Shah Muskan Sood Pooja Shah Sahana Desai

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Rajeev Bhagat 3 rd year

Jasveer Kalsi Akshat Chaturvedi Arundhati Hakhu Bhavya Trivedi Kanisha Patel Naveen Prasad

Rishabh Jain Yash Shah

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gendered street’- resolving transit issues (Night). Collage Fig 5: Exploring Spatial Typologies (a) Rishab Jain (b) Bhavya Trivedi (c) Rajeev Bhagat Analytical Diagrams Fig 6: Arundhati Hakhu ‘Lawns’ - Women centric design strategies. 3D views, sections and plans Fig 7: Arundhati Hakhu Proposed street design, Katwaria Serai, New Delhi. Axonemtric view.

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Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation & Design Prasanth Narayanan, Tulika Nabar Bhasin Unit Assistant: Gokul Kalaimathi

Faculty of Planning UR3003 Monsoon 2020

Jury Citation

On this course students engage with the regulatory metrics that shape urban form. The course provides vital insights into the issues, problems and frequently unexpected consequences of town planning regulation. It provides vital insights that would be instructive for all practitioners engaged with the diverse arts of urbanism. Unit Brief

Indian cities are plagued with issues such as lack of good quality public realm, insufficient green cover, lack of inclusive pedestrian infrastructure, unaffordable land market and an over-regulatory development framework. Many of these are resultant of an archaic idea of city planning and design, but can also be attributed to the effect of multiple city stakeholders and their interactions. These stakeholders (politicians, citizen groups, slum dwellers, architects, engineers, administrators, urban planners/designers etc.) and their competing views towards city design and planning materialize in the form of National/State level policies, city-level development plans, city-level building regulations or outcomes of a judicial proceeding. All of which culminate in tangible change. The course aimed to understand this narrative of city-making with a specific focus on land markets, public realm and built form. Two methods were to explore, 1. Evidence-based research to build the narrative of planning and design of the city and 2. Design as a method of research to comment on planning & design practices at the site level. The studio was based in Mumbai, owing to a long history of planning and design interventions.

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Divya Rampal Eklavya Koralkar Prabhanjan Prabhu Praswed Patel Revati Desai Shivani Agrawal

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Fig 1 Revati Desai Praswed Patel, Hetanshu Pandya Concept plan and Vision Polycultural City Fig 2 Sakshi Naphade Urban condition Free Design Fig 3 Sakshi Naphade Urban condition Constrained Design Fig 4 Sakshi Naphade Comparitive Analysis of Urban conditions Fig 5 Ruju Joshi Urban condition Free Design Fig 6 Ruju Joshi Urban condition Constrained Design

Fig 7 Prachi Vyas Urban condition free design vs constrained design Fig 8 Prachi Vyas Urban Condition Isometric Fig 9 Vidhi Parmar Urban condition free design vs constrained design Fig 10 Hetanshu Pandya Urban condition Free Design Fig 11 Eklavya Koralkar Comparitive Analysis of Urban conditions

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Eco Warriors [edible to productive landscapes] Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti Unit Assistant: Chandani Patel

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Finding new forms of urban settlement to reconcile the requirements for human flourishing with the need to live within ecological limits is the central challenge of the age. On this course students explore the potential of new narrative landscape to address the challenge. The student’s engagement with these complex issues was demonstrated through their imaginative design thinking that vivid illustrates the possibility and potential of new futures. Unit Brief

The studio pivots on the link between city, food and productive landscapes. Today, as large numbers of people live in cities depending on the supply of food from far away areas the link to food is invariably extensive and invisible and the spatial connection to food is more relevant than ever. Further, the needs and lifestyles of our growing society put huge stress on environmental systems and natural cycles. The studio ECO WARRIORS focused on speculative design proposals advocating potential synergies between productive landscapes and urban development. In this unit, students conceived and generated innovative ideas of productive public realm centered around the themes of improved agricultural productivity, enhancement of biodiversity, and ecologically sensitive urban designs. The central idea was to create a resilient ecological infrastructure through intensification of native landscapes that will incorporate food-producing spaces in various scales across the city.

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Aditi Singh Thakur Nisarg Shah Sakshi Sharma

Atal Chadha C.Aparnaa Dharan Korduvar Harsh Gupta Madhav Joshi

Parth Mehta Harsh Shah Shaurya Anand Siddhi Soni Parth Patel

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Fig 1 Siddhi Soni Eco Simcity: norms for resilience, diversity and spontaneity Fig 2 Dharan Kumar Sva: A vision of selfsufficiency in food, waste, and energy Fig 3 Nisarg Shah Grow Collage: Creative ways of introducing food production in city commons Fig 4 Aditi Thakur E-corridors: Productive landscape corridors along the river edge Fig 5 Parth Mehta Ukiyo: End of anthropocentric interventions to

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celebrate coexistence of human and nature Fig 6 Harsh Gupta Continuous Productive urban landscape. Toolkit for development and design of public lands. Fig 7 Harsh Shah Foodista Central. A new food centric expression for central vista of Gandhinagar. Fig 8 Parth Patel Eco-adhocism: Forms of bio-architecture- design of follies along river activating social, functional and ecological programs.

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Jury Profile

Bobby Desai

Bobby Desai is an architect with over 25 years of international design experience. He has taught at various institutes including the Master’s program at the Royal College of Art in London, the A.A., the Bartlett and University of Westminster in London, RMIT in Australia and JJ School of Art, KRVI, and CEPT in India. He has been nominated for both Bronze and Silver Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President’s Medals for excellence in design. He holds a B.A. Honors in Architecture from Kingston University and a postgraduate Diploma with Honors from the Architectural Association (A.A.) in London.

Archana Shah is the founder of clothing company “BANDHEJ”, a label influenced by the traditional textiles and craft skills. She has designed costumes for theatre and a few feature films. She has designed the architectural textile installations at Festival of India inaugurations at Paris, Moscow, Leningrad and Tashkent. Recently she has also published a book—SHIFTING SANDS, Kutch: A Land in Transition. She is a graduate from the National Institute of Design (NID).

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Dinesh Sharma

Steven Smith

Dinesh Sharma is an Industrial Designer based in Ahmedabad. His design practice ‘isiliyedesign’ offers solutions that conscientiously integrate technology, judicial use of resources and aesthetic details. He believes in sustainability, frugal innovation, and education. His patent portfolio includes Rainwater Harvesting Systems, Multilayer Sun Shading System and Reverse Osmosis Yield Device to reduce water wastage. He initiated ‘studio re’ in 2015, a proactive design studio that works exclusively in green and sustainable technologies. He has been teaching design courses since last 15 years. He was trained at the Central Tool Room, Ludhiana and holds a Diploma from NID, Ahmedabad.

Steven Smith is an architect with over 30 years’ professional experience of practicing as an architect and urbanist working on a diverse, international portfolio of projects. His career has developed through his work on projects across Europe, Asia and Australia, and includes some of the most challenging, large-scale development projects. Steven founded Urban Narrative in 2010 after a successful career at DEGW, an international research-based design consultancy, and before that at Terry Farrell and Partners in the UK and Asia. Urban Narrative works with clients to create the language for new urban places through research, interactive design, events and enriched conversation.

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Articles inside

Un-Gendering the Everyday City

Urban Planning and Regulations: Intent, Manifestation & Design

Jury Profile

Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City

Time, Public and Architecture

Narratives in Architecture

Social Learning

House at the lake edge, Udaipur

From Private to Public

Excellence Awards

Of Zest and Rest: A melange of staircases

The Transfiguring Pavilion

A Note from the Review Panel

About CEPT University