Social Learning

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 Fig 7 Repalle Sajanish A view from the corridor looking across the courtyard Fig 8 Simran Mashruwala A view from the corridor Fig 9 Zoeanna Upadhyay A view into the central space Fig 10 Dhrumin Patel Axonometric showing the occlusivity map Fi9 11 Ninad Shroff Convex map analysis comparing various iterations

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Faculty of Architecture AR3011 Monsoon 2020

Narratives in Architecture

Meghal Arya

Unit Assitant: Priyanshi Jain

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.

4th Year

Aishwarya Gupta Almitra R Daksh Goel Namrata Ukani Shreya Shridhar Twisha Vaghasia

5th Year

Bhavya Jain Chintan Mewada Dhaval Patel Durva Patel Rahul

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