Narratives in Architecture

Fig 1 Shreya Shridhar Public-Private inversion during Pandemic Fig 2 Aishwarya Gupta Public-Private inversion during Pandemic Fig 3 Shreya Shridhar Observe, Record and Extract your neighbourhood Fig 4 Almitra Roosevelt Observe, Record and Extract your neighbourhood Fig 5 Shreya Shridhar Concept sketches with staircase as protagonist 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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Faculty of Architecture AR3017 Monsoon 2020

Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City

Sachin Soni

Unit Assitant: Netra Bafna

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.

4 th Year

Drashti Kanabar Varisha Chauhan Vatsal Sanghavi

5 th Year

Bhavya Ratadia Driti Patel Kanxa Shah Karan Tanna Neha Maturi Nilanshi Agrawal Malav Desai Nikhil Makhijani

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