Realizing Nolli’s Dream: Embedding Architecture in the City

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 Fig 6 Nikhil Makhijani View of green pathways leading to Usmanpura metro station, Ahmedabad Fig 7 Nikhil Makhijani View of amphitheatre, green terraces and pathways at Usmanpura metro station from Gujarat Vidhyapith, Ahmedabad Fig 8 Nilanshi Agarwal Exploded axonometric of metro station at Annanagar, Chennai Fig 9 Varisha Chauhan Isometric of the extended concourse connecting key institutions at Chowk Bazaar metro station, Surat

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Faculty of Architecture AR3024 Monsoon 2020

Time, Public and Architecture

Kaiwan Mehta

Unit Assitant: Siddharth Bansal

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.

4 th Year

Anokhi Brahmbhatt Dwij Hirpara Kush Patel Prarthi Marfatiya Aakash Bala Saravanan

5 th Year

Nirali Vaishnani Vikas Gajera Drashti Nakrani Prachi Patodia Garima Patel Ruhani Adlakha

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