HT4002 Foundation Studio Gauri Bharat Sadan Jha Priyanka Kanhare

HT4002

Foundation Studio

Program

Architectural History and Theory

Unit Assistant

Deepthi Varghese

Students

Anisha Karambelkar Arya Baburaj Chinmay Gheware Ghanasyam R S M Mallika A L Meena Pranjali Mathure Richa Bihari Sriparna Seal Tanvi Karia Yakin Kinger Gauri Bharat Sadan Jha Priyanka Kanhare

The Foundation Studio trained students in core skills of architectural enquiry through the analysis of built environments and relevant archival material. Students learned to analyse architectural cues to understand transformation and investigate how architectural shifts are connected to wider transformative forces that have shaped our habitations at various points in time. The methodology of the studio involved rigorous architectural analysis (of spatial configuration, typology, materiality and aesthetics), overlaid with narratives of experience. This way the students learned to investigate the built environment as both site and process of inhabitation. The studio was organised in three modules which covered advanced architectural and visual documentation strategies, the analysis of archival material, developing the discipline of journaling observations and inferences, and constructing an argument using text and visual material. The modules were discrete and self-contained in terms of exercises, objectives and outcomes, but come together as a continuous process of inquiry through seminars and reflections sessions. We used the online semester as an opportunity to introduce students to digital methods of research in architectural history and the humanities more widely.

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Fig 1 Group Work Deconstructed maps of Panjrapol in 1880s, 1940s & present Fig 2 Pranjali Mathure Haveli Section details Fig 3 M Mallika Conjectured ground floor plan & spatial character of haveli

Fig 4 Arya, Chinmay, Ghanasyam,

Sriparna Activity mapping of pol houses Fig 5 Ghanasyam R S Cognitive mapping of neighborhood Fig 6 Tanvi Karia Cognitive mapping of neighborhood

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Fig 7 Ghanasyam R S, Sriparna S Primary street elevations of Panjrapol

Fig 8 Chinmay Gheware, Arya Baburaj

Activity mapping at Derawalo Khancho

Fig 9 Chinmay Gheware, Arya Baburaj

Activities and threshold relationship through sections Fig 10 Anisha Karambelkar Institutions around the Cotton chawl

Fig 11 Anisha Karambelkar ; Class

Work Non-Jain institutions marked on

neighborhood map of Panjrapol

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