AD4008 Quotidian realm Surya Kakani Mehul Bhatt

AD4008

Quotidian realm

Program

Architectural Design

Unit Assistant Prakriti Saxena

Students

Aswin Senthil Himanshu Godara Jayati Misra Karthik Nakkana Nitinkumar Kademani P K Sudarshan Roshita Sudhir Sanjana Das Tanvi Dubbewar Yamini Manjunath Surya Kakani Mehul Bhatt

There is a growing awareness amongst the stakeholders to question the ‘Status Quo’ of architectural production, to critically engage with different processes involving questions of resources that shape it - materials, water, energy, waste, labor and so on - the ‘quotidian realm of architecture’. This studio investigates the idea of manifestos and specific canons of architecture in the context of their times and their histories, to understand their relevance, and move the discussion to the future, to look back at the present in a historical sense, to re-imagine/reframe an individual manifesto that addresses the immediacies of our time. The statement of a manifesto for the present became an anchor for the project to investigate/design. This manifesto was used to interrogate site, project and program through the notions of materiality, structure, construction, technology, detailing, multiplicity of functions, complex programming and building performance.

The pedagogic emphasis of this investigative journey was to understand these through the conscious use of resources (local and global) as well as systems of production (vernacular and modern). The critical inquiry lay in provoking and thereby informing one’s position as a producer of architecture in the context of our times.

Centre for neighbourhood Neighbourhoodlounge Urban agriculture Community Riverfront scheme Fish market Urban Government School Shelter for medical migrants Co-working space Rain basera Housing development Kartik Nakkana Nitinkumar Kademani PK Sudarshan Tanvi Dubbewar Aswin Senthil Yamini Manjunath Sanjana Das Roshita Sudhir Himanshu Godara Jayati Misra

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Fig 1 Collage Image showing snippets of all 10 design projects Fig 2 Roshita Sudhir Decoding the system - Tadao Ando Fig 3 Tanvi Dubbewar Decoding the system - Hasan Fathy

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Time problem - Proposed buoyant structure as a response to fragile systems Fig 5 Aswin Senthil Catch of the day - Fish market

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Fig 6 Aswin Senthil Interior of fish market Fig 7 Yamini Manjunath Retrofitting an Urban Govt. School through humble technology at various scales Fig 8 Yamini Manjunath Fenestration detail developed as a response to neighbourhood Fig 9 Tanvi Dubbewar Re-centering the city towards the river edge Fig 10 Tanvi Dubbewar Thresholds,

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connections and initiation of trade

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