L2 & L3 Studio Units Catalog - Spring 2021

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AR3031

Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighbourhood Place Unit Assistant Shreya Gambhir

Faculty of Architecture AR3031 Spring 2021

4 th Year Riya Pai

Rajiv Kadam

5 th Year

Are Cities today great places to live and enjoy everyday life? This is the critical question still haunting us since the time we defined “City” as a great urban form at the dawn of the Industrial revolution. The critical text against Modernism by Jane Jacobs, ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ (1992), reminds us of the great crisis within the quality of human values in our cities and their decay.

Bhavya Ratadia Dhruv Bhatia Jhanvi Oza Jui Dudhiya Jui Magiawala Vidhi Gajjar Prachi Patodia

There is an urgent need for a critical thought and approach to design and planning of urban form and architecture of cities. The social and cultural patterns of everyday urban life construct the important human values: sense of belonging, identity, safety and a strong and healthy community. The studio focused on developing a theoretical perspective on the problem of humanizing cities and explored urban design and architectural ideas to develop a design for public places in the urban context. The students used the place making theories as a base to first decode the social and cultural patterns of urban life in the project area, then to evolve a theoretical frame for analysis and finally to demonstrate the exploration of a speculative design of the urban space and architectural character

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CT2018 Designing Spaces in Reinforced Concrete

3min
pages 346-351

CT2014 Plumbing Design Studio

2min
pages 328-333

CT2015 CONCRETE: Exploring its Versatility

2min
pages 322-327

UR3006 Post-COVID Streets

2min
pages 314-321

UR2020 In Transit: Making a Place Between Arrival and Departure

3min
pages 290-295

UR2016 Un-Gendering The Everyday City

2min
pages 296-301

UR2019 Single Person Dwelling: Well-Being Through Productive Loneliness

8min
pages 266-271

UR2008 Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression

1min
pages 278-283

IR3016 Child Centric Healing Spaces

3min
pages 252-259

IR3002 Brand Building Through Spatial Design

1min
pages 246-251

IR3014 Contextualizing Interior Space Making

2min
pages 240-245

IR3009 XYZ of ABC

1min
pages 234-239

IR2038 Hybrid Work(place)-From Objects Through Mediums

1min
pages 216-221

IR3006 Forgotten / Transformed

2min
pages 228-233

IR2037 Inside Outside- Performative Envelopes

2min
pages 210-215

IR2029 Traveler’s Home

2min
pages 192-197

IR2018 Art of Detailing

1min
pages 198-203

IR2024 Exploration of Design: Material in Focus

2min
pages 204-209

IR2036 Inside Out

2min
pages 186-191

Post Pandemic

2min
pages 180-185

IR2030 Deployable Systems – Form, Space and Function

1min
pages 174-179

IR2035 Celebrating Crafts

2min
pages 168-173

IR2032 Decoding Poetics of Spaces

2min
pages 162-167

BD2005 Indetail- Making is Realizing

2min
pages 144-149

BD2002 Expeditions in Non-Metal

2min
pages 150-155

AR3029 Towards a Critical Project and a Project of Criticism Situation: Sangath, Ahmedabad

4min
pages 130-137

IR2027 Remodelling Residences

2min
pages 156-161

AR3028 Architecture of Nuances

2min
pages 124-129

AR3031 Humanizing Urban Space: Social Production and Speculative Design of Neighbourhood Place

3min
pages 118-123

AR3030 Between the Fracture and the Fold

3min
pages 112-117

AR3033 Workplace Neighborhoods

2min
pages 106-111

AR2033 Span and Space: Exploring Tectonics in Architecture

3min
pages 88-93

AR2032 Masters’ Stroke: Matters of Architectural Language

2min
pages 64-69

AR2034 Detailing and Communicating Architecture

2min
pages 70-75

AR2004 Strange Details

3min
pages 58-63

AR2024 Climate Responsive Architecture

3min
pages 40-45

AR2028 Learning Spaces: Beyond Schooling

2min
pages 46-51

AR2013 Making Living Places: Craftsmanship, Song and Imagination

2min
pages 52-57

AR2032 Construction Estimation

2min
pages 16-21

AR2026 Dissolving Boundaries: Children’s Library at Loving Community

1min
pages 22-27
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