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Focus Planning and Organizing Unit Assistant Silvi Panchal
Faculty of Design IR2029Spring 2021
2 nd Year Avani Gupta Harini Shah Helly Patel Kushagra Mittal Madhav Agrawal Riddhi Pandya Yashvee Sheth Yug Shah
3 rd Year Bhavya Parikh Pabari Devanshi Khushi Loonia Roshni Adarsh
Shikha Parmar
Shweta Jain
It is exhilarating for a traveler or a photographer to witness a pair of corkscrew horns with a dash of black in the milieu of rising sun amidst the golden grasslands. As more and more wildlife enthusiasts and photographers are seeking short expeditions, a traveler to Velavadar National park seeks a shelter nestled in the winding grasslands which lends possibilities to encounter wildlife and connect to nature. This unit commenced with questioning the notion of a ‘shelter’ and to design an abode, which also acts as a ‘machan’ in accommodating stopovers to pause, encounter and capture the shy and endangered black buck roaming freely through the unbroken landscape. It was a must for the design to provide both a pragmatic and more importantly, a sensorial experience distilling the characteristics of the site for an appropriate spatial narrative. Contextual elements and needs of the user, informed the selection of spatial elements, materials and the spatial configuration. Relationships of the inside to the outside were explored through models. As part of pedagogic method, a tool box was assembled wherein some constants were laid for the site and variables added sequentially based on the site strategy derived. The studio enabled conceptualization and organisation of spaces, eventually evolving a grammar of space responding to the site.
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