AR3030 Between the Fracture and the Fold

AR3030

Between the Fracture and the Fold

Unit Assistant Sneha Lakhani

Faculty of Architecture AR3030 Spring 2021

3rd Year

Yashi Tripathi

2nd Year

Harsh Panchal Hari Patel Karan Tanna Bharat Raj Thukral Ruhani Adlakha Siddharth P Cyriac Keerthan B V Percy Adil Pithawala

The last couple of decades at the turn of the 20th century have been extremely critical to the theoretical discourse in architecture. At the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century, architectural theory was busily discussing DeConstructivism and its eminently angular avatars in building. American critical theory of the time was strongly influenced by Parisian thinkers who were exploring theories beyond the scope of architecture.

There was a selection of architects during the phase between 1980s and the 2000s who were rigorously exploring interconnections and translations from varied parallel discourses like art and philosophy to architecture, lending agency to their own theoretical grounding. Our Design studio explored this very phase in the architectural discourse which raised questions of meaning embedded within architectural constructs through a rigorous framework of theoretical standings during the latter half of the 20th century. Lending foundation to this fetishization of form-making, this studio helped students to ground their individual visual explorations into a process-based learning, journeying from the theoretical to the radical, to the real

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Fig 1 Karan Tanna - Illustration depicting the cracks on earth’s surface exposing the wounds of the Pandemic.

Fig 2 Collage of all students works

- Introductory excercise exploring individual experience by students during the pandemic represented thru sketches, diagrams, collages and renders. Fig 3 Poveglia Island, Italy. Site orientation and existing structures. Fig 4 Bharat Raj Thukral - Exploring the notion of host and parasite thru a protective canopy encompassing existing structures while inserting new floor plates. Fig 5 Keerthan B.V. - Mapping experiential journeys and linkages within site context thru minimalist interventions, varied materials and light. Fig 6 Ruhani Adlakha - Intertwining of two independent journeys thru site history and the history of Pandemics achieved thru deflection, juxtaposition and scaling. Fig 7 Siddharth Cyriac - Establishing transitions thru five stages of grief during pandemic namely denial, anger, bargaining, depression and final acceptance.

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