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Planning and Organizing

Unit Assistant Silvi Panchal

2nd Year

Avani Gupta Harini Shah Helly Patel Kushagra Mittal Madhav Agrawal Riddhi Pandya Yashvee Sheth Yug Shah

3rd 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.

Design UG Level-2 Fig 1 Avani Gupta Sectional perspective showing interior space overlooking grasslands Fig 2 Group Work Sections exploring and recording activites and inside – outside relationship Fig 3 Group Work Abstract models expressing intangible qualities Fig 4 Kushagra Mittal Spatial configuration allowing a rhythmic passage towards wetlands Fig 5 Madhav Agrawal Spatial hierarchy negotiating the fiction of landscape Fig 6 Kushagra Mittal Exploded view indicating assembly of elements Fig 7 Devanshi Pabari Section emphasising experience of sleeping pods hovering over the wetlands Fig 8 Avani Gupta Montage weaving spatial roles of skin exploring the vivid inside to outside relation Fig 9 Yashvee Sheth Sectional view representing the progression & unfolding of interior spaces Fig 10 Harini Shah Illustration with spatial quality of space along with the winding ramps encircling the tree

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