KATHAALAYA

A place for appreciation of Folk Performing Arts

Semester V Design Studio

B.Arch IPSA, 2020 https://thewire.in/rights/mahua-commercialisation-sukracharya-rabha-theatre

Credit: Badungduppa website

Kathaalaya was conceptualised as a center to promote and generate awareness about the dying folk performance arts of Saurashtra, Gujarat. The studio intended to help students design an institution and bring an awareness of the lesser known folk performing arts of the region.

The focus of learning was in terms of four basic components:

Places for Folk Performing Arts Response to a Place of Cultural importance Architectural character of a Complex Building Designing the Place for all

The learning outcomes set forth were:

1. To read, visualize and comprehend the features of public space

2. To practice designing as an iterative process that focus on resolving different issues

· Activities and the space that contains it

· Inside-Outside and the in-between spaces

· Movement and Circulation spaces (type, frequency and time)

· Material and structural expression

· Rainwater Harvesting

· Spaces for specially abled

3. To synthesize the lessons learnt about designing a public place with appropriate representation techniques

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