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China

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IN CONVERSATION Accentuating the natural In conversation with Indian Architect & Builder, Landscape

Architect Aniket Bhagwat talking about milestones and progress in the field.

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A house designed by M/s. Prabhakar B Bhagwat with much concern for the inhabitants and the results into a benign adobe.

Sikchi Associates creates a fusion of traditional planning and contemporary material aesthetics.

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Blurring Boundaries Abin Design Studio design spaces which enable an engagement between its users and nature.

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INTERNATIONAL The Cloud in Town

Studio Fuksas, blends creativity and functionality to creatre a diverseity in the urban fabric.

Erratum In the article ‘Space, Patterns and Light’ by Soumitro Ghosh in the IA&B October 2016 Issue, the correct caption for the images on page numbers 64 (bottom), 65(bottom), 66, 67 (bottom), 68 and 69 is “Management Development Centre, IIMA. Architect, Anant Raje”. The entire work for this building (on Kahn’s IIM,A Campus) was handled by the Doshi-Raje Architects office, which was located on site (not in Sangath), and the principal in-charge/ architect for all work was Anant Raje.

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Market with a Historic Soul

Photocredits for all images and drawings in the article (except otherwise mentioned): AD Raje.

(Images from Prints in Cept Archives Collection, Ahd). Original Copyright - Architectural Archives, U. Penn, USA.

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b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, transform a commercial building into an interactive public space.

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Learning From Delhi

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ACCENTUATING THE NATURAL

In conversation with IA&B, Indian landscape architect, Aniket Bhagwat talks about the firm, the milestones that it has achieved and about taking landscape architecture far beyond its perimeters as a profession.

Images: courtesy M/S Prabhakar B. Bhagwat

Aniket Bhagwat is a third generation landscape architect practising in Ahmedabad with M/s Prabhakar B Bhagwat, a firm started by his father four decades ago. Aniket Bhagwat studied Architecture from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad and pursued his Masters in Landscape Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. Drawing on the depth of his familiarity with the specialisation since childhood, Aniket is known to be an outspoken and stimulating writer, thinker and an academician. He co-edits and writes for SPADE, a chronicle on design research, theory and narrative, the only peer driven design magazine in the country.

Through his discourse and practice, he strives to bridge the gap between the profession and academics and evolve design through discussion and criticism.

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Sai Visharm Gruh; a destroyed basalt landscape that was ravaged over time.

IA&B: The firm has come a long a way across generations in your family. Could you describe the journey from its establishment to the present – its achievements, hurdles and goals?

Aniket Bhagwat: My father started his life as a garden apprentice where my grandfather was the superintendent at the Empress Botanical Garden in Pune when he was about 15 years old. This was the 1940s and my grandfather did gardens for the royalty or for the cantonment. After his education and experience of working with C. Th. Sorenson in Denmark and then with Brian Hackett in England, he returned to India to practice. He practiced for a few years in Mumbai and then studied Town Planning at Kharagpur IIT, where he also established the first landscape programme in India in the 50s. By the early 60s he took up a job with NID(National Institute of Design) in its founding days, and worked there till the early 70s. Further he went to Delhi for a short stint as the first Head of the landscape programme there, and then established the office in its present form in 1973.

So while the office is about 4 decades old, the lineage is almost 9 decades. As he ran the practice, he also found the time to establish the programme of landscape architecture at CEPT in 1993 and also founded ISOLA the professional body of landscape architects in India.

I joined the firm in the mid-80s after I graduated from Delhi. The world has really changed, even if one were to just map this from the 60s.

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and had patience. So while the profession was not known, the skill or depth of knowledge about plants, or soils, or simple ecology that an individual had, was much respected. I think the gardens that my father worked on , say for Kanvinde’s houses here, or some of Correa’s houses, for NID, or even for IIM, or as the state capital Gandhinagar was being built as the landscape architect for it, had a certain poetic, a certain lyrical-ness and a deep knowledge of plant material.

Slowly as the textile mills collapsed, new money started showing its traits. Patronage vanished and people wanted instant fixes. These were difficult times for the office. But also were challenging, and we reached out at a national scale and went wherever there was a good garden to develop. I spent about 25 years teaching, and then stopped to focus on other things. Through that energy we managed to set up LEAF (Landscape Environment and Advancement Foundation), a set up for five years, and the 12 on 12 platforms that was an egalitarian event for architects in India. With Samira (Rathod), we set up SPADE and its many retreats for designers, we also do books on the office, or on Indian urbanity with friends in Delhi, lecture a fair bit, and also develop exhibitions of work for colleges to invest in as an idea when they are engaging with professionals.

So when people ask what are the achievements and goals; it is odd.

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Building for Family Parikh House, Ahmedabad

A house designed by M/s. Prabhakar B Bhagwat with much concern for the inhabitants and the firm’s integrity results into a sincere effort imbibed into a benign adobe.

Text: Meghna Mehta Drawings: courtesy M/s. Prabhakar B. Bhagwat Photographs: courtesy Shilpa Gavane Indian Architect & Builder - January 2017

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or a firm which has a uniquely exuberant way in which it expresses design, designing something that would be diametrically distanced from its usual syntax can be an interesting opportunity. When designing a house for your own family, it becomes intriguing to understand how the project has been approached. This was a challenging case as the house designed was for the in laws of the principal partner Aniket Bhagwat of M/s. Prabhakar B Bhagwat.

“It was a complicated proposition, since this was not just about design; it was about tenuous relations in any family and what they

really thought of us as a firm. Despite of Smruti (the wife) being the backbone of the office, it was a difficult call of who would lead the project. However it became progressively clear that Smruti would be the right choice to lead it for many reasons – settling of a sense of confidence and there was no one who knew the inhabitants better.” describes Aniket about the beginning of the project.

Built on a suburban plot of 1800 sqm, the house itself has a built-up area of 653 sqm. The house has been built for three generations, two that live there and the youngest one that one day may return home.

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Street view of The Cloud.

The Cloud in Town New Rome /EUR convention Hall and Hotel ‘the Cloud’

Studio Fuksas have created this complex with a blend of flexibility, creativity and functionality and give the traditional Roman architectural fabric a modifying divergence.

Text & Drawings: courtesy Studio Fuksas Images: courtesy Leonardo Finotti, Maurizio Marcato, Moreno Maggi and Francesco Colarossi Compilation by: Divya Pai

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ocated south of the city’s core, in the business district of EUR, this complex follows simple orthogonal lines of the surrounding 1930’s rationalist architecture. The spaces surrounding the centre served as two public squares. Integral to the new complex and the neighbourhood, these new spaces provided citizens with places for various leisure and outdoor activities, offering a new meeting area in this busy part of Rome.

this area, a large concourse feeds into an expansive congress and exhibition hall that can host up to 6000 people. The ‘Theca’ is the stunning outer shell and façade of the convention Hall and Hotel, which has been made from a combination of metal, glass and reenforced concrete. Inside the building, 7,800 square metres of new public space will play host to public and private conferences, exhibitions and large-scale events.

The New Rome/EUR Convention Hall and Hotel ‘the Cloud’ comprises three distinct architectural concepts: the basement, the ‘Theca’ and ‘Cloud’, and the ‘Blade’.

The final architectural concept is the ‘Blade’ - an autonomous building split into 17 floors and containing a new 439 room hotel built to provide accommodation to visitors to the centre and the city of Rome. Spread over 18,000 square metres, the ‘Blade’ will also include seven boutique suites, a spa and a restaurant. The building has been constructed from 37,000 tons of steel- the equivalent weight of four

The basement is accessed on Viale Cristoforo Colombo, via a staircase that leads into the building’s main foyer and information point. Past Indian Architect & Builder - January 2017

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Conceptual sketch.

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has more than 600-place parking area. Many of the complex’s Interior details have also been realised by Studio Fuksas. In the Auditorium, the red armchairs have been made by Poltrona Frau and specially designed by Fuksas architects. The building’s bespoke ‘Cloud’ lamp has been produced by iGuzzini and conceived by the studio.

FACT FILE: Project Name Location Client Initiation of the project Completion of the project Architects Interior design General contractor Engineering Plans Structures Safety Acoustics Lighting consulting Total Area

: New Rome /EUR convention Hall and Hotel ‘the Cloud’ : Rome-Eur, Italy : Eur SpA : 1998 : 2016 : Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas : Fuksas Design : Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua SpA : A. I. Engineering, Torino : Studio Majowiecki; Studio Sarti : Studio Sarti : XU – Acoustique, Parigi, A.I. Engineering, Torino : Speirs& Major Associates, Edinburgh, London : 55,000 sq m

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Market with a Historic Soul Mercat dels Encants

Designed by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, the market is an exemplary instance of a commercial space transforming the public realm.

Text, Images & Drawings: courtesy b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Edited & Compiled by: Dhwani Shanghvi Indian Architect & Builder - January 2017

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he original Mercat dels Encants was an informal outdoor marketplace, formerly located near the grounds for the new market at Glories Square.

A flea market dedicated to auctions and the sale of second hand objects, furniture, clothing and all sorts of curios and bric-a-brac, its origin goes back to the 14 th century. In 1929, the market occupied a public site of nearly 17000 sq m transforming the square into a unique space for interactions. The new market is the first step towards the

Reform of Glories Square, Cerda’s central square at the junction of the three main avenues of his plan.

The project won a public competition launched by the client: Mercats de Barcelona, Barcelona’s public markets.

The concept involved redesigning the area, to transform the dull traffic-driven junction with undefined edges, into a large public square. It had also to respond to the operational requirements for a Indian Architect & Builder - January 2017

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and protects, to a considerable extent, shopkeepers and users from the rain and heat, without losing the characteristic open-air atmosphere.

Arranged by variable-width bands, its underside is fragmented in triangular planes. A stainless steel, golden mirror polished finish makes it appear like a light mechanism of kaleidoscopic reflections of the city into the market and vice-versa. The New Encants Market is an extension of the surrounding streets and despite its different levels works very successfully as a permeable public space.

It has improved dramatically, the quality of its premises with storage areas, parking spaces, loading docks, roper management offices and meeting and assembly rooms, minimising disturbances into the city without changing its typical open informal atmosphere.

But most important of all, the new proud and vindicated new Encants Market has kept its soul.

The dignity of this new public space is equivalent to that of the future Glories Square and that deserved by a centuries old public institution that will remain proudly there where they belong.

The roof creates a visual landmark that provides it with a strong identity and makes it recognisable and inviting in the distance.

Despite not being a building, and lacking façades, its canopy provides a volumetric entity that makes it possible to establish a proper dialogue with the neighbouring National theatre. The New Encants Market has almost doubled the number of visitors. What is more relevant, it has broadened the type of people that visit without expelling its traditional customers. It has even become a tourist destination.

FACT FILE: Project Name : Location : Architect : Client :

Gross Floor Area : Initiation of Project : Completion of Project : Structural Engineer :

Mercat dels Encants Plaça de les Glòries, Barcelona, Spain b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Barcelona d’Infraestructures Municipals (BIMSA), Barcelona City Council 35,440 sq m 2008 2013 BOMA

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Emergence in the Dense Traps

This photo essay captures the evolving urban elements which embarks its presence in everyday life of its dweller.

Text: Divya Pai Photographs: courtesy Deepak John Matthew

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he city may grow bold and busy, but it’s this street which captures the evolving history for its people to look back on. The generation that pass by, the dwellers who resists giving up on their dreams, the hustle and bustle which keeps things going for every individual captivated in this urbanisation have many city elements which brings them back to life.

Density in architecture can be deciphered through the doors of these settlements or the street art filling in colours to a cornered lonely

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street. The transformation of every city buries the past system and functions of all those working in it. As time fled by, some of these styles stood strong against all odds while the rest were modified and can be observed here in these frames.

The photographer here has tried to capture all the density through art and variations on a micro level of architecture. These frames depict the tale of how preserved as well as modified architectural elements can be trapped within the growing human density.

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Dr Deepak John Mathew Dr Mathew was Head of Photography Department till 2013 and Founder of the Photography Design Department at NID (National Institute of Design).

Currently he is working as an associate professor in the Design Department at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Dr Mathew has developed the curriculum and designed the first post graduate Dual Master level programme in Photography Design in India. With an experience spanning over eighteen years in photography, painting and graphics, he has published several papers and conducted workshops on photography worldwide. Dr Mathew has taught as visiting professor at many institutes in India, New Zealand and UK. Deepak John Mathew’s Website: http://djmphotography.in/

Space Frames investigates issues of architecture and environment through the medium of photography. To contribute, write to us at iabedt@jasubhai.com or to the curator Dr Mathew at dr.djmathew@gmail.com.

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