MEANDERING THROUGH STUDIOS Kush Kalavadia, Studio II
| Utsav Bhalani, Studio V
The studio intended to design a pavilion for the people who want to enjoy, engage with nature and to observe how surrounding is responding to one’s personality. The site was near a lake in Rataiya village of Rajkot. Natural elements always play a role in defining spaces, like here the cluster of trees, wind from the lakeside, certain undulations on land, gave an expression to nature and challenged the designer. However we had to design by using basic space making elements like wall, column, roof and plinths and then organize them according to principles of design and provide enclosure. We had measured drawn the whole site, stayed there from morning to evening and analysed the site, but then a nation-wide lock down was declared just at the design stage, so it was a challenge for us to design on whatever we had experienced first hand and the drawings we had made. Still, the studio was very interesting, as it focused on why humans require a certain kind of environment and that it is not limited to only architecture of buildings.
Site sections
Site plan
Photographs of model
