Tripple-Ripple

The studio followed a reverse pedagogy wherein we made to scale models right from the beginning and only produced the shop drawings once the final prototype was made. The idea was to better our understanding of materials and mechanisms through direct stimuli to our senses and get a more profound sense of “making.”

While the routes taken may have left me questioning the conventional methods of design, the uncertainty of a new process gave me an entirely new set of tools to work with, helped me build a stronger never die attitude and provided fresh avenues to interrogate.

At the beginning of the journey, one had an obvious question of “what” about the journey but the gradual process of taking one from an atomic to molecular stage has led one to question the “why” of it through critical understanding of the subject, in turn triggering a thought of its element and compound. The studio begun with a pragmatic approach of understanding mechanisms at a micro level and designing one at the node of functionality and aesthetics which later transformed into designing a spatial entity incorporated with the understanding of mechanisms done initially. This studio has induced a culture among us to look at any object’s design and functioning with a conscious effort of understanding it and knowing the purpose of its existence. Mudit Tikmani PAT22206

Miloni Patel PAT22197