Learnings from Architect B.V. Doshi

Category Time Location

Contribution

Architecture internship Nov 2019 - May 2020

Ahmedabad, India

Conceptual design process, working drawings, representation drawings, physical models.

*All work exhibited is of the applicant.

We as students have forgotten the human in architecture. Our buildings have become callous, forgetting how it will affect our sensitivities. B.V. Doshi with his frequent interactions would ask us to let go of the gravity and be a child again, which in turn changed the way we perceived architecture.

One such exercise was to compare and refer Sangath to different entities of varied scales. It helped us to feel bodily the size and scale of the structure, and generate an image. We measured the vaults by walking barefoot and invoking our senses, we tried to climb, run, jump and play, just like old times. We considered the building as our friend and became more aware about ourselves.