SEA Newsletter 8 by SEA Mumbai

SEANEWSLETTER a bi-annual chronicle of the School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai.

EDITORIAL Over five years of pedagogical discourses, new methods and experiments, the people of SEA have expanded the ideas of teaching, learning and working to become more intuitive. Students become autodidacts and bring new platforms to engage with new provocations. This year also marks the first batch to graduate from SEA with new dissertations entering the field. SEA has expanded its teaching to new colleges in Southern India to create a connected collaborative studio that works simultaneously on ontological questions of form and space. Through an exchange program between four colleges, different cultures, knowledge systems, experiences and information were shared among all the colleges. This is the first issue to be edited and compiled by a student and I take pride in being its editor. I was also part of the connected studio, visiting Tiruchirapalli and Kozhikode, to engage with different people and contexts. The collaboration brought out new methods of thinking, representation and crafting space in the students. The issue also highlights some of the new studies of settlements, relevant conversations of the contemporary, new modes of showcasing form and space, different methods of building technologies and also studies of culture and built form throughout history Veeravalli Vikram Editor

ISSUE 7. Winter Semester 2019

CONTENTS 1 \ Editorial 2-15 \ Student Work History, Theory, Methods Architectural drawing Form & Space Studies Technology Settlement Studies 16 \ Winter Electives 2019 17 \ Dissertation 18 \ SEA City and SEA Assembly

CREDITS Editor: Veeravalli Vikram Co-ordination, Layout & Design: Anuj Daga, Shreyank Khemalapure

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Sem 2 \ History Theory Methods Text: Shreyank Khemalapure The history of architecture is often read through the lens of the buildings that the civilizations of the world have produced. Great works already exist that tell us the socio-cultural contexts that enabled such architecture. They tell us that architecture, like several other cultural artifacts, is a result of the momentary coming together of the complex social relationships technological, political, economical and all things human. In this course the effort was to study the history of tools of architecture and building construction - how did they enable building? What is their cultural significance, their commonality and differences in cultures across the globe? What kind of building efforts were they able to facilitate? What kind of social relationships were they part of What are the relations between tools and so on? In some ways, this course will look at the relational history of building materials and tools that make us human.

The course is structured around three parts: 1. Tools to think about building (Writing & Drawing) 2. Tools to construct buildings (Shaping material & Assembling material) 3. Tools to Inhabit (Housing the body) Students along with tracing the evolution of the tools also replicated them in terms of drawings or models, some also tweaking some aspects to bring the next evolution in the tool. The idea was to understand how does a particular tool is thought of considering the kinds of buildings it will enable us to make.

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Sem 4 \ History Theory Methods Text: MAnthan Chandak & Veeravalli Vikram The aim of the module was to look at the key developments and transformation in the architectural history of India over the last two millennia. This was broadly divided into four sections of Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Colonial legacies. Their characteristics of architectural expressions emerging from regional philosophies and their subsequent interactions with each other were discussed through historic books. For theory, the students were introduced to readings in ontologies of space and deliberated upon ideas in meanings of space, habitation and experience. This helped in developing new programmatic ideas and spatial manifestations. This was done by intensively studying a historic object and conjecturing its relevance in a particular time period.

In humanities, concepts like Orientalism, Power, Hegemony and Nationhood were discussed through reading books and presenting the interpretations. These readings helped to associate with contemporary discussions on form and space and to understand form and space. The readings aided in analyse thoughts on space throughout history and how philosophical thought has given rise to different forms and types. This then served as the base for a typological and ontological study.

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Sem 2 \ Architectural Drawing Text: Anuj Daga The focus of the second semester Architectural Representation studio has been to introduce hybrid drawing, i.e blending hand-drawing and digital techniques of image making. Rather than maintaining it as a passive skill-building studio, our attempt was to push students to find their own ways of creating an imagery for a given provocation. Two aspects were mobilized simultaneously: 1. Basic introduction to key softwares (AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Google Sketchup) 2. A provocation, where each student was asked to select from a matrix of words, resulting in a phrase that would become their brief for representation. The matrix for the provocation is as shown above (right). Individual selections from the columns of the table resulted into unexpected, but imaginative propositions like: “Room of crowded ghosts” or “Pavilion above dark trees”. Through referencing artists, architects and graphic designers, the studio worked out possibilities of visually representing each of the phrases, in order to open up imagemaking in architectural representation as an important tool towards argumentation, evocation and imagination.

Ria Shah

Bharvi Shetye

Netra khodke

Dhanvi Shah

Dhruv Sachala

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Sem 4 \ Architectural Drawing Text: Stuti Shah This exercise focused on changing perceptions of students towards certain factors that constitute the ‘process’ of a design. The module started with a 15 minute exercise where all the students were supposed to do, was to express freely, in the form of curves passing through 7 points. There were 7 constants and innumerable variables.

tweaking the space consciously keeping certain factors in mind. The prerequisite was only that everyone should have a set of constants and variables, around which their iterations came up. These iterations were further developed with certain operations.

This was followed by 4 days of getting familiar with ‘Grasshopper’ not only as a software but also as a medium of expression and thought. The class was introduced to discussions on the ‘process’ of making architecture which is under constant change, followed by videos on animated design, and readings. With this, the module moved towards it’s final stage where the class was divided into groups of 4 and each group was given a particular typology to explore. The exploration started with making diagrams of certain spaces around the world revolving around a particular type.

Variables

Constants Start and Centre of first curve.

Distance from centre O to first point on curve C.

Centre taken on the third curve from centre of grid.

Angle of rotation is 22.5 degrees.

Connecting all the edges

Taking the mid points

1/3 Sub division, joining all A’s

1/3 Sub division, joining all B’s

Joining alternate A and B

Angle of inclination

Centre taken at the centre of the grid.

Angle of rotation is 22.5 degrees.

Offset of curves at equal intervals of 1000mm.

Distance from centre O to first point on curve C.

Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 1000 mm @ 22.5 deg, angles in the ratio 7:19:30

C’’’ Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 2000 mm @ 45 deg, angles in the ratio 11:23:36

C’’ C’ C A O B

A O B

Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 3000 mm @ 67.5 deg, angles in the ratio 15:27:42

Somesh Nadkarni CONSTANTS

Operations

Type OPERATIONS

VARIABLES Extrusion of all boxes (A,B,C)

Length of the bridge Area of the atrium

The intent is to keep the size and scale of courtyard constant A as well as the width of passage (Dist between column and wall) and vary the columns that form the courtyard and explore the relation to the passage around it

A,B,C extruded by x+1

Varying the parameters of the Ccolumn and looking at the change in the passage created by this

Area of column

Base point

C A

A,B,C extruded by x+2

1. Ramps are connected to the opposite sides 2. Continuous or split ramp 3. Formation of central space 4. Altering angles 5. Length of the ramp 6. Varying height ratios

Rotate rect by 90 degrees

Size and dimension of column

Variable :

Change sqr to rect of same area

A,B,C extruded by x-1 Base point of column

Rotating at multiple angles

Variable B

1. Grid of the building 2. Connecting all floors

A,B,C extruded by x-2 B

Rotate col. by 90 degrees reducing space between them

Dimensions of columns C

Constant :

B’’

Operations

Start, End and Centre of first curve.

Working on both sides

Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 4000 mm @ 90 deg, angles in the ratio 18:30:48

1. Ramps are connected to the adjacent sides 2. Altering angles 3. Length of the ramp 4. Varying height ratios

Intersecting two ramps

B’

Other possible iterations

Variables

Constants

Variable :

Splitting on both sides

C’’

C’ O

Offset of curves at equal intervals of 1000mm.

Height of the atrium

Continuous pattern: 1/3 sub division

EXTRUSIONS Constant

1. Grid of the building 2. Connecting all floors

Constant :

Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 3333 mm.

Operations

Types

Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 2121 mm.

Angles in the ratio 15 : 27 : 42

This was followed by analysing them individually and extracting the relationship between the elements that shaped the type, making more diagrams along the same lines. Once everyone was clear about what roles certain elements were playing in their spaces, they started

Constant :

Operations Distance taken from the centre to the first point on curve is 1000 mm.

fragmented ramps on opposite direction

fra gmented ra mps adjacent sides

1/3 Sub division, joining ramps in both direction

1/3 Sub division, joining all B’s

Joining alternate A and B

Rotation of column C

Rotate col. by 45 degrees from base axes

Base point

1. Grid of the building 2. Connecting all floors

A,B,C extruded by x+3

Changing the rotation of column changes the movement around it A,B,C extruded by and x-3 the way the passage is accessed from the courtyard

Variable : 1. Ramps are connected to the opposite sides or adja cent sides 2. Fragmented ramps 3. Interconnected ramps 4. Linear patterns 5. Length of the ramp 6. Varying height ratiosW Continuous pattern: 1/3 sub division

Tapering the volume from above

Protruding out levels into the atrium

Tapering the volume from below

Creating an opening in the wall , connecting the courtyard and the inner space through the Elimination passage

Multiple outcomes of floor protruding out

Constant :

Change sqr column to rect. and orienting its length along the passage

Size of column and rotation

1. Grid of the building

Height of the atrium Extrusion of individual box (B,C)

Variable 1.Changing the volume 2. Protruding out the floors 3. Connecting the ramps and the floors

Sanjana Habde

Base point

Extrusion of individual box (A)

Length of the bridge Area of the atrium

Base point of column C

A extruded by x+1

C A

Madhura Patil A extruded by x-1

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Sem 2 \ Technology Text: Diwakar Motwani The module began with a study tour to Dahanu, near Palghar. Pratik Dhanmer, a community architect practicing in Murbad, helped students understand two types of structures - load-bearing and framed structures. The students started documenting houses in the neighbourhood to learn the basics of construction, details, context based design and systems in play. The forty students in class were divided into groups, each focusing on the construction techniques of a specific architectural element. These were cob wall, bamboo shelf, mud plaster, and seed bank. Over two days, the students engaged in the making of these elements on a 1:1 scale and documenting the process. Through a series of walks along the village, the students were also equipped

with engaging with the environment and interact with it. Students then returned to Mumbai to work on their projects where all the learnings were reflected. Several questions were asked while designing these interventions like, "what is the experience of technology?"; "What could be the evolution of a construction practice?" and "How does the context affect the construction, materiality and space configuration?"

Netra khodke

Diwakar Motwani

Rishabh Chhajer, Shavri Raut

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Sem 4 \ Technology Text: Veeravalli vikram Library The aim of this module was to introduce steel as a primary building material. The brief was to design a library of 300 sqm that would be built out of prefabricated members and then assembled on site. The idea was to strategize design such that it could be possibly be assembled in any context around the world. This orients the students towards building using modules and units, keeping in mind standard members and their sizes available in market. It also helps with exploring the flexibility of the material and the potential lightness of the whole structure, in terms of size of members. Parallel learnings included details of different assemblies, connections and structural calculations. This module also introduced lineout drawings and basic estimation and quantity survey of the structure. Parallel learnings included details of different assemblies, connections and structural calculations.

Ruchita Sarvaiya

Abhilasha Ambhire

Riddhi Chavan

Adwait Desai

Veeravalli Vikram

Pranay Kotadia, Manthan Chandak, Madhura Patil

Anjali Agarwal, Nandita Joshi, Nidhi Mehta

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Sem 6 \ Technology Text: Tanvi Savla Working Drawing

GENERAL NOTES -

ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE FOLLOWED. DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL OTHER DRAWINGS. P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND : COARSE AGGREGATE). ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS. ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING. ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK. RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK. WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS. OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.

SHEAR WALL 300mm

BT7

The working drawing module was a part of the Technology module in the sixth semester. The site was the Sea Rock Hotel at Bandra in Mumbai. The studio's intention was to design a performing arts center. The module had two parts to it, one where the idea was to re-imagine the type of a performing arts center through various conceptual strategies while the next intent was to resolve it structurally. Various iterations and structural systems were explored for the same, ultimately leading to making a full set of working drawings involving construction details, external wall sections and the edge condition types. The studio aimed at understanding the method and the drawings which are required to communicate to on site workers, involving resolved fire safety and sewage details as well.

F24

COROGATED METEL SHEET

618

400

GUSSET PLATE 100mm

3024

400X 300 STEEL BOX SECTION

750 932

148

SR.NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION

402 1220

1477

149

1220 1218

2780

240

21251 19703

153

1653

2946

BT4

CHECKED BY

KEY PLAN

3236

BT6 BT5 347 477

GUSSET PLATE

EXISTING ROAD 10 M WIDE

498

DETAIL 4 SCALE 1:20

SEA SIDE

520 3759

BL2

3975

PRECAST STEEL CONNECTOR

DETAIL 2

SHEAR WALL

SCALE 1:50

F24

3000

PERFORMING ART THEATER AT BANDRA, MUMBAI

32 33 34 35

19383000

1547

38 39

3622

1453

241 1233

600

CONNECTOR

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE NORTH

SCALE

150

BL3

DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER

STEEL COLOUM 500mm 0

DETAIL 3 SCALE 1:50

TYPICAL PLAN SCALE 1:50

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION SCALE 1:50

AKSHAY SAVLA A16-23 THIRD YEAR B.ARCH 2018 - 2019

STEEL PLATE

36 37

2800

STAMP & SIGN

STEEL TRUSS CONNECTION TO SHEAR WALL

INSULATER POLYCARBOBATE SHEET

300 300

ISSUED BY

971

300

579

23303

149

703

D19

2mm PLASTER

BT2

F24

PLATES

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION WD-SEA-F- 24

Akshay Savla

2997

6000

21000mm

3000

145000mm INSULATED GLASS PANNELS

3000

11500 mm

2340

PERFORMANCE HALL

PROP ROOM

1500 mm

1501

3000

4163

00mm

1500

1460

2139

1038

989

3000

800

4500 mm

SOUVERNIER STORE

RAFT FOOTING 400mm THICK

8500mm

4000

3531

CLEAR CLASS RAILING

1284

WATERPROOFING WITH SHAHBAD TILES 100mm INCLUDING 20mm MORTAR

TRENCH

-3000mm

Akshay Savla

Ashwin Gupta

GENERAL NOTES -

7250

1902

4303

6500

2240

9448

KITCHEN

SEATING

5293

10414

1850

250 125

3000

800

3100

1233

1902

2100

3000

1950

150 1500

2711

3296

)

RAMP SLOPE (1:14)

199

432

9585

1650

)

(1:1

SLOPE (1:100)

SLO

SR.NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION

81 32

STAGE

3924

800

SOUVENIR STORE (1

CHECKED BY

0 20

ISSUED BY

5.0 0

0 15

5 97

SLOPE

(1:100)

135˚

1 77

0 25

10 00

D2 45

50 22

(1:100)

SLOPE

7797

4 21

SLOPE (1:100)

SEA SIDE

50 42 0 5 42

SLOPE (1:100)

EXISTING ROAD 10 M WIDE

KEY PLAN

20 0 15 00

20 0

0°

up 01

15 SLOPE (1:100)

EXISTING MAIN ROA

9709

SLOPE (1:100)

0 80

100

45 0

0 60 00

30 0

00 19

00 46

88 20 0 SLOPE (1:100)

ROLL NO | A16 - 37 THIRD YEAR B.ARCH 2018 - 2019

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

SLOPE (1:100)

750

3 18 8

)

SLOPE (1:100)

ADITYA VERMA 1

6669

)

1367

550

PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE AT BANDRA, MUMBAI

2752

6075

4648

2100

:100

1600

5 22

500

550

11 00

RECORD ROOM

5600 6107

3325

BOOKING OFFICE

SLOPE (1:100)

SLO

6250

D2 19

03 55

6400 3708

500

1951

2352

3703

)

1400

:100

673 550

E (1

300

STAMP & SIGN

2868

3000

300

2100

500

450 50 500

5134

1000

1200

1000

1350 200

2059

NORTH

SCALE

1:100 B

Aditya Verma a

DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER

GROUND FLOOR PLAN WD - SEA - C - 02

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Sem 4 \ Form and Space studies Text: Rupali Gupte Connected Collaborative Studios Four new colleges of architecture, all run by architects, have come together with a mandate of rearticulating the language, methods, knowledge and tools for architectural teaching and production. The intention is to create an academic space for students and teachers, which would become a catalyst for generating a cultural ecosystem for the discipline and for the society at large.

As part of this collaboration each school began by hosting two students from the other three schools to join their respective Sem IV Design Studios. Each of the studios asked the following questions What does it mean to settle? at Avani Institute of design, Calicut What is a learning environment? at C.A.R.E School of Architecture, Trichy What is home? at Wadiyar Centre For Architecture, Mysore 4. What is a clinic? at School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai

Abhishek Nerkar

Parth Solanki

Nikeita Saraf

Abhilasha Patil

Ritu Naik

Veeravalli Vikram

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Anjan Kudtarkar

Anjali Agarwal

Gauri Sarang

Neha Kesari

Ronak Soni

Yamini Patil

Somesh Nadkarni

Ankit Kumar Sharma

Grishma mehta

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Sem 2 \ Form and Space studies Text: Diwakar Motwani The SEA Semester 2 Architectural Design is a culmination of theatre design, experiential architecture, plays and scripts. All of these projects are layered and interwoven exploration into these broad aspects, explicitly defining set-designs. This module explored the relationships between the experience, architecture and how scripting plays as a method helps perceive a space through other senses. Students visited 40 different sites across Mumbai, where they spent time to experience, record and describe those sites through words. The papers were exchanged and students analysed what their peers had described about these sites. By listing trigger words, forming mind maps and narrative-drawings, multiple entry points were discovered. This data then began to address a conceptual model and how one can incorporate these understandings into their architectural designs and plays. To support the frameworks of the interventions, a series of plays were scripted and performed on the last day of the module.

Pratik Bharati

Neel Shah

Shreya Mehta

Arnav Mundhada

Kartiki Mahadik

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Sem 6 \ Form and Space studies Text: Tanvi Savla Negotiating an Estuarine Landscape : Vakola The studio aimed to investigate the possibility of negotiating with estuarine landscapes. The Mithi River basin of about 18 Kms, commences in the North East of Mumbai, at Sanjay Gandhi National Park. As it advances towards the Arabian sea it passes through Residential, Industrial, Informal Settlements and Bandra Kurla Complex – a commercial hub. The river ends into an estuarine landscape at Mahim.

The three questions answered during the course were: What is a library in the given context ? How does the context determine your space, form and relation to the ground ? What is the appropriate materiality, systems and relation of the built form? . The edge of the nallah allowed different conditions to prevail required different approaches.

The three chosen sites were: In the Mumbai University Campus: This investigated as to how the intervention will be set in the present ground condition At the edge: The insert would seek answers to the condition adjoining an informal settlement At the confluence of the highway, BKC: This demanded attention to noise, edge, high accessibility and answers to traffic confluence of road, foot over bridge and pedestrian paths.

Shrushti Karale

Devarsh Sheth

Vaishnavi Bhartia

Manish Shravane

Raksha Shrivastava

Herin Vora

settlement studies

Sem 2 \ Settlement studies Text: Diwakar Motwani Without field experiences, the study of architecture is incomplete. The ability to engage with locals, bringing them at ease of conversation and then understanding their ways of living are important to engage with. And that skill is what the settlement studies trip wanted the students to acquire during the second semester. Korlai, a Portuguese speaking village on the Maharashtrian Konkan coast, consisting of not more than a hundred and fifty households, was the ideal site for the study. The trip dealt with fundamental understandings of the forms of living, built-forms, the relationship between the two and the social structures of the rural settlements. On the first day, everyone went around the place and analyzed and established relations between what they saw and what they've seen throughout the city. Post the walk, students were grouped and allocated a region to be documented. The aim was to combine orthographic drawings with narrative drawings reflecting on various relationships that were discovered by many small social surveys, talks and gossips. There were also master plans and sections made on 1:250 and 1:500 scales explaining different aspects of the settlement, like the dependency of people with the coast, the relationship between the street and the dwelling units, showing the diversity on the street. By the end of 7 days, all students were friendly and familiar with almost all the villagers. The trip ended with a small exhibition showcasing the work to the residents.

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Sem 4 \ settlement studies Text: Rupali Gupte In order to add to the archives of South Asian architecture, the students of semester 4 2018-19 studied the architecture of Ahoms at Sivasagar in Assam. The process of documentation moved beyond a measure drawing exercise, but explored the detailed history of the Ahom rule, its impact on the architecture of South Asia and to analyse what kinds of legacies it leaves behind. A close study of the structures gave us an understanding of new interesting typologies that work with different scales and another way of living. The built form speaks through multiple experiments on material, religion, administration that lead to the formation of new spatialities. It then becomes important for the students to not just focus on the structure and its context on site, but also its significance in the timeline of architectural development. The town of Sivasagar, located 350 Kms from the state capital Guwahati, was an integral part of the functioning of the Ahom kingdom. The first rulers set up their capital at Charaideo which now has a maidam (burial ground) for the Ahom kings and royalty. Overtime, the architecture at Sivasagar saw developments in temples, the dols; courthouses, like Talatal ghar and residences, like Kareng ghar. Massive man made tanks were also built, flanked by temples - Sivasagar tank, Joysagar and Gaurisagar - becoming places inclusive to all.

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Sem 6 \ Settlement studies Text: Tanvi Savla Post Intensive Landscapes The sixth semester settlement study project investigated the mining region region of Sonshi, a small settlement located in Goa. The intent of the visit was to look at the landscape of a resource extraction place and the changes encountered by it over time. Currently, the site has six unoperational mines which are now altered and being used as new forms of resources. The settlement thus, majorly

consists of mine workers who are natives (Gawda Community) and other migrant workers from various parts of the country. The field study expanded to document the altered terrain that is generated as a result of intensive resource extraction and how it captures the smaller communities situated within it. Furthermore, the challenges of human settlement in relation to the altered resources and ecosystems in which they are embedded, were also studied. The alterations also affected the flora and

fauna, mapping of which was another aspect. Lastly, the built environment in relation to the economic, political and cultural and social spheres and the methods of livelihood and community value systems were studied. The studio was sought to ask four questions for three time periods (pre mining, during mining and post mining) which became the entry points for the field work. What is the change in the landform and use of land ? What are the alterations in resources ? What are the alterations in the flora and fauna, biodiversity and landscape depletion? What is the impact of the altered landscape on settlement, community and people?

Resources during mining: Extensive mining in Sonshi, affected the community and altered the resources. Farming was stopped and iron ore was looked as a potential resource by the people there. This allowed people from different parts of the country to migrate to Sonshi in search of work. The idea of division in Land started taking place with the building of boundary walls. Water table dropped since deep holes were dug in search of ore. Fresh water stream present earlier gradually decreased in width and started polluting.

When mining activities go below the ground water table, water from adjacent areas migrate into the pit, leading to flooding. Due to this, dewatering is done and water is pumped outside.

MIning lead to the trees turning red in colour due to influx of dust, hence affecting the fresh air circulating in the space around. This lead to several diseases and unhealthy living conditions.

Topography of land started changing since excavation started taking place. Alteration in the idea of commons.

And there was one I did not like An ugly drunkard man And, if I saw him passing by, Into the house I ran.

electives

Electives 2019 Ceramics by Yashashri Shildhakar

Entrepreneurship by Thotpot

Origami by Bobbie Vijayakkar

The elective was conducted at IES school of ceramics over the span of 3 days where students were taught the different essential methods to create an object with clay, such as ‘pinching’, 'rolling' and 'coiling'. They were also briefly allowed to work on electrical pottery wheels, giving insight into the multitude of forms that the wheel allowed. This elective was an engaging way to understanding the nuances of clay, its changing nature according to its wetness and the thickness required at the correct places to prevent the object from folding into itself.

The workshop equipped the students to address the entrepreneurial problem solving spirit within individuals and to help furnish it, through the deconstruction of virtual tools. It procedurally involved the conception of idea, grass root level research, development of an authentic business plan and then to be ready to be pitch it to the world. Working in groups, we prepared and pitched a few real-time business plans with their SWOT analysis.

While putting together the course structure for History Theory Methods, we realized how little we knew about the South Asian context. Most canons of architecture through which history has been studied come from European and American contexts. Last year we began focusing on South Asia in the fifth semester. The students made a timeline of architecture projects in South Asia from the 1940s, to understand a common postcolonial discourse and practice across the region.

Photography and Cyanotype by Vrinda Seksaria

Poetry by Sanjeev Khandekar

Sonic Mapping by Umashankar Manthravadi

In this elective, the students started off by creating negatives of photographs and learning the technique behind producing a photo negative to create blueprints through cyanotype from it. In the field of architecture, this could also be modified to work for small scale models of buildings and to study Sun path and shadows. This enables the students to explore a new technique to study light and shadow and explore aspects that don’t involve only drawings.

The elective was about discussing what poetry is to different people and what it can do in terms of peeling off the layers of socioeconomic, cultural and emotional events of a person, system, country or the world at large. We began with introducing ourselves in terms of our association with poetry and different kinds of writing. A small exercise about penning down one's thoughts and articulating them in a certain tone of the poetry began our processes of encountering our feelings in a more nuanced way.

The study and measurement of acoustics of archaeological spaces began soon after the development of acoustics at the beginning of the 20th century. In this elective , the students went to Kanheri Caves and used ambisonic microphones for acoustical measurement processes, which were done by popping balloons at various places within the caves to identify and note down their frequency of sound, while simultaneously engaging the sense of hearing and its relationship to the environment.

dissertation

Dissertation Riya Parekh

Dhruv Chavan

Sitanshu Rawal

Orphanages and Old Age Homes not only lack privacy and spaces for recreational purposes. The common area is usually inward-looking and large, limiting possibilities for intimate conversations and small scale activities. The living spaces are compartmentalised, bleak and inhospitable. While these organisations are functional in terms of safety and care giving to its minimum, they meagrely encourage public participation and interaction with the neighbourhood.

This dissertation acknowledges the effects of involuntary displacement of masses, often being a result of events or projects that have unfolded at disjunct times and scales. It argues for a different approach towards addressing the issue, through the memory of home. The study of memories of home in involuntary dislocation can help advance a more humane approach to envisioning architecture in sites of resettlement and rehabilitation. This argument moves beyond commemoration and glorification of the past and engages in a critical conversation with the contributions of Aldo Rossi and Kevin Lynch in the study of memory and architecture.

The police station is an institution that absorbs the stress of the city. However the typology and the spatial configuration of the police station is such that the environment becomes stressful. Also, the police station as a public institution has a very shady and indistinct presence in the neighbourhood.

The project is a hybrid of an orphanage and an old age home that inhabits different social groups and opens up the opportunity for day to day public interaction. The old and the young age group are intertwined in a way that both are caring and care giving bodies simultaneously. The project is situated in an old neighbourhood in Dadar. One enters the building through an open plaza near the church. It elevates into a large open courtyard surrounded by private living spaces. The building also embraces playful elements such as a watch tower, ramps and a never ending staircase that acts as a multipurpose gathering space.

How does architecture help ease the resettlement of one's home and associations in a newer place and in turn create more social spaces within an already over built landscape? In response to the above question, this project undertakes five main lanes in a neighbourhood in Mumbra to demonstrate through five architectural interventions, retrofitting of social spaces.

The aim of this dissertation was to rethink the typology of the police station and make it more public and open in relation to the context of the site and also as a stand alone typology. The site for study was the Versova police station, as the context was interesting and dynamic, with garden, sports center, a school and residences in the neighbourhood. Responding to the context the ground floor was made open to public for free movement and then the police station happened above the ground, creating a connection between the surrounding sites.

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