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Electives 2019

Ceramics

by Yashashri Shildhakar 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.

Photography and Cyanotype

by Vrinda Seksaria 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.

Entrepreneurship

by Thotpot 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.

Origami

by Bobbie Vijayakkar 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.

Poetry

by Sanjeev Khandekar 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.

Sonic Mapping

by Umashankar Manthravadi 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

Riya Parekh

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.

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.

Dhruv Chavan

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.

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.

Sitanshu Rawal

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 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.

SeA City

64. Becoming Urban: Towards an Agenda for Research from South Asia

By Vishwanath Kashikar, Prasad Khanolkar & Shreyank Khemalapure 30th November 2018

65. Parallel Works: Looking for the In between

By Geraldine Borino 14th December 2018

66. Lighting::Living By Rohit Manudhane 18th January 2019

67. The Architecture of Ferrogami

By Arjun Doshi 8th February 2019

68. Design Sans Detail

By Veeram Shah 22nd February 2019

69. Making Art in One BHK

By Prajakta Potnis 8th March 2019

70. Paradigm of Projects

By Saurabh Malpani 22nd March 2019 SeA Assembly

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