UNDERSTANDING PLACESTUDY OF BRIEF AND LUNUGANGA GARDENS

Bentota, Sri Lanka

The course was designed to understand the making of a place as an intersection between context, designer and articulation. Both the gardens were understood through text, images, sketches as well as site visits so as to gain an in depth understanding of the character of the place. The course outcome included means of visual representation that allowed for a reading of the continuity of spatial experiences that imparts a ‘sense of place’ to any landscape.

DOCUMENTATION OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACES | Kathmandu, Nepal

The open spaces in Kathmandu valley are unique from the point of view of their public-ness and the manner in which they govern the formation and usage of built forms around them. This workshop was aimed at enabling one to read the urban morphology of a city with respect to its urban spaces. Some of the topics with respect to which this workshop was conducted were: Architectural typology and open space, Urban nature of water structures, Transient open spaces- nodes and street, Performative urban spaces.