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Memorial for Ar.Charles Correa
The brief was a provocation to build adjacent to the canteen of the Kala Academy, a site that had been left empty deliberately by Charles Correa. The project is a response to that trigger. The memorial is an amalgamation of our interpretation of Correa’s key principles that he developed over the years through his built and unbuilt works.
Key Principles
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Site and the view
Sunken plane to not interrupt the view
Ritualistic Pathway– Allows the space to be experienced as a pathway and not an object
The Empty Centre– Interpreted as the built and the Unbuilt and how one navigates through these spaces.
Non- Building – The building becomes a background or facilitator of a journey or an experience.
Extension of the sunken plane.
Connection and movement
Alternate access
A reflection of the conflict between building and not Building which is non Building
Post Design Analysis
Degree of Enclosure in Kala Academy Reflection of Degree sure in the intervention
Seating detail at two levels.
Seating detail.
Gutter and Chain detail.
WCFA | Semester 6 | Spring 2022
Site :Nashik, Maharashtra 8000 Sq m
Individual work.
The studio brief focuses on the idea of designing a Primary school with some public interfaces aswell keeping in mind the relationship between the build and the ground. The question of how a school could go beyond the walls of four classrooms and how it could also give back to the community was to be answered at the end through the project. The studio also challenges the students to design in the historic precinct on Nashik and to draw instances from the same to their contemporary projects.
Guide: Prof. S G Srinivas
Asst. Prof. Kavana Kumar
Prof. Ryan Thomas
Asst.Prof. Akash Rai
Asst. Prof. Kiran Kumar, Surendran Aalone
Duration : 16 weeks
The perspective on intent of the studio was to explore through various global and local case studies followed by repeated conceptualization.
The design project, Leaning Continuum, highlights the space for learning and how the walls of a classroom could be broken into various ways to allow it to be more informal.
The school also provides for built and unbilt spaces which could be used by the community, post the school hours. This stratergy allows the school to be open even post the sundown
