Sawantwadi Fairy Tales first year design 2014-2015
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Fairy tales are simple moral tales of innocence, evil and happily ever afters. But what makes them great reading are the seductive possibilities of the gratification of all desire, the eternal myths- of perfect beauty, of the cornucopia, of sudden transformations like dust turning into gold, the magic object that will grant every wish. The city its objects and spaces too promise such miracles.The story becomes a lens to look at Sawantwadi’s own fairy tales woven around its markets, objects and spaces. The first stage is a drawing of the city seen through the fairy tale. The second, the making of a three dimensional one is to one space/object/device exploring the idea. The third, an architectural intervention in Sawantwadi, in an existing space.
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Fairy tale Drawing Shraddha Nagotanekar
Process Drawing . Shattering the market building. Shraddha Nagotanekar
Jack and The Beanstalk Shraddha Nagotnekar
The market streets of Sawantwadi knot together places and objects of desire. In the intervention existing defunct market building is shattered into shards that allow the weekly street market to invade its structure. 5
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Roof Plan and Sections Shraddha Nagotanekar
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Fairy tale drawing Aishwarya Bhattbhatt
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Studies in three dimensions Aishwarya Bhattbhatt
RAPUNZEL
Aishwarya Bhattbhatt Rapunzel’s beauty, which is hidden behind the tower, is showcased only once she escapes it. Similarly, a shop owner’s house is slit and extruded in parts to throw light on the art of Sawantwadi’s wooden toy making, which remains hidden behind the shops.
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Plans of the house
Sections of the house
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Process Models Aishwarya Bhattbhatt
Final Model Aishwarya Bhattbhatt
Sections of the house
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Fairy tale drawing Aishwarya Gaitonde
Hansel and Gretel Aishwarya Gaitonde The bread crumb trail of the story becomes the marks of history, in a large warehouse space and street. The space between two buildings is excavated to find spaces left over by time.
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Fairy tale drawing Aishwarya Gaitonde
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Exploration of the idea as sculpture Aishwarya Gaitonde
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Process Drawings Aishwarya Gaitonde
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Sections Aishwarya Gaitonde
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Final Model Aishwarya Gaitonde
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Roof Plan Ajinkya Dekhane
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SN O W W H I T E Ajinkya Dekhane The ‘dabbling’ of the queen in snow White’s life became that of the new tall buildings over the old settlements of Sawantwadi. The project evolved as an imagination of an ever expanding parasite mutating from a small granary soon to spread over the entire city of Sawantwadi.
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Final Drawings:: Sections and Axonometric View Ajinkya Dekhane
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Fairy tale drawing Rujuta Doshi
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JACK AND THE B EANS T ALK Rujuta Doshi ‘The jack and the beanstalk’, in which the beanstalk was imagined as a bridge, which is very unique. I looked at Sawantwadi using this lens. The drawing gives an experience of liveliness in an eerie manner. I tried recreating this liveliness through touch and visual experience. The annex would create the same experience. I chose the meat shop as the site and imagined it as a live object which has been cut open to create that annex.
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Fairy tale drawing Rujuta Doshi
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Fairy tale drawing Rujuta Doshi
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Exploration of the idea as Sculpture Rujuta Doshi
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Process drawings Rujuta Doshi
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Final Drawings: Plans and Sections Rujuta Doshi
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Final Drawings: Sections Rujuta Doshi
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Final Drawings: Axonometric Views Rujuta Doshi
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Dhwani Mehta The project was based on the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The idea of how the evil wolf tricks red riding hood deeper into the forest by luring her towards a new space and one attraction led her to another. It involved the act of carving and eroding a mass to create and discover spaces successively in the act. The intervention was a museum extension to the Sawantwadi palace carved into the lake edge, where one space created anticipation that led you to another, using light, variation in the scale, and water.
Fairy tale drawing Dhwani Mehta
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Exploration of the idea as sculpture Dhwani Mehta
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Process drawings Dhwani Mehta
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Final Drawings Plans Dhwani Mehta
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Final Drawings Sections Dhwani Mehta
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SN O W D R O P Hitanshi Mehta The dwarfs who encases the body of snowdrop after her death in a glass coffin to preserve it as if it was the most precious thing for them. Just like trying to freeze the time which is continuously moving ahead. The idea of the object was to capture the flowing time and freeze it in its moving form . This was explored using melting wax and freezing it in its flowing position. The intervention was an annex to the old school building on the edge of Moti talav. The central wing of the building was designed to give the idea of freezing something that is in motion which created a room for several functions like the assembly hall , few classrooms and an informal sitting area flowing into the talav.
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Process work Hitanshi Mehta
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Fairy tale drawing Hitanshi Mehta
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Fairy tale drawing Hitanshi Mehta
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Fairy tale drawing Hitanshi Mehta
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Fairy tale drawing Hitanshi Mehta
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Process drawing Hitanshi Mehta
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Process drawing Adding a staircase and landings Hitanshi Mehta Process drawing- Operations on the Facade Hitanshi Mehta
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Final drawings: Plans, Sections and Views Hitanshi Mehta
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Fairy tale drawing Kartik Juwekar
Rumpelstiltskin Kartik Juwekar
The intervention depicts the process of transformation from one form to another as a series of continuous changes such that each stage results in a deformed entity, different from its original form; drawing inspiration from the spinning of straw into gold as seen in the short story. The intervention ‘deforms’ a facade of the Sawantwadi Palace museum thereby depicting the transformation of the facade, which also becomes an exhibit itself. 58
Process: Explorations of the twisting grid as models Kartik Juwekar
Final Model Kartik Juwekar
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Fairy tale drawing Tript Kaur
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HANSEL AND GRETEL Tript Kaur
The toys in the city are deceiving ly alluring like the confectionery that old witch’s house is made of; once the people are enticed into it they are unable to leave the city. The same oppressive character of these toys is experienced when one walks under the intervention. The long ramp beginning in the corner of the shed pierces into the beehive –like wooden structure that hangs off the roof of the existing colonnaded shed in the vegetable market. It has wooden louvers opening onto the street thus allowing the skin to breathe. 61
Process drawings Tript Kaur
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Sections Tript Kaur
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Process model Tript Kaur
Final model Tript Kaur
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GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS Ankita Ghatvilkar The fun in the story is the experience of sudden changes of scale. In the first stage, small objects piled up turned into a large fountain. The two kinds of objects at different scales met to create an ambiguity of meanings. This was taken to site as a large wall that mixed with an existing school to create a narrow library in between. 66
Final model Ankita Ghatvilkar
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Final drawings Ankita Ghatvilkar
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S n o w D r o p Smriti Bhaya
Inspired by the magic mirror, it picks off the notion of how in essence a reflection is not the same but a similar image of the ‘original object’. It is set in the palace courtyard whose four facades albeit different have certain strikingly similar parts. The undulating ground, compiled with the planar solid walls are meant to disorient you and direct you towards a framed view of the courtyard facade that looks similar to one you’ve encountered before, thus leaving you with an uncanny feeling. 70
Fairy tale drawing Smriti Bhaya
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Process drawings and model Smriti Bhaya
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Process model Smriti Bhaya
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Final model Smriti Bhaya
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Final drawings Smriti Bhaya
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Fairy tale drawing Nilay Shah
RAPUNZEL Nilay Shah
In the story of Rapunzel the witch curses about lost love, this was taken as a metaphor for the lost art of wooden toy making. Also focused on how absence and quality of light changes the space. The project was a library placed in a school compound.
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Process drawings Nilay Shah
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Final drawings: Plans and Sections Nilay Shah
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Process model Nilay Shah
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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Ritu Pethani
In Jack and the Beanstalk the beanstalk acts as a connector to the two lands. The entire vegetable market was imagined as this beanstalk, that grows to reach another space, changes ,invades and splits over from the talao edge to the inside of the city. In the second stage the transparent tube and mirrors at angles allowed the juxtaposition of exterior images, while you are looking at one. The design that evolved was a huge glass tube that pierced and penetrated into the roof of a congested vegetable market. The tube became a means to connect the outside to the inside, such that it became a breather and a resting space for the workers.
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Process model Ritu Pethani
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Process Sketches Ritu Pethani
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Exploded Axonometric View Ritu Pethani
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Final drawings: Plans and Sections Akanksha Jain
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Jack and the beanstalk. The markets of Sawantwadi are seen as the beanstalks in the fairytale which intersect and morph to distort its characteristics. Similarly, the intervention looks at how two distinct volumetric forms interact and intersect with each other to form different spaces which house functionally different programs,although, the design of the spaces help them to coexist. 89
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KAMLA KAMLA
RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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