08: Unfolding Oasis In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of Studio MADe....
In the midst of this barren landscape, we imagine the campus as a place of retreat, like an Oasis, that is created by resurrecting the landscape. These garden courts become centres of the campus life,...
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Urban considerations: We intend to give back the ‘Princess Park’ to the city by restoring its connection with its adjacent roads. An underground tunnel connecting to the grounds of India Gate can be...
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The objective of this project is two-fold: the first is to create a centre for community development that includes a residential school, vocational training centre and primary health centre, focusing...
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Within the dense context of VJTI campus, the proposed volume asserts its presence through a precise geometrical form. The raised ground floor and modulation of the surrounding exterior spaces allow for...
View ArticleBetween Idea and Site: Architecture as Emptiness In In Search of Coherence:...
A few key aspects define the approach of Studio MADe. Given that every other project is situated in a different country—because the studio-style architecture firm, based in Hyderabad and Spain, works...
View Article19: A Breathing Center In In Search of Coherence: Selected works of Studio...
Our proposal seeks to reinforce the Gyeonbokgung Palace as the symbolic heart of Seoul and the main element of the Gwanghwamun Square. We propose a symbolic void as a forecourt to the palace – a...
View ArticleBeynon, David. "“Tropical” Architecture in the Highlands of Southeast Asia:...
The “tropical” condition has long been established as a Western trope that defines the “otherness” of climates perceived as hot, humid and uncomfortable compared to the “temperate” West. Both colonial...
View ArticlePieris, Anoma. "Dwelling in ruins: affective materialities of the Sri Lankan...
This paper examines the condition of exile as experienced by displaced suburban Tamil residents forced to abandon their natal or primary homes during heightened civil war in Sri Lanka. Using the theme...
View ArticleHaggerty, Michael. "A Tropicalist Turn: Architectural Perspectives on...
Regionalism, an approach adopted by architects during the late twentieth century, has new relevance and potential urgency in the twenty-first century as a system for detecting and formulating the...
View ArticleHirsh, Max. "Redefinitions of dwelling and the transnational production of...
The article investigates the history of the Asian serviced-apartment industry in order to shed light on the shifting relationship between dwelling, housing, domesticity and architecture in contemporary...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Pizza Pasta Architecture of CADs In Serendipity: Musings of a...
My evening walk yesterday took me close to an academic campus. Though the once free-for-all campus is now secured from outsiders in every which way, I somehow managed to slink past the guards and...
View ArticlePieris, Anoma. "Encampments: Spatial Taxonomies of Sri Lanka's Civil War."...
The escalation of human displacements occurring during the twenty-first century has seen the emergence of humanitarian relief accommodation as a new architectural type worthy of close analysis. Yet,...
View ArticleBeynon, David. "“Tropical” Architecture in the Highlands of Southeast Asia:...
The “tropical” condition has long been established as a Western trope that defines the “otherness” of climates perceived as hot, humid and uncomfortable compared to the “temperate” West. Both colonial...
View ArticleBeri, Shirish. J. Krishnamurti Study Centre, Hyderabad. Shirish Beri &...
The design of the study centre is a metaphorical expression in the architectural language of Krishnaji's ideas about life, silence and the role of the study centre. It is a place for serious...
View ArticleBeri, Shirish. THE SPIRITUAL HAPPENING, any community space anywhere in the...
Out of the 1021 entries received from over 60 countries for this competition, this was the only Indian entry to bag one of the 12 prizes.
View ArticleKumar, Prem. "Census Towns in Uttar Pradesh: Understanding the Transformation...
An understanding of the emergence of new census towns, as reported by the 2011 Census, necessitates an investigation, specifically at a micro level, into the factors behind the shift of the male...
View ArticleKumar, Prem. "Declining Number of Slums: Nature of Urban Growth." Economic &...
The population living in urban slums grew more slowly than the overall urban population between 1991 and 2001, suggesting an exclusionary nature of urban growth. This was also revealed in the form of...
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