Category: Charles Correa Gold Medal

Harvesting Change

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Author: Mohammad Bilal Sheikh
Site Location: Akot APMC Market, Vidarbha
Institute: Rizvi College of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Stuti Borwanker

Description

This thesis project proposes a transformative architectural intervention designed to mitigate the systemic agrarian crisis and farmer distress in Akot, Vidarbha. Shifting the paradigm from
temporary financial relief to long-term structural empowerment, the project envisions an integrated Agricultural Institute and Farmer Community Hub. Strategically located adjacent to the
existing APMC market, this facility serves as a vital nexus for technical education, market optimization, and community-driven resilience.
The architectural framework is engineered to address the core drivers of agricultural vulnerability, including inadequate post-harvest storage, climate volatility, and fragmented supply
chains. Central to the design are climate-resilient storage facilities, advanced training centers for precision farming, and dedicated wellness zones providing essential psychological and
social support. By centralizing agricultural resources, financial literacy programs, and transparent market linkages within a cohesive campus, the built environment serves as a catalyst for
systemic reform. Finally, the project concludes with the demonstration of how sustainable, community-based infrastructure restores professional dignity, guarantees economic stability and
provides for a self-reliant future for the farming communities of Maharashtra.


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The Architecture of Belonging

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Author: Rishu Nilesh Pandit
Site Location: Cheeta Camp, Trombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Institute: L.S. Raheja School of Architecture
Advisor: Ar. Mridula Pillai

Description

Architecture of Belonging is set in Cheeta Camp, Mumbai, a settlement shaped by
repeated displacement and the continuous effort of rebuilding home, memory and
community. Belonging here is created through familiar routes, shared routines, informal
systems of care and everyday spaces where people meet, work, learn and recognise one
another.
The thesis strengthens these existing relationships by reworking civic amenities that are
present but fragmented and often disconnected from lived needs. A network of small,
people-centred interventions decentralises care, learning, sanitation, safety and public life
across the settlement. The Urban Health Care complex becomes a civic care common;
the school and its extension form a community learning anchor; the public toilet becomes
dignity infrastructure; and smaller neighbourhood nodes support rest, livelihood and
interaction.
Rather than proposing a singular landmark, the project works with what already exists,
transforming ordinary amenities into spaces of solace. Together, these precise civic repairs
create a connected landscape of privacy, comfort, participation, trust and belonging for
women, children, elderly residents, patients, students, vendors and everyday users


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Egalitectonism Re-Imagining Democratic Instituions in the 21st Century. Re-Designing the Capitol Complex of Naya Raipur, Chattisgarh, India

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Author: Dev Thakker
Site Location: Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Institute: Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies
Advisor: Prof. Manoj Parmar

Description

Frustrated by architecture’s loss of its ability to act as a vessel for social reform, this thesis builds on the social ambitions of Brutalism while questioning its monumentality and hierarchical structures to develop Egalitectonism.
Egalitectonism proposes that architecture can actively produce conditions of equity rather than merely represent them. It translates the idea of social equality into spatial principles of access, movement, visibility, proximity, dignity, and shared commons. It therefore shifts architecture from an object of authority to a framework for shared participation.
The Capitol Complex, Naya Raipur, India, becomes the testing ground for this position, where the separation between democratic institutions and citizens exposes a contradiction between democratic ideals and their spatial expression. In response, the project reimagines the Institution as a Park, transforming governance from guarded territory into shared civic landscape.
The central idea the thesis proposes, “Institution as a Park”, positions institutions not as isolated objects, but as smaller interventions within accessible, lived public environments softening the edge between the institution and the individual with increased public equity. A capital should not merely represent the state; it should spatially represent the equality of its citizens.


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From Soil to Soul Mapping Pathramangalam’s Pottery Heritage Through a Community Learning Space

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Author:Abisheak V. S
Site Location: Pathramangalam, Kerala
Institute: Avani Institute of Design
Advisor:Ar. Athira Balakrishnan

Description

Mapping Pathramangalam’s Pottery Heritage Through a Community Learning Space
is an architectural proposal aimed at revitalizing the 300 + year old Kumbhara Pottery culture
of Pathramangalam, Velur Panchayat, Thrissur, Kerala. The village’s traditional Pottery
practice is gradually losing its visibility, continuity, and economic value due to declining
knowledge transfer, inadequate infrastructure,and environmental issues caused by fragmented
individual kilns.
The project reimagines Pottery not as a static heritage to be preserved, but as a living cultural
practice that can support learning, production, livelihood, and community development.
The proposed community learning environment brings together artisans,
students, artists, visitors, and the local community through a Pottery institute, shared
workshops and kiln facilities, heritage museum, artist village, exhibition and retail spaces,
and gathering areas.
The design is rooted in Pathramangalam’s community memory, local craftsmanship, materiality,
and the Panchabhootha journey of earth, water, air, fire, and space. Locally sourced clay,
Pottery , clay rings, and traditional construction knowledge are translated into architectural
elements. Through this integration, the project seeks to strengthen cultural continuity,
artisan livelihoods, shared knowledge, and the future of Pathramangalam as a living
centre of Pottery .


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Roots to Resonance: Identity, Indusion and Shared Prosperity

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Author: Patil Prajakta Prakash
Site Location: Garadolli, Karnataka
Institute: Yashoda College of Architecture
Advisor: Ar. Snehal Shedge

Description

Roots to Resonance is a cultural and community-oriented destination for the Siddi community of Garadolli, Karnataka, envisioned to promote equity, dignity, cultural continuity and shared prosperity. The project brings together community development and tourism to create opportunities for livelihood, learning, healthcare, cultural expression and social interaction.
The design grows from the existing landscape, climate and patterns of community life, preserving natural contours and mature trees while minimizing disturbance to the site. A central experiential axis connects the Sacred Tree, representing faith, with the Central Tower, representing Siddi identity, creating a sequence of spaces that gradually unfold through the site.
Open spaces, shaded pathways, courtyards and transitional areas become important social spaces, allowing movement between public, community and private experiences. The built forms are dispersed within the landscape, encouraging interaction while maintaining privacy and responding to the natural terrain and climate.
The project integrates a community hub, healthcare, learning and skill-development spaces, cultural areas, recreation and a resort. The resort creates livelihood opportunities through hospitality and cultural experiences, enabling the community to actively participate in and benefit from tourism.
By connecting people, place, culture and opportunity, the project uses architecture to strengthen community resilience while allowing visitors to experience Siddi culture with respect, participation and shared ownership.


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The Confluence: A Multi-Modal Transport Hub in Navi Mumbai

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Author: Manali Pandya
Site Location: Navi Mumbai
Institute: The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Advisor: Ar. Vidhisha Gajjar

Description

WHEN DID TRANSPORT BECAME AN ORDEAL TO BE ENDURED INSTEAD OF A JOURNEY TO BE EXPERIENCED? India being the most populous country in the world, relies heavily on public transport for the movement of people and goods. It has always been a very important factor in shaping the nation in terms of infrastructure and development, economic growth and socio-cultural balance. Yet the transport system function as separate bodies, with limited physical, institutional as well as fare integration between roadways, railways, waterways and airways. Inadequate passenger amenities, poor accessibility, unsafe boarding and lack of maintenance make transfers inconvenient and time-consuming, contributing to congestion, pollution, and the growing dependence on private vehicles. The challenge is not just to provide more transport, but to create a connected, user-friendly system that enables seamless interchange, strengthens first- and last-mile connectivity, and act as an urban catalyst by transforming into a multifunctional node. The project addresses these challenges. It is a well-conceived integration of two key proposals by different government bodies bringing them together as a multimodal hub. This project provides a well-connected and equitable space that serves the wider community and becomes an integral part of city’s urban life.


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Para-Sports Academy, Pune

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Author:Samiksha Sandeep Patil
Site Location: Baner, Pune
Institute: S. B. Patil College of Architecture & Design
Advisor: Ar. Ruturaj Kulkarni, Ar. Shreyasee Shinde

Description

The Para-Sports Academy at Baner, Pune is envisioned as a national-level inclusive sports and rehabilitation campus for athletes with physical, sensory, and intellectual disabilities. Spread across a 47,000 sqm site, the project integrates high-performance sports training, rehabilitation, sports education, residential facilities, recreation, and community spaces within a universally accessible environment. The design is driven by Universal Design, treating accessibility as an integral part of the architectural experience rather than an added feature. Barrier-free circulation, tactile pathways, accessible facilities, and adaptable spaces promote independent and dignified movement for athletes and visitors. The academy adopts a campus-based planning approach, with interconnected zones for sports, rehabilitation, residential, administration, and public interaction. Indoor and outdoor sports facilities are supported by physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, sports medicine, counselling, and recreational spaces, creating a holistic environment for training, recovery, and wellbeing. Sustainable and climate-responsive strategies, along with landscaped and therapeutic open spaces, further strengthen the proposal. The project ultimately aims to shift accessibility from accommodation to empowerment, creating an environment where para-athletes can train, recover, connect, and excel with dignity and independence.


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Multi-Model Transit Hub a Nexus for All

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Author: D’Souza Sean Alwyn Jennifer
Site Location: Panvel
Institute: Thakur School of Architecture & Planning
Advisor: Ar. Tushar Shetty

Description

The conception of the hub began with providing a nexus point for the ease of modal change and adhering to all the needs of commuters as well as locals. The site was chosen carefully due to the rapidly expanding transit infrastructure of Panvel and it’s close proximity to the Railway station and the State transport bus depot. The main programs classified for the hub were: ST bus depot, Local bus stops, Railways and Paratransit. Due to the overloading of the existing ST bus depot the need for a new and functional depot was a must. The newly designed bus depot held a large portion of the premium and base, inter and intra city buses as well as a fleet for airport shuttle buses due to the site’s close proximity to the newly established Navi Mumbai International Airport. The form of the hub sweeps and curves as per the direction of user travel and connects directly to the Railway platform to the north. The main feature of the form ‘The interlace’ which was designed parametrically, acts not only as a sculptural piece but also as a structural one, supporting the major load of the large span organic roof. The interlace was inspired by a Mobius strip and hence was designed in a self-twisting manner. The frontage of the site is designed as a multi lane drive way for various para transit services such as private cars, taxis and autorickshaws for pick up and drop off both. The local bus stop was shifted to the frontage due to its ease of access and better maneuvering. The site sheltered an existing public parking space which needed to be kept intact with minor changes to the layout proving better functionality for the overall parking area and site. Given its rapid growth and strong connectivity, the city of Panvel proves to be a true nexus for the future of multi-modality in transport.


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Invisible Origins: Reconnecting Urban Identity with the Forgotten Systems that Shaped it

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Author: Anshika Agarwal
Site Location: Ahmedabad
Institute: Sri Venkateshwara College of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Krishna Priya

Description

Cities are shaped not only by their visible architecture, but by the systems of labour, industry, craft, culture and technology that produce them. As these systems disappear from public memory, urban identity becomes increasingly disconnected from its origins. This thesis explores how architecture can make these invisible foundations legible again.

Ahmedabad provides a layered narrative of this transformation, evolving through Sultanate, Vernacular, Industrial, Modern and Contemporary eras. The former Calico Mills site, once central to the city’s industrial identity, now remains largely as fragments, with its chimney standing as a physical trace of its past.

However, remembering a city cannot be limited to preserving its past. If urban identity is collectively created, the spaces that represent it must also remain accessible to the communities that created it. The project therefore extends beyond the museum into a civic landscape of cultural spaces, markets, festivals, workshops and everyday gathering, creating a gradient of access between the institution and the surrounding neighbourhood.

The project asks how architecture can make forgotten systems visible while creating equitable spaces for collective life.


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Parai, Magal-eer(+leisure)

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Author: P. Preeti
Site Location: Watrap Pudupatti, Tamil Nadu
Institute: R V College of Architecture
Advisor:Prof. Meera Vasudev Srinivasan

Description

The project explores how architecture can intervene within the caste-divided spatial landscape of Watrap Pudupatti, Tamil Nadu, through the everyday lives of Paraiyar women. Rather than attempting to erase caste difference, it creates layers of democratic space that allow different communities to coexist while gradually challenging who can occupy, access, and control space.
At its core, the project establishes ownership as a foundation for leisure and agency. Land, therefore, is not treated simply as a site for a building, but as a means of reclaiming spatial autonomy. The architecture creates a sequence of public, collective, semi-private, and intimate spaces, allowing women to move between gathering, learning, performing, producing, resting, and governing.
The five fundamental rhythms of the parai become the project’s architectural syntax. Their patterns of repetition, pause, acceleration, and release are translated into spatial operations—compression and expansion, thresholds, courtyards, movement paths, gathering grounds, and moments of pause.
Rather than a singular monument, the project becomes a porous network embedded within village life. Open grounds, shaded courts, landscape, and transitional spaces allow everyday movement to flow through the institution. Architecture thus becomes a framework for ownership, visibility, leisure, collective expression, and coexistence, creating spatial loopholes within an existing caste hierarchy.


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Between Rising Water – Re-Imagining the Yamuna Floodplains

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Author: Tani Krishna
Site Location: Chilla Khadar, Delhi
Institute: Jindal School of Design & Architecture
Advisor: Dr. Ishita Chatterjee

Description

Located within the Yamuna floodplains at Chilla Khadar, this project explores how architecture and landscape can respond to the intertwined challenges of ecological degradation, seasonal flooding, and insecure habitation. Rather than treating the floodplain as a restricted or expendable territory, the proposal recognizes it as a living landscape that supports both biodiversity and vulnerable communities.
The design adopts a flood-adaptive approach that works with the site’s natural hydrological cycles through wetlands, sponge parks, permeable open spaces, and elevated, low-impact interventions. Housing clusters, community facilities, productive landscapes, and public spaces are carefully integrated within this ecological framework to strengthen existing livelihoods while improving resilience to flooding.
At its core, the project questions who cities are designed for and advocates for an approach that prioritizes those often excluded from formal planning processes. By proposing in-situ development instead of displacement, it preserves social networks, access to livelihoods, and the commons while restoring ecological systems. The project positions the floodplain as a shared landscape where environmental resilience and social equity are mutually reinforcing, demonstrating how architecture can become an agent of positive and lasting change.


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Energy Commons: Reimagining Energy Infrastructure as a Place for Civic Engagement

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Author: Radhakrishnan M S
Site Location: Kaloor, Kochi
Institute: SEED APJ Abdul Kalam School of Environmental Design
Advisor: Ar. Chinchu Kumar Sreekandan

Description

Energy Commons begins with a simple question: why should the infrastructure that powers our cities remain inaccessible to the people who depend on it? Located at Kaloor, Kochi, the project reimagines an existing substation through a second enquiry: when changes in infrastructure leave spaces underused or inaccessible, does architecture have a role in giving them back to the city? By exploring the future typological transformation of substation infrastructure, the project opens up the infrastructure and its residual spaces and reclaims them as part of the city’s commons.

The project is organised around three connected cores: Infrastructure, Awareness and Making. The Infrastructure Core houses essential energy systems, including battery storage and distribution; the Awareness Core creates spaces to see and understand energy systems; and the Making Core supports manufacturing, repair and exchange of electronic goods. Three courts connect these cores, creating spaces for gathering, neighbourhood life and engagement with the energy system, while linking the project to the existing metro network and surrounding neighbourhood.

Rooftop photovoltaics, photovoltaic fac;ades and kinetic surfaces integrate energy generation into the architecture. Energy Commons transforms inaccessible infrastructure into an accessible civic resource-giving space back to the city and bringing energy into the everyday commons.

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Saaransh- School, Vocational and Therapy Centre

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Author: Saniya Bhargava
Site Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Institute: Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma University
Advisor: Dr. Chandran Rekha Jetty

Description

Saaransh is a reimagination of the educational institution as an environment that responds to neurodiversity. Designed for autistic children, the project integrates education, therapy, vocational training and caregiver support within a unified campus. In a context where autism-focused education and therapy are often accommodated within small, spatially constrained establishments, Saaransh proposes a larger institutional campus that provides a safe and expansive environment where children can move, explore, play and express themselves freely.

The campus is organized around interconnected courtyards that provide secure access to nature, daylight, ventilation and outdoor activity while supporting intuitive orientation and visual supervision. Sensory rooms, shaded verandahs and transitional spaces provide opportunities for regulation and retreat.

The architectural language is intentionally approachable, using fragmented blocks, curvilinear circulation and rounded edges to reduce institutional rigidity and improve safety. Exposed CSEB masonry, white plastered entrances and natural textures establish a calm, legible material palette, while courtyards and sensory gardens become integral to the architecture. Through the interplay of space, landscape, material and sensory control, Saaransh proposes an environment where architecture actively supports learning, emotional regulation, independence and social participation.

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Inclusive Retirement Habitat: An integrated Environment for Senior Living in Urban Fabric

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Author: Sraddha K
Site Location: Panampilly Nagar, Kochi, Kerala
Institute: TKM School of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Dipu George

Description

As India’s ageing population continues to grow, conventional senior living communities often remain isolated from everyday urban life, limiting opportunities for social interaction and community engagement. This project proposes an alternative approach by integrating senior living within the urban fabric of Panampilly Nagar, Kochi, Kerala.

Developed on a 3.1-acre site, the proposal combines retirement housing, commercial spaces, community amenities, healthcare facilities, and a business hotel within a single mixed-use development. The project seeks to create an environment where older adults remain connected to the rhythms of city life while maintaining comfort, dignity, and independence.

The design is organized through a layered hierarchy of public and private spaces. Active commercial and community functions occupy the lower levels, while landscaped recreational terraces, healthcare facilities, and residential spaces create opportunities for interaction and active ageing. A business hotel integrated within the development enhances economic viability and introduces a diverse user group, encouraging intergenerational engagement.

By transforming an inward-looking institutional site into a socially connected urban destination, the project reimagines senior living as an active and inclusive part of the city.


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Habitat Continuum

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Author: Aryan Paranjape
Site Location: Saswad
Institute:IES’s College of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Sanket Mhatre

Description

A landscape is rarely inhabited by one life alone. At Saswad, seasonal vegetation, wildlife and agricultural communities depend upon the same territory, yet each experiences and responds to it differently.

The thesis began with a simple question: Who are we designing for? Studying how people move, how wildlife adapts, how the landscape changes, and where these patterns meet revealed that the challenge was not a lack of space, but a lack of understanding.

This shifted the approach from “What should be built here?” to “What can design heal here?”

The project proposes a capacity-building centre organised around dialogue, understanding and care, bringing together a Public Interface, Research Wing, Rescue Unit, Rapid Response Garage and Dormitory. Each addresses a different need; from community support and field research to emergency response and sustained engagement. An adaptable Info Cart extends this intent beyond the centre.

The architecture follows the site’s contours, seasonal rhythms and existing patterns through clustered, permeable and minimally grounded interventions. Water systems, vegetation and open spaces become active parts of the proposal rather than residual landscape.

Inspired by the Chabutara, the project asks how architecture can make room for different lives without allowing one to overshadow another.

Ultimately, Habitat Continuum seeks to create a shared territory where different needs can find space, support and belonging.


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Rural Development: A Holistic Approach to Healing, Learning and Creating, at AKOLE, Maharashtra

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Author: Manvi Yogesh Jondhale
Site Location: Akole, Maharashtra
Institute: D Y Patil Deemed to be University School Of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Anita Shyam

Description

The project addresses the uneven distribution of essential services across the rural landscape of Akole by creating a shared environment where healthcare, education, and livelihood opportunities are brought together within a single integrated framework. Located in Katlapur, the proposal responds to the needs of surrounding villages by improving access to social infrastructure that is often concentrated in larger urban centres.
The design is organized around the Healing Spine, a continuous public pathway that connects a Rural Hospital, a School for Classes 1–12, skill development centres, artisan workshops, and community spaces. More than a circulation route, the spine becomes a common ground where healing, learning, and creating intersect, encouraging interaction across age groups, occupations, and social backgrounds. The project views architecture as a catalyst for equitable development by ensuring that essential resources are accessible, connected, and shared. Through a network of inclusive spaces and community-oriented infrastructure, it seeks to strengthen social well-being, create Opportunities for growth, and support a more resilient rural future. Rather than functioning as isolated institutions, the various programs work together to build a holistic ecosystem that empowers both individuals and the wider community.


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Urban Scar to Social Common

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Author: Manu Viswam E
Site Location: Kollam
Institute: College of Architecture, Trivandrum
Advisor: Prof. Sreeram Ramesh

Description

The collapse of Kollam’s global cashew trade left behind more than derelict infrastructure. It fractured the socio-economic identity of a city built on this industry. This proposal transforms a historic industrial zone,  the historic Harrisons & Crosfield factory, along the Kollam waterfront into a civic bridge: reclaiming land once closed off by industry and returning it to the public as democratic, shared ground.

Rather than a static repository of artifacts, the museum operates as an active urban threshold honouring the working-class legacy of cashew labourers while rehabilitating the ecological edge and anchoring Kollam’s future to its maritime heritage. The strategy of “selective preservation and radical insertion” retains the memory of the industrial grid while breaking it open for pedestrian permeability, sinking and elevating programs to free the ground plane for public movement, planting, and gathering.

Equitability drives the design: livelihood training for women workers, a shaded civic edge for fishermen, learning spaces for students and youth, and heritage made accessible to visitors — without displacing local life. Heritage here becomes working infrastructure, not an object for viewing.

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Loco Iron Cultural Park, Parel

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Author: Sanskar Khatri
Site Location: Parel, South Mumbai
Institute: Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Neha Panchal

Description

A jewel of Railway’s industrial heritage, the future of historic structures, the ecology, and the active industrial economy of the Parel Locomotive Workshop appears uncertain because of the Central Railway’s Parel Terminus proposal. This thesis critically analyses the idea of a terminus in an infrastructurally-exhausted locality, and attempts to make a counter-proposal: A cultural and ecological park for the people, open to all.

When the grounds of the Parel Loco Workshop become available for the public as the Loco Iron Cultural Park, they make quality recreation and cultural spaces accessible for all. This thesis sees equitability not just as designing for access and utility. Rather, it imagines equitability as designing for experience – experiences that can be garnered by the wealthy and the underprivileged; by children, adults as well as the elderly; by able-bodied and the differently-abled alike. True equity does not simply reflect through design decisions, it is lived in small everyday experiences through design thought. This project attempts to manufacture such subtle experiences, giving to each one what they demand at different scales – a space to rest, or a building to perform, or a job to sustain family.

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A Silent Dialogue: An Experiential Journey of Life and Death Through Architecture

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Author: Jainishkumar Bapodariya
Site Location: Jamalpur, Calico Mill, Ahmedabad
Institute: Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture
Advisor: Ar. Yatin Pandya

Description

In contemporary Indian cities, the urban crematorium has been exiled to the fringes, reduced to an industrial shed of cold mechanical disposal and cut off from the public realm by high walls of taboo. This is not merely a spatial failure; it is a profound cultural and civic crisis that denies urban equitability at our most vulnerable hour.

Our design project, “A Silent Dialogue,” addresses this crisis by reclaiming the crematorium as an inclusive civic commons along the riverfront. We reject the notion that a space of death must be a closed, intimidating compound. Instead, through a phenomenological framework guided by the Pancha Maha Bhuta (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Sky), the architecture choreographs a seamless transition between religious-specific rites and shared public life.

The project carefully layers public accessibility without compromising ritual sanctity. As visitors approach, they enter a continuous civic landscape a place to walk, sit, and find shelter under open skies welcoming both the grieving family and the everyday citizen. By utilizing micro-climatic shifts, raw tactile materials, water reflections, and deep silences, the architecture shifts human emotion from trauma to contemplation.

Ultimately, this thesis demonstrates that true equitability in architecture means designing spaces that honours all dimensions of human existence. By transforming an avoided urban void into an empathetic sanctuary, we return dignity to the departed, solace to the living, and an essential piece of nature back to the city.


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InterVale: A Framework for In-Between Urban Experiences

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Author: Sara A
Site Location: Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala
Institute: KMEA College of Architecture
Advisor: Asst. Prof. Megha Anil Kumar

Description

Kakkanad has emerged as a major urban corridor shaped by workplaces, institutions, housing and rapidly expanding transit infrastructure. Yet its growth has prioritised destinations and movement over the spaces between them. Roads, fragmented edges, residual land and discontinuous pedestrian networks create a city that is physically connected but unevenly experienced. For commuters, students, workers, residents and visitors, access to shade, pause, nature, interaction and public life remains dependent on where they move and what they can access along the way. The inequity therefore lies not only in reaching the city, but in who gets to experience it comfortably and meaningfully.
INTERVALE positions the in-between as the foundation of a liveable, walkable transit-oriented neighbourhood. Along the emerging Kochi Metro corridor, fragmented edges are transformed into a continuous public realm where transit, commerce, social life, nature and dwelling overlap. Walkable connections extend beyond movement to create opportunities to pause, encounter and participate, while the mixed-use layers support everyday needs within reach of one another.
Here, transit becomes more than a means of efficient movement; it becomes a catalyst for equitable urban life. By turning residual spaces into shared places and connecting destinations through a continuous network of everyday experiences, the project shifts TOD from a model of accessibility towards one of liveability, belonging and shared urban opportunity.


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