Author: Abhishek Rameshbhai Donda Site Location: Slums (J.K.Puri) , Jajmau, Kanpur Institute: Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat Advisor: Prof. Niraj D. Naik
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The project looked at how architecture could be used as a tool to empower and improve the living conditions of tannery workers in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
Author: Rishabh Verma Site Location: Mandala Metro Depot, Mumbai Institute: Pillai College of Architecture, Panvel Advisor: Ar. Kavita Sawant.
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The proposal explores the current state of construction workers housing/accommodation and how this scenario can be countered by providing a solution based on quick planning and its execution on multiple sites. This is achieved by utilizing principles of Design for Disassembly in combination with a field volume generated aggregation. This has been done while also maintaining the comfort factor by ensuring existing techniques and materials specific to a climatic zone are used.
Author: Harshit Narnoli Site Location: Central Vista, New Delhi Institute: University School of Arch and Planning, GGSIPU, New Delhi Advisor: Prof. Baljeet Khurana
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The thesis questions and tries to establish the sensitivity of the relationship between the state and civilians with architecture as the medium. The project was an attempt to envision a contemporary institution within the rich contextual and cultural heritage of India that focuses on the idea of democracy.
Author: Kevin Shah Site Location: Ice Factory & Fish Market Plot, Pandurang Ramle Marg, Versova Institute: Rachana Sansad Academy of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Ar. Snehal Gaikwad
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The project method aims towards understanding and unraveling the traditional social binding patterns of Versova Koliwada and relating them with the cognitive capabilities. The daily routines of different categories of habitant users groups are elaborated and mapped in the context of the village. Personal discussions with the same group of users are collected and mapped, in response to their cognitive behaviours based upon the variables of WHODAS 2.0 questionnaire. A linear study of the findings from the social and cognitive mappings is compared.
The study finds out that there are overlaps between the places of occurrences of social and cognitive stimulation, and a majority of these activities occur in and around the livelihood common areas which are volatile in condition.
Author: Safiya Rehman Site Location: Shahgunj, Aurangabad Institute: School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal Advisor: Mr. Vikram Kohli
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The aim is to understand the tangibles and intangibles that make a community and their well-being, improve their quality of life, create new economic opportunities by enhancing the existing functions and programs on-site in Shahgunj, Aurangabad.
Author: Santrupthy Das Site Location: Zone F of the Delhi Masterplan Institute: School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Advisor: Mr. Sambudhha Sen, Mr. Sushil Aggarwal
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The Dialogical Milieu: In situ Slum Rehabilitation of Mohammadpur Slum in Delhi is a proposal to relook at the social lives of slum dwellers from the lens of openness. When redevelopment projects happen, in the drive to formalize the housing, high-density towers are constructed which heavily take away from the dwellers’ right to their open spaces.
Author: Jaswanth NS Site Location: Palani, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu Institute: CARE School of Architecture, Trichy Advisor: Ar.Balaji Rajasekaran
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Pilgrimage is a part and parcel of the culture of the sub-continent and takes innumerable and sometime specific forms based on the religious centre. Palani is one such unique pilgrim city in India, wherein people from all parts of Tamil Nadu take a padhayatra (walk) to Palani, after the Pongal festival ends, which is called Thaipusam. Dedicated to Lord Muruga, people carry colourful kavadis and walk up the hills of Palani for the darshan of the lord. Lakhs of people conjugate at one place but the infrastructure is minimal. This is a seasonal event and hence permanent structures are mostly underutilized. It is in this premise that the thesis looks at a type of architecture that is temporal and ephemeral.
The thesis attempts to provide temporary pop up structures like a kit of parts which can be assembled and serve as places to sleep, places to refresh, and medical facilities required for the pilgrims who undertake the padayathra during the event. Post the event, the flexibility and temporal nature of these structures can be used to facilitate multi-dimensional and varied requirements.
Author: Shreya Pathrabe Site Location: Sanpada, Navi Mumbai Institute: Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Ar. Fatema Master.
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The proposal is a public plaza for people with pods and a module system. It weaves the in between urban fabric making the space more porous. When you look at the plaza and the movement around it, you notice that the paths taken by people were the most important, i.e. entry and exit. As a result, the pods and modules are placed in zones in such a way that people’s movement remains linear and uninterrupted.
Author: Prachi Kadam Site Location: Girangaon, Lalbaug, Mumbai Institute: LS Raheja College of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Ar. Mridula Pillai Gudekar
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Cultural trauma occurs when the locals feel their place is threatened by an event that leads to irreversible damage and changes the space that was once theirs in turn redefining its identity. One such event which lead to a cultural wounding in India was the mill owners strike of 1982 which changed the place identity of the mill abode of Girangaon from its rich girni culture to a pure consumer culture.
In order to counteract the trauma of urban violence, a common trend of redevelopment, this project was conceptualized keeping in mind the true impermanent nature of the site. It attempts to heal the cultural trauma by “designing for informality” and by working out simple solutions to the existing adversities on site.
Author: Rohan Milind Jaitpal Site Location: Kharghar, Navi Mumbai Institute: Dr. Baliram Hiray College of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Ar. Shalini Shrimali
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This project’s aim was to create an environment with a little bit of isolation from the remaining area but an environment which is soothing and beautiful. The courtyards act as light wells bringing in the diffused light throughout. The greenery and the water body surrounding it completely elevate the experience of any user.
Author: Yashovanthi YA Site Location: Molkalmuru, Karnataka Institute: BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore Advisor: Ar. Shradha M. Guggari, Ar. Vinya
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Lighting up the thought of “Act locally, Think globally”, the project emphasizes textile network of Mollkalmuru. Conserving and capitalizing textile heritage of Mollkalmuru with technological intervention will create job and self-employment opportunities for the local people including migrants of all age groups and skill levels.
Project connects rural and urban ends of Molkalmuru which provides a platform for training, production, marketing, exhibiting, recycling textile waste and research on solar and biodegradable fabrics.
Author: Arya Gupta Site Location: Western Express Highway Station, Mumbai Institute: Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Dr. Kaiwan Mehta.
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This thesis project firstly aims at exploring this emerging Urban Domain. It aims to analyse the roots of, and understand, today’s societal lifestyle and psyche that invariably shapes this urban domain. Architecture is looked at through the ideas of a system, a typology and form, after which then project aimed to investigate how these ideas would be adapted to this emerging urban domain.
Author: Nihar Vijay Lalani Site Location: Rajkot, Gujarat Institute: Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture, Rajkot Advisor: Ar. Rupesh Patel
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This project aims to understand & demonstrate an appropriate built environment for a government building and its campus and the way it could respond to public spaces and urban issues.
Author: Asmita Patnaik Site Location: Lower Parel Station, Mumbai Institute: Kamla Raheja Vidhyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai Advisor: Vandana Ranjit Sinh
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This thesis, set in Mumbai, is an exploration of experience to a spatial setting, where the urban environment is understood as an experience which has an emotional stimulus to understand what is necessary to facilitate urban happiness and wellbeing within the work-live paradigm in the socially incoherent city life. The analysis led to the relevance of ‘Pause to Interact’ in the daily work-live paradigm that constricts all of us.
The research concludes at the study of developing Lower Parel station precinct as a transit oriented nexus which could improve the eudemonic well-being of the precinct, and trigger a positive balance to the city at large.
Author: Tharagini V Site Location: Koundampalayam, Coimbatore Institute: Karpagaram University, Coimbatore Advisor: Ar. Ramakrishnamoorthy
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This project focuses on developing a pedestrian oriented environment and encourages the formation of informal communities. These will be achieved by following the principles of healthy place making and providing a sense of visual connection.
Author: Mandira Pai Maroor Site Location: Car Street, Mangalore, Karnataka Institute: Manipal School of Architecture, Manipale Advisor: Prof. Sarmistha Chatterjee
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The Chiguru Project is an urban regeneration project that focuses on the economic & cultural growth of the community through the revival of built heritage characters of Car Street. It intends to not only revive the economic well being of the area but also re-establish vanishing bonds between culture and community. It uses a ‘heritage-led-design’ approach to reimagine traditional structures into innovative cultural spaces that will increase the outreach of the community and the heritage of the site.
Author: Siddharth Hastimal Bapna Site Location: Akruti Rising City, Ghatkopar, Mumbai Institute: Lokmanya Tilak Institute of Architecture and Design Studies, Navi Mumbai Advisor: Prof. Om Merchant.
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This project consists of a proposal that is majorly temporary and partly permanent development, designed with the principle of ‘Design of Disassembly’ where modular construction can allow for easy disassembly through minimal amount of construction work and minimal impact after its intended use on the temporary rented site. An ephemeral intervention – a permanent building will continue to exist on the community purchased site after the four-month assembly.
Author: Rahul Kustagi Site Location: Minerva Mills, Bangalore Institute: Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, Mysore Advisor: Ar. Kukke Subramanya
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The permanence of change. In the 20th century due to rapid urbanisation, there are very few public spaces for the people in the city to slow down from their fast-paced urban lives.
The evolution of the cities lead to loss in relevance of the industries that initiated the city’s growth in the first place. These urban lands lie vacant due to lack of vision, and get labelled as urban voids. The voids have a distinctive landscape that have capabilities to absorb large public activities. The need of the hour is to create accessible public spaces and these voids can be the catalyst of change.
Climate change and pollution are global problems and cities contribute considerably, and the process of building is inevitable. The question becomes, rather do we need to rebuild from scratch every time we build? Or make sustainable what already exists? Why demolish when the built could be reintegrated into the fabric of relevance by re-examining the overlaps and divergences between, “necessity”, “program” and “function” of the already built? The ability to adapt to evolving programs, uses and culture is a great strength of a building. One can’t predict the future, but there is a possibility to design for change.
Author: Radhika Sharma Site Location: Jeoni Mandi, Agra, Uttar Pradesh Institute: Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Advisor: Ar. Madiha Rahman.
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The project approached the site with the intention of celebrating the people and other significant moments past in the city, such as the heritage industries, concept and culture of bazaars, significance of the Yamuna and the colonial heritage of the city. The design would create an opportunity to promote the local crafts communities by developing the site into an urban anchor to scatter tourism across the city.