Project Name: Makaibari Tea PavillionAuthors: MIANZI & QX Design CITATION Built within a tea estate, the pavilion is designed for a culinary experience in the heart of the plantation. Made with bamboo as a structural material, the form exploits the potential of the material in a intricate crafting of form and detail. Deceptive in its scale, the pavilion envelops the […]

Project Name: Community Canvas SchoolAuthors: pk_iNCEPTiON CITATION A contemporary spatial intervention in a village school to extend the space and enclose a play-yard finds a unique expression that is sensitive to the immediate context and the specific use of the building. Designed to assimilate existing classrooms, the new space is articulated around a circular central court with gentle steps leading […]

Project Name: School For Blind and Visually Impaired ChildrenAuthors: SEALAB CITATION All architecture conforms to an overt visual bias. Eyes, the primary organs that perceive space dictate our essential understanding of architecture. In an exceptional challenge, the architects for this project were tasked to design this building for inhabitation by children with varying degrees of visual perception; a project that […]

Project Name: YogashaalaAuthors: Thumbimpressions LLP CITATION A new, column-free canopy extension for an existing structure is imagined in an eloquent combination of bamboo lengths and steel joinery creating a floating roof for the practice of yoga and other congregations. Bamboo, a versatile, affordable, and accessible resource in the tropics has found extensive use in India’s traditional building typologies. Still, the […]

Project Name: The Bridge / DamAuthors: Architecture INNATE CITATION In the Global South, traditionally, the hard boundaries between ecology and architecture that contemporary built environments assume were always smudged. Across the tropics, structures that retain water play a significant infrastructural role simultaneously serving to augment the experience of access to water. Here, the built environment is found to be in […]

Project Name: ThinLars ResidenceAuthors: Field Architects CITATION In an ecologically sensitive terrain, architecture can play a pivotal role in aiding assimilation of life and the land. In Ladakh, the extremities of climate dictate the form and ambition of the built space often drawing from the knowledge systems embedded in the context. However, the engagement of contemporary architecture with this knowledge […]

Project Name: Restoration of The Lal Bagh PalaceAuthors: Abha Narain Lambah Associates CITATION In India, the conflicted and complicated layers of history and the societal ambitions of the present day often seem to be in friction. However, one omnipresent feature of its cultural past is the enormous wealth of built and environmental heritage locked within the fabrics of our cities, […]

Project Name: A Home LeftoverAuthors: Ego Design Studio CITATION Built with frugal means, the house pushes the boundaries of the possibilities for affordable architecture. Conventionally, the architectural endeavour associated with low-cost is also perceptually connected with a sense of spatial and material compromise. However, in this project, the idea of limited means is confronted and an opportunity to create spatial […]

Project Name: Masjid E ZubaidaAuthors: Neogenesis+Studi0261 CITATION The architecture of religious structures is often burdened by the symbolism and iconography associated with the typology; elements that dictate its formal composition. Built on a modest budget and a challenging site, this mosque draws from the essential qualities of a space for worship and articulates the elements in simple composition that renders […]

Project Name: KIPCERAuthors: Mindspace CITATION The design for healthcare projects is often viewed from the lens of hyper-efficiency. It is a complex typology which demands a significant overlay of services, circulation patterns and requirements that cater to super-special functions. This medical facility ventures beyond the functional obligations of the programme in an attempt to re-align the essential quality of a […]