Project Name: Restoration of Byculla Railway StationAuthors: Abha Narain Lambah Associates CITATION In urban India, layers of history create the patina of the built environment. In a city like Mumbai, with influences from the colonial and the industrial past, an array of eloquently made buildings continue to serve their public purpose – an everyday heritage that is used, misused and […]
Project Name: A Home LiberatedAuthors: Asylum CITATION An ancestral home is an archetype too frequently encountered in the Indian context. The prevalent positions in popular imagination swing between romanticisation and rejection. Either the house is preserved as a monument to the past, complete with all its flaws and limitations, or it is demolished and discarded in favour of the new, […]
Project Name: Subterranean RuinsAuthors: A Threshold CITATION In the suburban, agrarian context in the urban fringes of Bengaluru, this private house occupies a unique terrain enriched by local vegetation and replete with fauna that no longer finds its place in the city. Embedded in this special landscape, the architecture of the house disappears with the extended walls as the only […]
Project Name: KavidhanAuthors: Studio Black CITATION Designed for an extremely narrow urban plot landlocked and with common walls, the house commits to creation of a comfortable, joyful space for the family to inhabit. In the older overlays of towns and urban centers, one often confronts these tectonic situations. In this case, the eleven-feet open edge prompts the architects to envision […]
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 […]