AHMEDABAD: This year recorded the highest April temperatures in almost a decade, with mercury rising up to 43.7°C twice. Can citizens keep cool without air-conditioning? Architecture plays a major role in temperature reduction, as shown by two households — one in the western part of the city and one in a pol.
Urban Housing: Teacher’s Training Programme is organized by Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. The purpose is to sensitize and equip the participants from professional and academia in diverse areas of the subject of Urban Housing and at the same time provide an opportunity to engage in an intense, creative and innovative process of ‘Urban Housing’ design paradigms.
image:medium:actor is a workshop on creativity & emotions with Week-long sessions in June, and July 2019 in New Delhi, India.
The outcome of Urban Housing Studio’s case study of Group 1 focussed on the layout, zoning and planning of a residence.
The first exercise of Urban Housing Studio focused on how a ‘sense of community’ is achieved by a built environment. The Case study based analysis of different Vernacular and Modernist examples analyzing urban and social issues.
The brief of Urban Housing Studio focuses on the discrepancy of housing shortage wherein there are 1.2 crore vacant homes. The house form emerges, first by responding to the requirements posed by the social aspects; and then by adding layers of requirements posed by topography. Finally, material shapes the final form.
2017-18 Spring Semester of CEPT University Level-2 Design Studio attempts to take a stepped process to define an architectural language. The process involves paying close attention to functional requirements, structural systems, building services, construction details, architectural elements, and language.
The outcome of SEDA_Building Construction-II focused on designing physical models of timber structures of a residence.
The outcome of SEDA_Building Construction-II focused on designing physical models of timber structures of a split column.
The outcome of SEDA_Building Construction-II focused on timber as construction material dealing with all the traditional systems. The second part of the semester focused on contemporary structural systems of timber framing.
The Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA, Navrachna, had developed the Exercise-1 to design Urban Open Spaces at multiple scales ranging from residences to neighborhoods to markets and institutions.
The Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on dense urban fabric streets acting as linear elements connecting people and places. The idea of this exercise was to make the students experience open spaces of various scales, understand various activities happening in these spaces at different times.
The outcome of SEDA_Building Construction-II focused on timber as construction material dealing with a physical model of joineries like mortise and tenon, dove-tail.
SEDA_Building Construction-II focused on timber as construction material while understanding the properties of the material. The course elaborates on various systems of traditional and contemporary framing using timber and to learn the construction sequence of various elements.
The outcome of Group 5 for Stage 6 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA, focusing on describing rules for design development, is as follows.
Stage 6 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focused on describing rules for design development under block configurations. The architectural language for the ‘tissue’ was also described in detail, so a harmonious built environment can be achieved.
The outcome of Group 4 for Stage 5 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on deriving a detailed master plan for the site.
The outcome of Group 3 for Stage 5 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on deriving a detailed master plan for the site.
The outcome of Group 2 for Stage 5 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on deriving a detailed master plan for the site.
Stage 5 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on curating the program and network of urban space to derive a detailed master plan for the site, referred to as a ‘scheme.’
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The outcome of Group 3 for Stage 4 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on curating the program and network of urban space.
The outcome of Group 2 for Stage 4 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on curating the program and network of urban space.
Stage 4 of Urban Design Studio-2017 of SEDA focuses on the theme dealing with the Program, its Distribution, Vehicular and pedestrian network, Urban open spaces, and Urban edges. The set of rules and strategies derived under these topics (‘theme’) helps the group to work out a master plan (‘scheme’) for the site.
