SPATIAL JUSTICE

MODULE 6

Humanizing Architectural Education

The framework for ethics in architectural education has limited the understanding of space by an architect. The space is considered to be like a container. The logistics of making a space has become the parameters of the container of the practice. many times the architect overseas these parameters for fitting the schemes in awkward sizes, accommodating client requirements, et cetera.

Orthographic projections have reduced the idea of the space into a measurable entity. This idea of reducing a space into its size and shape was done by Isaac Newton. The space and the object occupying the space was considered to be having particular boundaries. The questions regarding the space within the container as well as the space around the container, the experience that the container provides and many more such Philosophical entities beyond the realm of the container paradigm.

Many methods have been developed which has helped to smudge the boundaries of the container and has tried to make the space as a continuum. This concept was developed by Albert Einstein and more recently by Dilip Da Chunha. in this concept, the space was considered to be including matter, emptiness and energy.the space was considered not as a container but as a continuous.

Dilip concepts, the world as different degrees of witness, he thinks of emptiness matter energy in one continuum.

The next philosophical tradition for defining a space was looking at a space as a social construct. Your space was what human beings make an occupy in the society. Henry Lefebvre articulated three types of spaces, the physical space, maintenance, space and social space. He says that space gets formed through senses imagination or practice. this also led to the development of a concept known as Nishastgah. which says that space occupied by an entity is claimed by an entity at a particular particular time in the presence or absence of the particular entity, which in term also affects the other entity, occupying the space.

The next tradition of considering a space is considering a space in a particular time period. The idea of space as an Apriori is a powerful one that establishes space as one of the frameworks through which human being makes sense of the universe.

Philosophical traditions, space can be defined as an entity that connects everything, which shapes, all human relationships, and structures, the understanding of the universe.

The architect is seldom involved in the act of making buildings, but the main is that the role of an architect is to imagine a new space with the help of these traditions and create a new space through thinking, speaking drawing and using other representations.

Change in the physical space has explicit effect on social space, unify, the space, and space as a structuring device.this tells that the space and all the entities occupying the space are interconnected to each other as a continue and not as a container.

Rethinking History of Architecture

There is an urge to have a distinct Indian identity in architecture. First, by making building look like Indian structure of the past second using Indian symbols on buildings and third reproducing, local, indigenous and folk through evocation of climate or cultural factors. The term style is used in a simplistic way in architecture to denote the repetitive external visual appearance of a building or a building element. Disposes two distinct problems, one architecture is reduced into a stylistic entity and the second the idea of authenticity gains currency as building face is much criticism if an arch architect deviate from the stylistic way of a particular building.

The second point occurred during the reign of the Britishers in which the new building is constructed in India had the plans of Europe, elevations were Indian and the sections therefore were all mixed up. Modernity had made its entry as a way of living. Domestic architecture also changed as apartments emerged in India.

Due to all of these issues of looking at architecture, as a style, there was a development of a new concept to identify architecture structures. Type is rather a more useful concept to discuss architecture instead of style. A type is not a building itself, but it is a diagram that represents different buildings and forming up group of those type of buildings.

It has been noticed that Indian architects won’t able to develop anything meaningful looking at the Ajanta and Ellora caves. What are the key reasons for this maybe because of the insufficient and irrelevant discussion regarding Indian architecture in architectural academia of India. Also notice that the Indian architects are quite familiar with European and North American architectural works . Due to these reasons, three types of conceptualisations have dominated the discussions of Indian architecture first around the idea of Indo arsenic, second different kinds of religion and third architecture as a function of capital movement.

Eyes Of tHE Skin

I confront the city with my body, my legs measure, the length of the arcade and the width of the square my gaze unconsciously projects my body onto the facade of the Cathedral, where it roams over the mouldings and contours, sensing the size of the recess and projections, my body weight Meet, the mass of the corral door and hand grabs the door pullas I enter the dark void behind, I experience myself in the city and the city exist through my embody experience, the city and my body supplement and define each other at dwell in the city and the city dwell in me.

This makes the human body the centre of the experiential world

Ex: Having a ancestor house in Goa, it has a heavy wooden door with a rough texture on pushing the door. It opened into a long corridor which is completely dark. The corridor had openings to multiple rooms along its path. After entering the home and reaching at the centre of the corridor, it feels as if our body is in the centre of a huge world which is the house itself.

A walk-through, a forest is the most healing due to the constant interaction of all senses of our body with the nature.Architecture is essentially an extension of nature into the man-made realm, providing the ground for perception and the horizon of experiencing and understanding the world.

Ex: In the house at my native place in Goa, the various levels of the house provide and unique connection to the nature. Like the kitchen at the back opens up into a nearby river, the Terrace gives us an interaction to a nearby tree, the windows in the bedrooms open up Into the canopy of the trees, this creating a connection to the birds present on the trees et cetera. This type of interaction of the house with surrounding, makes the house itself as an extension of the nature or allowing the nature to extend in the house and making it one.

There are five sensory systems, visual system, auditory system, the taste, smell system, the basic orienting system, and the haptic system. All the senses including vision can be regarded as extensions of the sense of touch as specialisations of the skin.

An architect space frame hold, strengthens and focuses or thoughts and prevents them from getting lost. We can remanence are being outdoor, but we need the architecture geometry of the room to think clearly.

Ex: During the rain in Mumbai, my house here, start to give a smell of dampness, the wooden furniture and doors become puffed up, and there is the beautiful splashes of water sprinkling from the window onto the desk. This experience thus created by the nature around could be experienced more clearly being in a proper architectural structure or geometry. This gives a sense of coldness and witness on the outdoor as well as the warmth and dryness of the indoor at the same time.

The eye is the organ of distance and separation where touch is the sense of nearness intimacy and affection.

Ex: By looking at my building in Mumbai, it can be seen that it might be smooth but when we reach closer to the exterior of the structure, the exterior walls are quite rough, giving the sense of being outdoors of not stopping and of not being comfortable. This can be compared to the indoors of the house where the living room has been painted in a such a way that looking from a far it seems to be uncomfortable, but as getting closer and feeling the walls and the furniture, it gives a sense of comfort, a sense of indoor a sense of intimacy.

Light has turned into a mirror quantitative matter, and the window has lost its significance as a mediator between two world between enclose and open interior and exterior private and public shadow and light. Having lost its ontological, meaning, the window has turned into a mere absence of the wall.

Ex: In the house in Goa, there was a particular window just above a desk where my grandfather used to work on his drawings. That window provided the perfect soft light throughout the day, a perfect view of the river flowing by and the distant mountains and the flow of breeze in order to cool, the areas surrounding the desk, but further, when the house was renovated, the use of lights became very evident and as my grandfather grew older, it made it harder for him to look at his drawings. So the light took over the functionality of the window. Which is the function of providing light.

The sense of site implies exterior but sound creates the experience of interior. I regard an object but sound approaches me the eye reaches but the ear receives.

Ex: When I was a child, remember a distinct memory of being in my house in Goa in which when one enter the home and when you move upstairs into the room, there is a slight hummm sound of the wind is blowing by from the window. This sound used to give a sense of relief and calmness to me as a child. I remember that my parents used to make me sleep in that room because I used to sleep almost instantaneously when I used to hear that sound which used to make me cozy. It is true that the sense of sound has a very great impact to the functioning of our body which is in relation the architecture of the home.

Every city has its echo which depend on the pattern and scale of its street and prevailing architectural styles and materials. The echo of Renaissance city differs from that of the boro city, but our city have lost their echo altogether.

Ex: The swollen sound of the palm trees, the chirping of the birds, the sweet, smells from the candy shops, et cetera which I used to experience as a child, visiting my native place in Goa has been completely taken over with the smells of pesticides the loud sounds of commercials and the big billboards of ads which have been applied all across the city. by looking at the changes which are happening to the beautiful city of Goa. It really kills the child within me which had such sweet memories of the neighbourhood, which I enjoyed my holidays with.

A powerful architectural experience silences all external noise. It focuses our attention on our very existence and as with all art, it makes us aware of our fundamental solitude.

Ex: After playing cricket, the whole day during my annual sports event, I came back to my home around five in the afternoon and I lied on the floor. The coolest of the floor, the beautiful rays of the Settings sun from the window and the sound of the fools of the curtains with the sweet smell of food coming from the kitchen made my body completely frozen in one position. At that point I did not feel to move at all and I was feeling that my body is getting connected to the surroundings as if my body is in the centre of the whole experience that my home is trying to give me.

Experiencing a work of art is a private dialogue between the work and the viewer. One that excludes other interactions. A sense of melancholy lies beneath all moving experiences of art. This is the sorrow of beauties, immaterial, temporality.

Ex: During our visit to one of the exhibitions, I notice the works of the artist. The works were made up of strings of the cloth combined with clay and burnt. The beautiful forms the object took Talk to me as looking at those forms, told me about the process that the artist has gone through. In not only told me about the process but also Clicked blurred memory of me as a child who used to remove threads of cloth and used to crumble it together into various forms and playing with it. The work of art which is saw by the artisan givE me a sense of something that I used to do as a curious kid. It gave me a sense of a child experimenting.

A particular smell makes us unknowingly re-enter a space completely forgotten by retinal memory. The nostrils awaken forgotten image, and we are enticed to enter a vivid daydream.

Ex: There is a particular damp smell in the house in Goa, which has been there throughout the whole time. I have been there. That smell is so nostalgic that it triggers few child memories of me having in that house. There is also a smell of pickle, which still has its hole in the kitchen of the house, clicking big memory from the past, that my grandmom used to love, making pickles when she used to be in Goa. She made so many pickles that she used to just make and give it away to all our neighbours and farmers around. the whole house used to smell like those pickle that she made. This was one of the very funny memories that I had just with the smell that the house contained.

The hand of the sculptures eye, but they are also organs of thought. The skin reads the texture, weight, density and temperature of matter.The door handle is the handshake of the building. The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition through impressions of touch the hands of the countless generations.

A piece of architecture should not become transparent in its utilitarian and rational motives. It has to maintain its imperative, secret and mystery in order to ignite our imagination and emotions.

I like to see how far architecture can pursue function and then after the pursue has been made to see how far architecture can be removed from function. The significance of architecture is found in the distance between between it and the function.

The experience of home is structured by distinctive activities, activities like cooking, eating, socialising, reading, story, sleeping, intimate act, and not by visual elements.

Ex: During the festival of Ganpati in Mumbai, our house is completely filled with people and with various activities going around in each and every room. There is cooking going on in the kitchen, people talking and laughing in the living room, sounds of prayers being merged in the room, where the Ganpati is kept, the hard steps of the children running around in a room. All of these activities going on in a particular space gives it the name as whom. As it’s true that a house is called a home when all of such type of activities which are felt natural to be done in a space of a home.

Do you know design process the architect gradually enters the landscape, the entire context and the functional requirements as well as his her conceived building movement, balance and scale are felt unconsciously through the body as tensions in the muscular system and in positions of the skeleton and inner organs. As the work interacts with the body of the observer, the experience mirrors, the body sensation of the maker. Consequently, architecture is communication from the body of the architect diary. The body of the person who encounters the work, perhaps centuries later.

Various architecture can be distinguished on the basis of the sense morality. They tend to emphasise.

A piece of furniture that forms a part of the person’s daily habit should not cause excessive glare from light reflection. It should not be disadvantages in terms of sound sound absorption. A piece that comes into the most intimate contact with man as a chair does not shouldn’t be constructed of material that are excessively good conductors of heat.

Ex: There were a pair of launch chairs which were designed according to the balcony of the house in Goa. My grandfather had designed those chairs which had one of the most interesting experience. The chairs were designed such that when a person sits on it, the chair is angle such the complete visual spectrum of a person on both the sides, ends exactly at the top of the hand rail of the Balcony. There is also a tree near the house of which the canopy covers the balcony. So when a person sits on this chair and looks up, it seems as if you are floating into the canopy of the tree as the angle of the chair is such that the visual spectrum ends at the railings of the balcony. This truly tells us of how delicately even the smallest thing that is important to a person in the house, interact with him and enhances the experience according to the particular place that the person is in.

Buildings and towns enable us to structure understand and remember the shapeless flow of reality and ultimate to recognise and remember who we are. Architecture enables us to perceive and understand the dialectics of permanent and change to settle ourselves in the world and to place ourselves in the continuum of culture and time.

A pattern language

Towns in buildings will not be able to become alive unless they are made by all the people in the society and unless these people share a common pattern language within which to make these buildings and unless this common pattern language is alive itself.
There are many architectural problems that people face honour regular basis. The problems like the interaction between communities, access to the outdoors, market places, and many more such issues.
This book has a very interesting method of tackling almost all the fundamental issues that people face around the world. Problems related to many issues which have been highlighted above.
The method with which the book tackle these type of problems is by understanding a pattern of language.
The elements of this language are entities called patterns. Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment and then describes the core of solution to that problem in such a way that you can use this solution 1 million times over without ever doing it the same way twice.
Over here, the pattern can also be thought about a network of various large number of patterns which are interconnected to each other forming a one whole conceptual pattern language which fits a particular problem. A person is facing.
In this book, all the 231 patterns are interconnected to each other. While trying to find a solution of a particular problem, one can also go down a rabbit hole finding the solution as a whole.
No pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns. The larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embed in it.
This method of approaching a particular problem in architecture is very interesting. This method gives the opportunity opportunity to create his own unique pattern and method with which she can solve a particular problem.
In this book, there are a total of 231 patterns. A person himself can pick particular patterns according to his issues on site. By connecting one pattern to the another, the person creates his own unique pattern of language which is the ultimate solution for an issue he or she is facing on his site.
This book also encourages people to create their own patent language by modifying the existing pattern which has been given in the book in order to frame their particular issues that they are facing.
The 231 patterns which have been listed in this book, has been segregated in a very systematic manner. The start of these patterns is from a very larger, regional scale, then to a community scale, a town, neighbourhood, building, the house and finally the smaller details which have been present in the house.
When a person builds a thing, he or she cannot nearly build that thing in isolation, but also repair the world around it, and without it so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent and more cool, and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of a nature as you make it.
The pathway through which the patterns language has been created in this book is quite straightforward as it moves from a very larger and broad perspective to the most smallest detail of the house. This method helps one to reach the roots of the solution of the problem.
The method to find a pattern language is as follows:
A pattern starts with the introductory part of that pattern. Then the problem is explained. The problem is explained in great detailed ranging from the history till the present times. After the problem is explained, the solution is been provided in the later paragraph. The solution also contains the links of the various other pattern which has been listed in the book. These patterns go from a larger scale to a medium scale to the scale of the house and finally to the magnetic details of the house. By following this path the whole pattern language gets created.
Let’s take an example
A person wants to design the appropriate porch for his house. For which he approaches the list of a pattern in a particular manner. The person creates a list of pattern which he then turns into a pattern language.
Private terrace on the street
Sunny place
Outdoor room
6 foot balcony
Parts and goals
Ceiling height variety
Columns at the corners
Front door bench
Race flowers
Different chairs
With the help of these patterns, the person was able to create the ideal front porch for his house.
The private terrace on the street talks about a particular place, which acts as a buffer zone between the street and the house
The sunny place talks about a particular point in the plot which is fed by the most sun.
Outdoor room talks about a semi open place and the configuration of it.
6 foot balcony tells the person about the height of the porch from the street
Paths and goals talks about the particular interaction of the porch to the street.
Ceiling height variety tells the person about the appropriate height of the porch.
Columns at the corners talks about the placement of furniture in the porch
Front door bench tells the person about the type of furniture to be brought for a semi space
Raised flowers encourages the person to fill his porch area with porch of plants and flowers to make it feel more comfortable and a more natural space which also smells nice when one sits over there.
Different chairs talks about the type and appropriate chairs which would fit to the whole porch design.
This example clearly states how a person was able to design a porch with the help of pattern language.
This book is a very powerful tool for people who are facing architectural problems and fundamental issues.
In conclusion, I would love to say this is a very interesting approach to the particular fundamental issues that we face every day as designers.
I really like the way, the book creates a methodology in mind with which he or she can create his own patterns in the future in a more unique way.
This is one of the most interesting books which I would love to use in my architectural journey ahead, and in my designs as well in order to tackle the basic and fundamental issues that we face as designers.
This book is a very very powerful tool.

TYPE AS A SOCIAL AGREEMENT

Architects today have always been inspired by their predecessor. They are always studying all the old monuments, structures, buildings, which the architects before them had designed. They also try to understand the traditional qualities that the previous architects were able to get into their designs. Among architects, there is a renowned interest for local traditional architecture. This shows a desire to collect the roots of the culture that they desire.
This intern leads to a creation of a connection between the modern and the traditional designs. The architects today are trying their best to attend this connection between the two realms. Which is not an easy task to attain.
Now, in order to attain this connection and architect needs to study the design of the previous monuments and structures not as a historian but as a designer himself. The architect has to understand the design principle behind the building type to decide how he can use them today or goal is not to copy but to transform what was done in the past. Into something compatible with the values we hold today.
In order to do, this is where this book comes in. In this book there has been a clever method which has been designed with which an architect can connect these two world of traditional culture and architecture.
The method adopted here is by understanding the previous monuments and structure in the form of type.
In this book, all the previous monuments have been categorised and identified as a particular type and through which we can articulate our present structures and designs.
In order to understand this type, we must understand the house type which is the most common and most well-known type among the masses.
In the house time we find architectural values people share. The house is a place where we spend most of our time where we are born Marie rich children and grow old. The house is perhaps the most widely shed experience in the culture.
Over the book also says that a house type cannot be defined basically by function or technical reasoning like the climate, the weather and other aspects of the surrounding does not define a particular type of the house. It should be seen in a more design centric perspective.
There are various ways with which we can create a particular type. Each way suggest a different systematic organisation. There are three ways with which we can identify a type.
First of all, we can see the type as a special organisation. Here, the configuration of the rooms, the stairs, kitchen, outdoor spaces, I looked at. The kinds of space is the house type offers and the ways in which these spaces relate to each other is identified here.
Secondly, we can see the house as a physical system. This includes looking at the material and the technical system used in the walls, doors, windows, beams, columns, and all other principles of architecture.
Finally, we can see the house in a stylist way. In this the style of the windows, doors, the designs on the first ad, decoration of the house is identified.
These are only few ways with which a type is identified but one can create his own method, which with which he or she can identify types.this is the power of type that it is a whole and we can always find another way to describe it.
When we study these three methods of identifying type, it can be said that all of these three ways of identifying the type are independent of each other.
Which means that the spatial organisation is independent of the physical system and physical system is independent of the stylistic ways. The shows that by keeping the spatial Organisation, constant. We can change the physical systems and the stylist ways to create a new form of type.
Does it appears that our recognition of types physical organisation does not depend very much on the kind of material used nor is it particularly important how the joints are worked out.
One can argue that any attempt to separate the three systems is a violation of the integrity of the type. This stand true as by keeping special organisation, constant and changing the others lead to the creation of a new type and violet is the type which was formed previously.
This also implies that no two types are similar and thus there is a possibility of creating infinite number of types.
Moving ahead. This book also talks about the ways the Rooms in the modern houses have been given the name according to the function which is being performed in that room. But as compared to the traditional houses, this was not the situation back then.
This book, such as that the space which is created by a room should not be attached to one particular particular function, but the room should provide the flexibility to perform a number of functions.
For example in the houses in a proper city, the living room is only used where the family gather is. But when we compare it to the living room of the houses in villages, the living room is used to entertain guest for family gathering for sleeping and for various other activities.
This also shows how we can take the example of the previous traditional houses and get them into our modern architecture to make them more efficient in functionality.
Once we understand how in this way, there need not be any doubt that we can learn from it for modern design practises. This systemic rule is recognised in the type are in design rules.
There are particular Designed rules which end designer has to understand in order to reach at the instant of time. These are two rules.
The first is typological design rule in which one has to understand the particular design of the structure and not any technical aspects of it.
The second is the technological design rule in which one has to understand the technical aspects of building such type of house and not the shaping and designing of it.
With the help of these rules, one can use the method of type to create his her own structure.
This method of using type to create structure can also be used at a large scale.
We should focus on the formal architectural quality of the time. Once these are established, we can always ideal with programmatic requirements making variations within the framework of the rule.
Uniformity can be replaced by similarity. When many units are needed, we can first deploy the biological elements. All the unit must have been common, leaving more detail, functional decisions to the latest stage.
The result of such an approach can be very rich and varied, and yet systematic and efficient to build. This method of taking the concept of psychology to a large scale can be said in terms of layer of deployment.
Using existing typology is not a matter of professional originality or lack there of when we use a type, we connect to values we share with other people. this says that using type is not copying and other architects work but it is from learning from it and then we configure it according to oneself and using it into a modern world. The resultant is an originality in itself.
As it is up to us that while studying a traditional structure, what elements do we want to use and we don’t want to use. But it should be remembered that the cultural and traditional aspects of the structure should not be disturbed in the new design.
The time is not an invitation just to pick and choose what we fancy but offers a frame of reference by means of which we can Best discuss with our clients where to start and in what way to transform.
Now, the challenge here lies in the fact that an architect cannot refuse the past, but to accept it and use it in a more sophisticated and functional method and to apply it to the present architectural designs in this modern world.
In conclusion, I would like to say that this book has provided a very strong method with which a particular design design of modern structures can be approached with.
The most interesting part that I found is that without disturbing the past cultures and not only forgetting them but by applying them to the present designs and taking this cultures more further ahead in our time is a very valuable method.
This book was also able to break down the methodology of understanding a particular traditional structure in a very simple stick way with the help of type.
This book is a very powerful tool which can be used by all the architects around the world to continue the growth of a particular culture which has been there for many years on their respective sites and bringing them to this modern era by connecting the realms of traditional and modern times.

TARQ EXPERIENCE

Located at Fort Mumbai
Artist: Savia Mahajan

Observations:
The art form made by the artist were made up of the material like porcelain, threads, clay and burning them at a very high temperature.
The artwork in the exhibition had a very interesting form.
All the art exhibition gave a sense of deformation. The transition from having a particular particular shape to being deformed is being captured here.
One of the most interesting part that I observed is that the artist is trying to capture the transition of an object from a particular form to another form. The artist is able to do this by pausing the form when it is in that transition.
This process of making an art piece gives a feel compare to when a person has captured a particular movement in his head of the past. It gives a nostalgic feeling looking at the form.
The art piece looks very rustic which talks about the aging of the art piece. This also correlates that how the memory of particular movements in our head start aging and are taken over by another memories.

By looking at these artworks and trying to compare them to the method in which we as human beings store the memories in our head. Here I am trying to directly connect the form work designed by the artist to the memories a particular person has in his head.
The art pieces have very menu details in them which are quite interesting. by looking at them it gave me a sense of how when we have a good or a bad experience. We tend to remember even the minorities details of that experience.
The art PCs have many folds layers and have a smooth texture which give it a beautiful play of forms and gives it complexity. Just like how we store the memories in our head.
In between these folds and curves of the artwork, there are small black voids. Looking at them, it made me feel about void that we have in our life like sadness, missing someone, our deepest guilt.
The whole artwork was completely organic, trying to bend and curve as it wants in the given space. This gives a sense of free form and freedom.
In the layers of the artwork, there are few outer layers which are completely smoothen and the inner layers are very rough and overlapping one another in a very irregular pattern.
One of the artworks over here had a beautiful smooth, covering with few voids opening into its interior. Having such complex layers with rough textures. By looking at them, it gave me a sense of madness behind a beauty . In a funny way, it can also be compared to an architectural structure. The madness could be the technical, foundations beams and all the other elements of a structure and the beauty can be the beautiful form of the whole structure has taken the facade, the designs the decorations.

The outer smooth and layer of the artwork compare to the inner rough texture, irregular layers. Also give me a sense of how a person while going through his life get shaped. Struggling, learning from this wild world can be defected by the roughness and when a person becomes a mature adult with experience can be compared to the smoothness.
This whole smoothness and roughness gives me the sense of complexity as well as softness together.
There was another art piece which had a beautiful L shaped form. It looked as if the object is being pulled upwards from its liquid and fluid form. Looking at the object object gave a sense of pulling tension and force. This could also be compared to the time when a person becomes old, how the memories in his head are pulled away and removed and erased.
The art piece is made over here are made up of threads which are slowly flowing and pouring into and layering each other and laying over the forms within. this shows how overtime the feeling of pain suffering and all the bad things get cleared over by better things coming ahead in life. It gives a sense that things can be replaced or covered.
There is another sense that the form of the object also tells us. As the complete artwork has been made by singular threads, it gives the feeling of patience and consistency in life. As by being patient and consistent in doing a particular job little by little completes the job as a whole.

One of the art piece had a older rustic sculpture kept along with a new brand-new scripture. When an old PC kept close to a new piece, the new piece starts degrading and starts aging and starts becoming rustic.
The art piece is also give a sense of the experienced past, and curious future.this sense was developed by looking at the combination of the old artwork and the new artwork together.
The exhibition also had a set of other art pieces which were made with the help of old books and stones. The concept here also lies the same. The concept of capturing the transition of form to form.
The interesting part of this series of art pieces was that the cause with which the artworks have got that form has also been captured. The deformation of the book was caused due to the weight of a rock has been captured here. This also gives the sense of force deformation And pressure. This artwork also opens our eyes to the fact of appreciating or understanding a particular particular reason due to which we feel sad or happy in our life.
There is again the reputation of the concept of layers over here. By looking at the artwork, it could be noticed that the outer layers were burnt, black and withered.the inner were being protected by the outer layer. By looking at this, it gives a sense of protection. The feeling that the parents have for their children.
There is also an interesting contrast between the completely burnt and blackened exterior of the burnt book and the white protected nature of the pages inside. The complete form of the art peace teaches us one of the most important things of how a person becomes who he is in the present by the experiences he had in his past. The person at present is being depicted by the outer layers of the book and the knowledge he has is depicted by the inner pages of the book.
The impact of the rock on the continuous form and texture of the book can also be compared to how sound is affected when there is another sound being mixed together. The continuous rhythm of the sound gets destructed by another external sound. The constant sound can be compared to the layers of the book and the Intrusion of an external sound can be compared to the rock. This form work makes the concept of mixing of different sounds together visual.

The impact of the rock on the book culture gives the sense of how various things happen in life and according to which we have been moulded into the person we are.
This artwork gives the feeling of force, tension, visual appeal, and a textural complexity. This combination of all of these feelings together gives a very unique experience to the artwork.
Coming to the final art work, which also caught my curiosity was the completely suspended forms from the ceiling. Looking at the complete artwork as a whole gave us sense of capturing the droplets of the rain, but the droplets are actually the rocks and the different forms.there is an interesting play of gravity happening here.the artwork has taken such a form due to the effect of gravity.
This final artwork talks that when we have a particular experience, it happens, sometimes that we get bored with many previous memories and experiences we had in the past. It gives a feel as if the memories upon us.
This auto also gives a sense of the beautiful fluidity, calmness and tension altogether with a beautiful hint of textual complexity, which creates a beautiful drama of visual movement as the form work dangle in the air as they are being suspended. This whole concept really talk to me and fuelled my curiosity.
The multiple layers of complexity. This whole exhibition had took me through a journey of multiple sensory experiences. Such as visual, acoustic and haptic.

CEE BUILDING AHEMDABAD

This building is located in Ahmedabad.
It consist of many office buildings along with living quarters for the workers.

Observation:

In the open spaces of courtyards, there has been provided grid like pergolas. This grid like pergolas provide diffuse light in the courtyard as well as a play of light and shadow across the wall, giving a sense of calmness and protection from the harsh sunlight with the appropriate amount of warmth.

The whole structure is made up of brick and concrete. The texture of the brick, which is rough along with the texture of the concrete, which is smooth, gives a beautiful tactical play of roughness and smoothness. This gives a playful sense of the facade of the structure.
The pattern in which the brick has been laid in the first gives a visual drama and the constant change in the direction of the texture of the brick. Thus making it a complexity.
The whole campus has been made with the play of levels. as one walks across these levels, it gives a person the sense of the terrain of the nature. This intern brings about the feeling of the nature around.
The levels also provide various vantage points through which we could observe the environment around. This brings in a sense of the structure being connected to the nature as an extension of the surrounding environment.
As one moves from one room to another, there is a change of heights between the rooms. This makes a person feel pulled into a room and then as he reaches the room. The room becomes bigger and gives a sense of release. This has been achieved by lowering the height of the roof and keeping the pathway constant.

In the campus, none of the trees have been harmed. The structure seems as if it is emerging from the surrounding environment itself. All the trees around a structure seem to be an extension of the structure itself. The canopy of the trees which have been planted at the centre of the courtyard, become the roof of the courtyard, providing diffuse light and breeze to the person sitting there.
As one moves from one building to another, the person passes through a long and a narrow, open passage way through the nature. This gives a sense of transition from one space to another. This also provides the feeling of calmness and the connection with the person and the surrounding nature.
Here, the structure, and the nature interact with each other in various manners. The trees in the courtyard become the roof of the courtyard, the passage between the buildings have been covered by trees and bushes. Thus creating natural walls. The branches of the bushes being curved and made into the roof of a particular bridge. this interaction between the structure and nature prevents the feelings of alienation from the nature and being trapped in a completely man-made environment.

There are long walkways around the campus. These walkways have been completely filled with bushes and trees. This makes a person passing through the walkway feel the sense of discovery and curiosity. This has been achieved as the structure is emerging from the environment and one does not know where he is in the campus and what he could find ahead. These passes ways also bring in the opportunity of relaxation.
The entrance to the various structures are at lower level compare to the pathways going around. There is a sense of pull towards the structure which has been created with this method.
And many structures present here the windows open at the ground floor. This makes one feel as if being underground. By placing the window at such a location, it brings in diffuse light and gives a cave like experience.

The pathways in the campus have been made with tiles.and as the dried leaves fall from the surrounding trees and when one walks over them, it creates a connect between the person and the nature as if he or she is walking through nature and not a man-made Aure. as the person walks, there is the sound of the leafs crushing, against the concrete tiles, which also adds on the experience.
The stairs in the campus have walls on each side which are used by a person to sit. This provides an opportunity for a person to as he or she is Transitioning from one level to another.
The entrance of the buildings are covered with flowering trees in particular. This has been done on purpose such that when the wind blows, the flowers of the trees fall on the entryway of the building. This creates a beautiful drama and it makes a person feel as if the structure as well as the nature as a whole is inviting him or her inside.

There is a porch before the main entrance of the structure. In this postthere is the beautiful place of light and shadow of the trees as the trees flutter in the wind. This brings about a beautiful play of light across the whole brick exterior of the entrance entrance. This also adds on to the complete experience of being invited by the structure. Thus making a person to stop and to enjoy the beautiful way of being invited by the surroundings.
The walls inside have been made of completely of expose concrete. The colour and the wall texture in the interior give a sense of intimacy.
Light wheels are present in these interior spaces. The walls near the light will have been painted with a bright colour. This helps the light to reflect and to reach the innermost regions in the interior. And as the person moves from the light towards the more inner part of the structure, there is a soft transition from a bright place to a more intimate and cave like place.

Man-made water bodies. These are also present across the whole campus. This offers a cooling effect and an acoustic sense of one being close to water and nature. This has been achieved by the swirling sound of the water as the wind blows by.
As the whole campus has been made with the play of levels, one Aure opens into another structure. They also open commonly towards a courtyard. This makes a person feel of the ease of being access and having the access of the people not only in the same building, but also also at the other buildings. it gives the sense of the presence and the non presence of the people around.
There is also a visual play of the structure and the nature. The sharp edges of the structure and the brutal nature of the man-made structure gets smoothen out by the curves and the leaves of the trees and the nature around.
The exposed, brick and concrete of the structure has fungus and twigs growing on it. There are also cracks across these walls. This gives us the sense of time and the age of the whole built structure. It talks about the various weather conditions it has gone through in its lifetime.