Architectural design studio - 01 (Section 06)
This Design Studio in the Second Year Architecture examines the principles of spacemaking on a given site. It is structured to explore the incidental outcomes and find meanings within them to develop faith in the intuitive processes in design. It proceeds to use such findings(diagrams) as a point that marks the beginning of a journey to engage with a given site for design explorations. The studio undertakes exercises to explore the notions of space making from individual (private) to group ( collective) to inform the Place for Community(Public) as the final project.
The project relies on the sequential developments through the series of design projects to enable the student to engage with architectural ideas/conceps as ‘a germ’ to drive the design on the given site. In the process the student learns the process of abstraction and diagrams which underly the design moves.
Philosophy of Architecture
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course seeks to impart an understanding
of the philosophical foundations of architecture that create meaning. It seeks
to unravel the meaning and the role of architecture for individual, society
and the world. The course begins with an elaboration on the essence of dwelling
and culminates with the role of ideologies in shaping the contours of a city.
In between, it grapples and elucidates the complexities, aesthetics and
semiotics of architecture education, building materials and urban society. Unit 1 : Building and Essence of dwelling – 6 sessions
Building and dwelling and the relationship between them, Essence of dwelling, Dwelling as preservation of the fourfold of earth, sky, divinities and mortals, Revisiting the meaning of space, site, location and building, building as a thing, Dwelling through things, Building as double space making – admitting and installing, Essence of erecting building and its relationship with engineering construction and architecture
Unit 2 : Aesthetics of architecture
Retracing the influence of beauty and utility as Vitruvian principles of architecture, German idealism shaping architectural aesthetics, Theories of Schelling, Schopenhauer, Hegel and Kant, Difference between sculpture and architecture, Wittgenstein’s architecture, Architecture as embodiment of philosophical and poetic force, Loos’ Raum plan, Vienna secession
Unit 3 : Task of architecture
Philosophy of building materials – stone, glass, wood and other artificial materials, their functional and sign value, light as matter, virtual architecture, architecture as the art of constraint, neutrality and universality, Why do we need philosophy in architecture education? Main task facing contemporary architecture, Civilizing influence of architecture, Is architecture art. Necessary and sufficient conditions for being an architectural work, Architecture as a celebration of presence, , language of architecture, , Complexity, contradictions and their resolutions in architecture
Unit 4:– Philosophy of Cities
From city to urban society, rural-industrial-urban continuum, trivialization and specialization of urban spaces, Fetishization of nature, depth of transformation of streets and monuments, urban reality-social relationships and mode of production, dictatorship of the right angle, town-country dichotomy, global city, the city of tomorrow, theory of urban society, urban myths and ideologies
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES [We´ll review these together once you´ve drafted them.]
Upon completing this course students should be able to:
Session 1, 2 and 3 – Essence of Dwelling Assignment
2. The sketch could be of any real building that we are likely to encounter in our daily life and should not be an imaginary structure 3. Sketch must accompany 2-3 lines of explanation with your name and roll number 4. You may mail/whatsapp me the sketch 5. Evaluation is not on the quality of your drawing but on the intensity of your thought Session 3,4 – Aesthetics of architecture, Wittgenstein House
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Architecture Design Studio Section-4
Emphasis is on issues of spaces , quality of spaces required and relationship of artist with space , relationship with space and form with topography and nature of site. In this studio it is to develop the understanding the need of an artist as a space and influence of space to the artist. It shall develop the ability to select place , landscape and any functionality space required to the artist. The impact of space and background on artists. Eventually students have to select an inspiring artist and figuring artist needs they have to create spaces of any area such as studio , exhibition gallery , residences etc. Eventually students will be able to express this through sketches ,models and drawings and should be able to transfer the idea of quality of spaces to form.

Basics of Academic Reading and Writing
This course will focus on reading and writing strategies. Students will read short texts from across genres and analyze them. The goal of such reading activities is to help students understand how texts across different genres have similarities in the way they are constructed. Writing activities will help students understand how they have to adapt their writing style based on the audience.

A Grassroots Architecture
Less than 10% of the structures built across the world are designed by architects. The vast majority of the global built environment is built by communities seeking to shape their own space. Architecture is thus a form of basic human act; an aspect of our social evolution that predates both habit and history. Architects - and indeed students of architecture - often perceive their contributions to the built environment as being heroic, iconic and special. However, very few are pushed to consider the value of their work to the development of communities, as being meaningful and engaging spaces.
This course will invite students to cast aside the persona of the architect and don the garb of a much less glamorous commoner. Assuming this role, the course will invite the student to consider important questions about space and our relation to them. Ultimately, the question remains, what is architecture, who is an architect and do we really need them?

History of Architecture 1
COURSE DESCRIPTION
“ARCHITECTURE is the WILL of an EPOCH translated into SPACE”
History plays a major role in the kind of environment we live in today. It traces back the roots of origin, the influences and provides an insight into the world that has formed into the present. May this be manuscript, epics and mythologies, anecdotes or Architecture; all come together to make a whole.
History of Architecture is conventionally understood to be a study of regionally developed styles associated with history of places and mentors; helping associate with stylistic dating and possible contextualization of architectural language.
The present course, slightly digressing from the above, makes an attempt to teach architecture through a Form language approach rather than the accepted pattern language approach.
The scope for the semester is to focus on the structures based on mass based, trabeated systems of constructions; through the study of various architectural marvels through time, which are representative of the aforementioned construction systems through the historically identified architecture stylistic periods ...from the early ages till the modern eras.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completing this course students should be able to learn & acquire skills :
Understand the Importance of History in Architecture- Architecture as identity.
To observe and understand the influence of non-physical parameters such as climate, religion, culture, tradition, politics etc. in architecture.
To observe and understand the influence of physical parameters such as geography, geology, local materials etc. in architecture.
Understanding of various architectural styles with reference to various building systems- Mass based, Trabeated & Arcuated Systems through the study of architectural marvels spread across world history.

Urban context studio Sem IX: Lost and Found !
Studio outline
“Urban design is concerned with the question of making comprehensible links between discrete things. As a corollary, it is concerned with making extremely large entity comprehensible by articulating its parts.” (Trancik, 1986:106)
In order to improve the existing urban environment, urban voids in the future are likely to become key strategic spaces. These leftover spaces can be explored as ‘opportunity spaces’ by infusing activities in a meaningful way thereby making them ‘places for people’.
The book ‘Finding Lost Space’ by Roger Trancik brings up inquiries on the undesirable urban area that makes no positive contribution to the surroundings and which is ill-defined, without measurable boundaries and fail to connect elements in a coherent way, by calling them ‘lost space’ (Trancik, 1986)
In this studio, urban voids (lost spaces) will be defined as spaces that are defunct, underutilized, abandoned, in-between spaces or better usable conditioned spaces among public and private realms. The studio expands on the idea of identifying such potential lost spaces within the larger context, and transform them into active built or non-built entities that would have an influence on the context and urban life by and large.
Objectives
The objectives set for the studio course are –
· To identify, define and decipher lost spaces at the neighborhood or city level to arrive at urban issues, concerns, and values
· To generate a set of values by reading the context to arrive at an idea and vision
· To analyze character, abstraction and design development with a human-focused approach
· To sensitize students in deriving vibrancy, values, active & interactive realms
· To recognize appropriate activity or activities that would be firmly shaped, coherently linked creating humanly (Robert Campbell) meaningful ‘places for people’

Urban Memory and Identity
Cities are formed through layers of history, systems, services and infrastructure, socio-cultural milieu, demography etc. These elements function independently as well as interdependently to make cities function. Each city has evolved through the past to derive a physical entity that is perceived today. The physical dimension to cities are easily perceived and experienced. However, the layers of narratives that are instrumental in physical shaping of cities is critical. The cities are therefore narratives of individual as well as collective.
Through the years, these layers keep changing, evolving like cells of a human body. Likewise, some cells do transform their meanings through times. These layers change their functions, meanings, identity. These layers that existed earlier have found a new meaning and identity or are in search of one. These changing definitions and quest for finding new meaning and identity would be the premise of the studio.
These layers are often in an evolutionary and constantly changing process as one desires to intervene in 21st century. The design interventions would emerge as an outcome of past with an aspiration of future, of how it could evolve in centuries to come. Some of these layers and elements include changing nature of telecommunications, social interactions, leisure, recreation and shopping etc. The idea of communications have changed the relevance of telegrams and post and have evolved technologically. The social interactions have changed the meaning of how the public spaces and markets are being used. The reference to city history through live and experiential museums have diluted. The new inventions of 20th and 21st centuries like automobiles have taken over public spaces. The flyovers have created residual spaces and parking lots out of active public streets. The studio would engage students into retrospective and investigative nature of design interventions through this journey of tracing the past and inventing and redefining these urban amnesia for the future.

Architecture Design Studio -5 - Structure
DT: JULY 2020
PERCEPTION OF STRUCTURE
“Creativity in architecture design and structural solution have a symbiotic relationship; both are inseparable because each has an effect on the function of the other. Architecture should have firmness (structure permanence) commodity (function) and delight (aesthetic)” – Vitruvius
From the perspective of ‘Structuralism’ the architectural space is created through
the interaction of a human being with his environment which is kept as a
technical or artificial. The components of an architectural space interacts
between human, form and environment. Structure protects the form of the
elements and the total system and it is the main factor of defining the space,
scope or form that the architectural space is willing to define (Engel, 2006)
The human space architecture components are form and environment. Therefore it is important that the spatial constructions be interactive with human otherwise if the building does not consider human characteristics and pays attention to other criteria, it will face human reactions and it will be useless. Thus the architectural space identity depends on its structure and the function of the structure and geometry being the factors of space design. The interaction of space and structure is necessary in creating human space… Sometimes structure becomes the center of attention and sometimes it is neglected during the process of building design. But it must be confirmed that the best structure is the one that is accepted and synchronized by architecture. Structures make form light and transparent and these elements are important in human spaces and the inside and outside relationship. Therefore in planning a building the human being and his desired space are the most important criteria.
Perception of structure is also connected
with the typology of a building, its size and function. Perception in this
respect can be characterised by one of the feelings, which excite the
imagination by their size, dimensions, where the range and height are
surprising as are the difficulty of shapes.
At the turn of the 20th century,
a general dissatisfaction with revivalist architecture and elaborate decoration
gave rise to modernist architecture, characterised by the idea that ‘Form
follows function’.
As the complexity of buildings
began to increase (in terms of structural systems, services and technology),
building design became a multi-disciplinary undertaking, with specialist
designers for different types and different aspects of buildings. Structure
became the basis for these achievements, by becoming the most critical
component of architecture.
So ‘STRUCTURE’ can be defined as –
01. A PART OF ARCHITECTURE – By knowing the patterns and technical principles of construction creation, expression of aesthetic value, creation of construction concepts;
02.
A TOOL OF INTERPRETATION OF ARCHITECTURE – By knowing the function of
space, tectonics, material and technology, methodology of scheme creation;
03.
SEMANTIC AND SEMIOTIC MEANING IN ARCHITECTURE - Through expression of tools and details of
construction, symbolism of construction, theory and methodology of detail
creation.
MOTTO - “To think in architecture, to feel in structure”
MISSION - “Rationalization of Material and Spatial Form”
PROPOSED PROJECTS FOR STUDIO
01. HOUSING
- Addressing Contextual issues (Partially)
- Structure as tool for structuring of housing units and clustering (Algorithmic Structuring / Prefabrication)
E.G, Unite de Habitation, Marseille; Habitat 67, Montreal; The Nakagin Capsule Tower, Japan; The Interlace Vertical Village Apartment Complex in Singapore etc ; Vertical Forest Residential Tower; Vertical Park / Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
02. CITY LIBRARY
- Structure as means of addressing the programmatic issues and as form generator (Identification and Exploration of a Structural Typology)
E.G, National and University Library of Kosovo in Prishtina, Kosovo; National Library of Argentina; Vennesla Library, Vennesla; Seattle Central Library, Seatle; Philological Library of the Free University, Berlin etc
03. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
- Exploration of Structural Systems in making a ‘Futuristic’ Architectural Form
E.G., Work of Frank Gehry; BUCC Bangkok University Creative Center; Valencia Prince Felipe Museum of the Sciences, Spain; V&A Museum Extension, London, England
Note:
Preference may be given to students to select projects other than mentioned above - subject to mutual discussion and acceptance
PROFILE OF STUDIO
S.NO. |
COMPONENTS OF DESIGN |
OUTCOMES |
TIME FRAME |
PROPOSED EMPHASIS |
1 |
RESEARCH |
· Inculcate an Attitude to search, know the similar Architectural Issues and Context |
01 WEEKS |
10% |
Enquiry / Analysis / Observation / Registration |
· Analysis and Observation of the Architectural Attempt in solving the Architectural Issues |
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2 |
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT |
· Acquisition of Design Strategies - Theory and Methods |
02 WEEKS |
20% |
Innovation / Speculation / Poeticism / Romanticism |
· Application of Analysis and critical judgement and utilisation of speculations, iteration and reflection in the creation of a design solution |
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3 |
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT |
· Exploration of Spatial and Material Design Concepts |
03 WEEKS |
40% |
Refinement / Resolution / Completeness |
· Testing and Resolving the Design Proposal for Technical Documentation |
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M I D S E M E S T E R A S S E S M E N T |
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4 |
TECHNICAL INTEGRATION |
· Acquisition of Technical Areas of study relevant to Design |
05 WEEKS |
20% |
Tectonics / Environmental / Sustainability |
· Incorporation and Integrate the Technical and Environmental Areas of study into Complex Architectural Design |
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5 |
CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS |
· Squiring awareness of traditions of architecture as medium of Cultural and Material Expression |
02 WEEKS |
10% |
Social / Ethical |
· Acknowledging and implementing buildings towards a theoretical basis of design |
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D I W A L I B R E A K |
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6 |
COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION |
· Develop confidence with graphics and verbal communication and presentation skills |
01 WEEK |
Final Jury |
Lucid / Comprehensiveness / Engaging |
· Application of design skills and technical knowledge towards the deployment of a comprehensive Architectural Vocabulary |
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
Total Assessment - 100 Marks
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 60% EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT CRITERIA 40%
S. No. Components Marks Final Jury - Organised by University - 100
01 RESEARCH 10
02 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT 20
03 DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 40
04 TECHNICAL INTEGRATION 20
05 CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS 10
Total Internal Assessment 100
NOTE:
Attendance shall be as per the University norms (80%)
BASIS OF ASSESSMENT
S.NO. COMPONENT
01 KNOWLEDGE
· Design Theory, Historic Landscape Architecture
· Design Process and Practice
· Sustainable Design Practices and Materials
02 PROBLEM SOLVING AND DESIGN
· Methods and Procedures
· Process Drawings (Analysis, Diagrams, Program)
· Creative and Innovative Application
· Concept and Schematic Design
· Site Planning
03 TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
· Problem Statements and Definition
· Design and Conceptualisation
· Layout, Materials
· Construction Details
04 COMMUNICATION AND GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
· Conceptualisation and Visualisation
· Oral Presentation
· Hand Sketching, Drafting and Rendering
· CAD
· Digital Technology - Photoshop, Sketch up, Other
· Writing
05 ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
· Environmental Concerns
· Social Values
· Sustainability and Climate Change
ASSESSMENT DATES AND INTERIM SUBMISSIONS
01. Submission of Research Work and Concept Evolution - 10 August 2020 - Max. Marks 30
[Case Study Analysis and Conceptual Statement]
02. Design Development - 31 August 2020 - Max. Marks 40
[Program and Schematic Design (Plan, Sections, 3D etc]
03. Technical Integration and Contextual Response - 09 November 2020 - Max. Marks 30

History 3 : Modern Movement
The course aims at understanding the Modern Movement in architecture. The course shall investigate and understand Modern Movement through the works of Master Architects - Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Understanding the architectural projects of these masters shall help chart the various phases of this movement and analyse the elements and characteristics of its language. The course shall use lectures, abstractions, drawings and presentations as methods to discuss the modern language.
It is important to understand the modern movement as it holds an important position even in the contemporary times.

Architecture Design Studio I
“Architecture is a synthesis of intention” -Fernando Domeyko-Perez
Design is a solution to a question posed to an architect. It is of foremost value that the architect is clear in the objective they want to achieve through the design, their intentions. When presented with a design problem, one must be skilled to use the requirements and constraints as catalysts to create an efficient design solution. One must understand that what are perceived as intuitive decisions for designers with experience, is in reality the persistent application of the appropriate intentions, which with time is ingrained in the design process.
To be able to implant this skill in the students, this studio is designed to focus on recognising, interpreting and translating design intentions. This dimension of being able to ‘Decode & Decipher’ shall be added to their knowledge of anthropometry scale, proportion, module and circulation attained in the previous semester. It shall be the first step to realising and understanding the role, process and application of the intention to a design problem.
The studio shall emphasis on the process of design. Identification of intentions and attitudes towards design shall help the students generate a set of guidelines for their design solution through drawings, mapping, graphic and model media.

History 5 : Theory
Architectural theory is a result of rigorous thinking, discussions and writing about architecture.The course introduces architectural theories and explores a series of writings on architecture. The study of these theories, tracing the roots of their origin, the circumstances of their genesis strengthens the knowledge of architecture and its development.The course aims to encourage a dialogue between theory and practice. A detailed understanding of these theories and investigating its translation to a built form shall be catalysts to the students in discovering and developing their own position on their architectural ambitions. The study of these works develops the analytical and critical thinking skills of the students. The course shall adopt methods like lectures, discussions and writing to achieve this.

Structure - 1
Learning Objectives:
Introducing the concept of structural behavior
Concept of structural solutions to understand while designing
Structural systems and their behaviors.

Structure 3-BUILDING SYSTEMS (COMPLEX STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS)
To develop an understanding of the structure as a prime design element. At the most basic level, we hope to increase the architect’s perception of the structure as an integral element of architecture rather than as just an applied technology. Where structure underwrites architecturally, other than in its primary load-transferring role. It contributes to another layer of aesthetic and functional richness to designs. We will illustrate structure as a vital architectural element, which thoroughly integrated and involved in the making of architecture, and playing significant roles that engage the senses, hearts, and minds of building users.
Learning Objectives:
Structure creating construction concepts Rules and criteria of structural elements and their use in projects. As a part of Architectural elements and aesthetics.