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Feb - April ' 2026
MENTORS:
Rupali Gupte, Milind Mahale, Tushar Rajkumar & Dhruv Chavan
Orientations:
To appreciate architecture as a spatial configuration that has emerged from
climate, culture and life forces and has an impact on behaviour and
experience of its inhabitants.
Knowledge added
Concepts of type, pattern, morphology, culture, behaviour, experience, and
material phenomenologies and relationships between them.
Abilities developed
To understand architectural types and morphology of settlements as
spatio-formal configurations of the relationships between behaviour,
experiences, and life-practices through measure drawings, behavioural
observations, conversations with inhabitants and diagram analyses
To project new programme derivation from studies of the context
To reconfigure morphology and type through exploration of massing,
built, semi-built and open spaces, spatial layouts, architectural elements
and details and articulation of scale, proportions, light, and materials.
To craft spatio-formal configurations through phenomenologies of
material, their spatial experience, building systems, and tectonics.
TEACHING MODES
Lectures on concepts of type, morphology, pattern language
Field work towards a visceral understanding of concepts;
Provocation for introduction of new type/s for contemporary contexts;
Projection of new type and programme derivation based on emerging
socio-economic realities
Iterative process of design and development of new type configurations
ASSIGNMENTS
Redesign of the school plot in the village of Uttre in Kolhapur to create
new affordances for the existing school and to act as a new public node
in the village.
Projecting a new type as an agglomeration of new ideas for the above
based on contemporary conditions
1. Site documentation and Site analysis
2. Programme derivation from above;
3. Diagrams for understanding the relationship of built form and context, with
behaviour and experience(Figure ground, zoning, sectional relationships)
3. Design development at 1:200, 1:100 scales and 1: 25 wall sections
REFRENCES AND READING :
1. Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings,
Construction. New York: Oxford, 2015. (viii to xIiv; 381-391; 740-745)
2. Habraken, N. John. Type as a social agreement, in Proceedings of the
Asian Congress of Architects, Seoul, 1988. (1-18)
3. Gibson, James J.. The Ecological Approach To Visual Perception. United
Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2013 (Chapter 8. 119 - 135 )
4. Pallasma, Juhani, & Laurent Stadler. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture
and the Senses. 3rd edition. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2012 (11-15)
(Suggested 1-72)
5. Zumthor Peter, Atmospheres. Architectural Environments. Surrounding
Objects. Birkhauser Boston 2006 (10-72)
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