Studio Co-ordinators: Rupali Gupte, Prasad Khanolkar, Samir Raut, Tushar Rajkumar,
Teaching Assistants: Rushikesh Hirulkar, Manish Shravane
Description
Architectural Typology or the study of type in architecture is one of the fundamental frameworks for understanding architecture.
Type is not the building or the drawing of the building, but it is the diagram of how the various constituent elements of the building come together. A diagram is a spatial organisation of components of a form. It is the drawing of the structuring principles of a system. Diagram spatialises relationships. The various samples which identify themselves as the same type may have different nuances and therefore may have different drawings. The course helps students to identify architectural type in a specific context that has emerged from exigencies of climate, culture and life force and to work with the type to address contemporary needs, paying attention to behavioural affordances and experiences that the new interventions generate.
Abilities developed in students
To understand architectural type as a relationship between spatio-formal configurations and behaviour, experience, and life-practices through a spatio-ethnographic study of existing contexts.
To develop strategies for producing / improving habitation through a close analysis of existing building types in terms of problems and opportunities visa a vis questions of gender, social hierarchy, shifts in social and economic conditions as well as physical attributes relating to light, ventilation and physical upgradation.
To imagine, visualise, draw and make new spatio-formal configurations through diagraming, model making, orthographic drawings for articulation of scale, proportions, light, and materials to generate a specific experience for improving habitation and its experience.
To craft spatio-formal configurations through material phenomenologies, their spatial experience, building systems, and tectonics.
Overall Objective
The overall objective of the studio is to understand the existing spatial / architectural type in Makunsar, Palghar that has consolidated over years due to reasons of culture, economy and climate, its phenomenological properties, understand the shifts in economy, hierarchies based on caste, gender etc. transformations of house type over years, and the problems and opportunities related to the type.
In conjunction with a study of an institutional type of an old age home, the studio will attempt to readapt the house type for rethinking the institutional type of an old age home.
Evaluation
An ability to learn from existing types and speculate a new type for changing societal structures.
An ability to diagram existing spatial configurations and establish the relationship between behaviour and experience and the specific spatial configuration.
An ability to do spatio-ethnographic studies to understand the existing community’s social structures and the socio-economic shifts taking place.
An ability to use diagraming as a method to derive new speculative spatial configurations for contemporary concerns based affordances for facilitating desired behaviour and experiences.
The ability to craft a space to afford certain behaviour and experience as expanses, intimacies, personal-private-public, connection to life and practise through an adept control of scale, proportions, light, articulation & materials tested through drawings and models.