“A sense of space, a sense of place” : Khushru Irani’s notes from a visit to Airaa Academy designed by Hundredhands
Khushru Irani talks about his experience from his visit to Airaa Academy designed by Hundredhands.
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Khushru Irani talks about his experience from his visit to Airaa Academy designed by Hundredhands.
Cucoon House, Mohali, by Forum Advaita, reflects the lifestyle and sustainability. house is southwest facing and was imagined to be a largely inward-looking house that offers multiple experiences within.
The Museum of Emotions, Architecture Thesis by Riya Tewatia, is a visionary concept that seeks to challenge conventional notions of museum design. The project embodies a unique and captivating exploration of architecture’s potential to engage and evoke profound emotional experiences within its visitors.
The Airaa Academy by Hunderdhands, sits on a greenfield site on the city’s outskirts, adjacent to large infrastructure and erstwhile farmlands – now slowly getting consumed by the city.
Beton Brut, Ahmedabad, by tHE gRID Architects, involved creating a simple, functional home for a small entrepreneurial family with an appreciable creative streak. A home that brought the family together but left enough space for the individual personalities to thrive and bloom.
Takshila Academy Activity Centre, Akbarpur, by SGA Studio sits facing the existing football field and is integrated with the existing senior school building through pathways and porches. The building reused as many elements as possible, demonstrating a real hand on upcycling but also making the project look contemporary and light.
Delhi-based architect and artist Ankon Mitra created Oishi, an architectural scale ‘slice-form’ Origami sculpture/pavilion at the axial centre of the exposition, a lattice of interconnected and flap-folded aluminium sheets – signifying the connections that ABID wanted to forge between architecture, interior design, art, trade and the common man.
Ahmedabad University Centre, Ahmedabad, by Stephane Paumier Architects, aimed to create a centre that would become an incubator for academic life and a place for generating new ideas by creating interactive spaces besides formal educational functions.
Students’ Hostel, Nagpur, by Studioboxx was an extension project with a cafeteria and additional rooms for the growing needs of the institution. Students come from the surrounding rural areas and take vocational or skill-based education at the institution.
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Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, by Stephane Paumier Architects is based on 15m long modules creating a 2 floor high built/void chess mat pattern.
Portal House, Delhi, by UnBox Design, is designed to accommodate three families on four floors: two of them are single-level apartments and one is a duplex, opens front to a primary approach road, looking over a single, full-grown tree and the only opportunity for views, while the back provides filtered views of a small community park.
The student hostel for the Chandigarh Group of Colleges,by Charged Voids, located within a twenty-five-acrecampus in Landran, a semi-urban area close to Mohali, Punjab, draws from Le Corbusier’smodernist legacy.
Euro School, Jodhpur, by DesignWorks, campus is located in Uchiyarda, just outside the city limits of Jodhpur. The school has a small kindergarten-primary campus located in the city which we designed in 2009, and this is a larger extension to that.
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