Biome Diaries is envisaged to be a series of pocket-friendly publications about the people, projects, and processes at Biome Environmental Solutions (formerly Chitra Vishwanath Architects).
Spastics Society of Karnataka, Bengaluru, designed by Biome Environmental Solutions called for a low cost, sustainable and a quick solution.
The brief given to Biome Environmental Solutions was to design a dance and music studio with an intimate platform for performing arts on a small plot in Bangalore, that would also serve as a venue for workshops and small events at times. The challenges of a tight site and requirements led to a design where each space and element played more than one role.
We designed project to be darker than what would lighting be for a space for visually able. Openings in certain parts of the building were so designed that through the movement of air would one feel the direction. This was a pro-bono work for our office.
The office for Biome is built over an older building. The owners had found the use of the upper floor to be redundant for them and were seeking to rent it out. An additional floor was added for this purpose.
Project Facts: Principal Architect: Chitra Vishwanath / Sharath Nayak Design Tem: Anurag Tamhankar / Structural Designer: K.S.Shashidhar Photographers: Vivek M / Ankon Mitra Cost : 4.2
Chitra Vishwanath opines: The office needs commercial success to retain the practice – it is not an ‘Institute’ to either teach or provide a knowledge sharing platform. Further, architectural education is a long, drawn-out process and is never finished.
Name of the project: Hamsa and Prasanna House Location: Anekal Main Road, Bangalore Year of completion: 2016 Design Team: Chitra Vishwanath, Sree Sandeep Dangeti Consultants:
Name of the project: Hamsadhwani, House for the Bhat’s Location: Kanakapura Road, Bangalore, India Year of completion: 2016 Design Team: Sharath Nayak, Karishma Susan Kurian,
Ann and Rebecca are two sisters who had a 106’ x 70’ plot in Indiranagar. They wanted to build a house each for themselves and a third one for rent. Additionally, they wanted two quarters for the household helps.
The brief was to follow the intent of Waldorf system of Education but be within the bye laws laid by the Tamil Nadu Board of education. Waldorf system stresses hugely on child centric education wherein more impetus is given on mental, spiritual, physical and psychological than only the academics.
In the Holy city of Puttaparthi and its environs, there are many elderly people who do not have a roof to sleep under. Helping Eagles,
CONTEXT The site is located 100 kms north of Mumbai, in a rural area at the foot hills of the Sahyadris, and lies between the
The school sits in a neighborhood with constant construction activity and a godown is in its immediate vicinity. Creating a learning space for a young age group on such a site required that the school be an enclosed and protective space. The site factor played a key role in the design, along with the Reggio-Emilia education approach itself, on which the school is based. – Biome Environmental Solutions
The home is located on the outskirt of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake. Since the plot is a corner one the home is designed so that it can be viewed from both sides. As one walks around the building it reveals its characters, punctured wall with windows of various sizes and hues, telescopic vaults and sloping roofs at jaunty angles. Though located near a lake in the north- it exactly is not a very pleasant view at lower levels since there is also a large stormwater drain flowing at the edge. – Biome Environmental Solutions
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