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Studio 7: City and its Institutions
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Faculty team: Prof. Pratyush Shankar | Prof. Advaita Jalan
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The relationship between the ideology and aspirations of an institution and its architectural typology is a historical one. Architecture here becomes the signifier of its ideology while housing its function. Keeping this premise as the central idea of this studio, the key learning objectives were to enable students to take design position based on institutional ideologies, design program and a response to the immediate context.
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The above premise was explored through following two projects undertaken in this studio:
Ansh Shah
Preet Kotadia
Kamya Patel
Project 1: Reading Room, Sayaji Baugh, Vadodara
The short project was about designing a community reading facility in Sayaji Baug, Vadodara. The city of Vadodara has a rich legacy of education and social reforms in the 19th century. It seems the culture of the city is very much shaped by its institutions; be it a University, Town hall or a library. In continuation of this tradition a “Reading Room” was proposed right in the middle of Sayaji Baug. Wherein students had to interpret the idea of knowledge, literary culture and public place while they conceive the design for a “Reading Room;” within the context of Sayaji Baug.
Bhakti Lakhani
Jeet Shah
Ananya Pandey
Nishad Kela
Hriday Gandhi
Project 2: Ahmedabad Stock Exchange, Sardar Bagh, Ahmedabad
The second project focused on designing a stock exchange building in Sardar Bagh Precinct of Ahmedabad. This area has always shown the way towards a future; both in terms of institutional structure and its architectural expressions. Stock Exchange has always been a public building and a symbol of trade and exchange. It has both historical significance in Gujarat and represents the change in our economy after Globalization. This Studio emphasized on exploring the idea of a Stock Exchange building as an architectural typology, in the Sardar Bagh precinct of Ahmedabad, while considering its public function, re-inventing its relevance in face of digitization of transactions.
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