Remember, back in junior school, when the teacher gave us punishment to correct a mistake and write it 50 times? How much we despised it. At that time we all…
No story about architecture school is complete without the mention of a pressing deadline handcuffing the student to stress filled “all-nighter”, accompanied by the ever-insufficient boatload of coffee and music.…
Remember the first time your college faculty asked you why you chose to study Architecture? Well, I sure do. Just the thought of the answer is a point of great…
Movement creates space. Movement makes one realize space. Movement challenges the essence of space. Very often, as architects, we associate ourselves with the creation of ‘spaces’. We flamboyantly describe designs…
Water is a universal need. All living beings need water for survival. Irrespective of geographical location or cultural differences water is a necessity to carry out a multitude of day-to-day…
Cities today are growing at alarming rates. Rapid urbanization, fast-growing population, and technological implications are choking cities with jungles of built mass that more often than not fail to create…
Technology is drastically influencing creative processes by equipping the human brain with tools to materialize previously unthinkable concepts in art and design. Artificial intelligence in particular is constantly challenging creative…
Performing arts spaces are easy escapes into the world of creativity and art. What artists present in these spaces are works of art that hardly ever cross the common man’s…
Piezoelectric materials are materials that are capable of producing electric current when subjected to mechanical stress and vice versa. The piezoelectric effect was first discovered in the year 1880 by…
Many popular hotel chains are present in the world, but what makes them popular, the services? or the experiences?. All the multimillion hotel chains do have one thing in common,…
To meet its goal of making Helsinki carbon-neutral by 2030, the municipality of Helsinki launched the Helsinki Energy Challenge in February 2020, where it invited proposals to suggest sustainable alternative…
The building industry accounts for nearly 40% of the global GHG emissions. With the world becoming more and more conscious of the growing negative impacts of climate change it becomes…
