Amdavad ni Gufa is designed as an underground art space at the heart of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It is a living testament of the synergy between the renowned painter, artist Maqbool…
Around a decade ago, prominent science and technology scholar Donna Haraway introduced the concept of shifting from the Anthropocene era to a ‘Chthulucene’ era. It narrates a process of reworlding…
Globally, Around 40% of all raw material equivalent with 40 billion tons annually used by the construction sector. This makes the industry becoming one of the largest natural consumers of…
Repair. A word with strong negative connotations. Because something must have been destroyed before it can be repaired, and what is even more significant is that it has been destroyed…
Coastal regions worldwide experience anomalous sea-level rise, erosion, and shifting of coastlines due to capricious climate change, which is primarily driven by anthropogenic interference. This, in turn, leads to ocean…
Climate as a Design Imperative Architecture is always influenced by climatic conditions, but in very few regions is this correlation as straightforward and uncompromising as in the hot-arid areas of…
An augmentation in building urban farming towers in the Middle East has to be one of the major breakthroughs in the reliance on food production from foreign lands. Urban farming…
Waiting is one of the most recognizable spatial experiences in cities, which are not defined by buildings or streets. The queue is a vernacular kind of urban form, which scants…
Postmodernism did not arrive in India as a declared movement. It filtered in quietly, settling into campuses, housing colonies, cultural centres, and the expanding edges of cities. In Indian Architecture,…
One of the most fascinating things about planet Earth is the variety of lands and environments it provides to humans for habitation and, in return, the variety of responses humans…
Architectural ideas have rarely remained confined to the places where they originate. Concepts about form, function, efficiency, and spatial order have travelled across borders through texts, education, exhibitions, and professional…
Purpose of this Article This article proposes Osmotic Architecture as a climate-responsive framework for rethinking human comfort in buildings. Drawing from the biological principles of endosmosis and exosmosis, it argues…