Architecture is commonly perceived through its purpose and programme, specifically its first life. Traditionally, a building is conceived with a defined purpose for a set of users and is analyzed…
Urban green infrastructure is often framed as a design and planning issue: cities need more parks, trees, wetlands, green corridors, and open spaces to address environmental issues related to global…
The world is evolving with new trends, innovations, and new materials. When talking about designing a single project, be it a house, the market follows trends, and what the market…
Whereas traditional universities generally expand horizontally and require vast spaces, here in Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka, a university has been built vertically in a dense urban area, in a way…
For a long time, architecture has served a singular purpose: to create shelter from wilderness. Concrete, steel and polished glass are put together to protect humans from wind, rain and…
In places such as Gurgaon, the sky opened up, and in a short time the city ended up being underwater. The heavy rainfall caused traffic on the roads, left stranded…
Sundaranand is a Co-Living shelter for an urban context situated near the university area in Ahmedabad, India. The process of building this shelter took years; it started in 2022 and…
Have you ever walked through a field or a patch of grass and come back with tiny, prickly seed pods stuck to your clothes? They can be annoying and surprisingly…
Architecture celebrates its beginnings. Design competitions laud the winning design. Foundation laying ceremonies herald the start of construction. Architectural magazines feature beautifully composed photos of new buildings that show them…
They say without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization. If the memory is demolished for greed, there is not soul left in neither culture…
Before Terming Sustainability The words sustainable and animal aren’t 2 different entities; they are embedded. For animals, sustainability is not a moral framework, concept, or ideology that is an aftermath…
Throughout much of architectural history, the façade was more than just a layer of images painted onto a structure. The façade was an environmental screen carefully conceived by the architect.…