Context and Historical Background Ooty, known as the Queen of the Hills, originally served as a summer retreat and administrative hub for the British. It was well known for its…
Understanding Digital Twins in the Urban Context With the growing complexity of cities, conventional instruments of planning have difficulties keeping up with the speed of urbanization, climate changes, and changing…
Earth has been undergoing continuous changes through natural cycles of warming and cooling. Of the total annual carbon emissions, the building and construction industry is single-handedly responsible for about 37%…
Architecture has the power to influence emotions, create safe spaces, and ultimately shape human connections. Therefore, when practised wisely with strategic focus on uniting communities, the built environment can reshape…
When Christopher Alexander, along with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, published A Pattern Language in 1977, they proposed something that architecture had long forgotten: that the built environment must grow…
In the past, cities took the approach of adapting to nature by adopting techniques that use natural materials and structures (e.g., organic and vernacular architecture) in the formation of an…
This paper examines the systemic erasure of pedestrian infrastructure in Indian cities, situating the phenomenon of “missing pavements” within the larger context of car-centric planning, governance apathy, and informal urban…
The Olympic question as an Architectural opportunity India’s aspiration to host the Olympics is more an Architectural and urban proposition than a sporting one. The sporting event requires a cluster…
City economies and built environments around the world are being reshaped by the business park development. Typically located on the perimeters of metropolitan hubs, business parks are service-designed agglomerations of…
The age of cities has traditionally been described as the age of conquest of nature — sweeping rivers out of the way, concrete poured atop floodplains, and infrastructure constructed as…
Urban theory can be a debatable topic of study due to how and why cities are analysed and studied. Urban studies, over the years, have accumulated knowledge from various theories…
The Pacific coastline of San Francisco had remained a place of raw beauty and dramatic contrasts of landforms — from the rise of cliffs from the ocean and fog dropping…