Showing posts with label Competitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Competitions. Show all posts
Saturday, September 08, 2018
Sunday, August 05, 2018
Veliko Tarnovo Competition Entry
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Work done in collaboration with Chris Cornelissen,
Veliko Tarnovo New Urban Centre Competition.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
Pixels of Development
This has been done by various offices before and using far more sophisticated tools so certainly not an original idea, but as this is my first time with this, I was very excited by the possibilities.
Pixels are fun.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Shortlisted
Not a win, but enough to keep continuing.
Sunday, December 03, 2017
Europan 14_Sluisbuurt: Landscape of Making
Some additional material from Europan 14
Site: Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Design brief: Productive City
Design title: Landscape of Making
Project work done in collaboration with Chris Cornelissen
Site: Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Design brief: Productive City
Design title: Landscape of Making
Project work done in collaboration with Chris Cornelissen
Saturday, December 05, 2015
Europan 13
My second attempt at Europan.
This work was for Europan 13, done in collaboration with Koen Schaballie.
The site was Libramont in Belgium.
The results were announced yesterday with a jury report for our site stating "Initially, examination of the projects did not give rise to any enthusiasm from the jury members.After reflection, it seemed that the underwhelming quality of the proposals revealed the difficulty in meeting the requirements of the programme. The members of the jury indeed deemed the requirements to be too restrictive as regards the required density of the site, leading to the authors of the various projects having to accomplish a task akin to “squaring the circle”."
Leading to the Jury members selecting no winners, no runner ups but a special mention for a project that deviated from the brief.
Despite not winning, I am extremely happy and proud of the work a 2 member team working efficiently and closely over a span of 6 weeks was able to produce.
This work was for Europan 13, done in collaboration with Koen Schaballie.
The site was Libramont in Belgium.
The results were announced yesterday with a jury report for our site stating "Initially, examination of the projects did not give rise to any enthusiasm from the jury members.After reflection, it seemed that the underwhelming quality of the proposals revealed the difficulty in meeting the requirements of the programme. The members of the jury indeed deemed the requirements to be too restrictive as regards the required density of the site, leading to the authors of the various projects having to accomplish a task akin to “squaring the circle”."
Leading to the Jury members selecting no winners, no runner ups but a special mention for a project that deviated from the brief.
Despite not winning, I am extremely happy and proud of the work a 2 member team working efficiently and closely over a span of 6 weeks was able to produce.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Concrete Geometries
Few weeks back Me and Kostas participated in a call for exhibition put out by the AA, called Concrete Geometries Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes.
Below is our entry which consisted of repackaging of our Master's thesis. We didn't get through, which may be one of the signs that we need to stop hamming around our thesis and find something new....I have also a put some text along which was submitted for the competition.
The world as we know it is being rapidly shaped by two major processes Globalization and Urbanization. These two processes are able to bring about social, cultural, political and physical changes within geographies that they touch . These changes in turn transform the geography into yet another specialized terrain constituent that fits within the mega mechanism of global processes, developing in trajectories different from rest of the surrounding region.
Metaphorically the form and mechanism of the Rubik’s cube allowed imagination of an object that drew parallels with this condition of transforming and shifting terrain through globalization. This was imagined to be a spatial experiment, where we could simulate conditions of symbiosis or parasitism between two or more geographies and social structures that cross path due to the turning of the Rubik’s cube. Each surface was imagined to be a city designed through Italo Calino like narratives designed based on our present conditions of existence and at the same time fractured by the rotational mechanism of the cube, that allowed for a deconstruction of these narratives similar to Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” opening up numerous possibilities of interpretation based not only on the object to be read but also on the reader, the authors and the city outside.
Each surface of the cube was to be one city, thus the 6 cities were:
1)Panopticon: The city of Surveillance
2)Heterotopia: The city of Gardens
3)Noah: The city of Archives
4)Alice: The city of Labyrinth
5)Leviathan: The city of Hierarchy
6)Celestial: Struggle against gravity
In the book “The Architecture of Deconstruction” by Mark Wigley the writer traces the architectural translation of the philosophical term deconstruction based on Heidegger’s rethinking of building in Destuktion und Abbau. Destruktion means “not destruction but precisely a de-structuring that dismantles the structural layers in the system” and Abbau means “to take apart an edifice in order to see how it is constituted or de-constituted”
With the above abstract as a prologue it is easier to clarify what the cube supposed to insinuate as form and structure. In remobilizing these terms we are trying to advocate that the cube is trying (at least) to construct first a series of contradictions between systems and forms.
Creating these crucial conditions of ambiguity each one of the cities that occupy the 6 faces of the cube they don’t remain attached as binary systems but they are subjects to external forces of un-building. Near the edges of the cube where the cities form the first inaccessible limits, each organism-community reached points of weakness, Weakness of adapting and merging with the other. So for us the process of contamination through the transformations of the Rubik’s cube is the construction of inner penetrations cracks and flaws. This is an operation that demonstrates the extent to which the structures depend on both of these flows and the way that are disguised.
The 6 cities were designed as narratives where one of the many forces that shape a city became crucial and amplified to an extent that it shaped the social and physical geography of the city. Thus the cities have been designed to a detail of a day in the life on a citizen in each of the city, witnessed by an observer who travels along all the cities that shift, collage, and re-assemble to generate parallel geographies of our global landscapes and at the same time speculative geographies that are in waiting....
Below is our entry which consisted of repackaging of our Master's thesis. We didn't get through, which may be one of the signs that we need to stop hamming around our thesis and find something new....I have also a put some text along which was submitted for the competition.
The world as we know it is being rapidly shaped by two major processes Globalization and Urbanization. These two processes are able to bring about social, cultural, political and physical changes within geographies that they touch . These changes in turn transform the geography into yet another specialized terrain constituent that fits within the mega mechanism of global processes, developing in trajectories different from rest of the surrounding region.
Metaphorically the form and mechanism of the Rubik’s cube allowed imagination of an object that drew parallels with this condition of transforming and shifting terrain through globalization. This was imagined to be a spatial experiment, where we could simulate conditions of symbiosis or parasitism between two or more geographies and social structures that cross path due to the turning of the Rubik’s cube. Each surface was imagined to be a city designed through Italo Calino like narratives designed based on our present conditions of existence and at the same time fractured by the rotational mechanism of the cube, that allowed for a deconstruction of these narratives similar to Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” opening up numerous possibilities of interpretation based not only on the object to be read but also on the reader, the authors and the city outside.
Each surface of the cube was to be one city, thus the 6 cities were:
1)Panopticon: The city of Surveillance
2)Heterotopia: The city of Gardens
3)Noah: The city of Archives
4)Alice: The city of Labyrinth
5)Leviathan: The city of Hierarchy
6)Celestial: Struggle against gravity
In the book “The Architecture of Deconstruction” by Mark Wigley the writer traces the architectural translation of the philosophical term deconstruction based on Heidegger’s rethinking of building in Destuktion und Abbau. Destruktion means “not destruction but precisely a de-structuring that dismantles the structural layers in the system” and Abbau means “to take apart an edifice in order to see how it is constituted or de-constituted”
With the above abstract as a prologue it is easier to clarify what the cube supposed to insinuate as form and structure. In remobilizing these terms we are trying to advocate that the cube is trying (at least) to construct first a series of contradictions between systems and forms.
Creating these crucial conditions of ambiguity each one of the cities that occupy the 6 faces of the cube they don’t remain attached as binary systems but they are subjects to external forces of un-building. Near the edges of the cube where the cities form the first inaccessible limits, each organism-community reached points of weakness, Weakness of adapting and merging with the other. So for us the process of contamination through the transformations of the Rubik’s cube is the construction of inner penetrations cracks and flaws. This is an operation that demonstrates the extent to which the structures depend on both of these flows and the way that are disguised.
The 6 cities were designed as narratives where one of the many forces that shape a city became crucial and amplified to an extent that it shaped the social and physical geography of the city. Thus the cities have been designed to a detail of a day in the life on a citizen in each of the city, witnessed by an observer who travels along all the cities that shift, collage, and re-assemble to generate parallel geographies of our global landscapes and at the same time speculative geographies that are in waiting....
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Europan 10
Me and Nora had participated in Europan 10 competition few months back.The results were on the 18th of Jan.
(a low res composite of all the 3 A0 panels submitted for the competition)
Our site was located in Spain, at Elda a small town known for its shoe making industry. You can find the design brief here. We didn't win the competition, most of the winners for Spanish sites were Jose, Javier, Alejandro, Diego and Carlos who were local and seemed to have more familiarity with the site.
(3d view through the design intervention, site and the existing hill that was to be developed as a open space for the surrounding neighbourhoods)
(housing with productive landscape and other collective resources)
But inspite of an un-win, it was good fun! and I hope we win something soon in the next few competitions that we are presently participating...
(a low res composite of all the 3 A0 panels submitted for the competition)
Our site was located in Spain, at Elda a small town known for its shoe making industry. You can find the design brief here. We didn't win the competition, most of the winners for Spanish sites were Jose, Javier, Alejandro, Diego and Carlos who were local and seemed to have more familiarity with the site.
(3d view through the design intervention, site and the existing hill that was to be developed as a open space for the surrounding neighbourhoods)
(housing with productive landscape and other collective resources)
But inspite of an un-win, it was good fun! and I hope we win something soon in the next few competitions that we are presently participating...
Friday, April 17, 2009
Design Competitions
Years back when I was much younger than I am now, I had written about competitions as a tool that facilitates freedom from existing structure of our practise. This brief state of professional suspended animation that provides one flexibility to assume additions and subtractions to ways of the world, carries with it potential to discover, invent and conceptualise a new system of producing space (and by this I do not mean parametric modelling, but I do pray once in a while that someday if not an interesting form, all that scripting may atleast result in a virus capable of bringing down the system). Hoping that possibly within these heterotopias of the design practise (design competitions), professional deviants and hopeless design romantics might discover the Holy Grail of Design of Space I plan to take part in two upcoming International competitions. Lets see if we can have the Susan Boyle effect as well!
Friday, November 18, 2005
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Competitions…
I remember Paul talking about competitions during (Vardha competition) as how they ‘activate thought processes’ and ‘generate’ lot of ‘+ve energy’ in college. When I was working with Shantanu, (during Kharghar competition) he talked about how competitions are the only way of entering mainstream practice for new firms; monopolized by builders and just too many architects out there to take away any project headed your way. During the Banganga competition we as a group had great fun designing the building and continue to do so (and at the same time get jolts of insecurities of some big shot architect pulling a “marine drive” on us).
I think these architectural competitions allow a certain democracy within the system for everyone interested to voice their opinions at the least. Then winning, getting selected etc. is a different matter all together. But what is most important is it allows you to express.
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