The project locates itself on an abandoned Open Air Theatre which was last in use about a few decades ago. The agenda was to activate an otherwise tranquil setting and also replenish this open air theatre. This project questions/highlights the very many architectural notions of a pavilion through its various episodes of time and public.
01. Discussion on the Key Themes of the studio
[Output] Mind-maps
(1 of 3 shown here)
02. Keywords by Raymond Williams to KEY_ELEMENTS by Rem Koolhaas - where the architectural element becomes an object through Time and Space, implicated by multiple histories of economics and culture, passing through many meanings.
[Output] Study Charts
(1 of 3 sheets from 2 of 5 topics shown here)
Other topics chosen :
- Facades : Media Modern Semiotics - Text and Light
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03.Creating a visual repository of data which will become a reference point for the design project. A set of 7 buildings were studied
[Output] 3 pairs of flashcards (Text + Visual) x 7 buildings.
04. A list of activity-events that mark the neighborhood - spaces of temporality, undefined yet marked out space articulations, history-bound activities, the cycle-recycle nature of a neighborhood was developed
[Output] Mark them out in the neighborhood and draw out as a mapping exercise 5-7 of them.05. Developing my 'World of Time' from references around me (home, memory, dream, neighborhood)
06. A proposed Method and Accumulating Walks over a period of time.
(1 of 3 shown here)
07. Locating 'Time' Specifically in Objects, Markings, Elements in the Neighborhood.
[Output for all]
Fold-Out/ Accordion Books of Visuals (Illustrations / Photographs / Collages) ordered in a sequence of "thought-images"
08. Three RED FOLLIES that mark activities and locations in the Neighbourhood and respond to the neighbourhood at the microscopic level, yet mapping a larger geography between 3 locations.
[Output] designed objects, presented as drawings, collages, and illustrations09. Keywords by Raymond Williams to KEY_ELEMENTS by Rem Koolhaas - where the architectural element becomes an object through Time and Space, implicated by multiple histories of economics and culture, passing through many meanings.
BALCONY as the THRESHOLD between home and neighbourhood, liminal moments between private and public, self and public.
[Output] Study Charts06. Poster 01 ; Taking from the neighborhood - The Double Façade is a characteristic feature observed in the neighborhood ; Louvres have been used in the building as a reflection of the Jaali in these layered facades.
Mind Map - Understanding the Program, Key Ideas and the Site
Poster 02 ; Locating the Site - Understanding the context 09. 10.
