“Wow! Is this how I designed it?” said the photographer without blinking his widely open eyes. It was him who had conceptualised the long window during his architectural internship.A large-small home. ‘I wore a yellow dress to match the floor colour !” said the client, as she walked out of the bedroom; we found her
The ARK Fitness Studio is designed to club wellness with pleasure. Planned within concrete walls with a single glass frontage on the upper floors, the space calls out through its modern and minimalist design elements. The design intended to create an environment to motivate individuals to work on themselves and provide a support infrastructure to
A girl studying in a government school in rural Tamil Nadu died a sudden death without any known cause. During the postmortem, they found tiny deposits of fecal matter in between her tissue particles and in her blood. She would delay answering nature’s call as both her house and the school she studied in, didn’t’t
Like the springing of a large tree from a small seed, I see this journey of discovery of water-sources and re-discovery of the bond between humans and geography, geology and technology as springing from a child’s heart. Ar.Yeshwanth Ramammurty Sir, through his adventures with this work, has rightly as a mentor does, demonstrated through action
The piano Tuners of India December 31, 2023 About six years ago, one fine morning there was a knock at our office door. There was a girl who had walked in to our office. She was very humble, soft-spoken but had a very strong determination about what she wanted to be. And after about one
Born and brought up in Kaliyapuram – a small village at the foothills of the western ghats closer to Topslip in Tamilnadu, a little boy spent most of his childhood with his grandparents in a small hut on their farm. The water that was produced from the Sarkarvari hydroelectric project passed through their field. Most
‘It is difficult to remember Doshi with any sadness. He had such a wonderful sense of life. Two months ago before Doshi died, Doshi would invite me to his place and both of them would sit in the garden. Though he was very weak, we would spend about half an hour in the garden.
One day I remember, a leaf fell from the tree ..and as it was falling, it was twirling…and fell on the grass..And Doshi said something, very very unexpected..’Can we sense, what the leaf might have been feeling about the two of us sitting here? What might be the leaf’s perception of us? And that ability to transport himself into other beings was something that helped him absorb life and make his architecture such that, it could take place in such vigour, but it also allowed him to make institutions like CEPT.’
In 2016, I was in a crucial decision making phase and I happened to share it with a friend.She suggested that I meet someone she knows, who probably can sympathies with my situation. Later she shared her contact that night. It was only two letters, TS. In a hurry and in the midst of the
Every year, through the Cuckoo Movement for Children, we are giving ‘Mugam Virudhu’ to the witnesses who have done their best in social activities. Accordingly, the ‘Mugam Virudhu’ for the year 2022 is presented to Mr.Anburaj, for his dedication to the fundamental rights of the tribal(indigenous) people and the welfare of the prisoners through various
“You learn a lot when you’re barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.” – Michael Franti, musician. The intention of environmentally conscious architecture and construction is for the process and the product to be as close to nature as possible like in any realm of life. Living in earthen structures requires
