Batch 2024-2029
Studies of Form as Object, Meaning and History
Studies of Form, Space and Experience
Studies of Form as Pattern, Geometry and Material
Computational and Digital Methods to produce form and space
Architecture as Building Systems
Type in a Cluster (Behaviour, Meaning and Experience)
Genealogy of Institutions
Community Dynamics and Infrastructural Forms
Building Making and Management
Mass Inhabitation
Thesis
- Dissertation
Wetness
Wetness here becomes a defining force, very closely integrated in the terrain, vegetation, human activity and spatial experience across all four sites.
In the salt pans, seasonal rise and fall of water submerges the grids, seep into shallow patches, and saturates the soil, influencing plant growth, paths, and gathering areas, guiding the design of spaces. Here it becomes a space that can filter, hold, and release water. Around the pond, human movement adapts to changing wetness. Shaping natural paths, resting points, and informal gathering spots, inspiring forms that respond to the activity cohesive with the changing moisture. On the basalt cliffs, monsoon streams, spurts, and pools shift across stepped slopes, cliff edges, and boulders, creating depth, stillness, and temporary ecosystems. These flows inform the structures' form, volume, and sensory qualities.Along the coast, tides, pools, and saline wetness mediate soil, vegetation, and microclimate, influencing sunlight, wind, and human interaction, while reflecting and storing water as an active part of experience
Across all sites, wetness becomes a unifying design driver, its movement, accumulation, and stillness shapes the landscapes and structures alike. Creating responses that celebrate, and coexist with water and its shifting rhythms.
Om Dalal
Kris Almeida
Dipraj Pagar
Tarun Jain
Gayatri Patil
Leisha Patkar