Faculty – Prof. Kartik Shukla, Prof Paritosh Kumar, Prof. Digisha Mehta, Prof. Mili
Space and shaping of space:
Space is a concept central to the field of architecture. We as architects design these spaces to be habitable by the living beings. We design these voids with specific desired qualities to make them comfortable for the living beings to use them or adapt them for various activities.
Therefore the entire first year studio focused on understanding this concept of space, volume of required minimum and comfortable space and spatial qualities
The first year studio was distributed into a series of 4 major exercises that were framed with an aim of developing a basic understanding of a Human being and its space requirement ( Anthropometry ); developing an understanding of the concept of space and its various parameters or characteristics and understanding the idea of varying requirements of space and its qualities when a group of human beings come together i.e. The idea of the personal volumetric space vs the comfortable and appropriate social volumetric space when a group of human beings come together. The final exercise of ‘Design of a hang-out space’ explored the application of learning from all the previous exercises.
