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National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar - Thesis

The architectural thesis is the final design project of the five year curriculum which has to be taken
individually by each student. I was interested in the architecture of institutions and took up the task of
re-designing the Post-graduate campus of the National Institute of Design at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

The architecture of an institution provides context to the education imparted there. This thesis is an
attempt to take a closer look at what the residence of the foremost design school in the country could
be. The National Institute of Design (NID) is internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost multi-
disciplinary institutions in the field of design education and research.

Broad challenges undertaken in this thesis are:

1. The design of an open and free learning environment which inspires creative thinking.
2. To design a campus which is in tune with the primary objective of the institution i.e. to provide
interdisciplinary and progressive knowledge of design but with a focussed understanding of an area of
specialization.
3. Growth is an inevitable factor in every institution in a country like ours. There must be scope for
inclusive growth of the institution in the future.
4. Keeping in view the explosive rise in energy consumption across the globe and its radical effects, the
institution must be an example of low energy sustainable development.

Site Analysis
 Program Analysis

Design Development
Site Plan
Floor Plans
 Site Section

Model Pictures
 May 2011 Filed under academic, architecture, thesis

National Institute of Design,

Gandhinagar - Thesis 
The architectural thesis is the final design project
of the five year curriculum which has to be taken
individually by each student. I was interested in
the... Urban Design - Bhikaji Cama Place,

academic, architecture, thesis

New Delhi 
Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
As a group exercise of the final year design
Hyderabad 
studio, each group was given one district centre
in the city of Delhi, which had to be redesigned
according to the...
The design of the campus for TISS, Hyderabad is academic, architecture, urban design
the winning design in an invited national
competition. The guiding principles for the
development of the Master Plan...

professional, architecture, urban design

Low Cost Sustainable Housing

Prototype 
Strategic concerns for design of housing
provision systems: Enabling a sense of
citizenship and community. To provide an
experiential quality to the built...
research, architecture, housing
India Art Fair 2012 
The India Art Fair is the largest exhibition of
modern and contemporary art in India since its
inception in 2008. The first fair (called India Art
Summit then) was...

professional, exhibition design, set design

Paul's Party 
The Paul residence is a modern house built on a
large plot in Central Delhi. The lawns in the front
of the house were dotted with tree like
installations to form...

professional, set design, lighting

Lakmé Fashion Week - Summer

Resort 2012  Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week -
Spring Summer 2012 
The Lakmé Fashion Week Grand Finale in 2012
was special as it was held offsite in the sprawling The Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring
gardens of the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai. We used Summer happens during early October each year
the opportunity to ... inside the grand Hall 18 at Pragati Maidan, one of
the largest...
professional, fashion show, set design
professional, fashion show, set design
Gurgaon Service Jam 2013 
The Global Service Jam is a non-profit volunteer
activity organized by an informal network of
service design afficinados, who all share a
common passion for growing...

workshop, global service jam

 Architectural Photography 

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photography, architecture

 
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Photography 
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photography, travel