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GENEALOGY OF INSTITUTIONS
We as a class had to study the genealogy of police stations, to understand how and what police stations were in the context of India, we had traced them back as early as the year 1855 and latest as 2025. In that tracing back of the police station, we learnt about its evolution, history of occupancy and the typology as well. Different plpaces in India, featured a different kind of police station and in a different era as well. Highlighting the fact that this kind of an institution was influenced heavily by the context and the aspect of time.
We were also questioning, what is an institution ? Throughout the course, which would later help us in our design processes
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The following button contains a webpage of the study that we did as a class, whilst tracing the genealogy.
I was working with the arguement of - Police Station as a Neighbour police stations tend to be alienated from the surrounding context, even if the physical build language of it is similar to the buildings in its proximity, i wanted to work with de alienating the police station, and making it a part of the lives of the people not only working in the police station, but also the people living around that institution.
The following button opens a webpage which contains my design project and process.
SOUTH ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
The course aims to develop conceptualizations of architecture in the South Asian region by discussing the problems with present historiographies of South Asian Architecture and Urbanism and developing conceptual categories through which a new critical understanding may be formulated.
Concepts learnt :
Pre-colonial spatial imaginations, Colonial Imaginations, Modernity, Critical Regionalism, Affordances, Difference, Gendering.
I was working with the question - " How does community and culture shape life ?". I started with studying the kind of life and architecture in a village located in Kutchh. Using the frameworks learnt from that research i studied an architectural project : CBD Belapur Housing by Charles Correa.
The following button contains my research work for the same.