KRVIA Masters: SEM I.
STUDIO JURY
The idea of mapping
& reading is synonym to sensing or comprehending the events but in
cartographic manner. The reading of city through the cartographer lens is
always a challenge. The Baroda studio exercise through its layered history
brought out the complex dynamics of legal system, institutional system and
retail system & strange domesticity that merges with the rest of the city.
The stretch of over two kilometer had all the complexity that is a pre
condition to the introduction of studio assignments. The shifts from
architectural thinking to urban thinking take its own time in reaction and
delineation. The studio task was appeared to have received with excitements and
energy. The body of documentation and representation has attained some level of
competence. The composition of jury made the session even more complex as each
of them had his/her area of emphasize. The issues emphasized were ranging from
understanding of pattern vs. Resources
as a planner or relationships beyond the building as an urban designer or
vision & imagination as architectonic icons.
The urbanism is perhaps
mediating the blurring boundaries of all the discipline hence it is often the
role that one assumes more that role that one ought to be. I am very sure that
it has brought out tremendous confusions about the nature of role that one need
to obey, but it shall perhaps unfold itself in course of time. The idea of
heritage walk was step ahead as compare to the predecessor. The conservation student
approach was noteworthy.
At this juncture I am
convinced that it’s the nature of urban theory course that shall aid the urban
thinking and studio should become laboratory with catalyst of theory. May be it’s
a time to relook at the assignment in order to examine or articulating the nature
of data that we collect, the information that is deduced and the knowledge that
imparts.
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