Tag: Krvia Academics

  • Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:

    Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:

    The thesis tries to establish the need to Retain, Repair, Reuse or Redevelop historic built forms by categorizing them into high-resilient and low-resilient zones to avoid the homogeneity of urban form in the historic native town of Mumbai.

  • Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio

    Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio

    When we discuss the housing in Indian context, one faces the complexity & multiplicity of issues that shapes the house and housing. Having said that, the housing policy and manifestation in contemporary time chooses to evade many of such complexities through uniform policy structure and creates a scenario of replicability and anywhere-ness.

  • KRVIA MASTERS THESIS 2020

    “The essence of Urbanity is that the different people can act together without the compulsion to be the same” Richard Sennett The thesis is an attempt to examine the relations among diverse processes and spatial forms that are constantly affecting & shaping our lives. In this context the urban research work allows a wider discussion and…

  • ENTREPRENEURIAL URBANISM

    “Cities often manifest, distilled and condensed activities experienced in sudden jerks and revelation. Such phenomenon often remains incomprehensible at large, especially for the academic purpose. The formal and informal market streets across the city of Mumbai are examples of such phenomenon characterized by sudden splurge of activities juxtaposed in sharp contrast to its surrounding context.…

  • KRVIA Masters + BreUCom (Erasmus+ program) | Urban Resilience

    Quality of life is an idea that is often being discussed in various studies as a response to many issues and complexities that have recently emerged within our cities in the process of transformation. Along with that, the quality of life is also connected with the question of vulnerability and resilience. The city of Mumbai,…

  • KRVIA MASTERS THESIS 2019 – PEDAGOGIC TRAJECTORIES

    The masters thesis is about examination of either coordinated or unexplored coordinates of relation among various processes and spatial forms that are reproduced but not coherently articulated in urbanity at large. The political mobilization, economic transformation, ecological vulnerabilities, historic core and socio-cultural formation are some of the area of investigation as they are central to the…

  • FORM BASED CODES: HOUSING THESIS 2019

    As Amos Rappoport (1969) suggested, ” if provision of shelter is the passive function of the house, then its positive purpose is the creation of an environment best suited to the way of life of people as social unit of space” It brings about the fundamental questions on what finally decides the form of dwelling…

  • KRVIA MASTERS: LOCAL AREA PLAN: 2018

    SEMESTER III STUDIO  (URBAN DESIGN + URBAN CONSERVATION) The new paradigm called for planning practice to be “bottom up” and “people centred”, and not relies on economists, engineers and statisticians alone. The significance of anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of cultural studies and grassroots activists who were closer to people were brought within the folds of this…

  • KRVIA BRIDGE STUDIO IX: HALL OF NATION | NEW DELHI

    QUESTION OF BRIDGE STUDIOThe bridge studio is a space where the intellectual formalisation of practice begins to configure with the academic space or academic space begins to interact with practice domain. The practice domain is generally perceived as other side of academics with handful information of practical imperatives & awareness towards making of architecture that…

  • KRVIA MASTERS THESIS: 2018

    How cities treat its natural reserves & ecology, how its cultural phenomena re-invents or reproduces its own city or how cities social conditions is a product of reciprocal influences, can there be an Urban Form that investigates the phenomena or addresses the issues?. The cities are place and phenomena of structured complexity and sometimes it…

  • KRVIA Masters Studio: Local Area Planning: 2017

    In continuation of last year post on local area plan in Mumbai at various location, ranging from historic core, transportation corridor, indigenous villages and peripheries, the current year explores the communicative action based studio in Kalyan – Dombivali Municipal Corporation limit (KDMC). The studio explores the sites that are being challenged by rapid transformation and development. The…

  • DECODING EVERYDAY

    The KRVIA masters thesis presented by Shalaka on “Representing Third place ” brings about the argument of representation of every day. The thesis argued that the Cartesian system of mapping and representing manages to engrave the rational and logical framework of functioning of cities. In such endeavor of representation, it often misses out the everyday component of the urban…

  • KRVIA MASTERS STUDIO: HOUSING AND WATER SYSTEM IN KOLKATA

    The KRVIA Master’s studio continued its academic exploration into various kind of housing systems and its typological formation in different geographical landscape. The Daman explored the housing through the settlement pattern of indigenous community and its development into an Industrial town. The Jodhpur housing studio explored the idea of topography, network of history & heritage,  and existing water bodies. The…

  • KRVIA – SPA 2016

    The exchange workshop (Masters Semester I) moved from its earlier mono-directional transformation through new transportation corridor to multi-directional transformation through new ring road metro. The new ring road metro collides with existing rail corridor and existing radial metro lines. The attempt of the workshop was to expand and reinforce the existing network and imagine the…

  • KRVIA MASTERS: SEM I- STUDIO: 2015

    The cities are accumulation of unexpected events and details, the diverse and unseen imagery, and the complex listing of objects, people, resulting into fascinating tactile & visual properties, continually creating unforeseen pleasures. This complex events and imagery transcend the time and morph itself into a surreal city, representing the collapse of reversible phenomena. The collapsible…

  • KRVIA MASTERS: MARCH 2015

  • KRVIA MASTERS: OCTOBER 2015

  • SPA-KRVIA 2015

    The SPA-KRVIA 2015 joint workshop, like last previous years,  it continued to explore the newly built metro transit route of Badarpur to Kashmere Gate. The workshop (Across Metropolis) along with mapping and projecting transnational trajectories, it also began to define the characteristic of each nodes and possibilities of large urban intervention that reinforces the local ethos. Incidentally each node…

  • KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS – 2015

    The graduating seventh batch thesis defense oscillated through various thoughts on urbanism. The range and responses are becoming wider and far open ended than predecessor. The idea of conservation is challenged with its limited framework and attempting it to be far more democratic in value appreciation. The queries were raised if conservation value system needs…

  • MASTER’S SEM-I : STUDIO-2014

    MAPPING:READING:REPRESENTING TANGIBLE / INTANGIBLE / EXPERIENTIAL / TEMPORAL The studio i for the Masters in Urban Design and Urban Conservation introduces the students to ideas of mapping, reading & representation in the city. The mapping & representing is a construct of event through various methods of reading. The reading of event or narratives brings out…

  • KRVIA + SPA: 2014 (MASTERS EXCHANGE)

    In continuation & expansion of previous year workshop theme, the KRVIA+SPA workshop for Masters Sem: I, began with the mapping and suggestive guidelines of metro line:1, i:e Rithala – Dilshad Garden route. The group of 40 students divided in 10 subgroups began to examine the various station locations along the metro route.  This year workshops…

  • KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2013 BATCH

    One of the characteristics distinguishing Urban from architecture (A) is that of having long exalted the condition of individual to collective, singular to plural, intuitive to rationale, exclusion to inclusion, control to freedom, object to civility etc.. Inhabiting, as a notion, implies sense of belonging to a “concrete” place, region, identifiable as such, and decipherable…

  • MASTER SEM: II STUDIO-DMIC

    The current semester II explored the housing studio as housing typological formation, its delivery system and responses to the various regional and environmental conditions which shall be affected by Delhi- Mumbai industrial corridor. The initial group study of Jaipur and Vidyadhar nagar explored the various geographical aspect that connects the urban form as large and as a result…

  • KRVIA: FOURTH YEAR JURY

    The fourth year jury was refreshing from the point of view of change of scale of projects. It enables to comprehend the contextual complexity,  micro-urbanism & resultant architecture. After reviewing the 10 presentation it was perhahps clear that architecture can not be afforded to get relegated to an object anymore. The distinction between regional and modern are always at conflict somehow.…

  • KRVIA MASTER’S THESIS-2012 BATCH

    The master thesis work was presented to the external jury on 3rd December 2013. The overall work appears to be slightly notch above its predecessor. Especially the research work has set the fresh standard and quality of representation has improved. The thesis work by Anuja, Shikha, Purva, Rutuja are noteworthy from the point of view…

  • KRVIA MASTERS: SEM:I- KOLHAPUR CITY

    MASTERS STUDIO:I The studio project of mapping and representation began with the understanding of city through the lens of various pattern. The pattern were generated through the initial survey and various past experiences of the city. The generic patterns were: occupation, tourism, administration, neighborhood  natural resources etc. The groups were organized based on the generic pattern and precinct…

  • KRVIA MASTERS: SEM III- STUDIO: DENSITIES & AMENITIES: FIRST SESSION ENGAGED BY CHARLES CORREA

  • KRVIA MASTERS: SHIMLA HOUSING PROJECT: FINAL JURY 2013-Photographs: Credit: Krvia Masters

  • IUDI- SPA BHOPAL 2013

    IUDI: 2013: VENUE: SPA BHOPAL   PARTICIPANT: KRVIA- SPA DELHI- CEPT- SPA BHOPAL The IUDI thesis symposium is beginning to shape into a serious platform to share the research and discuss the theoretical questions in Indian context. The participants have clearly demonstrated that the regional questions are important in theorizing urban research. The four institutes…

  • KRVIA-THU EXCHANGE WORKSHOP

    KRVIA- TUNG HAI UNIVERSITY (TAIWAN) MASTER’S EXCHANGE WORKSHOP EXTRACT FROM PROF SIMON INTRODUCTION: “The aim of this space syntax workshop is to equip postgraduate and/or senior undergraduate students with a well integrated analytical and planning design methodology to first deal with a complicated urban/rural system to diagnose and to tease out existing urban/rural development issues and secondly…

  • ARCHITECTURE AS AN OBJECT

    Krvia has positioned itself to set locus of inquiry within the realm of social and cultural studies that shapes the architecture, which in turns allow us to expand the architectural value system. The theme of Object of Architecture and Architecture of Object is an ongoing attempt to theorize the decoding and coding system that operates…

  • Krvia Masters Jury: Sem I

    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…

  • KRVIA-SPA: MASTER’S EXCHANGE

       After sketchy initiation KRVIA (Mumbai)-SPA (Delhi) began to shape up this year & incidentally for both the years. The exposure to domestic exchange program has distinct advantage even though it has comparable/similar cultural envelop. It is because of different geographical situation & perhaps different metaphors that city exercise on us. The approaches of both…

  • MASTER THESIS: 2012

    2012 Master’s thesis was a one stride up of its precedence by virtue of its urban concerns and representation. The intent has been varied significantly but everyone remained subservient to the methodology that frequelty has been emphasized. Thesis topic varied by intention on: – TOPOGRAPHY & URBANISM – MOVEMENT SYSTEM & URBANISM – TRANSFORMATION OF…

  • NANDED HOUSING SEM: II.

    NANDED HOUSING STUDIO; SEM II The studio was a collaborative exercise between resident communities and KRVIA. The RESULT was seen as a process of interaction between these slum dwellers and the Nanded Municipal Corporation. Thus at various stages in the studio there was planned to have interaction between these agencies.   The first part of…

  • IUDI 2012: SPA DELHI

    IUDI: 2012. The first day began with the Urban Design Thesis presentation from all six institutes. The nature of projects varied as far as context concerned but the quality of inquiry remained fairly uniform throughout. The nature of intervention always remained suspended or left ambiguous. The discussion resulted into larger domain of Urban Design i:…

  • KRVIA + STUDIO X

    STUDIO-X: ERSICE. As part of Rosa Cerveras studio came to Mumbai where studio X organized a review of the work they have done on Mumbai under theme of “Recycle Mumbai”. The Columbia workshop exhibition got extended into the new interactive session with students from Spain. The KRVIA Masters students got to meet them and talk…

  • IUDI: THESIS SEMINAR:2010:

    The IUDI seminar on thesis at Ahemdabad brings about several issues related to the discipline of Urban Design that are central to debate all the time. The very nature of design domain activity is appeared to be relegated to secondary in most of the cases. The first session on place making/imageability had two cases hinging…

  • IUDI, COLLOQIUM: 2009

    The formation of IUDI is much awaiting formations, awaited for many years. Although it its formation has to wait for even IID organization, that was really surprising. The formation of IID has given rise to many events if not for cause definitely for strengthening bourgeois & gentrified culture practice. The one day conference was well…

  • KRVIA ANNUAL-2008

    The annual event on house & housing was partly successful, since it gave chance to each faculty to speak on related issues. However the failure was perhaps on part of defining the limitation or scope of the topic, since KRVIA being design school. The majority of presentation were hinging on idea at policy level which…