boundary

what i love about the first year projects, both architectural design and basic design, at krvia is the ambition of their intentions and the active engagement in the city. compositional and formal questions are raised firmly as responses to particular experiences that are analysed and represented. the architecture comes out of these observations. you find the architecture and you find the project. ‘scripting the project’ rupali called it in the last faculty meeting. i like the phrase.

yesterday was the last day of college and the final basic design jury. this time the students were asked to find a boundary in the juhu area to explore. the boundaries that emerged were not merely experiential but naturally those seeped in competing claims over space. boundaries were then emphasized, revealed, blurred. incredibly more difficult than the beach project from last year- and maybe therefore- not as much of a hit. but the questions were complicated and difficult and some of the work terrific. i especially loved the projected fragments of the markets in the av room. like a shattered city. and the chairs in the no-mans land that interacted daily with the users of the space and gradually changed form through the week. The art object and the subject in a dance.