The dune pavilion is an amalgamation of vernacular and technocratic design methodologies. Built upon the theoretical framework of discrete, the pavilion is a show case of how digital fabrication can enhance traditional materials and design solutions to produce new and exciting architectural artifacts. While the pavilion is designed for Paliase el Badi, Marakech, Morocco it can be reconfigured to inhabit multiple locations with similar climatic conditions. The pavilion attempts to produce a multi-sensory enclave. To experience a space is to belong to it and be part of the space occupied even as the space belongs to the observer. An observer experiences and anchors the self in the spatial dimension through its auditory, olfactory, haptic and ocular senses, The dune pavilion is our attempt to activate these experiences. The hollow modules insulate and produce whistling music as the wind rushes by, Simultaneously the cloud machine drenches the terracotta leaving behind a sweet smell of rain and cooling the internal space.

LITH is composed of a user owned system, that manages a spatial-sharing platform and a localized automated fdm printing farm, funded by the local council, Utilized to generate a kit-of-part of printed form-works, which can be assembled and cast to produce an intentional community Where spaces and utilities which are being underutilized, Can be shared as studios with the local artistic community.

Architecture is primarily concerned with design of habitable spaces, these spaces can vary from built to open, from solitary rooms to large cities. It is influenced by forces such as utility, structure and aesthetic. To some extent, it seems, buildings can be used to influence individuals. Society at large can be influenced through design of houses, institutions and ideal communities.

One is then drawn to contemplate about spaces which fundamentally contradict the idea of positive influence of architecture on behavior, as architects we must strive towards basic human standards for all; even those condemned to be unfit for society. In confined environments such as prisons, one often feels the environment is hostile and renders any possibilities of reform void. The plan and the symbolic forms with which buildings of incarceration are invested, are certainly of interest. The prison can be seen by society as an instrument of social policy and thus the ability to change its typology may impact social policies.

Contemporary urbanism faces some of the hardest challenges of providing safe and habitable public and private spaces for it occupants. Urbanism struggles to cope up with the exponential increase in demographics, Analogous to an arthropod which grows too fast and too big for its exoskeleton. India has the second highest population in the world. A large part of this population resides in high-density urban centers which struggle to provide an amiable socio-cultural and economic environment with this ever-increasing population size. New Delhi, the capital is one of the densest urban centers of the world, it faces acute shortage of area as a resource and finds it increasingly hard to provide habitats for its inhabiting population. Designers of the past had tried to solve the issues by covering the land with built which in-turn had resulted in lack of green-open-public spaces.

Architecture needs to be rooted in its physical and social context for its potential to be realized fully. Architecture renders an erstwhile landscape shrouded in mist to be oriented by introducing new structures, the following project was an exploration of architecture’s ability to orient as an extension of the landscape. As a composition it is composed of superimposed horizontal membranes analogous to the epidermis. The design yearns to be a prosthetic to the steep topography, a second skin, a replication of the earth below which has been eroded away to give way to habitable spaces. A clone of the surface floats above the spaces, the surface shattered to let light slip through the cracks to enlighten the spaces within.An architecture school should be a place to discover, inspire and debate ideas.

The pavilion includes multiple functions but its primary function is to serve as an extension of the land into the river. The Ghat is understood as the transitory space between the clean and the unclean, the pure and the impure, the pious and the sacrilegious.

The triangulated design is inspired from the movement of a solid-body through a fluid membrane. The central structure  conceptualized as the body and the steps envisioned as the waves in its wake caused by its movement through an imaginary space. The spaces beside the main structure serves as changing rooms and a canteen for those who come to take a dip in the cool waters of river Yamuna.The central axis forms the deck which can be used for public gatherings .The spaces below are accessible from either side of the deck and can be used to host events. The space is protected via extended high walls on either side. The space is submerged during monsoon and one can experience the light play on the interior space as it passes through flowing water.

A digital experimentation of discrete assembly of a primitive megalithic structure.

A social housing project, for three hundred and fifty families at Narela, New Delhi. The design explores how architecture can impact social structure and instil within the users a sense of equality and plurality. It builds upon a corridor system with a void stack system that is arranged around a winding corridor which ensures cohesion and connectivity and forms sub-communities at each level. it also provides view to the central open space ensuring safety and  aesthetical  appreciation of the space. Split levels increase the efficiency of the staircase in a corridor system without compromising its functionality and connectivity.

The lighthouse was conceived as a monument to the right to freedom of privacy and against institutional surveillance.If the Panopticon stands for the power symbol and power struggle between the observer and the observed, the concept of the anti-Panopticon, an institutional construct that would stand against psychological oppression would stand for power stabilization and right to privacy for the ones being observed.

The library on the cliff edge is a conceptual town library, embodying the physical experience of reading.

The extent of human vanity is best expressed in climbing the world’s highest peak to gloat over man’s ability to overcome natural obstacles.And at what cost?Tonnes of garbage lies adjacent to frozen corpses, and with no one to discard either. Sherpas risk their lives retrieving the waste, unpaid for their efforts. Any further intervention facilitating human contact would be mere fuel to an already escalating problem, and the solution must be a decisive one. To this end, all future expeditions to the summit have been stopped to begin the process of ecological restoration. The only activity the Everest would now see is the mechanized effort of C.A.M.P 01 and its kin, an army of garbage collecting automatons that will gradually rid the mountain of any sign of human intervention, oxygen bottles to tents. The automatons are localized to a base camp where they are docked, and the garbage is stored only to be disposed of using appropriate methods eventually. Each automaton will be equipped with a video camera that transmits a live worldwide feed of garbage collection- a slow, laborious, incessant process that is in sharp contrast to instantaneity of littering- to show the world the steady rejuvenation of the local ecology. In the coming years as the task gets complete, C.A.M.P 01 and it’s pod would be programmed to leave the site forever- to leave the Mount Everest in a condition as though untouched by human civilization, unblemished and pristine, with the mountain itself acting as a memorial to environmental sanctity, and to the progress the human mind has made in coexisting with its surroundings.

Increasingly Urbanized fabric of Indian Cities face challenges of providing rapid affordable housing solution for its growing population. We propose 001+1bits a kit of parts of CLT modules which can be assembled to produce various housing units by exploiting the structural functionality of CLT. A universal mass-producible CLT based assembly system allows for sustainable growth of cities which can respond to the specific requirements of accommodation based on climatic and environmental constraints. Rapid assembly and aggregation-based system are possible entirely due to the weight to strength ratio of CLT. The 001+1 bits is a design and construction system which utilizes self-similar CLT panels of varying scales capable of generating complex structure through relatively simple assemblage. The system is analogous to a set of Legos, where each panel share geometric constraints and joint conditions.