Since there are a lot of already pre-existing homes facing my site. I would like to turn part of each home into an offering for this performance place. It could be someone’s stilt, another’s the rear lobby, someone’s cantilevered balcony and another’s plinth. I imagine this place to maintain its rustic feeling and one should feel the density of vegetation they are surrounded by. Taking … Continue reading Performance: What could a backyard park be ?
When one is asked to give form to what they are feeling inside, things get tricky. Although due to social conditioning and twenty years of being part of civilisation – some words and feelings begin to get associated with tastes, colours, shapes and sounds. As if everything is finding its characteristics to make itself more real. A feeling wanting to acquire full form or a … Continue reading A feeling to form: Part One
The idea was to build a place for performance not following the conventional behavior of being a proscenium. Having gone through the book ‘Beyond the Proscenium’, it was more clear as to what comprised a typical stage for a performance, that even the performers wanted to break out of. Continue reading Design Program
This blogs contains my ideas and concept of a place of performance on my chosen site which is a terrace of an IT park in Pune. Continue reading Performing on the terrace
My journey of the design process has been dynamic. The blogs has a mix of my high and lows with struggles and achievements in the process to make the final product. Continue reading Journey of the design process
The blog talks about the evolution of my relationship with my site. Continue reading A deepening relationship with my site
My site was within a Community Centre in Vikaspuri, New Delhi. Despite being situated in a public space accessible from all sides and significant amount of population present there at any given time, the space was a dead space and was not being used to it’s potential. Continue reading My design process…
The site I selected is situated within a Community Centre in Vikaspuri, New Delhi. It is a barren site with unique elements like benches and planters existing, in a poor condition. Continue reading My relationship with the site…
My design process comprised of trying many fragmented things and then tying the explorations of those fragments. Performances: From Gondhal, Bharud and Lavani (Tamasha) Gondhal I the only performance which still is weaved with traditions and everyday life of the people. Bharud and Lavani have taken the place in the stage performance. Even if there is no proscenium, a temporary stage is built for Bharud … Continue reading Design process
I imagine this place to be a practice hub for budding artists. This place is to be there for the young to get acquainted with different performing arts and if interested, be a part of it and explore. The site thus chosen was amidst the institutional area hoping the place would introduce young minds to the world of performing arts! The site already lures a … Continue reading The garden for performance
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