1. A Dark Rhapsody:

Our journey through South India introduced us to a language of building that is completely characteristic of its people, their nature of living and the environment. The tectonics of the architecture was inextricable from culture, narratives, life and living.

This book on Traditional Architecture of South Indian focuses on the rationale, the proportions, the light, the shade, the texture and experience of materiality rather than the details of embellishments measured to the exactitude of construction. The method of study, documentation and representation allows one to sensually experience the craft and skill at use and learn from it without needing to replicate it.

2. Project Boject:

The research aims to study the idea of dismantling a building with a view to recycle all its materials in a newer manifestation, so as to retain a sense of its memory. The premise of the project lies in challenging the explosive trend of wiping away buildings along with the collective memories of generations of inhabitants in various areas across the city, only to be replaced by orthogonal projections derived from mere administrative regulations.

Looking at these precincts with an introspective lens and suggesting the preservation of not just the building but a sense of place; thus aiming to reinvent our methods of construction and build with the existing material palette. Buildings thus reincarnate themselves to fit within the context of changing times, yet retain the soul and spirit of the building that was.

3. Nari gandhi Documentation:

Nari Gandhi constantly tried to achieve integrity between composition of spaces and material tectonics. He could envision his designs without the aid of drawings. His designs evolved as the work progressed on the site. Despite his unconventional methods, his clients trusted him and gave him freedom to experiment.

This is the documentation project of The Kishore Bajaj Farmhouse in Karjat, designed by Nari Gandhi. The scope of documentation work is limited to the habitable spaces and does not include the work done post Nari Gandhi’s demise.The documentation was carried out using on-site measurements and photographs and has been presented in the form of computer aided two dimensional and three dimensional drawings.

4. Visions and Divisions- The Banganga Experiments:

Banganga is sacred tank surrounded by 100 year old temples and modern skyscrapers, a place in which activities change throughout the day and a range of people from the homeless to Brahmins visit on a daily basis.

This study does not aim to be an all-encompassing archive of the various elements of Banganga, however it does attempt to tap into the experiential value of Indian urban design to understand and reveal how spaces, at times seemingly undesigned, render a place in which an experience can be used to script architecture; an architecture driven by sensations, sights, and sounds.

5. Train Corridor:

Some people study others by decrypting their reaction in extreme situations. The train is the extreme space - minimal, standardized, and in motion. An empty shell of steel as the perfect sample for architecture, why not? Bodies interpret the volume in an unconscious act that does not need analysis.

Transit is ignored in India, and its space-time utilized for what it is, for what it can give for the time being. The focus is here on passenger trains, as a direct feature of the relation between cities and people. On space constraint and its impact, the illustrations given here – documented from observations in situ - are a reference given to understand more about those samples of encapsulated spaces.

SIRCLE: proposes to invite professionals and experts to conduct, guide and direct research projects, programmes, not merely of archival significance alone, but even that which maybe of direct relevance to the practise itself; an inter-practise research, post-operative studies and impacts of design interventions and ideas.

These could be in the areas of product and material studies, design, architectural theory, landscape and urban design, both as new theories and proposal or experiments.