Latest News

Architect and interiors India

12th July 2023: Architect and Interiors India | Surat Dia ...

Morphogenesis’ project, The Surat Diamond Bourse gets published on Architect and Interiors India.

FOAID 2023

7th July 2023: FOAID Ahmedabad | Surat Diamond Bourse

Sonali Rastogi has been invited as a speaker on the topic ‘Surat Diamond Bourse: Behind the design of the World’s Largest Office Building’ at FOAID 2023, Ahmedabad Edition on 7th July 2023.

SPA Bhopal

6th July 2023: School of Planning & Architecture, Bh ...

Sonali Rastogi delivered a virtual lecture at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Bhopal, focusing on Contemporary Architecture.

WAF 2023

4th July 2023: WAF, 2023 Shortlisted- Completed Office Bu ...

The Surat Diamond Bourse has been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival 2023 in Completed Office Buildings category.

m.blog

Tags

close

Sustainabilty

Adaptive , Biophilia , Built Environment , Environment , Jaali , Landscape , Light , Livability , Sustainability

How can we design sustainable buildings across different scales and contexts?

Sustainable design can reduce a building's energy consumption by up to 80%. However, sustainable design strategies should respond to the context— they should balance the site's unique geography and weather conditions with functional and budgetary restrictions.

Sustainable Architecture

Biophilia , Built Environment , Climate , Environment , Landscape , Livability , Sustainability

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

By Morphogenesis

Sustainability and architecture are part of a symbiotic system; they are not two different entities. In a world that is battling global crises like climate change and environmental degradation, buildings, by far, are one of the biggest consumers of energy. With the increased significance of building sensitively, there is no need to develop a new, futur ...

outdoor office pin

Adaptive , Biophilia , Built Environment , Corporate , Environment , Landscape , Sustainability , Workplace

Outdoor Offices | A Post Pandemic Solution For Workplaces

By

The world has witnessed one of the gravest challenges of the century in the form of the global pandemic. The crisis, with its own set of difficulties, taught us to adapt to a new way of living, working, and socializing. It has also provided us with food-for-thought and forced us to re-look at the way we design our workspaces and homes. As the Indian economy opened up and employees returned to their workplaces, organizations ...

Japanese Style of Landscape 2

Biophilia , Landscape

Japanese Style of Landscape- Part 2

By Aakanksha Mehta

The art of gardening is an important part of Japanese culture when it comes to landscaping, as discussed in Part 1. The garden design is strongly connected to the philosophical, historical and cultural aspect of the country.[1] Gardens in Japan are of two distinct types, one which are experienced by walking through them and othe ...

Japanese Style of Landscape

Biophilia , Environment , Landscape , Livability

Japanese Style of Landscape

By Aakanksha Mehta

While picturesque English gardens with tea houses and pavilions and ‘eye catcher’ French Gardens have become more popular with Western World as discussed in the previous blogs, most folks also devote all or part of their backyards to this style of landscaping. Japanese gardens are traditional gardens that create miniature idealized landscapes, often in a highly abstract and stylized way.[1] These garden ...

Cancer Hospital

Biophilia , Built Environment , Facade , Light

Cancer Day Care Centre

By Rahat Varma

Morphogenesis takes on the design of a Multispecialty health care centre, under its corporate social responsibility initiative. This centre is located in the Pan Bazaar, Guwahati and is being set up by a group of doctors to address the high incidence of cancer in the North Eastern region of the country. According to a report by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 2013, the incidence of cancer is highest in this region of ...

Urban Motelling

Biophilia , Environment , Landscape

Urban Motelling

By Rahat Varma

Back in 2010, when New Delhi was all set to host the Commonwealth Games, the central government chose to respond to the city’s shortage of hotel room accommodation by employing the ‘Urban Motelling Policy’. The policy stated that those with farmland in Delhi on a main road could build a hotel, however regulations were put in place to ensure that very little volume could be built on this land so that these farmlands could ...

French Gardens

Biophilia , Landscape , Uniformity

Jardin à la Française

By Aakanksha Mehta

Andre le Notre, the greatest French garden and landscape designer. Andre Le Notre followed his father as head gardener at the Jardin des Tuilleries in Paris and also studied fine art in Paris. The designer also enjoyed a warm relationship with his patron Louis XIV. Both were men of taste with a passion for gardens and architecture. The baroque style of garden design, which they brought to a crescendo, became widely influential ...