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28th Feb 2023: Morphed Traditions | Elle Décor

Morphogenesis project Zydus Corporate Park got featured in Elle Décor Feb-March 2023 issue.

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17th Feb 2023: Are Indian buildings safe and prepared to ...

Sonali pens an opinion-editorial for ET Infrastructure on ‘How the impact of a large-scale earthquake can be reduced and how safe are Indian buildings to withstand earthquakes?’

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13th Feb 2023: Sonali Rastogi-Manoeuvring her way to lead ...

Ar. Sonali Rastogi discusses the trajectory of gender representation in her journey as an architect and how she, along with her co-founder and partner, Manit Rastogi, went on to lead one of India's only gender-positive practices.

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13th Feb 2023: The Holcim Awards 2023 Jury

Ar. Manit Rastogi is going to chair the APAC jury for the Holcim Awards 2023, organized by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

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Building , Climate , Environment , Sustainability

Part 1: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph Introduction Essay

We bring you the first of a 14 part series of extract from the Morphogenesis Architecture Monograph, to give you a peek into the mindspace of one of India’s best recognized, sustainable design practices.  “It has been 20 years since the inception of Morphogenesis out of a home garage. This book re ...
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Morphogenesis at World Architecture Festival 2017 & Dubai Design Week 2017

By Team Morphogenesis
Our upcoming talks at two of the Architectural world’s premier global gatherings- Dubai Design Week on 15th Nov, 2017, and WAF in Berlin on 16th Nov, 2017. Almost a decade ago, we became India’s first practice to win a WAF award. The year was 2009, and the project Pearl Academy Jaipur, won an award for the Best Learning Building. Life comes full circle, and it’s significant in more wa ...
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Adaptive , Building , Climate , Environment , Exposure , Facade , Glare , Light , Livability , Morphology , Research , Sustainability , Vision , Workplace

PLEA 2017 Edinburgh: The Practice of Architecture in the Tropics

By Nitin Bansal, Manit Rastogi and Piya Gupta
 Integrated Design Approach Architecture in some of the densest cities in India (and the world) demands highly conscious spatial consumption with office design standards reaching efficiencies as low as 50sq.ft./person. Consequently, high internal gains and stress on available resources have led to innovative developments in the way these buildings need to be designed and built. Sustainable architecture mus ...
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Building , Corporate , Environment , Livability , Masterplanning

Maker Maxity, Mumbai

By Manit Rastogi
Maker Maxity is truly a microcosm of a Smart City – where Morphogenesis departed from a traditional Master Planning approach to one of Urban Design. The horizontal plane has been designed for walkability, and with a focus on public art & sculpture, both rare conditions in India today. The offices and other buildings integrate strongly with the landscape, through plazas and squares crafted as an integral part of the lands ...
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Building , Built Environment , Facade , Glare , Light , Morphology , Research , Sustainability

Maximizing Daylight in Office Spaces and Dealing with Glare

By Rahat Varma
The modern workplace is undergoing a paradigm shift of changes in usage patterns and longevity of working hours. We as architects and interior designers need to design space such that the users are more comfortably integrated with their physical surroundings at the workplace. A big contributing factor towards indoor comfort, are the lighting levels. Le Corbusier identified the significance of light in architecture best when he ...
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Building , Commercial , Corporate , Morphology , Sustainability

Vertical Architecture

By Rahat Varma
With the rapid increase of urban density in our cities and land being a major constraint there is a need to look out for solutions that allow our cities to expand and not implode. High rise is a response to the paucity of land, without a doubt, tall buildings and compact living may be directly related. As a design ideology the high rise typology of construction has often been seated centre stage at a number of architectural di ...
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#ConstructionUpdate: Shoring Technique

By Tanvangi Asthana
An interesting shoring technique which we got to work with, for a multi-storey office building in Noida. The soil type in Noida is loamy and construction site has high water table. Such a combination of soil type and high water table creates the possibility of collapse (cave-in) of trench walls at the time of excavation. Hence, the shoring technique has to be designed to retain earth, water and adjacent structures. The b ...
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