Adaptive , Biophilia , Built Environment , Environment , Jaali , Landscape , Light , Livability , Sustainability How can we design sustainable buildings across different scales and contexts? By Morphogenesis 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. At Morphogenesis, we consciously attempt to undertake projects across India’s di ...
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 ...
Built Environment , Climate , Environment , Identity , Livability , Research , Sustainability Manit and Sonali Rastogi in Conversation With Dr Nirmal Kishnani | Ecogradia By Morphogenesis An Architecture of Almost Somewhere Founding Partners Manit and Sonali Rastogi recently chatted with Dr Nirmal Kishnani, host and editor-in-chief of Ecogradia (Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction), a global platform on sustainable architecture and urbanism. The talk traces Manit and Sonali’s upbringing and influence ...
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 ...
Built Environment , Climate , Environment , Institutional Spatial Optimisation in an Institutional Setting By Rahat Varma Over the last decade, the world we live in has gotten increasingly smaller and more connected, as countries and communities get more transparent and accessible, its implications on the nature of work and hence the workplace are rapidly evolving. New workspaces need to have a far greater emphasis on collaboration and interdependence, so that the users may productively and effectively connect. Morphogenesis continually evolve ...
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 ...
Built Environment , Research Phenomenon of Experiential Space By Shruti Gupta “Like the spider with its web, so every subject weaves relationship between itself and particular properties of objects; the many strands are then woven together and finally form the basis of the subject’s very existence.” -- Jakob von Uexkull Man tends to weave relationships with his surroundings; he grasps vital relations to bring order into his world, adapting physiologica ...
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 ...
Building , Built Environment , Climate , Corporate Building Information Modeling: Revit By Munazza Akhtar with Rahat Varma Morphogenesis is going digital in a flash BIM is about taking the tools and workflows that people have been using and changing them to be a more transparent and collaborative, resulting in making the work process much easier. Understanding the benefits, Morphogenesis set out to implement BIM and adopted the Autodesk Re ...