Facade , Institutional , Morphology , Sustainability Part 3: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph | The Pearl Academy, Jaipur By Team Morphogenesis We bring you the third 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. Institutional: Pearl Academy “Looking at the project through the lens of sustainable architecture, passive features lend themselves to the identity of Pearl. This project in Jaipur is geared towards creating an envir ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...