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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.

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Construction trends
Adaptive , Building , Cities , Environment , Livability , Restoration , Sustainability , Vision

Construction trends that need to go!

While much of the construction we see today is driven by trends in materials or aesthetics, it is high time we recognise that sustainability is the non-negotiable need of the hour. Sustainable architecture is about minimal possible intervention and maximum conservation of energy, about doing mor ...

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Social Inclusivity
Adaptive , Building , Built Environment , Cities , Environment , Livability , Morphology , Sustainability

Social Inclusivity : Pushing the Envelope of Sustainable Architecture

By Morphogenesis

Currently, 55% of the global population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050, compounding problems such as housing shortage, traffic congestion, and pollution, and impact the quality of life of citizens. 

The built environment affects its surroundings and the people who inhabit it. Sustainable archite ...

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Sustainabilty
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 ...

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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 ...
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Ecogradia
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 ...
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outdoor office pin
Adaptive , Biophilia , Built Environment , Corporate , Environment , Landscape , Sustainability , Workplace

Outdoor Offices | A Post Pandemic Solution For Workplaces

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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 ...
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Monograph Morphogenesis
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 ...
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Environment , Sustainability

Part 2: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph Sustainability Essay

By Team Morphogenesis
We bring you the second 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. “Sustainability: defined as the ability to endure in local conditions and thrive in its lifecycle, the projects that are planned at the architecture firm are maintainable in their individual ecosystem ...
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Building , Climate , Environment , Sustainability

Part 1: Extract from the Morphogenesis Monograph Introduction Essay

By Team Morphogenesis
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 records our work through that journey. In the midst of a paradigm change in the nascent libe ...
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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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