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Manit and Sonali Rastogi in Conversation With Dr Nirmal Kishnani | Ecogradia

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 sustainabl ...

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

Outdoor Offices | A Post Pandemic Solution For Workplaces

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Climate , Environment , Heritage , Jaali , Landscape , Masterplanning , Research , Sustainability

The Morphogenesis Monograph

By Team Morphogenesis

Morphogenesis: The Indian Perspective, The Global Context

Part of the Master Architect Series

Morphogenesis: The Indian Perspective, The Global Context is a monograph that commemorates the 20-year journey of Morphogenesis, which becomes the first Indian practice to feature in Images’ ...

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 ...

Institutional , Jaali , Sustainability

Freshly Pressed: The British School

By Rahat Varma

Just finished last week we bring to you The British School, New Delhi. Morphogenesis’ design vision for this school, found inspiration in the school’s tagline- ‘An International education with an Indian soul’. With this project, we set out to provide a strong cultural context to the international format of education this institution provides. The principal challenge was to construct the new building on the existing sit ...

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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