STUDY TRIPS
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VISITS UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM AT KRVIA
TO MAP CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS THROUGH SPECIFIC FRAMEWORKS
Shillong​
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Meghalaya
Measure drawing
Group credits: Shraddha Jadhav, Pooja Bhave
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The documentation involved walking in the city to discover houses and buildings. We came across church complex, which comprised of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Brookside Adventist Higher Secondary School and a dilapidated Church House. The church was presented for service since 1941. The church building houses a pre-school on the floor below which was initially a part of the church quarters. Primarily made in ikrah construction, the school below was reconstructed in RCC.
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The church house present in the church complex belonged to the foremost Pastor of the church. It was constructed around the same time as the Adventist Church. Constructed out of timber frame entirely and clad with wooden and ikrah panels, this house is now deserted and is being partially demolished in order to extend the existing school building in the same campus.
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Mysore​
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Karnataka
Urban systems study
Group credits: Riddhesh Ghadi, Ipshita Karmakar, Manali Patil, Krupa Shah, Abhaya Kadam
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This study was divided into several major systems, like transport, governance, water, markets, culture, food, etc. that help run an urban city. As a group, we looked at the various components of the food systems in Mysore. The mapping resulted in looking at various "plates" of food that were consumed in the city (yes, it meant eating lots of the said food), trying to find and interview people its sourced from, visiting places of production and processing and ultimately looking at the waste treatment. As a study, we tried looking at the various kinds of food available in the city, and the sustainability of procuring and eating the same, taking into consideration "food miles" and land use in cultivating the produce. We found certain sources of food in the city, while others were found through secondary data.
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​It was quite an exhilarating experience to investigate from table to farm, as it were. The food was absolutely delicious, and no matter where we went, our questions were answered with a kind of gentile demeanour that took me back to RK Narayan's Malgudi Days, as did the first mouthful of a luscious mysore pak, dripping with hot ghee at Guru Sweets. It was also the first time I saw a waste treatment facility and oxidation tanks fro sewage production , set in a rather beautiful location. It became the site for an architectural project that took the learnings from this study further.
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Pedhe Parshuram​
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Maharashtra
That was the short or long of the Shillong trip
Village settlemnt study
Group credits: Revati Shah, Saniya Desai, Vishrut Itchhaporia, Dhwani Kamdar, Yesha Shah
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My first first study trip into architectural college was in a village called Pedhe Parshuram in Chiplun, where we were pretty clueless about our mapping exercise. We tried understanding people, their lifestyles, their activities through lots of interviews. When it came to mapping those narratives, we tried planes, sections, axonometrics of these spaces, trying to draw what all we saw. It was confusing, and the result wasn't that great, but it's a good reminder of what complex intellectual barriers and a lack of drawing skill can do. It was a beautiful place, we walked down and around in the part of the village that was assigned to our group with different people, who all had many stories to share. Most houses had a compound and a house situated in the middle of corner, with space to store firewood, grow some vegetables, or keep tools and instruments.
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We were trying to draw using our eye as a tool, no measure drawings were to be done. Elevations were drawing using bricks and humans as relative scales, perspectives and vignettes of their life were sketched, furniture or details were drawn that seemed to be important to their architecture.
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