TA: Yogirajsinh GohilCrafting Spaces - Designing a Place for Instrument Makers
Indian crafts are skill-based, diverse, evolved through history and Indian classical music instruments are examples of fine crafting skills passed down to generations. Maker’s knowledge of Indian classical music, not only creates but fine-tunes and innovates instruments to meet the artist''s needs. The meticulous workmanship, sequence of making, and detailing of bringing different materials together to achieve flawless sound - is a small learning that could inspire the making of our built spaces.
The studio will focus on designing a Place for instrument makers. How the sequence of making an instrument can lead to generating a built environment. Students will study the process of instrument making to understand the sequence of actions, the nature of the activity and its demands, and the use of space to generate a built environment.
In craft craft-making process some areas require controlled environmental conditions whereas some areas demand flexibility for different uses, thus spatial variations are required in the process of making a built space. The studio will explore organizational and functional hierarchies, ergonomic considerations, transitional spaces, material- structural expressions, and volumetric variations. Students will work with multiple design iterations, sketching, diagrams, and quick models process to alter and achieve built language.
Studio Unit
Intial exercise to design a musical pavillion at Riverfont Ahmedabad.
The documentation of veena making in Thanjavur would involved comprehensive exploration of the traditional methods, materials, tools, and the cultural significance behind this craft.
Conceptual models developed through the understanding of the veena-making process would focus on capturing both the craftsmanship and the functional design elements.
