Riya Kohli

AR2013

Making Living Places

Based on the ideas proposed by Christopher Alexander in his book "Nature of Order", the studio focusses on making life enhancing places. The first part of the studio involved smaller exercises that had verbal and visual descriptions of places and identifying and explaining 'wholeness', while the second part of the studio consisted of a design problem the enhance the dead edges of a lake.


Report Content

Photographs evoking emotions

Line drawings evoking emotions

Verbal descriptions

Identifying place of most belonging: Plan

Identifying place of most belonging: Sections

Identifying 15 fundamental properties

Vision

Process Models

Plans and Sections of the intervention

Elevation