TA: Sidharth ManojSpatial Fabulations. Constructing and Communicating imaginationFocus: Visualizing and Communicating
To ‘fabulate’ is to narrate invented, nonconventional or speculated stories of Architecture — to tell fables of life tomorrow, proposing realistic solutions for living in diverse scenarios. Requiring an enthusiastic radical hand, and a curious eye, this unit revolves around imagining and communicating a future living habitat while adopting and breathing new life into an empty historic backdrop. The studio will identify a civic building as a locus; one envisages a forthcoming speculative scenario woven around extreme natural catastrophe. This shall encourage one to rethink dwelling typologies that are able to sustain human habitation. Strategically, working through a sequential process of investigation and intervention, one will explore and establish multi-scalar relationships - designing an intimate dwelling while integrating into the larger site surrounding.One will engage with manual and digital skills to aid visual narration for effective conception and presentation of spatial ideas. This journey will enable one to rethink traditional tools and processes to design and undertake one’s own experiments to render vividly depict a speculated scenario and a new collective living habitat.Enabling radical thinking, exploration of space making with response to context and self-explanatory representation; the outcome will be a non conventional future living, within a reinvented historic backdrop
