Suhana Shaikh

HR4000

This research uses Michael Cadwell's concept of "strange details" to analyze Ram Sharma's IGRMS Staff Housing in Bhopal, revealing how seemingly ordinary government housing becomes a site of heightened architectural awareness. Through drawing as investigative methodology, I explore how Sharma's persistent use of frames—projecting window surrounds, perforated terrace walls, and calibrated viewing apertures—operates in the productive tension between construction necessity and architectural expression. These frames aren't decorative afterthoughts but integral to the building's tectonic logic, transforming everyday institutional architecture into a spatial manifesto that challenges conventional relationships between structure, form, and perception.