Gazal Anil Nanwani

AD4004

Architecture, Authority and Female Gaze

The program is to design a Women’s Center for Congregation and Disport in a small suburban town of Saugor, in Central India, that becomes a place of both necessity and leisure for women – a symptomatic representation of their authority and aims to disrupt the notions of the ‘male authority’ as extended through the superlative ‘Male Gaze’. Architecture here emerges in response to the development of an arena for the female spectatorship via a visual and spatial structure- a binary cube, that enables the control over visibility extending into volumes that allow female gaze.


Report Content

Reading, Questionin, Interpreting an Architectural Response

Issue, Intent and Program

Operable Shading Device- Mechanism and Drawings

Modelling Experiments- Spanning and Bearing Systems

Accommodating Structure

Spanning and Bearing System Assembly

Plans And Sections

Wall Section and Elevation

Part Section and Details

Interior And Exterior Views- Vision for the Women's Center