Divyakant Bharatbhai Maisuria

AR3016

While as architects we believe that endless possibilities for design lie in the pursuit of the new, creation of novel things is not the only creativity. The sensibility that allows one to discover the unknown, the mythologized or the paradoxical in the familiar is equally creative. Creativity involves the imaginative examination of what we take for granted; an examination that must deal with the specificity  of context and the intangibles of making, and how to make these relevant to the design process and the way we think about architecture.
Through this approach, the studio serves as a provocation for curiosity and by the extension, a provocation to cultivate an engagement and empathy with our context. A care for what exists and what could exist, rather than what should.
Through the discovery of questions regarding what a gymnasium(akhada) is rather than what it should look like i produced a version of social infrastructure in the city through intervention on the site that extends critical discourse on the constituents of an environment for wellness.
Situated by the Asarva Lake in Ahmadabad, the studio seeks opportunities in overlapping agendas within ecological, programmatic, spatial and tectonic considerations in relation to therapeutic spaces that ritualize the practice of hygiene and notion of wellness, providing an environment that is both sensual and social to generate relevant questions that will catalyze the design process through the studio.