Shafali Bava Thandanaparambil

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Buildings crafts: the studio focussed on the crafts and their community, understanding their strengths, weakness and enabling designers to new opportunities for the survival of these vital communities. 1. Understanding traditional crafts of Ahmedabad 2. understanding traditional built environments3. traditional craftsmen’s profile and process 4. crafts collaboration
 History and theory: the studio introduced a different way of understanding history, to question it and postulate theories on based facts and reasoning. This was divided into two parts 1. Historical Mapping 2. Research paper on Indian history and its building environment 
Computational design: to achieve a double curved surface through material exploration and computational design tools