7 were stuck in customs clearing.
Safe to assume that eighty-ninety odd designs would be competing.
This is thesis studio all over again
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Uttiya Bhattacharya
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Uttiya Bhattacharya
+91.98100.11593
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Number of entries - Intel Report
About 67 entries had come in by late evening last. six more were in the parking lot.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
methodology sheet insert if possible
A design process that is not sequestered, neither jealous nor protective of its products, but is passionate and promiscuous, and ever young, growing and changing. A rich and varying collaborative experience with a prototype end result. With interaction, altercation, compromise, innovation, selection and mutation - open source is quite natural.
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The best things in life are Open Source
“The best things in life are Open Source”- Ancient Greek saying
Random ideas for Methodology sheet
1) The best things in life are Open Source.
2) Land, water, air, nature, sun, ideas, interaction, inspiration, public realm
3) SketchUp, Lego, Spatial analysis software J, Skype, Blogger.
4) People of various backgrounds, age, specialization and affliations connecting across space and time and continuously editing the past, present and future…
...my life morphs into someone words into someone’s mind into someone’s hand into someone’s life.
Thank you.
Fwd:
News from the trenches...
Uttiya Bhattacharya
+91-98100-11593
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printing and pasting process
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From: mail.ub.ae@gmail.com
Date: 29/04/2009 20:55
News from the trenches...
Uttiya Bhattacharya
+91-98100-11593
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Act II, Scene II
Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast
Love Letter
They seem to be serious this time.
The latter was addresses to 'M/S Stage-3' (not Spage-3) and was delivered by a posh courier so as to reach in time.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
sorry :)
colour inversion has added a layer of pathos to my attempt at the big ideogram in the Integrated SPA sheet. lets just say i had an idea, it didn't work. i post this in the hope that it may be of some use or indication of the basic idea to whoever makes the ideogram in the end.
sayonara
Open spaces in the campus will make our vision come alive.
Now they’re assembling an installation for Convocation Day in a clearing by the auditorium. Others are nailing down a stage for the next Spandan production, balanced cleverly at the edge of the water. Still others are watching them while reading on the steps into the canyon. Sometimes a class and its teacher spill out into a courtyard session, where electives on industrial design melt into philosophy. A meeting with her dissertation guide carries into informal counselling session in the dell by the workshops. On the library terrace a PHD fellow sympathises with them after their absolutely terrible crit, and then takes them across to the campus centre for a samosa. Looks like it’s a demonstration day – 10 year olds stand agape at the foot of the wind turbine, learning how the wheels of the School of Planning and Architecture turn and turn about and turn again and make the school live forever.
rest of the report
(chapter 2)
Self-sustaining SPA – a comprehensive ecological strategy
(had formatting issues, so this is waiting in your inboxes)
(chapter 3)
Open Source Urbanism – a design process for shared city making
We propose that the new SPA campus at Vasant Kunj is created through Open Source Urbanism. We define Open Source Urbanism as a means of bringing about constructive and agile change to the urban built environment of the city of Delhi via the site by evolving the School engaging the stakeholders in a continuous process of development.
Open Source is a design process used by software programmers, where the basic, or ‘source’ code for a programme is freely available to users to edit and reuse on their own, and then to feed back into the public sphere. In this way, improvements to software programmes are made rapidly and by a multitude of different types of users, in a process called ‘decentralised peer review’.
The idea of open sourcing the urban design process stems from our understanding that city-making should essentially be a democratic process. Decision makers at all levels, such as developers, architects, planners and administrators should represent the views of the myriad stakeholders of each urban design decision. Stakeholders such as end users, interest groups (e.g. residents associations, bird watching clubs) as well as organisations with an area of responsibility pertaining to a site, need to be engaged throughout the design process. The process of making people aware of their surroundings, their own strength and finally their own skills to be able to make choices is what development is all about. The key is to prevent stakeholder engagement from being a burden on the designer’s programme of work, or on the client’s budget. To address this, Open Source Urbanism is a means of breaking away from a conflict driven model of developer vs. activist, or school vs. student. This process aims to bring stakeholders around the same table and to agree priorities and to move forward together. The Delhi of the DDA Sealing Drive, or the agitation around Commonwealth Games planning, would welcome a lesson in a new form of urbanism from its premier institution for the built environment professions.
An open source urban design process anticipates the need for resilience within urban design, and reserves very few rights to the content of the design. It allows stakeholders to take the core content of the design, and to morph it according to their needs, choices and priorities, at various different levels, to come up with multiple creative design solutions, true at its core to the original, but bespoke to each situation.
The content of an open source design is also open to borrowing and replication by other agencies. The strength of the core design is determined and increased through iterations developed by as many designers in as many different sites and situations as possible. In practice this means publishing the ‘source code’ or the core design framework, and providing instructions on how to implement it. Through Open Source Urbanism, the new SPA campus can be a model of urban development to other institutions and even other types of developments, thereby spreading the institution’s influence wide beyond the borders of its campus.
(Chapter 4)
Source Code
(as before)
(Panels)
Self-sustaining SPA – a comprehensive ecological strategy
(had formatting issues, so this is waiting in your inboxes)
(chapter 3)
Open Source Urbanism – a design process for shared city making
We propose that the new SPA campus at Vasant Kunj is created through Open Source Urbanism. We define Open Source Urbanism as a means of bringing about constructive and agile change to the urban built environment of the city of Delhi via the site by evolving the School engaging the stakeholders in a continuous process of development.
Open Source is a design process used by software programmers, where the basic, or ‘source’ code for a programme is freely available to users to edit and reuse on their own, and then to feed back into the public sphere. In this way, improvements to software programmes are made rapidly and by a multitude of different types of users, in a process called ‘decentralised peer review’.
The idea of open sourcing the urban design process stems from our understanding that city-making should essentially be a democratic process. Decision makers at all levels, such as developers, architects, planners and administrators should represent the views of the myriad stakeholders of each urban design decision. Stakeholders such as end users, interest groups (e.g. residents associations, bird watching clubs) as well as organisations with an area of responsibility pertaining to a site, need to be engaged throughout the design process. The process of making people aware of their surroundings, their own strength and finally their own skills to be able to make choices is what development is all about. The key is to prevent stakeholder engagement from being a burden on the designer’s programme of work, or on the client’s budget. To address this, Open Source Urbanism is a means of breaking away from a conflict driven model of developer vs. activist, or school vs. student. This process aims to bring stakeholders around the same table and to agree priorities and to move forward together. The Delhi of the DDA Sealing Drive, or the agitation around Commonwealth Games planning, would welcome a lesson in a new form of urbanism from its premier institution for the built environment professions.
An open source urban design process anticipates the need for resilience within urban design, and reserves very few rights to the content of the design. It allows stakeholders to take the core content of the design, and to morph it according to their needs, choices and priorities, at various different levels, to come up with multiple creative design solutions, true at its core to the original, but bespoke to each situation.
The content of an open source design is also open to borrowing and replication by other agencies. The strength of the core design is determined and increased through iterations developed by as many designers in as many different sites and situations as possible. In practice this means publishing the ‘source code’ or the core design framework, and providing instructions on how to implement it. Through Open Source Urbanism, the new SPA campus can be a model of urban development to other institutions and even other types of developments, thereby spreading the institution’s influence wide beyond the borders of its campus.
(Chapter 4)
Source Code
(as before)
(Panels)
Open Source SPA - our vision
(chapter 1)
There’s a strange rumour on the south wind; a new movement stirs on the ridge, a new vision uncurls, runs away with itself, is captured, is edited, is snuffed out, is copied, is transferred, is corrupted, is subverted, and is made and remade and morphed and transmogrified, and an institution is instituted. On the skirts of a suburb in south Delhi, where the villages meet a city meets an ancient forest, a new movement in an old institution makes for an Open Source Urbanism. New legends rise here from the corridor and fall to the canyon; new heroes and villains play frisbee on the bridge, the baoli and the balcony. The monsoons change the shape of the land every season, a reminder of the might of nature, always present, like mythology. Here new stories are scripted, acted out, scratched out, dug up and rewritten, first term, second term, next term and next year. New memories are dreamed. An SPA where every student, every visitor, every teacher and every peon, can write a new scene into a colourful panorama. Where brats from a slum instruct on tensile structures, where engineers go to tap dance, and just yesterday some first years claimed a studio by painting it red.
The new SPA campus of our vision is a rich and varied experience for anyone and everyone who comes in contact with it. A premier world-facing institution of learning, deeply rooted in an Indian context. An institution which is strengthened by the interlacing of different technical disciplines within it. An institution that is reinforced by outside influences. It offers captivating glimpses of its unique inner life, and draws outsiders warmly in. it reaches out and shares the goods and knowledge produced here everyday with experts and novices, academics and tradespersons, clients and labourers alike. an institution that defines and embodies an ideal relationship between the built environment professions and the wider community, for whom these professions are practiced.
There’s a strange rumour on the south wind; a new movement stirs on the ridge, a new vision uncurls, runs away with itself, is captured, is edited, is snuffed out, is copied, is transferred, is corrupted, is subverted, and is made and remade and morphed and transmogrified, and an institution is instituted. On the skirts of a suburb in south Delhi, where the villages meet a city meets an ancient forest, a new movement in an old institution makes for an Open Source Urbanism. New legends rise here from the corridor and fall to the canyon; new heroes and villains play frisbee on the bridge, the baoli and the balcony. The monsoons change the shape of the land every season, a reminder of the might of nature, always present, like mythology. Here new stories are scripted, acted out, scratched out, dug up and rewritten, first term, second term, next term and next year. New memories are dreamed. An SPA where every student, every visitor, every teacher and every peon, can write a new scene into a colourful panorama. Where brats from a slum instruct on tensile structures, where engineers go to tap dance, and just yesterday some first years claimed a studio by painting it red.
The new SPA campus of our vision is a rich and varied experience for anyone and everyone who comes in contact with it. A premier world-facing institution of learning, deeply rooted in an Indian context. An institution which is strengthened by the interlacing of different technical disciplines within it. An institution that is reinforced by outside influences. It offers captivating glimpses of its unique inner life, and draws outsiders warmly in. it reaches out and shares the goods and knowledge produced here everyday with experts and novices, academics and tradespersons, clients and labourers alike. an institution that defines and embodies an ideal relationship between the built environment professions and the wider community, for whom these professions are practiced.
Source Code: Urban design framework for new SPA campus, Vasant Kunj
report chapter 3 in your inboxes.
was trying to post here, but it wants to make me format the whole thing again!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
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