Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Fun with Photoshop
when one gets bored with all those drawings what can bring smile to your face .....yup its colouring ..one of my lazy days work !
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
study report - Village settlement pattern - Rajasansi village
Few years back in college we did a study on village pattern of a border ( INDIA-PAK) village in north INDIA . The name of the village is RAJASANSI and it got few specimen of old sikh architecture buildings . We studied the pattern of settlement of the village and how it has changed over the last 200 years . Few of the old structures are in ruines . Hope they survive another century ....
Sustainable Real Estate Development in India Starts to Gain Momentum
Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj Paper Evaluates Emerging Trends and Adoption of Sustainable Practices in India
Taking action on India’s environmental crisis is no longer an option – it is a necessity. Sustainable real estate presents India with an unique and enormous opportunity to make concrete progress in the country’s effort to improve its environment. In a recent research report titled ‘Sustainable Real Estate Development in India’, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj highlights the increasing trend of sustainable development in India. There is greater consciousness towards the environmental crisis in India with terms such as sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and triple bottom reporting becoming more common in the real estate industry. The report also details the best practices and processes that owners and occupiers can adopt to reduce the environmental impact of their real estate assets and at the same time, gain from substantial ROI (Return on Investment) from their ‘green’ initiatives.
The ‘Sustainable Real Estate Development in India’ report points out that despite the ever rising construction activity, awareness of sustainability in India has significantly lagged behind countries in the West. Nevertheless with the growing importance of environmentalism in India, the Indian commercial sector has begun to make conscious efforts towards creating sustainable real estate. With support from the Indian government, almost 40 construction projects that are currently underway are registered with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED is soon emerging as the preferred rating system as it is flexible enough to be applied to a diverse variety of markets and also because it enjoys the greatest recognition of the various international rating systems. This recognition is especially important when one considers that a prime motivator for developers to create a certified sustainable building is to differentiate their project from competition. The government has introduced several schemes to encourage sustainability such as the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) schemes for subsidising capital for installation of solar water heaters, encouragement of energy audits and management schemes, mandatory use of fly ash-based construction material, groundwater and rain water harvesting and most importantly increased monitoring of air and water pollution.
Taking action on India’s environmental crisis is no longer an option – it is a necessity. Sustainable real estate presents India with an unique and enormous opportunity to make concrete progress in the country’s effort to improve its environment. In a recent research report titled ‘Sustainable Real Estate Development in India’, Jones Lang LaSalle Meghraj highlights the increasing trend of sustainable development in India. There is greater consciousness towards the environmental crisis in India with terms such as sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and triple bottom reporting becoming more common in the real estate industry. The report also details the best practices and processes that owners and occupiers can adopt to reduce the environmental impact of their real estate assets and at the same time, gain from substantial ROI (Return on Investment) from their ‘green’ initiatives.
The ‘Sustainable Real Estate Development in India’ report points out that despite the ever rising construction activity, awareness of sustainability in India has significantly lagged behind countries in the West. Nevertheless with the growing importance of environmentalism in India, the Indian commercial sector has begun to make conscious efforts towards creating sustainable real estate. With support from the Indian government, almost 40 construction projects that are currently underway are registered with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED is soon emerging as the preferred rating system as it is flexible enough to be applied to a diverse variety of markets and also because it enjoys the greatest recognition of the various international rating systems. This recognition is especially important when one considers that a prime motivator for developers to create a certified sustainable building is to differentiate their project from competition. The government has introduced several schemes to encourage sustainability such as the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) schemes for subsidising capital for installation of solar water heaters, encouragement of energy audits and management schemes, mandatory use of fly ash-based construction material, groundwater and rain water harvesting and most importantly increased monitoring of air and water pollution.
Monday, February 18, 2008
The green building revolution by jerry yuldelson
Thanks jerry for a such a wonderfull book with the right information . I really cherished reading it .
Michelangelo writes....
THE LOVER AND THE SCULPTOR
The best of artist hath no thought to show
which the rough stone in its superfluous shell
doth not include; to break the marble spell
is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK
How can that be , lady,which all men learn
by long experience? shapes that seem alive,
wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive
their maker, whom the years to dust return!
BEAUTY AND THE ARTIST
Beauteous art, brought with us from heaven,
will conquer nature; so divine a power
belongs to him who strives with every nerve.
If I was made for art, from childhood given
a prey for burning beauty to devour ,
I blame the mistress I was born to serve.
From THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY by IRVING STONE
The best of artist hath no thought to show
which the rough stone in its superfluous shell
doth not include; to break the marble spell
is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
THE ARTIST AND HIS WORK
How can that be , lady,which all men learn
by long experience? shapes that seem alive,
wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive
their maker, whom the years to dust return!
BEAUTY AND THE ARTIST
Beauteous art, brought with us from heaven,
will conquer nature; so divine a power
belongs to him who strives with every nerve.
If I was made for art, from childhood given
a prey for burning beauty to devour ,
I blame the mistress I was born to serve.
From THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY by IRVING STONE
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
concrete wall projects
via BD online
story by will hunter
Concrete is too often used in predictable forms, but there’s nothing routine about Alan Chandler’s Wall One or Gramazio & Kohler’s Perforated Wall
It is perhaps concrete’s rectilinear familiarity, coupled with its ability to fit almost any formwork, that has prompted architecture schools to find new ways to interpret the material.
The two examples here have taken strikingly different approaches. Alan Chandler and his students at East London University wanted to see if they could merge the design process with the construction process. They found they could respond to the fabric formwork’s unpredictability, intuitively placing “buttons” as pouring progressed.
Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, who teach at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, were more interested in how digital modelling and production techniques could be used to make a wall read as a 3D experience rather than as a 2D surface.
Project- Wall One
Project Perforated Wall
story by will hunter
Concrete is too often used in predictable forms, but there’s nothing routine about Alan Chandler’s Wall One or Gramazio & Kohler’s Perforated Wall
It is perhaps concrete’s rectilinear familiarity, coupled with its ability to fit almost any formwork, that has prompted architecture schools to find new ways to interpret the material.
The two examples here have taken strikingly different approaches. Alan Chandler and his students at East London University wanted to see if they could merge the design process with the construction process. They found they could respond to the fabric formwork’s unpredictability, intuitively placing “buttons” as pouring progressed.
Architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, who teach at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, were more interested in how digital modelling and production techniques could be used to make a wall read as a 3D experience rather than as a 2D surface.
Project- Wall One
Project Perforated Wall
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