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Designed as a comprehensive resource on spatial thinking, experimental pedagogy, and academic practices, this archive serves as a record for reference and critical analysis. 

More than a traditional institutional repository, it is envisioned as an "Archive of Ideas," structured to mirror the conceptual and intellectual framework of SEA. The platform captures specific engagements, explorations, and pedagogical reorientations, expressing the school's distinct set of practices constituted by its students and teachers. 

The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a  documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.


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Architecture of shaded spaces

Material and Phenomenon
Dirgh Kadakia, 2019


After a rigorous site study and analysis of the cases and the conditions of these cases, I have understood a lot related to the shade and its use in a vicinity. The cases of the vicinity had a different level of intensity in terms of the utility of shaded leftover spaces. As an architecture student we have studied the housing scenarios in different states of the country. The cases discussed in this book are one such and one of the scenarios. Here in this book the study talks about how shade and light quality influences and shapes the daily activities of the inhabitants of Ghodapdeo, Byculla East. With a base study of the works and writings of Architect Charles Correa and Louis Kahn, the inferences are laid which become the base for this research study. I understood how the lack of space inside the house, which leads to the increased dependance on the oustside space. I understood how shade and light together create experiences of spaces and how built form and its configuration influences the configuration of these shaded spaces. These influenced shaded spaces further shapes the space utility of the inhabitants. This experience and utility gives meaning to a space and hence derives a sense of utility.




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