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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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Screened spaces

Mediatized Environments
Eshan Pradhan, 2019


Over the last three decades, the increasing presence of the internet and screen devices have taken over our everyday lives. This phenomenon has silently altered the physical nature of our built environments. Within this domain, the aspect of leisure and recreation that was primarily related to physical activity and consumption of “green” environment has obliquely diverged into the interior. By studying specific cases mapping this transition, one aims to understand the implicit disposition of this change.

The thesis focuses on the morphing typology of the photocopying center in the urban environment that evolved into the gaming parlours. The architectural nature of such parlours shapes the banal interiors of work spaces and emerge into new recreational forms within the city. The increase in virtuality has led to compaction of space and in turn an amalgamation of different programs in a single space, generating a new form of typology. I will also be looking at how space is configured for the virtual realm.

The work indicates that while the screens have taken over the everyday realm of work and leisure, its architectural expression is still largely unsettled. This remains as a great opportunity for architects to mould the screened spaces into more interesting spalities.




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