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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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Affordances of temporal spatiality

Urban Religiosities
Siddhant Gupta, 2023


During festive events, the spaces transform as cultural, religious, and community-specific practices take over. It creates a social space where people come together, share identities, promote inclusivity, and encourage cooperation. The design of festival infrastructure is profoundly influenced by the inherent characteristics and functional aspects of different building typologies, shaping the spatial experience, functionality, and cultural significance of festivals and events. Different residential building typologies with their varied spatialities provide for different affordances during the festive events. The architectural built form, scale, and density influence the spatiality, and behavior of the inhabitants.
The thesis focuses on the residential typologies and the enactment of the Ganesh festival in these typologies. The study focuses on the city’s urbanism as it does with this singular festival. The study is limited to the experience of smaller domestic idols that people choose to welcome into their homes, on their residential floors, within the society compound, in the in-between spaces of the built form, etc.

To delve deeper into the affordances of the typology during festive events, three different residential typologies are compared. The case studies undertaken for the research are Bungalow, Chawl, and Highrise situated in the dense neighborhood of Girgaon. The research methods used to investigate are visual and participatory observations and interviews to engage with the study.
An overall concern is how the celebration and its spatial outcomes may be utilized. The research concludes by identifying that the temporal affordances of the festive events become a means to comprehend, legitimize, and transform the city’s urbanism. Should these annual recurrences of the festive events lead to a specific urban, cultural, and inclusive built form? In other words, the “looseness” that the festival produces has a more “fixed” understanding of the public or common space.



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