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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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Living in an Industry

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Shreyash Bharmal, 2025


This thesis begins with the question: How does an industrial environment shape the spatiality of its surrounding neighborhood? Using Wagle Industrial Estate in Thane as a case, the research explores the spatial, social, and temporal entanglements between industrial activity and residential life at their shared thresholds.

Through field mapping, temporal documentation, pedestrian-movement observation, and semi-structured interviews with workshop owners and workers, the study examines how the presence of small-scale manufacturing influences street life, public space, and everyday use patterns. Initial assumptions of a stark industrial-residential separation dissolve on site; instead, the edge condition emerges as a continuous zone of negotiation where work, living, and social routines converge.

The observations reveal that workshops frequently extend beyond their built envelopes, occupying footpaths and street edges for fabrication, storage, pause, and social exchange. Residents simultaneously use these same zones for movement, interaction, and domestic routines. These overlaps shift with time of day, work cycles, and material flows, producing environments that oscillate between production space, pedestrian corridor, and social node. The coexistence is neither chaotic nor merely informal; it operates through tacit agreements, shared rhythms, and incremental adaptations developed by those who inhabit and work here.

Through different spatial cases the study demonstrates that the industrial environment does not simply impose itself on the neighborhood. Rather, space is continuously redefined through mutual negotiation between production needs and everyday life. This moves the inquiry from influence to co-making: the industrial and residential are not separate conditions, but co-produced spatial ecologies shaped by use, necessity, and shared urban agency.

The book argues for an architectural understanding that recognizes these adaptive, temporal, and negotiated practices, offering insights for designing within hybrid, interdependent work–living urban landscapes, where formal planning boundaries give way to lived spatial intelligence.




Read also under ‘Memory and Belonging’:


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Spatialities of everyday heritage



Memory and Belonging
Aashika Vijaykar, 2020

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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home


Memory and Belonging
Aditi Bhandari, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort


Memory and Belonging
Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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Architecture and memory: remembering home in involuntary dislocation

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


Memory and Belonging
Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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