SOURCE B.V.

Doshi

YEAR 60 s

INFORMATION Supamar Parekh was involved in classes held for housewives. y Flower Decoration y Interior Design y Landscaping Short Term Improvement programs were held Eg. Dr. Vakil s Advanced School For Structural Engineering People outside the profession of architecture came and interacted with students y Municipal commissioners came for jurys y Mrinalini Sarabhai and Mallika Sarabhai took electives on dance appreciation y Niranjan Bhagat gave lectures on English literature Interactions with Institutions In the City y Theatre programs with NID and IIM y Natarani and Darpan Academy Music programmes providing a platform and helping the cultural scene of ahmedabad y Kumar Gandhar 1970 y Bhimsen Joshi y Kishori Amolkar 1972 Open Campus Informal discussions Exposure to the outside world Both gates were open Confluence of cross movement Lot of work in villages and three week studio in jaisalmer Outdoor studying Bernard Kohn s Initial Vision of the Sabarmati Project and the Sunday mkt. Exhibition. Vikram Sarabhai s Science Centre World Class sculptors and theatre artists used to come and interact with students Eg. Japanese sculptor Nisawu Nagochi International architects would come interact with students and even take studios and give lectures y Bucky Fuller y Charles K. y Kenneth Frampton y Warren C. Fuller y Paolo Soleri y Louis Khan y Max Burn y Leo Leoni Visits to different sites were very often

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Students were participators not observers The idea was for students to be self sustaining and self generating... How does one create experience.. All outreach programs always happen provided you are open to get involved and get absorbed... meetings with pan walas or slum people were usual Kartik Vohra (74) Akhtaas fought for school s involvement in outside world. The smaller of the two geodesic domes is made by cept students John C. Turner came to campus and together with some students organised shelters in slum areas Worked with Govt. Low cost Project Phase 1 Self Help Housing Provided platforms, Worked out a layout. Phase 2 4 Bamboos/sticks (Ballees) were provided to the people and guided on how they could make an efficient, low maintenance shelter for themselves. 1st semester was almost completely held in a zoo. Studios Lasted much longer Team 10 which was the ten best architects of the world all came one by one to CEPT and interacted with students in their studios. (remembers having to take Louis Kahn around in order to select trees for the landscaping of IIM) Bernard Kohn took very interactive studios that were held mostly outdoors. Outdoor Projects included y Building a site office y Faculty office was constructed by students in bamboo Many people local and international paid visits y Kanvinde from Delhi y Chicago School of architecture (remembers being awed by complicated drawings) y Charles Correa Low cost housing projects were being discussed during that time. Society was simple at that time... we did a lot of work... and helped each other out... We were taught very basic and fundamental things... we were like family Photo available of dome

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2008- Participatory Approach to studios... 11 Socially relevant and interactive with the local people as well as government officials. Jurys are also held at the location and locally elected officials are also part of the jury y Goa Studio Helping local bodies make their own plans in accordance with the 73rd and 74th amendments... Exploring its possibilities y Chennai Studio Metro Stations and their surroundings y Ujjain Studio Kumbh mela Cultural activity during Gandhi Centenary Came together with Darpan academy and set up a whole festival. Bernard Kohn was awarded the design for Community Sc. Centre He decided to hold a studio for it amongst his students in school ... Hamir Wadi won the competition and so it was built under the name of Vastu Shilp Foundation. Bernard Kohn also held studios in villages. Jayendra Bhatt and Kirtee Shah are the key people to contact. Dr. Vakil was involved in the Director s Forum And the Ahmedabad Citizen s Initiative Morby floods 1970 s onwards students were involved in rehabilitation projects Crafts Bazaar in Kutch was built to provide a workplace for the craftsmen right after the earthquake.

All photographs and documentation is available... awaiting structure and amt. Of space that can be given to these projects

Vivek Khatpekar

N.H. Chayya

Soft Copies of the panels of the bhuj earthquake

Exerpts from Chayya Sir s Lecture during 08 -09 Sabarmati Interactive workshop

Surveys done by CEPT students through the years 1. Water bodies studies around Ahemedabad There are a number of lakes around Ahmedabad that served as important sources of water for the populations around the lakes. Studies of these water bodies were done by CEPT concerning various issues such as revitalization of water bodies and topography and behaviour of the water bodies. Some interesting findings are that the lakes to the west of the Sabarmati starting from North Wadaj, Thaltej, Vastrapur, Malav and Sarkhej tank were topographically connected in terms of overflow. Rain waters filling up the Wadaj Talav would overflow downwards to the other talavs and subsequently

reach a catchment tank before flowing into the Sarkhej tank. With rampant construction in the west of Ahmedabad today, the natural flow patterns are disrupted and consequently, roads such as Drive In road flood every monsoon. 2. Mill lands around Ahmedabad old city Studies of closed mill properties forming a ring around the old city a few decades back, this mill land ring had the potential to form a planning resource that could act as an interface between the congested old city and the hinterlands. 3. Studies of medieval walled city of Ahmedabad Extensively studied with works ranging from building typology (both institutions and dwellings), topography of old city (complete absence of flooding in the streets of the old city) to technological enquiries such as earthquake resistance of old city buildings. 4. Earthquake related initiatives Early student initiative to the Bhuj 2001 earthquake in the form of collection of relief material and establishment of a help desk. Later efforts included an extensive damage assessment survey of nearly 5000 buildings in Ahmedabad. 5. Public transport in Ahmedabad An on-going project to design the Bus Rapid Transit System for Ahmedabad

2006

Social Service - Municipal school, East part of ahmedabad

Photographs from each batch available

97-98 Painting roofs across ahmedabad 2008 Elective Festival august September Kutch Craft Person s workshop. High resolution photos of exhibition and final sheets + lectures and talks done by Bernard Kohn, prof. Chayya, prof vasavada,

Wordpress blog on the project

2008- Sabarmati Interactive workshop 24th to 14th 09 December a public project is to be judged on how well it addresses all walks of life, and especially the poorest Gandhi

Kirtee Shah

1970- Mandva floods in navdar. Entire project was done

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by students, not only of CEPT but students from many others colleges as well. They camped in the village and volunteers came every week. They built 355 houses