DESIGN WORK AT A FARM Well when a commercial farm is set up with the family residing at the farm and hosting many visitors with a interest in farming and nature. The kalasan nursery farm is one such example based in himachal. The family of four is practicing quite a sustainable lifestyle at their farm growing apples […]
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STONE PAVEMENT This exercise was to do pavement around the farmers center. Main idea was to make the work more interactive with the mason and helpers and to see what all the material of the surrounding which is of no use can be used somehow in the design. We were able to use some glass
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DEVELOPMENT OF GHARAT The work of reconstructing the gharat started in 2016.While constructing it was realised the process needs to be documented to some extent whatever possible. This following report includes the process involved in construction work of gharat with many other things which occurred during the process.
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WORK PROCESSES This section includes all the work progress involved in every architecture experiment done with GDT.
ESTABLISHING ORCHARDS AND NURSERYS The development of one of the orchards mentioned in the article of some basic fundamentals considered to establish orchard and nursery its reports for series of site visits and work done is listed below in the following reports . Visit 1 Visit 2 Visit 3 Apple nursery at dehradun Case study for the
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Gharat Puja – Village Baag GHARAT – WATER MILLS OF HIMALAYAS Working in a village in the foothills of Himalayas gives insights into culture and lifestyle of the mountain dwellers. The idea of localisation stems from working with natural resources available in ones vicinity. Even today this lifestyle is as close to carbon neutral as
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BAMBOO SCREEN’S This was for the cow shed at Kalasan Nursery Farm we had to develop some partition element. It has to be easy to build and light in structure. It should allow light and wind to come in. The final outcome was quite juxtaposition to the actual work as timber is used but in contradiction bamboo jumps in
A FARMER’S CENTER IN UTTARAKHAND When you connect to farmers you encourage them to practice Organic farming(which empowers them and connects to the market) and for that you need a space to organize interactive activities.We are motivating farmers in Uttarakhand by doing such a work in Village Kaloon in District Pauri. We are developing an old
ORGANIC SHOP WITH ORGANIC INTERIORS Opening the organic shop with the organic interiors was a task in that terrain though it is not tough! If you go back simply to your roots. We did try some small things that could do it We had everything available near us we used it and created something like this.
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STONE PAVEMENT This exercise was to do pavement around the farmers center. Main idea was to make the work more interactive with the mason and helpers and to see what all the material of the surrounding which is of no use can be used somehow in the design. We were able to use some glass
