Plastic has managed to snake its way into almost every aspect of our daily lives, including 90% of the world’s toys ,which is a far cry from the old Indian childhoods of outdoor play and wooden toys.
       
     
 Nisarga Art Hub is an initiative by a family of musicians to make a community residency where people can interact and congregate for art and cultural events. The site was near a paddy field, with the traditional “Kerala Roofs” being the only feature
       
     
 The pavilion is envisioned as a passage cut through these waste tyres that makes one contemplate on the amount of waste we humans produce on a daily basis: 6,84,931 tyres. The pavilion is made from 1425 tyres which is the number of tyres discarded g
       
     
 Chuzhi as the meaning suggests in Malayalam, ”whirlpool” are swirls of precast poured debris earth composite bottle beams, fashioned from 4000 discarded plastic bottles designed around the three large Tamarind trees on site.
       
     
 Perched on the edge of a mountain, ‘The Ledge’ is a residence in Peeremedu that is designed based on a dream sequence. The inquisition that leads one to walk till the edge of a ridge or a child-like whim to jump from the top of a cliff can be attrib
       
     
 The Pirouette House features the “Last of the Mohicans” fired bricks as an ode to the stellar practice of Laurie Baker with spaces that are made beautiful by the pure geometry and patterns created by the walls that seem to be coming alive and piroue
       
     
 The project was to renovate a café in the heart of the city of Kottayam and the challenge lay in designing in the cramped , area deficient space flanked by shops on all sides. The solution pointed towards a material that was wafer-thin , could be us
       
     
 The Jackfruit Garden Residence as the name suggests is a house for Mr. Riaz, whose very design arose from trying to retain the huge jackfruit tree growing in one corner of the site.
       
     
 Although the roof prevented rain and the cooling was phenomenal, the client was deterred by the atmosphere of darkness which stayed prevalent or was associated with the ambience inside traditional houses.  Thus during the early days of the project,
       
     
 The design of this residence breaks the shackles of a lot of generic ideas. The main concern while designing was to avoid creating an environmental imbalance in the area as it was a low-lying region.
       
     
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