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Ever been in a building which makes you feel uneasy? Your 6th sense constantly tells you something is not correct and that being here in bound to bring some harm. This can happen even in the most posh and luxuriously furnished place.
Conversely, you may have been to places which despite its sparse and ordinary set-up, made you feel extremely happy and positive for no apparent reason!
Both these situations may have one thing in common. Architecture.
Humans have come to define this planet and all there is here. We now have a vice-like grip on the resources of this planet including the spaces upon which we can build further. There is a very obvious mismatch between want of space and its availability. The result can sometimes mean a living area devoid of any feelings existing only to fill a need.
But like it happens, even the darkest hour can bring unexpected revelations. Thankfully, humans as specie have the ability to study and change their surroundings how-so-ever bad they be. This change in most cases is brought about by a science called Architecture.
To illustrate how surroundings affect our feelings, we take the case of the Dr Jonas Salk who did pioneering work for the cure of polio. Functioning from his lab in a dark basement in Pittsburgh in the US, he traveled to a monastery in Italy on vacation to break the monotony. Suddenly amongst the columns and courtyards, he got this blinding flash of an insight which led him to conclude his study. He was thus convinced of the ability of places to bring out the best in humans and in fact teamed-up with a renowned architect to create an institution to study this further.
Coming nearer home, ever visited an old educational institution (like the Agricultureal College of Pune). Its corridors invariably make you inquisitive towards what the institution professes. You want to study and you want to explore!
Mind you, this is all an inter-play between the elements ie water, air, sunlight and our constraints in terms of use of scarce resources. And it does not end with making a structure with windows and doors in place. What you put inside to make the interiors look good also matters.
The science of architecture is a science of observation. It seems obvious that we should intricately study people, behavior and psychology before designing any place. In India, given our space constraint, all too frequent brawls and fights take place in terribly crowded places. Places too big or too small restrict people’s choice to interact or stay isolated. Make it too small and you feel physically and psychologically cramped with the more than required un-necessary interactions. It threaten the sense of control individuals have over privacy and how they choose to regulate social interactions.
Making it too big means you are wasting a precious resource which could otherwise have been a stable source of income in these uncertain times.
In this world of unending complexity and crowd, imagine yourself wanting to live in a structure and enjoy every moment of it, be it a residence, an office, a shop or any place humans normally frequent! Well, if you have the good fortune of being in the city of Pune famed for its valorous past, prosperous present, fine weather, food, education, people……. you visit an Architect.
There are architects in Pune and interior designers………..and you have Sovereign Architects who don’t boast but boost. Being a government-certified entity with the right kind of experience and infrastructure, you get something which will remain the owner’s delight and very obviously the neighbour’s envy!
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Please feel free to post your comments below.
About Author :- Vaishali Kawalkar is the founder of Sovereign Architects.
The science of architecture is a science of observation. It seems obvious that we should intricately study people, behavior and psychology before designing any place. In India, given our space constraint, all too frequent brawls and fights take place in terribly crowded places. Places too big or too small restrict people’s choice to interact or stay isolated. Make it too small and you feel physically and psychologically cramped with the more than required un-necessary interactions. It threaten the sense of control individuals have over privacy and how they choose to regulate social interactions.
Making it too big means you are wasting a precious resource which could otherwise have been a stable source of income in these uncertain times.
In this world of unending complexity and crowd, imagine yourself wanting to live in a structure and enjoy every moment of it, be it a residence, an office, a shop or any place humans normally frequent! Well, if you have the good fortune of being in the city of Pune famed for its valorous past, prosperous present, fine weather, food, education, people……. you visit an Architect.
There are architects in Pune and interior designers………..and you have Sovereign Architects who don’t boast but boost. Being a government-certified entity with the right kind of experience and infrastructure, you get something which will remain the owner’s delight and very obviously the neighbour’s envy!
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Please feel free to post your comments below.
About Author :- Vaishali Kawalkar is the founder of Sovereign Architects.
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