ARCHIeSTUDIO

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Archiestudio
Aradhana, 151 Priyadarsini Nagar
P. O. Ayyanthole
Thrissur, Kerala 680003
India

ph: +91 487 2381446
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archiestudio.thrissur@gmail.com

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  • Aptitude Training
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  • VIRTUAL STUDIO
    • Online Workshop
    • Studio on Shade Shadow and Sketching
    • MAY 2020
    • APRIL 2020
  • ARCHITECTURAL DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
  • DESIGN WORKSHOPS
    • CARE Trichy - Shelter on a Hill
    • CARE Trichy - Geometrical Form for Design
    • BVB Hubli - Space and Elements of Visual Composition
    • Bishop Jerome SOA, Kollam - Built Form & Shadows
    • CARE Trichy - Form Cluster Space
    • USD Mysore - Kindergarten Spaces for Kids
    • CARE Trichy - Fuel Station Design
    • ODSA Kolkata - Hide and Seek Space
    • CARE Trichy - Rural Studio 2014
    • CARE Trichy - Rural Studio 2015
    • BVP COA, Navi Mumbai - Sunshine Pavilion
    • CARE Trichy - Making Space
    • SAN Academy, Coimbatore - Visual Composition and Spatial Design
    • Manipal University - Shape, Form and Space
    • PIADS Nagpur - Genesis of Architectural Form
    • PIADS Nagpur - Learning Structures Hands On
    • Crescent SOA, Chennai - Selfie Point
    • CARE Trichy -Thiagaraja Memorial Brief
    • CARE Trichy - Thiagaraja Memorial Concepts
    • I.I.T. Kharagpur - Decoding Corbusier
    • BNCA Pune - Shape, Walls and Roof
    • SPA Vijayawada - Re-Looking Vijayawada
    • Symbiosis Pune - Exhibition Pavilion
  • FIRST YEAR TIPS
    • Color
    • BASIC DESIGN HISTORY
    • WHY DESIGN...
    • FIGURE & GROUND - MAKING SHAPE
    • SHAPES AND FORMS
    • Shape and Illusion
    • Geometry and Form
    • Geometry and Structure
    • Architectural Graphics - 1
    • ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
  • SECOND YEAR TIPS
    • Foundation
    • SUPERSTRUCTURE - MASONRY
    • SUPERSTRUCTURE - RCC WORK
    • Mud Construction
    • Architectural Design
    • WRITING OFF
  • THIRD YEAR TIPS
  • FINAL YEAR TIPS
    • Setting Up Office
  • Tips for B.Arch. Thesis
    • Hijra Utthan Kendra
    • DESIGN WORKS FOR EDUCATION
  • RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    • The Healthy House
    • The Reasoning Architect
    • Anubhuti
    • A Conscious Perception
  • New Age Syllabus
  • TEACHING STRATEGIES
    • Learnings of a Teacher
    • WHAT TO TEACH
    • Structural Systems
    • Teaching History of Architecture
    • Skills, Teaching and Learning
    • Design Brief
    • Digital Documentation
  • SPACES FOR LEARNING ARCHITECTURE
    • C. A. R. E.
  • DE-MYSTIFYING M. ARCH.
    • MONSOON IN KERALA - ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSES
    • RITUALISTIC ARTICULATION - PERFORMANCE SPACES
    • De-coding Vernacular Narratives
    • Multi-disciplinary Approach to De-coding Vernacular Systems
    • Design Systems Through History
    • Adaptive Reuse - Step by Step
  • Surviving PhD
  • Linkages in Architecture : Traditional to Modern
    • A Bus Journey Through Kerala
    • Introduction
    • Scope and Limitations
    • Choice of Study Area
    • Kerala's Traditional Built Forms
  • PROJECTS
    • Following Footprints
    • Makeover of an Old Building
    • Demolition is a Crime
    • Extending Life of a Building
    • Construction of Post-Traditional House
    • LIVING ARCHITECTURE
  • When there were only pencil, pen and typewriter
    • Old Bungalows of Bangalore... in 1978
    • Traditions of Presentation - Case Study 1978
    • When there were only pencil, pen and typewriter - Part 2
  • Re-Do 1
    • Sketch Work Flow
    • Bubble Diagram
  • Re-Do 2
  • Re-Do 3
  • SKETCHING
    • PEN & INK
  • MASTER'S GALLERY
    • BEST TEN
    • THE BEST EIGHT
    • The Best Five
    • Joseph Allen Stein
  • My COA 1973-2016
  • Harmonizing the Cusp
  • Act or Re-Act
    • The First President
    • History of CoArchitecture
    • 11 Things to Do for Change
    • More the Merrier?
  • Built Heritage Values
    • Brahmasthanam
    • Vaastu Puja
    • Sustainability from Traditions in India
  • REGIONAL HERITAGE - KERALA
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BUILT HERITAGE VALUES

'Architecture is a profession of creativity, expressiveness combined with ethics. The professional gist of providing shelter to various activities touch the entire social, cultural and physical aspects of livelihoods. Being ethical is perceived as the social, economic, cultural and environmental sustainability, i.e. the aspects of thermal comfort, material usage and energy efficiency need to be taken care of...

'Being socially and economically sustainable refers to being indigenous or evolutionary. Hence the symposium Ethnique throws light on two effective dimensions of architectural profession which are ethically built heritage values and environmental values...'

Architecture of a region is an expression of the traditional lifestyle of the region. Viewed in the context of local history we can decipher the traditional knowledge system that is responsible for the indigenous traditional expressions of built forms of any region. Traditional buildings were built primarily for light, heat and ventilation controls in a manner most sustainable, using local materials and home grown technologies... Knowing them and adapting them is the key to a sustainable living... Built heritage has time tested values that need to be researched, identified and preserved...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






About the Images

A presentation done at National Seminar Ethnique organized by MAM School of Architecture, Trichy in February 2013

Copyright : Dr. Harimohan Pillai . Architect

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Archiestudio
Aradhana, 151 Priyadarsini Nagar
P. O. Ayyanthole
Thrissur, Kerala 680003
India

ph: +91 487 2381446
alt: +91 9447188446

archiestudio.thrissur@gmail.com

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