Exploring Bamboo

Semester-4 begins with a workshop on bamboo. Having Edgar Banasan from Philippines guiding us through the weeks to come. Straight away from knowing about how bamboo grows to weaving ratan in ‘tuknoor’ style which will be discussed as we advance ahead. These were Edgar’s tools, who has been a bamboo curator for more than 20…

Week-3

So the week starts of now utilizing the exploration done in the previous week. The flex laminate made has its own pros and cons which I have observed over the period of time. Tried to replicate the same laminating technique through heating but this time on a larger scale. With the iron box it seemed…

Week-2

Monday: Week starts of with preparing for the big event to come. Getting my furniture all set for the D day. Gathering accessories and putting things together. Getting all set for the day. Tuesday: That proud moment when your efforts are recognized and open to criticism. Come what may this was meant to happen for…

Construction & Fabrication

Scrap Design: Week-1 Day-3 & Day-4: Continuing with the course we sent on a field visit to an auto-mobile junkyard to Behrampura Kabadi-II Below are the pictures: Found some new scrap items to get the build the vocabulary. Insights: tyres and wheel rims are in abundance and come in standard sizes. So certain explorations were…

Seond Year,semester-1

CONTRUCTION AND FABRICATION MODULE Week-1 Day -1 & Day-2: The first day we started with a brief about what sort of areas will be explored to make scrap design which is smart enough to make a social impact which fulfills the needs at a very low production cost this not only fetches to cater the…

Week-4: Day-2 Festool, Mumbai

On day-2 at Mumbai we visited Caple front office and retail store. Here we got to see tool from Festool which is fuss free and safe. Wheel saw cutting process which is having good human interface -Graphics and safety measures. Ease of worl with both prelam and postlam surfaces. Dowel joinery and tool to work…

Week-4: Day-3 Godrej

Early hours in the morning we head to Godrej Innovation Centre. To see how their design base work shops work. Below are few images at Godrej that we captured The innovation center had different phase across six months . From briefing about the design to proposal, proceeding with 3d printing and mock ups along with…

Week-5: to Design Project

After a full fledged field visit we get back to our course. This brings us to a phase where our research should propagate with our brain mapping, mood board and lateral thinking inputs gathered all through these days. These pictures helped.me create my mood board. Progressing linearly the below abstract sketches were made Some random…

Week-4: Day-1, Field Visit to Renam, Vasai

Metal manufacturing First day we reached Vasai, where Renam has its manufacturing company. In first half we learnt about how the company works with metal bending, cutting, welding and finishing techniques. Machinery deals with Protyping and mass-production. There is a step by step procedure to follow: Client requirement and research Design development and budgeting Protype…

Sounds of the White Marshall

Week-2, Day 1-6: Design Project Research 26-March-2018, fresh Monday morning embarks to our project briefing. With place to choose from Kashmir- the northern most, touching the North-East, deciphering Rajasthan, embracing heat in the Rann of Kutch, grooving to the notes of Kolkata, clasping  spices from Chettinad, to get smitten by the God’s very own country- Kerela. Picking one of these pearls…