another photo from girgaon. this two feet wide thoroughfare connects christian dominated dabul area to the parsi dominated nawrojee lane. comfortable for a single line of people to pass through at a time.
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the words in hindi read: let there be peace, let there be love
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working on the girgaon project for the vivas
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photo id: 7299
this was the panel that we had pinned up for yesterday’s competition. rohan’s work - hybrid communities at kamathipura - is on the left; mine - community enrichment centre at girgaon - is on the right. (i need a better title, but that’s another story). we looked around at the entries from all other colleges before the jury, and were quite confident about our work. infact, at the risk of sounding presumptuous, we were quite confident that 20 other entries from our class would have fared better than the entries that were pinned up.
but obviously we knew that winning, actually doing well, would depend entirely on the jurors. if the jurors would be like the ones invited for our college juries, then we would succeed; on the other hand, if they were the ‘other type’ of jurors, it would be a disaster. we were prepared either for the best or for the worse. surprisingly, we fared somewhere in the middle.
a five star hotel (dypcoa) was judged the best project and a banker’s training institute (lsr) won the second position. my project got an ‘honourable mention’; while rohan’s project was apparently appreciated too.
nevertheless, this was a great experience; right from realizing the implied meaning of “a 4 feet by 4 feet panel” to getting to view the nature of projects in other colleges and their design responses. at the end of the day, we were confident about our design process and glad about the school of thought where we come from; even if it means shrinking drawings to a readable-only-from-3-inches-away scale…
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