Working With Local
By: Bogadhi, Sandeep
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Publisher: New Delhi Brijendra S. Dua 2019-20Edition: Vol.60.Description: 54-56p.Subject(s): LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (AR-LA)Online resources: Click here
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Journal of landscape architectureSummary: A Ladakh based practice that overcomes the many challenges of building in Ladakh by exploring the myriad of local materials and resources and by creating minimal yet quality designs. It is a design build practice based out of Nubra Valley in Ladakh since last six years. It is a distinctive region with limited access, limited resources and skill sets and unskilled craftsmen. The practice is based on the premise that every context has the potential and material resource to evolve on its own to give itself a regional identity and aesthetic with the power of design and craftsmanship. The practice allows freedom to explore materials of the region and get a better understanding of its essence as well as its limitations through sampling and mock-ups. It creates an architectural journey of exploration and test of its materiality and in the process refine the craft to create timeless architecture. We believe that a good design is minimal — easy to perceive with good proportions and has good details. It uses appropriate construction methods. It has social relevance — economic/ educative/capacity building. It is rooted to the place and encourages local crafts and its refinement. Earthling was found with the aspiration of mainstreaming natural building and earthen architecture with refined craft.
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A Ladakh based practice that overcomes the many challenges of building in Ladakh by exploring the myriad of local materials and resources and by creating minimal yet quality designs. It is a design build practice based out of Nubra Valley in Ladakh since last six years. It is a distinctive region with limited access, limited resources and skill sets and unskilled craftsmen. The practice is based on the premise that every context has the potential and material resource to evolve on its own to give itself a regional identity and aesthetic with the power of design and craftsmanship. The practice allows freedom to explore materials of the region and get a better understanding of its essence as well as its limitations through sampling and mock-ups. It creates an architectural journey of exploration and test of its materiality and in the process refine the craft to create timeless architecture. We believe that a good design is minimal — easy to perceive with good proportions and has good details. It uses appropriate construction methods. It has social relevance — economic/ educative/capacity building. It is rooted to the place and encourages local crafts and its refinement. Earthling was found with the aspiration of mainstreaming natural building and earthen architecture with refined craft.
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