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GYAAN ASHRAY

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The ‘Gyaan Ashray’ was a way of supporting community initiatives by agency of light infrastructures. It emerged as part of a winter school programme, which proposed to build a pop-up classroom along with the students and in close contact with the leading members of the local community. A public architectural device constructed with minimum resources and energy, that maximized infrastructural impacts; in this case those of an educational, political, and cultural kind.

Location:

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Year:

2019

Status:

Built

In collaboration with: Summer Winter School, CEPT University, India

Recognitions

> Won the Architecture for Necessity award, Virserums Konstal, Sweden
> Special commendation - The Merit List

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