Connect – Engage – Explore is a concept generated on the basis of which, this Gallery has been designed to envisage the dynamic and innovative character of Bangalore. This concept has been implemented to develop a binding connection between the city and its scientific temperament.
Redeveloping Youth Hostel, Art Gallery, and Café, Old Nasik, by The Cave Laboratory for research, architecture, & planning is a mixed-use redevelopment combining youth hostel, art gallery, and café, respecting traditional architecture while embracing modern needs through stepped, courtyard-centred design.
The idea is to create a building that will take its rightful place among international peers- one that is modern in outlook, but Indian in soul.
A monolithic concrete boundary slicing through the landscape, The Enclosure by Hugo Betting & Simon Baudry stands as a radical architectural manifesto that rejects human habitation to protect sovereign nature. By creating an absolute, geometric limit against organic growth, this speculative project subverts traditional spatial design to enforce ecological preservation.
Seeds is an unbuilt prototype by DORO, conceptualized for a rural infrastructure design competition in Satara, Maharashtra. The proposal establishes a scalable, budget-friendly blueprint for community learning environments, balancing strict financial constraints with high-quality, flexible spaces that maximize natural light and thermal comfort.
The Lens is a competition proposal for Canada’s LGBTQ2+ National Monument, featuring a canted, triangular ring that transforms the pink triangle from a symbol of persecution into a beacon of identity. Positioned as a “concave lens” overlooking the Ottawa River, the project integrates evocative, symbolic architecture with a restorative landscape to create a space for healing, reflection, and celebration of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.
MVRDV’s competition entry In Living Colour transforms a former industrial quay in Kaunas into a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood featuring multi-layered public spaces and color-graded architectural phases. The proposed design balances acoustic street barriers with a sunlit riverfront promenade, incorporating timber-construction showcases to pioneer sustainable urban development in Lithuania.
The competition entry for a memorial proposing a water purification plant on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site, by GDK Designs is based on transforming toxic land into renewed life, symbolising healing and collective remembrance through purification.
The site for the proposed Indian National War Museum is one of the few remaining ‘un-built’ sites amongst the plots
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Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.
Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.
