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Ar. K.R. Jaisim

Ar. K.R. Jaisim, Bangalore

Ar. K.R. Jaisim is a practicing architect with his firm FOUNTAINHEAD since 1970. He was the CHAIRMAN of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS – Karnataka chapter, Fellow – United Writer’s Association, Fellow – Indian society of lighting engineers, Fellow – The Indian Institution of Valuers, India, Registered – Council of Architecture (CA/75/1790), Charter President – Rotary Club – Cubbon Park, Past-President – Practicing Architects Association, Member (Treasurer) – Board of Governors –INSTRUCT, Professor (Design chair) – B M S COLLEGE – Dept. of Architecture, Member of so many well-known organizations, Visiting professor of various architectural colleges, Adjunct Professor – M.I.T. . He has won so many awards including Chairman’s award of JK AYA in the field of architecture. And his journey continues.

Ar. Biju Kuriakose

Location: Bangalore

Built-up Area: 141000 sq.ft

A home is often illustrated using pitched roofs covered with vines, and a garden with many trees. This impression of a dwelling is far from reality with the ever-increasing density of today’s cities. Under the influence of market forces, we witness the blind stacking of floors in housing projects and the unempathetic cramming of people into the tightest of spaces. This is usually followed by landscaping strategies that ironically start with the ‘clearing away of trees and vegetation’ of the site before construction. We wished to overcome the oft-seen failure of housing projects to exhibit the importance of generating a dialogue with their immediate environments.

The clients (a city-based developer) presented us with a brief that included housing units and typical amenities along with communal spaces. In spite of the speculative nature of the project, they also requested for the preservation of trees on the given site, presenting us with an opportunity to explore a new paradigm within the housing scenario. Sited amongst dense greenery within a residential precinct in Bangalore, the ‘Homes around Trees’ project is an apartment building development for thirty-eight units. The building places itself in a formidable thicket on a 1.1 acre piece of land. Hence, the conservation of not only the trees, but the experience of the site itself turned into the main objective that kick-started the design process.

A rectangular footprint is generated in conjunction with the existing trees on site as loci. A sculpted mass is generated, with the tree-volumes imprinted onto the 10-storey building as a set of concave incursions. The close relationship fostered with the trees not only provides a unique identity to the homes but also instills a sense of belonging and rootedness within the community. These tree-scoops are activated by programmes that ensure that people are drawn to the outer edges, naturally. Communal spaces like reading rooms, lobbies and indoor sports areas occupy the double height volumes of the ground floor, bound by the vast volumes of the ‘tree-scoops’. A diagonal incision between the two largest scoops that embrace and protect a Banyan and a Raintree respectively, forms a street-like activator. Another set of programmes that include a swimming pool and amphitheatre is placed on the terrace of the building, which offer views of the city skyline across the tree canopies.

Sandwiched between these two layers of communal spaces are the dwelling units; all of which open onto the two long sides of the building. A floor plan with two cores was adopted, each catering to two units each. The units open up to abundant natural light and cross-ventilation. The spaces inside the dwelling unit; the living room, dining room and the bedrooms, benefit from the close proximity of trees and thereby become part of the thriving ecosystem that each of them host.

On the elevation, the scoops read as large concave incursions that define the four facades of the building; embracing and framing the trees they protect. With a skin of louvers, these scoops form cyclorama-like backdrops for these trees – an architecture that neither overpowers nor underwhelms the landscape. ‘Homes around Trees’ is a housing project that does justice not only to its users, but also to the habitat it is situated within. Respecting the symbiotic relationship a building ought to have with its surroundings, the structure compels viewers to comprehend the sense of urgency needed to preserve our environment.

Ar. P.N. Medappa

P N Medappa, graduated from Malnad college of engineering, has 35 years of experience. He has briefly worked with Sri.Sharad Padalkar before joining Chandavarkar and Thacker where he worked for about 11 years. He was inducted as a partner in the prestigious firm Mindspace in 2008.

Medappa believes in human-centric, climate responsive, sustainable design. His constant search for spacial experience, poetics of light, integrating nature into the built is aimed at engaging emotive senses and spawn tranquil feeling.He believes that design is a language binding creativity and context.

He has achieved several accolades, including the A+D Spectrum Award for Institutional Architecture in 2006, the JK Cements Commendation Award in 2008 and again in 2010, the NDTV Design and Architectural Award in the Institutional category in 2014, and most recently in 2023, the JK Cements Architect of the Year Award for the design of KIPCER project in Bangalore.

Sanjay Mohe

Ar Sanjay Mohe is one of the most respected Architects in India. For someone who lets his work do the talking always, his sustainable and simplicity-oriented designs with an embedded spatial and sensory experience has a deep connect with India’s traditional culture. Founder of the fifteen-year-old Bengaluru-based Mindspace, Ar Mohe has held many positions of repute prior to that. He has had a working association of 21 years with Bengaluru’s famous Chandravarkar and Thacker Associates (CnT), besides which his work experience also counts his years spent with Ar Charles Correa in Mumbai and his work stint in Saudi Arabia. A prodigy of India’s first architectural institute – Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, his work straddles a spectrum of projects – Research Laboratories, Knowledge Parks, Campus Designs, Factories, Beach Resorts, Libraries, Corporate Offices, Hospice and Residences. Ar. Sanjay Mohe has a lot of awards to his credit. Some of them include,

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2013 for Rohan Mithila Housing, Pune

“A+D architect of the year award in 2009”

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2008 for Dr Reddy’s, IPDO, Hyderabad

“A+D & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Award 2007” for Hindustan Unilever Ltd Bangalore

“J K Cements Architect of the Year Award – 2007” for Hindustan Unilever Ltd at Bangalore

“J K Cement Architect of the Year Award – 2004” for N.S Raghavan centre at 11M Bangalore

“A+D & Spectrum Foundation Architecture Award 2004” for Aurigene Discovery at Bangalore

“JK Cement State Architect 01 the Year Award – 2003” for BRBNM Bangalore

“The Award of the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects — 2002 ” For Nift Chennai

“JK Cement Architect of the Year Award – 2001 ” For Nift Chennai

“JK Cements Indian Architect of the Year Award – 1999” for Nift Hyderabad

“JK Cements State Architect of the Year Award – 1 999” for Karunashraya at Bangalore

“ar+d – 1999” International Annual Award of Architectural Review, London and dtline, For JRD Digital Library Bangalore

“The Award of the Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects – 1997”, for 3RD Tata Digital Library at Bangalore

“JK Cements Architect of the Year Award for Industrial Architecture – 1991 ‘v for TTK at Hosur

Ar. Kumar Ravindra

Ar. Ravindra Kumar, Bangalore

Ar Ravindra Kumar Principle Architect, Pragrup Architects, Bangalore Director Design, Venkataramanan Associates (Architectural consultants), Bangalore Chairman, Rangaloka – A non-profit organization Member on board, Educational Praxis Inc. USA (Bapagrama School, Bangalore) Visiting faculty member, RVCE School of architecture, Bangalore Ex coordinator and documentation support INTACH (Bangalore chapter) Ex consultant and heritage documentation Karnataka chapter Madras crafts foundations. His strength has been in providing innovative design solutions to emerging project trends & typologies in India. He has a keen understanding of the complex needs of new laboratory facilities and other building types and understands the need to integrate this with building and landscape aesthetics. He has a keen interest in primary and secondary education and is one of the Principals at T.B.S. foundation, a school for 400 rural children. He has done extensive documentation on vernacular India for various work groups including INTACH.

Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran

Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran (Student Jury)

Bijoy Ramachandran is an architect and urban designer based in Bangalore. He is currently a partner at Hundredhands. Bijoy has a a Masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, in Architecture & Urbanism.

He has been a panellist at the annual all-India undergraduate thesis review, the Kurula Varkey Forum, at CEPT, Ahmedabad, and is currently the Design Chair in the Department of Architecture, BMS College of Architecture, Bangalore. Bijoy is also an external moderator for the final year design studio at the Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and serves on the Academic Council of the Wadiyar Centre for Architecture Mysore and Avani Institute of Design, Calicut.

Ar. (Ms.) Chitra Vishwanathan

Ar. Krishna Rao Jaisim

Ar. K.R. Jaisim is a practicing architect with his firm FOUNTAINHEAD since 1970. His contribution in architecture field can not be ignored. His firm has developed so many Presently he is CHAIRMAN – INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS – Karnataka chapter, Fellow – United Writer’s Association, Fellow – Indian society of lighting engineers, Fellow – The Indian Institution of Valuers, India, Registered – Council of Architecture (CA/75/1790), Charter President – Rotary Club – Cubbon Park, P.President – Practicing Architects Association, Member (Treasurer) – Board of Governors –INSTRUCT, Professor (Design chair) – B M S COLLEGE – Dept. of Architecture, Member of so many well known organizations, Visiting professor of various architectural colleges, Adjunct Professor – M.I.T. . He has won so many awards in his field of architecture. And his journey continues.

City: BENGALURU

Ar. K.R. Jaisim

Ar. Biju Kuriakose

Ar. P.N. Medappa

Sanjay Mohe

Ar. Kumar Ravindra

Ar. Bijoy Ramachandran

Ar. (Ms.) Chitra Vishwanathan

Ar. Krishna Rao Jaisim

Ar. H.C. Thimmaiah

Ar. (Ms.) H.R. Prathibha

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