Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Sept 12: A two day ‘Joint Studio’ workshop (Time-problem design competition) on Conceptual Architectural Design for “My Place to Work, Play and Sleep in the Himalayas”, organized by Department of Architecture & Landscape Design (DALD), Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), concluded today.
The studio was the joint collaboration on academic exchange between SMVDU and School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi – an Institute of National Importance. A total of 60 students of B Arch 3rd year, 5th semester and 7 faculty members participated in the studio which included 24 students and 4 faculty members of DALD and 36 students and 3 faculty members of SPA.
The students worked in 12 mixed groups of 5 students, 3 from SPA and 2 from DALD each under the mentorship of Ar Aditya Kumar Singh, Head of Department of Architecture & Landscape Design, Ar Dinesh Nanda (visiting faculty, DALD), Ar Abhimanyu Sharma (Assistant Professor DALD), Ar Vinod Kumar, Assistant Professor DALD), Ar (Dr) Ranjana Mital (Professor SPA), Ar Vijay Garg (visiting Professor, SPA) and Ar Amit Babbar (visiting Professor, SPA).
The studio was successfully concluded with outcome in terms of design directives, design priorities, spatial experiences and formal expression. The competition was won by the group consisting of Yagvinder Kumar Memoria (DALD), Hemant Jindal (DALD), Abhinav Sujit (SPA), Yatharth Gupta (SPA) and Migom Doley (SPA).
While speaking on the occasion, Vice Chancellor, Prof Sanjeev Jain and Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Dr V Verma, assured more collaborative academic exchange in future for mutual advantage of participating institutes.
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