Raunak - classROOM

Diamond Ranch's classROOM started with an exploration of the paradox of consumption. We sit 18 hrs a day at our desks and consume all kinds of information. But how can we use this variety of information and make it interactive so that the form of learning becomes the spatiality of space itself?

Information through senses generates intuitiveness, and we have focussed on cultivating each interaction as a sensory input in the form of learning. These experiments solidified into Play, Work and Rest areas on a macro level, giving programmatic function to each spatial configuration.

The visual language of the spaces is kept context minimum since each sensory input can intricately differ if the other senses are interplaying at the same time has been a critical technique to formulate tectonics. The morphology of the existing diamond ranch school has been correlated with the design using simple interventions of the landscaping elements.

classROOM visual style questions the contemporary status of the image in architecture. Images permeate our daily interactions, whether mundane or extraordinary, and our engagement with and through them exerts unprecedented pressure on architecture's historical identity as the locus of the real.

Crafting planes through cinematic and 3D imagery began from the space of a room and a classroom and moved out to the building, the site, and the city. The intention has been to work through scalar changes in order to navigate the project in all scales, understanding that interiority and exteriority are intermingled into a single narrative.

Done in collaboration with Roy Tamir and Vandana Shekar.

Scope of work

Volumetric Modeling I Polygonal Sculpting I Casting I Epoxy resin I 3D printing I 3D Artec scanning I Laser cutting I Drone videos into 3D models I Oblique, Sections, Axonometric Drawings I Rendering I Lighting I Animation

Media and softwares

Zbrush I Cinema4D I Redshift I Rhinoceros 3D I 3D printing I 3D Artec scanning I Illustrator I Photoshop I Indesign

Professors Guidance

Florencia Pita, Rachael McCall, William Virgil, SCI-Arc