ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/930867/school-of-architecture-crescent-university-architecturered Wed, 25 Dec 2019 23:00:00 +0000 Daniel Tapia https://www.archdaily.com/930867/school-of-architecture-crescent-university-architecturered Distinctly identifiable by its stepped terraces and red striated facade, the Crescent School of Architecture occupies a relatively small lot of the 60-acre university campus, in Vandalur, Chennai. The project brief envisioned studio spaces along with lecture halls and administration areas – which we chose to augment with necessary ‘de-programmed’ spaces for collective working and gathering. This allowed for the exploration of redefining not only the nature of spaces found in an architecture school but also offering us the possibility to inform the future pedagogic program that it could accommodate. Typically, a school would house endless corridors with rooms on either side. Spaces offering opportunity for discussions and chance encounter is severely limited, which in turn confines its users to following a dreary routine.

]]> https://www.archdaily.com/915633/court-house-moad Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Clara Ott https://www.archdaily.com/915633/court-house-moad The brief had two streams of thought that shaped the imagination about the house. One is how it should be built and two is what it should have. The former should be a house that sits lightly on earth and the later is experiential charm of an ancestral house (South Indian) with a court.

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