DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Creativity and innovation are subjects of urgent concern at the highest level for any developing countries.So individuals and companies should be constantly reminded to adopt more creative and more innovative ways to compete successfully in a globalizing world.
A design innovation centre can be an answer for our country’s crisis in this sector. It can act as an essential integrating platform to develop creativity capability and enhance industry standards; create branding for products and build content in the fields of entertainment, education, performing arts and media arts; and increase public demand for good design.
This centre will have functional spaces under wide range of scenarios which can be categorized as learning and graduation, discussion spaces ,lectures and films, libraries, archives, flexible partitioning as workspace ,static exhibitions , digital displays, multifunctional spaces, concert events, prototyping laboratories, other R&D facilities as well as all amenities required for a residential campus.
As a part of progressive concept of bringing industry into the classroom, the students and faculty will have access to industry thinking and are exposed to a competitive environment and can work with some of the leading brands to acquire business knowledge hands-on.these companies ‘ll be allotted to open their studio’s and Research & development incubators on campus.
Bangalore the silicon valley of India will be the apt site for D.I.C so that it can work in hands with country’s top rated research institutes and creative schools such as IISc , NID R&D campus etc as well as multi national companies operating in the city.
Designed space for designers which enhances their thoughts , skills, and creativity to fulfil the dreams of a developing nation.

The biggest ideas in architecture today are coming out of the science of the small.Nanotechnology,the manipulation of matter and its properties at the molecular scale, promises to transform architecture in ways we can hardly imagine today. The nanotechnology revolution in architecture and material science research can bring dramatic improvements in building performance, energy efficiency and sustainability to building projects.Being the science of small the possibilities of nanotechnology is so vast that it can have a revolutionary change in almost all departments of science and technology ranging from biomedicine, computers, consumer products, energy and material design. Many products involving Nanotechnology are already available and the future applications of these seem endless.

Together with architecture, it marks up the Nano architecture style, which is the use of nanotechnology in architecture by either the new customized materials or new shapes and forms of buildings which can be achieved by nano tech materials.In architecture and the construction industry it has potentials that are already usable today, especially the coating of surfaces to lend them functional characteristics such as increased tensile strength, self-cleaning capacity, fire resistance etc.


The main objective of the seminar is to highlight the importance of technology advancement in  material research due to nanotechnology and analysing its impact on architect, society and architecture.The over all content of seminar will be a basic introduction about nanotechnology,its significance in architecture and material science research, latest nano engineered products available, a critical discussion of the advantages and limitations of the technology, and comprehensive illustration of the multi-level impact that nano materials  can make on architect,architecture and society in future.

The traditional architecture of Kerala, a state in India lying along its southwest coast, is known for its use of natural and passive methods for a comfortable indoor environment. Although there have been attempts to analyze the traditional architecture of Kerala, they were focused only on qualitative approach. An investigation was thus initiated by the authors to understand the passive environment control system of Kerala traditional architecture in providing better thermal comfort, by continuously monitoring thermal comfort parameters of a typical traditional residential building over a period of time. The inferences of the first phase of the investigation carried out during winter and summer seasons, lasting about half of the year have already been published. This paper illustrates the inferences of the second phase of the investigation that is carried out during the rainy season of the year. A comparative analysis with the results of the winter and summer periods is also incorporated. The investigation has revealed that, when the outside ambient temperature is below normal, the building system tries to maintain the indoor air temperature at a higher but comfortable level and when the outside temperature is above normal, the indoor is kept at a lower but comfortable level. It is found that a continuous gentle wind flow is maintained inside the building irrespective of the wind outside. The required level of thermal comfort is achieved by maintaining a balanced level of temperature and relative humidity along with a continuous and controlled airflow inside the building irrespective of seasons.

Heritage conservation in urban areas involves complex systems often faced with the dilemmas of maintaining the built form's historical character, improving infrastructure, and managing development through stakeholder cooperation. At present, the performance of any conservation project is solely vested in conserving the built fabric. Evaluation tools for urban heritage conservation projects do not have provisions for measuring the subjective value of stakeholders who are part of the heritage setting. This study tries to identify and prioritise the factors that need to be considered when developing a conservation project performance assessment model for an urban heritage conservation project from the perspective of experts that can be further evaluated from the perspective of stakeholders. As these complex systems can be better viewed in the context of developing countries, the case of India is adopted. From a literature review, factors that contribute to the outcome of an urban heritage conservation project were identified and categorised into six aspects: the physical, social, economic, cultural, political, and continuity aspects. Through an expert survey, the factors that constituted each aspect were filtered using the feature selection method of correlation to avoid factors that may seem related. The factors under each aspect were ranked using a weighted average ranking method to identify the most prioritised factors determining the outcome of an urban heritage conservation project. The priority weights of the aspects were calculated using Saaty's analytic hierarchy process. The results show that the cultural aspect was the most important aspect, followed by the continuity aspect. The social and physical aspects were prioritised similarly, followed by the economic and political aspects. This study is distinctive because it identifies the influential factors that can help develop a conservation project performance assessment model for an urban heritage conservation project.

COVID-19 outbreak affected the daily lives of people around the globe, and authorities proposed numerous interventions to make activity participation and traveling safer during the pandemic period. This study investigates the potential implication of such interventions on executing physical distancing on public transport in Mumbai, India. The study reviews the demand-supply gap of public transport during the pre-pandemic and pandemic period and evaluates the challenges in practicing physical distancing with the short-term interventions, such as lockdown guidelines at different phases and long-term interventions, such as flexible work arrangements, on public transport. The study findings indicate that physical distancing on public transport is difficult to achieve at peak hours, even with the very high travel restrictions and lockdown measures, unless flexible work arrangements are implemented. The flexible work arrangements, such as staggered working hours and work from home, can significantly reduce peak-hour demand and total excess demand without altering the supply pattern. The study can guide in constituting transport and broader policy decisions, including developing low-risk public transport for the post-pandemic period.

A recent density functional theory (DFT) based analysis, complemented with Quantum Monte Carlo calculations 2 revealed a highly spin-frustrating nature of the one-dimensional spin-1 2 compound Cs2CuAl4O8 that comprises of unique bond alternations and relatively strong next nearest neighbor interactions. This article gives a brief account on possible magnon excitations that can appear in the ground state of such systems. We find that the spin waves obtained on top of coplanar helical reference states show multiple magnon modes (both acoustic and optical). However, those magnon modes turn out to be stable only in the absence of bond alternations.

Even after almost three decades of introducing competitiveness into the tourism sector, there is still a rising trend in literature on Tourism Destination Competitiveness (TDC). Though there are a few systematic and traditional reviews in the domain, there has been no study of the bibliometric variables. In the current study, scientific literature on the topic is mapped through evaluative and relational bibliometric techniques utilizing Web of Science (161 documents) and Scopus (manually selected five documents) databases to run a bibliometric analysis of 166 documents on TDC, uncovering the domain's research trend concerning authors, sources, and publications. The science mapping tool bibliometrix R-package biblioshiny and VOSviewer are used to analyze the trend of scientific publications in the area, untapped knowledge, possible future trends, and implications. The analysis is undertaken on three levels: source, author, and document, as well as three types of knowledge structures: conceptual, intellectual, and social. The bibliometric analysis consists of a descriptive evaluation of the bibliographic data frame, network analyses, and graphical visualization. As per the analysis, the competitiveness of natural/cultural destinations is rarely assessed in the global scenario. The maximum number of studies in the domain are carried out in European countries. The findings can guide researchers to focus on less developed themes/areas.

Development of Cities are often judged by the economic condition, commercial activities and building forms. The emirates cities of UAE are known for high standard of lifestyle, safety, security and beauty. The city has expanded from a small trade center to a large commercial hub. The extreme weather of UAE gave rise to clusters of housing settlements with very less window openings that restricted direct sunlight and hot air within the habitable areas. Instead, light and air was allowed to pass through the small courtyards, corridors, sikkas, wind towers and vertical slits within the roofs of the buildings that could reduce the harshness of the climate and provide diffused light and cool air to the buildings. With the advent of technology and digitization, people's movement got restricted and the outdoor spaces and public realm started losing their importance. UAE Government is trying to conserve the courtyards, sikkas, walkways in old city and create new parks, playgrounds, event centers in the new area. The Government is forming guidelines to reserve a percentage of open space with community and connect these spaces with the pedestrian and bikeways within and outside the developments. The recent drive to integrate all communities with the help of public realm by using land scape features and allocating various active spaces is a move towards a unique healthy urban development. The research will prove how the weightage of Public realm is more than land value land value in sustainable urban design. This chapter will describe the typologies and hierarchy of open spaces and public realm of the UAE that have regained the importance under the governance of his highness and developed innovative ways to recreate and integrate with new activities supporting the urban fabric.