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Studio Conductors
Semester
Subject
Student Name
Kaankshi Shah
Architectural Theory
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Ar. Harshada Shintre, Ar. Nachiket Kalle
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LEGIBILITY:
The Dilwara Temple of magnanimous scale and intricate complexity presents comfort to mankind. This is acknowledged with symmetry permitting to read the structure holistically by being visually balanced. The repetitive nature of colonnades set out as attendants offering a specific trajectory and eliminating the idea of getting lost.
PENETRABILITY:
The Dilwara Temple builds an environment to allow itself, its spaces and barriers to be intercepted by the dwellers. The perception of elements like – light, pause points, scale, mass, void, opacity, transparency and levels create or obstruct visual connect and promote engagement.
OCCUPIABILITY:
The Dilwara Temple builds an environment to allow itself, its spaces as a pause point and encourage people to occupy it due to its location and the perception of it at a glance. It is an interception for users to pause due to its grandeur which in turns dictates safety.
SOCIABILITY:
The Dilwara Temple builds a domain for social contact which catalyzes informal encounters among people. The temple puts forward a welcoming habitat with lenses of visual and physical perception of safety and human comfort by use of elements of light, openness, scale, complexity and detailing as the foremost components.
POSSESSABILITY:
The Dilwara Temple builds a domain in which it offers itself up for possession. The temple opens up a bond with its devotees and develops a notion to feel home due to its ambience of peace and harmony which settles the unsettled. The sense of familiarity, comfort and safety assists for attachment and belonging to the space.
Dilwara Temple, Rajasthan
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