Semester 2 Batch - 2015

School of Architecture & Planning GD Goenka University

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Suraj Kund VisitAutocad Workshop

Model Making WorkshopSoAP Day II

ARCHVENTURE –WinnersHeritage Walk

Earth-Day Celebrations

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Students of School of Architecture and Planning went for a site visit to Suraj Kund, Faridabad on 11th Feb 2016.First year students learnt different building materials which is used in different Indian cultures as reference study.

Suraj Kund Visit

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Students from various schools like SoAP, SoFDand SoE attended one full day AUTOCAD workshop organised by School of Architecture and Planning in association with Autodesk on 23rd of Feb’16.

FREE -Autocad Workshop

AUTOCAD workshop organised by School of Architecture and Planning

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Model Making Workshop

A Model Making workshop was organised for the First Year students of SoAP with Architect Ruchira Ganguli on 14th March 2016. Theworkshop started with introduction to various model making materials and equipment like paper, acrylic, thermocole, foam board,sunboard, plastic etc.

The students were taught to develop surface developments and making Euclidian forms out of different materials. The students alsolearned to make paper ply and ply from ethaflex and paper to depict materials in their models. Articulation of fenestrations on variousscales and preparation of the base of the model were among the most stressed upon topic as these are very essential to depictArchitectural Design in the form of models. The workshop culminated with making an Architectural Model and understanding colourschemes to use in the model.

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SoAP Day II- Annual Exhibition

On 30th March 2016, students of School of Architecture and Planning (SoAP) conducted second SoAP day. The school displayed work of founding class of 2014 and of the second batch, class of 2015. Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof D.K. Jha sir inaugurated the event.Deans, faculty members and students from all the schools of GDGU attended the event. SoAP

Day -2 was a great success, everyone encouraged and appreciated students’ work.

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SoAP Day IIAnnual Exhibition

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ARCHVENTURE 2016Heartiest Congratulations !!!!

Kudos to School of Architecture and Planning students for being FIRST PRIZE WINNERS of so many events at Architecture Fest - ARCHVENTURE 2016.

A group of 29 students of School of Architecture and Planning, GD Goenka University attended ARCHVENTURE 2016 held in Gateway College of Architecture, Sonipat from 1st- 3rd April 2016. Archventure is an annual competition of events among a number of Schools of Architecture. This is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their creativity, and other talents and skill sets under various categories.Among many other colleges who participated, there were students from Sushant School of Achitecture & planning, MMU Ambala, DcrustMurthal, Savera College, BMSA, and IP University. Our students were motivated and put in a lot of effort and participated in as many events as possible. They won six trophies, out of which five were for First Positions. The events were of Formal, Informal and Casual categories. Overall, it was a great learning experience for the students of School of Architecture and Planning, G.D Goenka University. The students were congratulated for their creative designs not only from the faculty but also from the Architecture Fraternity. They were specially congratulated by other Schools for their enthusiasm, commitment and determination for the entire period of time.

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Heritage WalkHERITAGE WALK TO MEHRAULI ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK

Students of School of Architecture and Planning, GD Goenka University attended “INTACH HERITAGE WALK TO MEHRAULI ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK” on 12th April 2016. The Walk was organized as a part of their History of Architecture Course curriculum to give them hands on experience on the subject.The students were briefed about the history of the Park by Inatch Delhi Chapter’s Walk Leader Ms Jaya Basera. The Walk covered Balban’s tomb, Jamali kamali’s mosque and tomb, Metcalfe’s bridge, Boathouse, Quli Khan’s Tomb, Metcalfe’s Guesthouse, Rajon kiBaoli, Mosque and Tomb, Serai, Maulana Majduddin’s tomb and Khan Shahid’s tomb

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It was our pleasure to celebrate earth day which marks the anniversary of the modern environmental movement on April 22nd 1970. This movement has grown into a global event recognized by 192 countries. School of Architecture and Planning devoted a special day to help the earth in a way to demonstrate how much we care about the future of our planet. Deans, faculty members and students from all the schools attended the event. Our program included a Rabindranath Tagore song was sung by our dean Prof Chhabi Mishra in her melodious and mesmerising voice, a

beautiful dance performance by second year student Upasana Sharma, followed by a play “A MIME” based on environment protection. The play started with beautiful natural environment where we have abundance of vegetation, water and fresh air. The characters in the role play depicted how human intervention has polluted the natural which in turn affects our mother earth and causes health hazards.

Let’s join our hand together in the movement to save our mother earth. We need to recycle reuse reduce wastage etc. Let’s also encourage our friends and family to join hands, one of the way we can contribute is to plant trees and get to know them. SoAP organized a NATURE WALK to take everyone around to show the trees in campus and their properties.

Earth-day Celebrations

Architectural Design II 09

Students’ Work

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Architecture Graphic Skills II

Students’ Work

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Visual Arts IIStudents’ Work

12 Materiality and Buildability II

Students’ Work

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Environmental Studies (Climatology)

Students’ Work

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“Thought”

By Sheena Sharma(Ist Year B.Arch)

This sketch depicts a thought about thedepletion of naturalrecourses in today’smaterialistic world.

“Mother Nature”

By Akshat Jain(Ist Year B.Arch)

This Painting depicts an abstraction on how mother nature nurtures us.Let save our environment and stop pollution.

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Green building - Green futureBy Megha Bisht (Ist Year B.Arch)

More development means more buildings and infrastructure, which has significant amount of contribution in polluting the environment. We have brought mother nature at a critical point because of development. Now we need a green solution which is green building. Green architecture means to build that kind of building that minimizes harmful effects on human health and the environment. A green building is one which uses less water, optimizes energy efficiency, conserves natural resources and generates less waste as compared to a conventional building. sFor a better future, architects need to build more green buildings which should not harm our environment. The main concept of green building is to increase building efficiency and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment through better site selection, design, construction, operation, maintenance and removal throughout the complete life cycle. Green building materials are composed of renewable, rather than non renewable materials. It depletes very little of the natural resources during construction and operation. Green buildings are designed to make environment healthier and more enjoyable working environment. If the workplace environment gets improved it will help in the developing the knowledge of workers and may also reduce stress which ultimately is the big reason for developing of any country. The reason for developing is to make one’s society more advance in every aspect but if the society is not healthy there is no purpose for developing, so every society needs green buildings. Because of green buildings now we are able to reduce energy and water consumption without sacrificing the comfort level. Better lighting quality including more daylighting harvesting and use of shading which control over light levels. Green building can be blessing for a fast developing country which will help country to develop more effectively and the architects can make this possible easily.

T-Shirt Painting Competition

Poster Making Competition

School of Architecture and Planning Acceleron-2016

Collage Making Competition

Faculty Members:

Mukta Rai SaxenaAssistant Professor

Bharti ChadhaAssistant Professor

Anuj SethAssistant Professor

Guneet Raj SinghAssistant Professor

Students’ InitiativeMegha Yadav

Sheena SharmaAkshat Jain

Parul SinghAssistant Professor

Mukesh RayAssistant Professor

Deepika RainaAssistant Professor

Puja BasuVisiting FacultyMs. Varsha Khetrapal

Associate Professor

Prof. Chhabi MishraDean, School of Architecture and Planning