DesignbuildBluff

DesignBuildBluff I feel has not only been a program I did to achieve my masters of architecture. It has done a lot more. Rediscovering myself, the way I look at life, the responsibility I  feel towards my commitment, the sense of equality, trust in self and others around, breakage of social taboos and many such things which are partly commonplace and partly radical to life. The house started from nothing but a pile of dirt cleared for it to be placed. And today it stands tall in front of us, demands to be completed. Things which are looked at as piece of shit stare back into your eye reclaiming  their existence as beautiful things which have a right to exist. Sustainability not seen as green solar panels but as a fight against issues which a common man faces to exist in the society. Like a paper boat made from trash notebooks from last year, which sails in the rainwater along the streets and makes kids scream with joy, piles of reclaimed, reused and salvaged materials have come together to make it a house. Gravity, structure, ratios and quantities, proportions and aesthetics are not stories in books but principles of life. The house is not the best design or the coolest looking or perfectly working solution. But it surely is a collage of events, materials, thoughts, conversations, arguments and ambitions. It is not ordinary for the only reason that everything that brought it into existence was extremely ordinary. I think it is one thing the program thrives to make you realize- the beauty of ordinary things, simple living and the fact that it takes a perfect setting for making sense out of nonsense and art out of imperfection.