ADRG

Ashadeep: Nurses Housing & Staff Amenities for the Karuna Hospital at their Campus in Borivali West.

Excavation begins!

aDRG is inviting fresh applications for Internship, 2 positions open. We will supply the coffee and music, you bring the enthusiasm.
Mumbai based applicants will be given preference.

Catch Founding Partner, Sonal Sundararajan in conversation with Nisha Nair Gupta in 'After Hours' by 'The People Place Project' this evening at 7pm on Instagram Live.

Conversation After Hours #5

This time exploring the feminist lens. Contextualising it. And our everyday lives.
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So excited for this chat… ❤️

As part of a recent measured drawing and documentation project in the UNESCO world heritage site of the old city of Ahmedabad we briefly documented this heritage structure, which we recently learnt was demolished.

The newspaper report and our interactions on site clearly established it was a grade 2B listed heritage structure. Listing a heritage building and the making of an inventory is the first step in conservation practice. Most often it is met with resistance from the residents because of the added set of permissions required for repairs, additions etc and the heritage cess that is applied in addition to municipal taxes.

The built structures in the old city of Ahmedabad are made of stone and timber. Maintainenace of these materials in the present day exerts a financial pressure that makes it more viable to be replaced with tiles and concrete.

This demolition raises some key concerns. If the state is the custodian of the urban fabric what proactive steps have they taken in its maintenance? What new models of conservation can we reimagine that make people central to the process?

5 years of ADRG!

Team aDRG, Co-founders and Partners George Jacob and Apurva Parikh presented the design for Phase-1 of the Mar Thoma Center for Development and Training at Titwala. The presentation was made to the Project Committee of Mumbai Diocese led by Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Geevarghese Mar Theodosius, Rev. Gigy Thomas and Mr. T. C. Benjamin (Retired IAS Officer and Ex-Municipal Commissioner of Pune).

A year in the making now!
Project: Vocation Education and Centre.
Site: near Titwala, Maharashtra.
Client: Mumbai Diocese of Mar Thoma Syrian Church.

While we wait, enjoying the recently completed interiors in Thane. Done everything from transforming old furniture into new objects of use, to spatial re-organization and securing possibilities of future modifications.

Happy Diwali!!