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Study Models of Modernist Architecture

Suhani Shah, Khyati Khodia — MCR — Spring Semester 2025
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This is a detailed study of The Panelàk, Rimavskà Sobota, Slovakia, a housing project which has undergone repair, retrofit, and addition processes. The objective is to investigate in detail and carefully replicate, using 1:100 scale models, architectural operations employed by architects. The models reveal the reparative operations evident in spatial reconfigurations, structural enhancements, and design strategies.

Conservation pedagogy has typically restricted its focus on monumental buildings. This studio acknowledges the expanded capacity of conservation to treat everyday structures for longevity, safety of inhabitation, and adaptation to contemporary aspirations as an economical and ecological act. The studio focuses on conservation of modern historic housing projects in Indian cities, built between mid 1900s to late 1900s. Taking the example of CIDCO Housing by Raj Rewal in Navi Mumbai, the studio offers conservation strategies based on the nuances of ownership patterns, materiality of the project, aspirations of inhabitants, to help define the relevance of the project for the city today. 

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