Code: WH_OH_006_AUD_S3(C1)
Notable projects, decision-making process & design approach
Summary:Balvinder Saini highlights the different aspects and context of a notable project she worked on end-to-end as an Assistant Architect, where she goes into detail about the decisions she took concerning the project’s form and space. On the activities and functionalities of the project, she details the factors she had to weigh in while formulating its design. On the commemorative cubes which are placed in parks in Chandigarh, she talks about her work on that project. She notes how this project was one of her early achievements. Moreover, around the late 1990s, she worked on a school project that was built in an octagonal shape and she describes the design decisions that went behind its culmination. The Education Department was the client that laid out the detailed requirements that they had to formulate according to by-laws. She recalls the incessant High Court meetings with the Building Committee on the state of the dilapidated buildings, along with the department she worked with on-site to complete them according to their requirements. She recalls how some of the requirements changed as the process evolved and its effects, along with the other factors involved. She explains the reasons why public institutions often fall short on their work, roughly due to changes in policies. Moving on to the decision-making process of the department, she talks about the open dynamics the department had with the Building Committee which kept communications easy. She talks about what consists of the Building Committee and what went into material choices. In concluding on the evolution of her design approach and thinking, she talks about the influence that Chandigarh architecture has had on her.
Balvinder Saini
Balvinder Saini
Ishita Shah
00:32:16
Online
29/11/2021
English
1980-1989, 1990-1999
(00:01:31) Working on an entire project by myself, (00:07:30) The Commemorative Cubes’ project, (00:22:00) Challenges of designing public institutions’ infrastructure