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Code: WH_OH_007_AUD_S3(C2)

Specific project details, design elements, and dealing with clients

Summary:

Continuing the discussion on her approach to taking on projects and her insights on construction and spatial design, she mentions how she felt accommodating clients’ needs and aesthetics in her own designs and making them work. She then goes on to detail how they were being judged and studied for their work on Professor’s house. Similarly, she details the work she did for Sushma’s house and the design elements she incorporated as per the client’s needs. She remarks on how she was lucky enough to get several interesting clients and how there was room for experimentation within each project because of the varied professions and interests of the clients. She also details the challenges she faced when a design felt wrong. 

Going forward into the discussion, she shares her comments and opinions on sustainable construction practices, the architect’s role in keeping out undesirable sound, light, and dust from the building, and the built environment. She goes on to compare the client-architect relationships to the other commercial practices where a client may assume a building to be a finished product that they can readily purchase. Moreover, she details her experience of talking to clients about additions they may make in the future, and how the conversations around design adjustments would go in such scenarios. Talking about Satish and Prabha’s residence in detail, she lays out the many intricate details which went into the making of the project and how the design evolved throughout.   

Practitioner:

Chitra Vishwanath

Interviewee:

Chitra Vishwanath

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.42.07

Mode:

Offline

Date:

11/02/2020

Language:
English

Highlights:
(00:12:00) Providing a specialized professional service and its challenges, (00:20:00) Client as consumer , (00:37:45) Working with traditional craftsmen