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Project details and approach

Summary:

In this session, Parul Zaveri recalls working on their bamboo-sell workshop project for which she and her team had to rally all their resources, learnings and experiences, and her firm’s association with Entrepreneurship Development Institute Of India (EDII). She explains how they worked on one of their housing projects and afterwards, they inculcated a lot of bamboo work in the interior design of this space, as well as employed solar energy-based resources to design the different kinds of spaces involved. She also remarks on getting into a competition for getting a project, winning it and not getting the job. She describes the work they did out of their bamboo workshop, which included artefacts, interiors for weddings, partitions, etc., and goes on to describe the success and following projects that came out of it. They also exhibited some of their bamboo work in Bombay, and this enabled them to learn about and work with fibreglass. Reflecting on all these experiences, Parul talks about each learning in great detail and shares several important project specifications. She also talks about the different ways in which each member of the team approached their projects, how they criticised each other’s approach, and remembers that this in fact helped their work. While talking about all this, she shares a few drawings and sketches from the time. She also remarks on the sustainable quality and durability of bamboo, and after sharing details of other projects, she concludes by noting how their practice sustained through a referral system, and till now they never had to go around asking for projects.          

Practitioner:

Parul Zaveri

Interviewee:

Parul Zaveri

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.32.20

Mode:

Online

Date:

30/04/2023

Language:
English

Highlights:
(00:01:57:00) Design competition for EDI office interiors, (00:04:18:08) Variety of jobs done by Abhikram Bamboo Cell, (00:06:47:25) Bamboo Cell exhibition in Bombay, (00:08:48:12) Cosmoville Row House design process, (00:17:17:02) Challenges that led to the closing of Bamboo Cell in 1981