Geometries in Architecture

Image: Pre-Mughal architecture at Chapaner, Gujarat

Basic shapes mould into composite forms

Knit together to make fascinating patterns

Tessellate to build a surface

And all together make a structure…simply a piece of architecture.

(not that simple though!)

Tessellated Imagery

The rains have begun. In Mumbai, not in Ahmedabad yet. Everyone in NID is craving for rains, I know, many posts on FB read such lines! so here are some snails...

... for a pre-rain experience

... some swans sailing on a silent lake

...with paperboats on roadsides of the oldcity

and the birds... post monsoon on the Thodd Lake.

Missing aapnu Amdavad!

Kirigami Snowflakes

Crafty Christmas! Snowflake is a nice dynamic Christmas motif. Having a 3D geometry, the snowflake motif is always shown in a hexagonal 2D geometric shape. Working on the Christmas concept with paper, I crafted a few kirigami snowflakes but in an octagonal shape. Folding and cutting paper to get an eight angled snowflake is easier than getting a six edged. I preferred the easier way out and it was good fun folding and cutting paper to get different shapes each time you unfold it.

Technique inventors… Japanese are smart people. I am familiar to a few A few Japanese techniques like origami, kirigami, shibori, sashiko. I’m sure there are many more. They also have amusing and bewitching names like wabi sabi, fuva fuva, boro boro, shimi zimi etc. all of which are great design inspirations.