Wednesday 14 December 2011

Gurgaon in Motion


by Rohan Kalyan

Tuesday 6 December 2011

Mangarbani Sacred Forest Walk

Images from the guided walk of the Mangarbani sacred forest at http://www.flickr.com/photos/73782309@N05/sets/72157628763611833/. If you have pics you'd like to add, please email us at architecture.collegium(at)gmail.com.

Monday 5 December 2011

Mangar Bani Sacred Forest - Guided walk

If you would like to go for the guided walk of the endangered Mangar Bani sacred forest (Aravali range off the Gurgaon-Faridabad road) on Sunday, December 18th - please send an email to Savita Punde to register. If you don't have her address, email us at architecture.collegium(at)gmail.com for registration.

Please forward this to anyone else you know who may be interested. The plan is to meet at 9:30AM that morning outside the TERI Main Gate and proceed together from there.

The Times of India article about Mangar Bani is available here -
http://gurgaonscoop.posterous.com/development-sword-over-sacred-forest.

The other article that Savita forwarded to us titled 'Unhappy Bani' is available here -
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/unhappy-bani

Thursday 1 December 2011

Mangar Bani Walk & Ideas Competition

Savita Punde to organise a guided tour of the Mangarbani sacred forest on the Gurgaon-Faridabad road. This walk will be on December 18th, Sunday.

A brief can then be proposed for an IDEAS Design competition for the forest. A selection of the ideas will be chosen by the panel. The Collegium will try to invite key people from the Ministry of Environment and HUDA to be on the panel. The top chosen entries will be compiled and published by the Collegium.

The brief will be simple and the main idea will be how to design around the forest without touching it at all. Since HUDA has recently changed the land-use around the forest to develop it, it is this development that will be the focus of the brief. If the competition charges an entry fee, that can be used for prizes, or sponsorship is also an option.