(by Santosh Prabhu, Team MIE 2017) A kiosk in the middle of the Cubbon park… Something that’s simple, modular, a breeze to fabricate, assemble and at the same time, secure and solid. Amusingly, this was the brief we had in our hand, when we started our most personal project so far. To start with such […]
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Brick Kiln House
Residential | Community Row Housing | Malur, Bangalore The brick kiln house was our first take on CSEB architecture, hours of puzzling over the bond patterns lead to each brick meticulously being laid out into what would be the model house for NSR Greenwoods. The sight of the brick kilns, omnipresent in the surrounding region […]
Read moreLittle Green Cafe
Cafe interiors | Museum Road, Bangalore.Imagined like an urban oasis, an atmosphere to calm and soothe,where the use of natural materials in their most honest of expressions could come together.
Read moreThe Indigo Lab
Denim Research & Design Studio in the state of the art denim factory | Shell Apparels Pvt Ltd, Bangalore ”Worn as the fabric of hard honest work, and as the expression of angry rebellion; used for the sails of Columbus’ ships in legend; and worn by American cowboys in fact.” A Denim Factory as our […]
Read more2018 Wattle & Daub
A building technique that beautifully illustrates the flexibility, ease of production and adaptability of earth architecture; Wattle and daub is a traditional building method that is peeking into one of our projects at Sadashivanagar, Bangalore. So if you are curious about earth construction, about wattle and daub, about natural plasters, in for some fun with […]
Read moreEleven Thousand Sun Dried Bricks
“Of Three little pigs, one built a house of straw, another of sticks and the last built his house of bricks, Soon came the days of the big bad wolf, who huffed and puffed and blew the straw house down! He huffed and puffed and blew the stick house down, but try as he might, […]
Read moreThe Little Green Cafe
We wanted to bring the values that the team at the little green cafe bring to their plate; health, ecology and authenticity. Natural materials like lime and clay plasters, together with chemical free paints render each textured wall and ceiling. The wood is upcycled teakwood and antique printer shelves. The woodwork and brass inlay in […]
Read moreAn Electropop Ballet
A choreography of natural materials for the interiors of Aditi Organics Office in Bangalore, India The site was a 3000 sft empty shell on the first floor of another concrete building in Bangalore city. Walled on three sides, with structural glazing to the west, it overlooks the beautiful canopies of Gulmohar trees together with the […]
Read more2016 – JJ Maternity Hospital
“The patient should feel like being in a temple, an Aayalam”, Dr.Jayanthi told us, “the hospital should be earthy and calm. A center for healing and birth. Something that can serve as a landmark for both medicine and architecture.” These are the words with which we are working towards building an out-patient unit for a […]
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