10/21/2012

Spontaneous technology @ Rajpur, India

The spontaneous technology of Rajpur's kids:

 A much needed lamppost at the Massala-Unistar construction site.

A smoking zone made out of a painted board, stretched saris and bricks arranged for sitting.

10/09/2012

The Indian Express on SABA 2012 Rajpur project


"Students of architecture from Jerusalem-based Bezalel University and CEPT University kicked off their joint ‘spontaneous architecture’ workshop by building four classrooms for a government school at Rajpur near Gandhinagar on Tuesday.
As part of an exchange programme between the two design schools, 25 students along with their faculty lived in Mota Chiloda area for over 20 days for the project and the classrooms were inaugurated on Tuesday.
“The idea was to use materials easily available in the area. The students have made them from scratch without using any machines or engaging labourers. Usually, students are used to urban construction, but here they learnt to build in simple yet creative way under budget and resource constraints in the rural context. They have taken a playful interpretation of the classroom and each classroom is done up with a theme,” said Neelkanth Chhaya, Dean, Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University.
“We have just incurred a material cost of Rs 25,000... We are planning to take the model to a policy level and have approached Hansmukh Adhia, principal secretary (education) and Tulja Shankar Joshi from GCERT,” said Parth Shah, a faculty at the architecture school."

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cept-israeli-university-architecture-students-handmake-classrooms/1012262/

Spontaneous technology in India, Ahmedabad











9/30/2012

Israeli Gandhigiri in the land of Bapu - SABA at the Times of India







SABA at the Gujarati VTV news


SABA 2012 Opening


Architecture Department, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, Israel
Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
‘Mari Shala’, Government Primary School, Rajpur Village, Gandhinagar District, Gujarat, India
CEE-India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Rajpur Village SMC and Citizens, Gandhinagar District, Gujarat, India  

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of 4 new open classrooms at the Government Primary School in Rajpur village in Gandhinagar District. The classes were designed and built by students from Bezalel Academy and CEPT University assisted by the pupils of Rajpur Government Primary School and by Rajpur Village citizens, during the SABA (Spontaneous Architecture@Bezalel Academy) summer semester program in September 2012. Opening ceremony will be held on Tuesday, October 2nd 2012 at 4:00 PM, Rajpur Village Primary School.

Speakers:
Prof. Arch. Neelkanth Chhaya, Dean, Faculty of Architecture,  CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Mrs. Binduba  Zala, ‘Mari Shala’, Rajpur Government Primary School, Rajpur
Arch. Sharon Rotbard, SABA Founder, Faculty Member, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Arch. Parth Shah, Visiting Faculty, CEPT University, Ahmedabad


Directions to Rajpur:
Rajpur is 50 km from Ahemdabad towards north. You can reach at Mota Chiloda, than towards Sadra village, just before one km, left side there is a board of ‘Amidhara Ashram Shala’. From that point we will turn left and after one km you can reach at Rajpur. Right side government primary school.