VERTICAL STUDIO
Vertical Studio is a four days workshop conducted annually at Vidyavardhan’s Institute of Design Environment and Architecture (IDEA), Nashik. This is the 11th year of the creative studio which explores Nashik city through various design interventions. Student groups work in an office-like environment and mentors from all over the country are invited to head the groups. The entire college is divided vertically into 6/8 groups having students equally from each class. Every group works on social, urban and architectural intervention in a time frame of 3 days.
VERTICAL STUDIO 2022
Are “Public Toilets” a functional failure? : Vertical studio is a 4-day annual workshop crafted in an office like set up for students. The groups are divided vertically with students from each year working together. This encourages discussions and exchange of thought process between the students.
Through this studio we attempt to find reasonable solutions for the issues of Nashik city through various design interventions.
Vertical studio 2022 focuses on the failing functionality of public toilets in urban context. Our aim is to identify barriers and conflicts which refrain us from using public toilets, and come up with a resilient, gender inclusive, easy to maintain urban prototype.
VERTICAL STUDIO 2020
Urban Farming : At the Vertical studio 2020, We strike to make a humble attempt to study, diagnose and intervene in the framework of “Urban -Farming”. We intend to broaden the essence and the appearance of the intervention. The approach can range from restructuring a typical households to an initiative that can be implemented on an Urban scale.
VERTICAL STUDIO 2019
IDEA OF A PLACE : Vertical Studio 2019 worked on the theme ‘An Idea of a Place.’ The idea of place is always associated with either memories, events or certain markers. They confirm dynamics of environment created by built form, nature that includes flora, fauna, geography and legacies. All of these represent an urban space.
STUDIO & PRESENTATIONS VERTICAL STUDIO 2019
Student groups documented Nashik city through short films.
VERTICAL STUDIO 2018
Child and the City : Vertical Studio’ 18 aims to explore and understand the relation between the city and the smallest user of the urban environments and verify whether the built forms, products and interiors of the city safeguard the vulnerability, creativity and trust of a child.
STUDIO & PRESENTATIONS VERTICAL STUDIO 2018
VERTICAL STUDIO 2017
Architecture and the Street : The aim of Vertical Studio’ 17 in the context of the above was to identify and transform streets and built environment around it to create an identity and opportunity for greater means of interface and interaction.
