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Inception and Architecture

Guneet Khurana — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:30:52 +0000

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Guneet Khurana — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:21:07 +0000

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Guneet

Interior Design as a Profession

Guneet Khurana — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:01:18 +0000

Interior Design is the planning, layout and design of interior spaces with buildings. These physical settings satisfy our basic need for shelter and protection, set the stage and influence the shape of our activities. An interior designer norture our aspiration and express the ideas which accompany our actions.

They affect our outlook, mood and personality. Therefore the purpose of interior design is functional improvement, asthetic enrichment and physical and psycological enhancement of interior spaces.

The purpose of any design is to organise its parts into coherant whole in order to achieve certain goal. Thus, the elements are arranged into three diensionsional pattern according to functional, aesthetics and behavioural guidelines.

Interior design is a multi-faceted or multi- dimensional profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a desired built iterior environment.

The deisgn process follows a systematic and co-ordinated methidigy including research, analysis and integration of information into a creative process whereby the need and resources of the client are satisfied to produce an interior space that fulfil the project goal.

Interior design in terms of profession also includes a scope of services performed by a professional or design practitioner qualified by means of education, experience and examination. This is to protect and enhance the life, health , safety and welfare of public. It involves more than just visual or ambient enhancement of an interior space will also seek to optimise and harmonise the uses to which the environment will be put.

Time isan important factor and all the designing is done as er the styles and trends prevalent in that era or period.

Presentation on Pre-stressing and Post-tensioning

Guneet Khurana — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:33:35 +0000

As explained by wikipedia, Prestressed Concrete is a method for overcoming concrete’s natural weakness in tension. It can be used to produce beams, floors or bridges with a longer span than is practical with ordinary reinforced concrete. Prestressing tendons (generally of high tensile steel cable or rods) are used to provide a clamping load which produces a compressive stress that balances the tensile stress that the concrete compression member would otherwise experience due to a bending load. Traditional reinforced concrete is based on the use of steel reinforcement bars, rebars, inside poured concrete.

Prestressing can be accomplished in three ways: pre-tensioned concrete, and bonded or unbonded post-tensioned concrete.

Here is a presentation on the methods of prestressing in concrete and details about post-tensioning and pre-stressing.

Presentation on B.V. Doshi

Guneet Khurana — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:43:03 +0000

Over the years Doshi has created architecture that relies on a sensitive adoption and refinement of modern architecture within an Indian context. The relevancy of his environmental and urban concerns make him unique as both a thinker and teacher. Architectural scale and massing, as well as a clear sense of space and community mark most of his work. Doshi’s architecture provides one of the most important models for modern Indian architecture.

Here is a presentation on the life and works of Ar. B.V. Doshi

Seminar on Building Science

Guneet Khurana — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:13:04 +0000

As definition by Wikipedia, Building science is the collection of scientific knowledge that focuses on the analysis and control of the physical phenomena affecting buildings. Traditionally includes the detailed analysis of building materials and building envelope systems.

The knowledge about building science is equally important as the study of its construction. Here is a seminar/presentation on the subject of Building Science explaining the following components—

•Introduction to building science.

•Relevance of building science.

•General geology of earth’s crust.

•Modes of rock formation.

•Action of river glaciers, sea, wind & underground water.

•Factors governing selection of building stones.

•Geological criteria governing selection of sites.

Hope it helps in some way or the other. You may leave a comment or suggestion about the same…