{"id":13321,"date":"2021-08-19T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.biltrax.com\/?p=13321"},"modified":"2022-02-26T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T10:23:22","slug":"rohan-chavan-architects-designing-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh040.global.temp.domains\/~vitamind\/biltrax.mediacontent\/rohan-chavan-architects-designing-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Chavan Architects: Designing for the People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rohan Chavan Architects is a young architecture firm that has managed to earn credibility in less than a decade. The principal architect Rohan Chavan has worked under master architects such as Charles Correa, Christopher Benninger, and Rahul Mehrotra. His passion for design and his signature approach is embodied in the firm\u2019s work. The firm takes up projects and works on them with a single goal – to make the most of what has been offered.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Lightbox – Restroom for Women is perhaps the most known work of the firm. Although a seemingly simple topic, it sadly remains taboo in our country. In contrast, the principal architect has a very different view of it. For him, the most critical part of the project is not the toilets but the structure of the Lightbox. Right from the perforations in outer walls to allow the creepers to thrive, to the seamless polyurethane flooring to help maintain public toilets, thoughtfulness is ingrained in every detail of the Lightbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The design philosophy running through all their projects is to instigate interactions wherever possible while rooting the design in its context. In an urban project like the Lightbox, there is seating provided inside the glass box,  existing trees provide shade to the structure during the daytime, and the interiors of the Lightbox illuminate the surroundings in the evening. In a cultural project like Badami Museum of Rock Cuts and Rock Cut Architecture, the proposed design uses water as a medium to connect people and the surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n