Mayank Pandey

31/07/2022

"Creating a Queen's Entrance" is now published on ArchitectureLive!

Creating a Queens Entrance - Mayank Pandey uses Christopher Alexander's Design Principals from  Nature of Order, for renovating a powder room.

31/07/2022

Building Beauty Sorrento - International Architecture Program shares my final design and construction project!

Click and stay tuned to read their description of the project...

05/07/2022

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Final results.

Renovation of a powder room of a private residence located in Gurgaon, India; using design principles introduced by Christopher Alexander in Nature of Order, done as final studio exercise of Building Beauty Sorrento - International Architecture Program . See previous posts for the process.

1. Vanity assembly for intimate reflection with Monica Soni
2. A reflection framed within beautiful colors and patterns
3. Majestic vanity cabinets

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

Photographs by Nakul Jain Design Consultancy

05/07/2022

(11/12)

Final results.

Renovation of a powder room of a private residence located in Gurgaon, India; using design principles introduced by Christopher Alexander in Nature of Order, done as final studio exercise of Building Beauty Sorrento - International Architecture Program. See previous posts for the process.

1. A royal assembly
2. Levels of scale at play
3. ‘Three girls’ carrying three lamps

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

Photographs by Nakul Jain Design Consultancy

05/07/2022

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Final results.

Renovation of a powder room of a private residence located in Gurgaon, India; using design principles introduced by Christopher Alexander in Nature of Order, done as final studio exercise of Building Beauty Sorrento - International Architecture Program. See previous posts for the process.

1. The joy of entering a colourful place
2. Surfaces full of life and character
3. An echo among patterns

Link to the full story of this project
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

Photographs by Nakul Jain Design Consultancy

30/06/2022

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First step for the window was to mock up an appropriate sill height, considering that the flush tank would also need its own volume within the wall. This was followed by mocking up the divisions of window opening and the configuration that felt right was chosen among the options explored. Once the frame was made in timber and installed on-site; it allowed us to mock up various glass surface colours and textures. Upon finalisation; it was felt that there was a need to introduce one more level of scale in the window. This was achieved by introducing planters and miniature dolls on the windows sill (client's ideas). I was surprised to know that these detailed miniature dolls were actually made by children of a blind school!

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

30/06/2022

Continuing to work with models helped in refining the layout of tiles, like the weaving pattern of green tiles and the boundary around 8 central tiles was a direct result of observation in model. The model also helped to determine the shape and size of the ornamental patterns on some surfaces.

Link to the full story of this project.
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

30/06/2022

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The selection of tiles began establishing the specific tones and textures of these colours. A colour palette was developed. We decided to go a bit more primal and painted cardboard surfaces and placed them in the bathroom, by mixing primary colours red, yellow, blue and black and white to arrive at the perfect hue and shade of the colours we were considering that felt right under the specific lighting conditions of the site. It was a mock-up of colours! It resulted in colours that were slightly different from the shade card but were well suited for the site. The next task was to buy the paint buckets for these shades, but the quantities that we needed were so small that there would have been too much wastage. So, we decided to follow a similar approach of getting a base white colour and making each shade on-site using stains of primary colours. It was an absolute joy to mix the primary colours and let the new colours be revealed on-site and painted on surfaces!

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

29/06/2022

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The scaled model helped determine the laying pattern of selected tiles and an estimated quantity and cost calculation. It helped in visualising the whole bathroom with the selected tiles laid.

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

29/06/2022

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For the corners where the borders of the central 8 tiles met, we had two options in front of us to choose from, and we used a Mirror of the Self Test within the studio group to finalise.
MoS- Mirror of the Self is a test, as described in Nature of Order Book 1 - as comparing two objects and asking ourselves which of these two is more of a mirror of our true self? My true self means all of me, not just the good or bad, but all of me. Another way of asking is if there was a fire at my house and I could run with any one of the two objects which one would be it? Or, if I were to be reincarnated as one of the two objects, which one would I like to be reincarnated as? Alexander conducted these tests to discover most people choose the same one of the two objects when confronted with this test on a large scale. Which of the two images below is a Mirror of your Self?

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

29/06/2022

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We selected the tiles sequentially; so that we keep matching each new tile with the overall set created with the tiles selected before it. Decisions were also affected by the tiles available in the market, the delivery time of those not available and the time in our hands considering the project deadline.

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html

28/06/2022

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With the two colours - yellow and green - chosen as central colours, we began exploring other colours. We explored in the small model, the use of the colour blue as a backdrop colour to complement yellow to be highlighted.
Later, we began looking at colour to be defining structural volumes of the room, with green defining the small pocket of space around the toilet seat - the extended portion of the bathroom and blue as the dominant colour of the larger volume with vanity, the volume in which one enters.

Link to the full story of this project:
https://dialoguesontransformations.blogspot.com/2022/06/creating-queens-entrance.html