SPACES Sept issue 2017

REVIEWS
were announced. The winner of
Kaleidoscope “Heroes of Future”
2016-17 was Mr. Shrawan Thakuri from
Kathmandu Engineering College. Mr.
Thakuri was awarded with Rs. 70,000
cash prize. His design was inspired
from one of the philosophies of
Tadao Ando, a celebrated self-taught
Japanese architect, who believed that
architecture should be influenced by
the context of the site and that both
should exist as a single entity together
in harmony. “Besides fulfilling all the
given requirements of the project, I
was more concerned in developing the
project as a part of the whole Dasarath
Rangashala Sports Complex. I wanted
it to fit into the site like it was meant
to be rather than developing it as
segregated individual entities”, he
explained.
Ms. Shrinkhala Khatiwada of Institute
of Engineering Pulchowk Campus
was the first runner up and she won a
cash prize of Rs. 40,000.“I’m a strong
believer that architecture should
represent its place, especially when it
is a National level project”, she said.
Hence, it was only natural that her
design incorporated the identity of the
architecture of Kathmandu valley. “I
tried to narrow it down to materiality,
feeling of a space through light and
shadow and use of local architectural
elements like dhungedhaaras and
wooden jali work, to create an overall
character of experiencing the spaces”,
she added.
The second runner up was Mr.
Govinda Prasad Mainali from Institute
of Engineering Pulchowk Campus
winning a cash prize of Rs 30,000.
His design was inspired by the natural
postures of a bird, to be more precise.
“The urges of the functionality of the
design was fulfilled by the inspirational
concept from the natural postures of
the birds. The idea lies in the posture
of the bird at its stationary position. The
skeleton of the bird that allows its body
to counter act the external stimulus
was taken as the core idea to develop
the structural grid of the building. To
make the body stable, birds inclines its
limbs towards shorter rear bone sides
so that it counter balances the longer
fore side of the body. This feature has
been developed to create the structure
of the building as well as technique
that lets the northern diffused light
inside the indoor hall. This gives us
the powerful technique to achieve the
spatial need of the building; structural
need as well as add the value to the
functionality”, he explained.
Mr. Pradeep Maharjan of Kathmandu
Engineering College and Mr. Rustam
Lama of Nepal Engineering College
took home consolation prizes worth
Rs. 10,000 each. The award ceremony
also included recognition to the
students of B.E. 2068 Batch as Thesis
Winners, Mr. Sanjeev Shrestha, Mr.
Achyut Paudel, Mr. Jenish Maharjan,
2 nd
runner up
MR. GOVINDA PRASAD MAINALI
Inspiration derived from the form of the
natural entity: nature, the sole muse
from the form of the natural posture of
the avian counterparts. The functionality
urges fulfilled by stationary position of
the birds; the skeleton that allows to
countermeasure the external stimuli
was the core idea for the structural
concept for the building form. The design
successfully incorporates the powerful
technique to fulfil the spatial need of the
building along with the structural, adding
core value to the functionality of the
design approach.
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