Namrata Toraskar

Namrata Toraskar
Faculty

Area of Practice

Building Craft Researcher, Illustrator and Architectural Practitioner, Education

Education

Bachelor of Architecture, Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture, Mumbai
Masters in interior architecture and design with specialisation in Crafts and Technology, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.

Work Experience
  • Illustrator, India’s Composite Heritage: A workbook for Children and Parents (Aleph Book Company, 2022)
  • Assistant Professor at WCFA, Mysore & ASD, Bangalore Planned and executed several built environment-based studio and research modules as part of architectural-design curriculum at Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, Mysore and Acharya School of Design, Bangalore.
  • Art Director for the Bombay Review magazine, India
  • Graphic Designer at CEPT Communications Office
  • Project Architect at Sathya Consultants, Bangalore The architectural practice involved conceptual designing, design development, producing drawings for site execution, regular site inspection for quality checks, design evolution and detailing while designing houses in alternative technologies using natural materials like clay blocks, mud, and stone.

Interest Areas

Vernacular and traditional dwelling systems, visual culture, conscious architecture design; Observation studies of natural systems and cultural landscapes; Community-driven Participatory design processes.

Current Practice at Srishti

Design-Build Vernacular Practices, Context-community-culture Studies, Building craft and art design projects, Research Administration

Creative Practice and Outreach

Current Practice at Srishti

Design-Build Vernacular Practices, Context-community-culture Studies, Building craft and art design projects, Research Administration

Recent Units Facilitated:

Made in Mud Workshop Contextual Enquiry- Shades of Shadow Contextual Enquiry- Self and Other

Projects showcase:

Student engagements in the awareness of body in ‘Self and Other’

 

 

Intuitive Understanding of soil as a material

 

 

Process involved in form-making with mud and coir.

 

 

Process involved in form-making with mud and coir.

 

 

Outcome of the exploration in mud and coir in an attempt to make a dwelling through a process of building it oneself.

 

 

Outcome of the exploration in mud and coir in an attempt to make a dwelling through a process of building it oneself.

 

 

Initial prototypes of ‘Shades of Shadow’

 

 

Outcome exhibit of ‘Shades of Shadow’