MBS SCHOOL OF PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE

THESIS PROGRAM
8TH SEMESTER JAN 13- MAY 13

THESIS CO-ORDINATOR AR. ROHINI BELAPURKAR

The Graduate Thesis is the culminating experience of your graduate program and a demonstration of your ability to develop and present a clear and scholarly work within your chosen field of study.
Our goal in this final editorial process is to ensure that your thesis is a credit to this Institution and ultimately a lifelong source of pride for you.

What is the Thesis Project?

Theme/ Topic Site Program

The Thesis project is of major importance to the education of an architect. Students have to define their interests and their questions about architecture through the definition of a theme, a site and eventually a program. These projects are not always or necessarily meant to be problem solving proposals, but rather the place where critical issues can be studied and analysed. In the field of architecture, such intellectual positions have implications that result from a critique and re-examination of the role of architecture as a critical participant in the conditioning of public and private space and the human condition. Thus, while the Thesis originates in a determinate intellectual position, it culminates in a designed artefact.

Study & Analysis

Role of Architecture

Design Proposal

Selection of the Thesis Subjects/Topic

The prescribed syllabus is open ended allowing you to exercise your choice. Make your choice consciously looking at all the dimensions, while keeping in mind your strengths and limitations. Some of the basis for the selection of the thesis subject/topic is suggested as under: Continuity based: Continuity based on your past experience or future projection: Past: continuity with your dissertation, seminar, elective, urban design etc. Future: continuity with your likely choice of area of further study or work. Interest based: Issues and concerns that you feel passionately about:
Children, women, old/infirm, disabled Cultural, civilization, anthropological issues. Poverty, homeless, squatter/ self help issues Current, high technology, future technology

Travel, tourism, pilgrimages

Crime, law and order/ reform etc.

Fitness, sports, physical/ mental health Spirituality, religions, cults

Animals, wild life, environment

Dominant concern base: Overriding architectural concerns that you wish to work around: Functional/Operational efficiency based building Services based building Structure/ technology based building Energy/ climate/ sustainability based building Symbolism/ metaphor based building Landscape/ ecology based building Location based: Broad topographical or climatic region that you wish to base your work in: Mountain/ Hill, tropical plains, desert or coastal region Hot dry, warm humid, composite, moderate, cold cloudy and cold sunny climate zone Vocabulary/ Style based: Preferences or appropriateness of style of architecture or architectural vocabularies that you may wish to work around i.e. Vernacular/ regional, Classical, Contemporary local/ international/ Global/ Experimental Re-interpretation based: Redoing an existing project or building which has special relevance to or it allows for a re-interpretation.

Extension based: Meaningful extension to an existing building or complex that you care for. Activities based: Function or building typology that you wish to base your work around: Residential: Single house, row/group housing, housing for special groups, low cost housing, resettlement housing, disaster shelter, etc. Educational: Schools, schools for special needs, college, university, etc. Cultural: Museums, aquariums, theatres, libraries, auditoriums/ art galleries, cinema halls. Health: General and Specialty Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centers etc. Government: Legislature Building, Town Halls, Courts, Office Buildings etc. Commercial: Retail, Shopping Malls, Convention Centers, Trade Show Centers. Transport: Bus, Rail and Air Terminals, Ports, Parking Garages, Metro Stations. Hospitality: Hostels, Motels, Resorts, Daramshalas/ Sarais etc. Sports: Stadia, Swimming pool, racing facilities. Recreational: Clubs, Spas, Industrial: Factories. IT parks, etc. Spiritual: Seminary, Church, Temple, Mosque, Guruduwara, Synagogue, etc.

How to proceed
Study of topic & Reading material Site selection & information

Thesis Proposal Interview with SOP

Thesis Program
Research Methodology Preliminary research Case studies Site finalisation

Thesis Committee

Site Analysis

Design concept Preliminary Design Final Detail Design & Model