Founder
Tamanna Sethi
At the helm of our firm is our founder, Tamanna Sethi, a licensed architect whose diverse portfolio spans residential, commercial, and interior design projects. Tamanna infuses each project with a creative and innovative approach, leveraging a solid foundation in both building sciences and architecture from Chandigarh College of Architecture. With a Master's Degree in Space Syntax from University College London, Tamanna possesses a distinctive skill set ideal for shaping captivating spaces and cities.
Expertise
Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, Urban and Spatial Analyst
Research
Chandigarh and it's Satellites
Chandigarh was built as a political city focused on accommodating refugees after the independence and partition of India in 1947. As a significant city, it has faced criticism for its rushed development that ignored the social fabric of India. The current study aims to contribute to the spatial and socio-political understanding of India's first post-independence planned city by analysing its planning principles and development from 1951 to 2023. Due to political unrest in Punjab, it was divided into three parts: Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh in 1966. This led to the establishment of the satellite city of Mohali in 1967 and Panchkula in 1970 which together form the ‘tri-city’ area. By 1986, urbanisation processes had reached the green buffer zones around the city, and they had begun to exhibit signs of unplanned expansion.
Gentrification: Spatial parameter
Gentrification was coined in 1960s London by Ruth Glass, a German-British sociologist and city planner, to characterise the displacement of the poor by upper-class individuals who moved into restored properties previously occupied by the working-class inhabitants. Gentrification started in the borough of Islington and then spread to the rest of London. While there are different definitions of gentrification, “It is seen as both a transformation of the social appearance of a neighbourhood’s inhabitants—more specifically, the displacement of the working classes by salaried upper and middle-income layers—and as a hybrid process combining the rehabilitation and appropriation of (and concurrent investment in) housing across entire working-class neighbourhoods by new population categories" (Marchal et al., 2019, p. 260). It is recognised as both an economic and social process.
London's King's Cross
Cities of the future are cities of today that have undergone multiple transformations because of intended or unintended interventions (Frontmatter, 2022, p. 57). Cities today are a combination of a multi-layer network that constantly works together to form a mechanism that makes all layers functional. Multiple combinations of road networks, spaces, and buildings formulate a plan that brings together these elements, however, this has led to metropolises being the producers of large carbon footprint with degraded air quality. Air quality refers to the condition of the air within our surroundings that is free of gaseous impurities and pollutants such as smoke, dust, and smog. Man-made urban air pollution is a complex mixture with many toxic components. An important step towards better street design is to understand where people walk and whether these choices are influenced by the built environment or whether there is a factor of air quality also involved in choosing the most desirable street for walking (Salazar Miranda et al., 2021, p. 2). Traffic engineers, environmentalists, architects, and urban planners are working towards a framework to understand the complexities of the cities and to come up with solutions to achieve high pedestrian movement