The Serpentine Gallery is an art gallery situated in Hyde Park, London. Every summer since the year 2000 it has been commissioning Architects design a pavilion in the gallery’s lawn that portrays contemporary architectural practices; this year’s being designed by Herzog & de Meuron, Ai Weiwei. Image 1: Plan of Serpentine Pavilion 2012 (Dezeen) Unveiled beginning this June, the Pavilion is a low roof space with many small and large steps. The idea of the designers was to dig

"Capillary Infrastructure" is a collective research and dissertation of Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chuang on the revival of Jintang Island, a 100 sq.km. island on the east coast of China. The government initially proposed a haphazard development with no consideration to local community, culture or traditions. The proposal was driven through in capitalistic framework. Reviewing the proposed solution by the government, Shantesh and Stanley provided an alternative approach th

The research on Jintang Island in China and the design proposal prepared by Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chung part of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, 2011 at Tallinn, Estonia. The research and design proposal explored design possibilities by investigating the issue through the theories of landscape urbanism. The proposal was part of academic research at Architectural Association, London. The research was conducted at the Graduate programme of Landscape Urbanism in 2010-1

Shantesh Kelvekar presented his collaborative research with Stanley Chung at the AA School of Architecture, London as part of the Architectural Association's Graduate Programme's course review. The panel comprised of directors of the AA Graduate School - Brett Steele, Mike Weinstock, Mark Cousins, Mariana Lathouri, Jorge Fiori, Douglas Spencer and Eva Castro to name a few. The panel reviewed the quality of the research and research methodology. The intent of the presentation

'Project Fresh Kills', was a essay/ paper written by Shantesh Kelvekar as part of term 2 for Machining Landscapes lead by Tom Smith. The paper looks at the case of Fresh Kills as a dumping ground on Staten Island, and how it from there evolves into a desired landscape for the neighbourhood in New York. The paper provides a global optimism and a fresh outlook towards managing wastes and carbon footprints of cities in the coming future. #TomSmith #AALU #AA #JamesCorner #StatenI

A paper by Shantesh Kelvekar titled 'Learning Unlearning' was written and published in May, 2011 in London. Written for Douglas Spencer's term, the paper is a not just a documentation of the OMA’s proposal for Parc de La Villette, Paris;but is an attempt to understand Koolhaas’s attitude on perceiving urbanity via cross referencing through various of his precursor works which led to conceiving of this project, and also which further evolved the resolution of OMA’s/ Koolhaas’s

As part of AA Landscape Urbanism, the Batch of 2011 from AA LU visited Croatia to provide a design solution to the City of Rijeka. The above is the public presentation presented at City Hall in the presence of the Citizens and Mayor of Rijeka. The same was well received, and was covered by the media in Rijeka and Croatia. #AALU #AA #AASchoolofArchitecture #Croatia #Rijeka #London #Batch2011 #landscapeurbanism #ShanteshKelvekar #StanleyChuang #Design #UrbanDesign #Urban #Urban

"Landscape Paraphrased Into Urbanity" was written by Shantesh Kelvekar as part of a term and session titled Machining Landscape by Tom Smith. The paper allowed to deepen the research of Shantesh in collaboration with Stanley to review the Jintang Island in China. The paper was reviewed and approved by Tom Smith. #ArchitecturalAssociation #AA #AALU #AASchoolofArchitecture #London #TomSmith #LandscapeUrbanism #ShanteshKelvekar #MachiningLandscapes

An essay titled Metamorphic Urbanity was a research of Shantesh Kelvekar. It was written as part of the term at the AA Landscape Urbanism in London in January, 2011. The paper was evaluated and critiqued by Douglas Spencer. #AA #London #ArchitecturalAssociation #LandscapeUrbanism #MetamorphicUrbanity #DouglasSpencer #ShanteshKelvekar #AALU #Paper #Essay #China #Urbanism

Students of AA, London and HKU, Hong Kong at exhibition of workshop at Shanghai Municipal Archives Photograph: Chan Chun Ho As part of the initial site visit, AA-LU batch 2010-11 visited Shanghai. A collaborative workshop with students from Hong Kong University was organised, where initial research and site analysis was concluded. The methodology included mapping, diagramming and indexing territory to analyse and evaluate the context. #AA #HKU #London #Shanghai #HongKong #Hon