Anubhuti, the social service wing of M.E.S. Pillai College of Architecture, had organized a guest lecture for B.Arch. students on the 3rd of August, 2023 to raise awareness about stress and time management. The lecture featured a comprehensive discussion led by a renowned speaker Yvette Lee. The lecture aimed to provide students with practical strategies...Read More
Title of The Lecture: Expressing Ownership in Community Living – A study of residential entrances in CIDCO Housing in Navi Mumbai. Aim: To understand the importance of an Architect’s role in the process of designing with due consideration to the participants’ sensitivity to user customization. Objectives: Customization of boundaries by users to claim ownership of...Read More
The lecture was organized on 7th July, 2023, in the 5th year studio under the PICA Archilogics lecture Series 2023-24. The session was conducted under Semester IX Architectural Building services. Aim: To learn specialized services for Public Buildings Objective: To Observe and understanding In detailed layout, sections, & views of airport Hotel & Cinema design...Read More
As part of the PiCA Archilogics Lecture Series, the lecture titled ‘Hotel and Hospitality Design’ featured Architect Eranna Yekbote as the guest speaker on 7th July, 2023 in Conclave 2. The lecture was organized for semester V students as it is directly related to their ongoing architectural design project, the Wayside Amenity Centre on the...Read More
The lecture was arranged so as to connect students to the subject via their day to day activities. Kitchen being a part of every home, Organic Kitchen Gardening was helpful to engage students into the subject. The guest session by Mr. Harshad Ainapure was arranged along with the workshop on organic kitchen gardening where the...Read More
PiCA Thesis Forum is a lecture series where X-PiCAns present the process and outcome of their final-year Design Dissertations. It offers a platform for Design Dissertation discussions and the exchange of ideas between our students, faculty, and alumni. The Thesis Forum for Sem 9 students provided a platform for students from the previous year’s batch...Read More
As part of introducing the Sem II students to the nuances and processes involved in moving towards a process based design synthesizing stage, the intermediary stage of exploring and understanding of the different poetics of space through various existing built typologies of the given subject was being realized by organising two live case study visits...Read More
No. of Students attended the Lecture: 60 No. of Faculties attended the Lecture: 6 The lecture was organized on 25th February, 2023 on Google Meet at 10.00 a.m. under the PICA Archilogics lecture Series 2022-23. The session was conducted under Semester IV Architectural Design studio and was attended by majorly semester IV students & faculty...Read More
The session began with the introduction to speakers by Prof. Sarojini Lohot. Folds Design Studio. The firm works not just in architecture but they work in interiors, product design and fabrication too. They have a huge lab in Karjat. They also have an academy that teaches learners about the designing and execution of parametric architecture...Read More
HVAC is one of the most important services and there have been many innovations in this domain regarding making the systems more viable and cost effective. It is important to have thorough understanding of this topic for our faculty and students. We accepted invitation by Hitachi to go for 1 day training session at their...Read More
