The document discusses Taha Padrawala, an Indian architect, urbanist, and educator. It provides details about his educational background and professional experience, noting that he has designed various projects in India ranging from urban planning to interior design. It also mentions that he has been actively involved in civic and urban issues in Vadodara and has written and lectured extensively on architecture, conservation, and urban planning.

1. Taha Padrawala (b.1989) is an architect, urbanist and educator who is the Founder Principal of Al-Taha
Architects and is Assistant Professor at College of Architecture, SVIT, Vasad. Taha has designed projects
that range from recycling urban land and master planning in Vadodara to the design of art spaces,
boutiques, weekend houses, factories, social institutes and office buildings across India – thereby
engaging diverse issues, multiple constituencies and varying scales: from interior design and architecture
to urban design, conservation and planning.
He studied at the College of Architecture, SVIT,Vasad graduated (2012) with a Master’s Degree in Masters
of Planning (Rural Planning and Management) with distinguished Student Award from the CEPT
University at Ahmedabad (2014). Apart from his engagement with the design of buildings, Taha has been
actively involved in civic and urban affairs in Vadodara, having served on commissions for historic
preservation and environmental issues, with various neighborhood groups. He was the Executive
committee member of IIA Baroda Centre (since 2015).
Taha has written and lectured extensively on issues to do with architecture, conservation and urban
planning in Vadodara and Ahmedabad.

2. YAC aims to promote contemporary projects that embody a temporal and personal approach
of architectural space.
Idea is the keyword, Architecture is the answer and project is the medium through which
intuition is transformed into object.
YAC-Young Architects Competition
Brief about Site Condition
‘Surrounded by an enchanting natural backdrop, the building
creates a unique relation between architecture and landscape,
the natural and the artificial being the most proper context for
the creation of a school whose mission regards the values of
sustainability and environmental eco-compatibility.’
The new facility will feature classrooms, conference areas,
laboratories, exhibition galleries, apartments and a gym. A
children’s museum – featuring an educational theme park – a
science and recycling museum, a green business incubator,
training center and lifestyle academy will also be included.
Proposals must not demolish the iconic triangle-plan structure
but may remove some interior walls and floors to reconfigure
the space. Concepts should feature green spaces, passive
energy systems and a strategy for rationalizing water and
electricity.
The project is part of the ‘Restart from Beauty’ initiative which
aims to restore disused industrial spaces across the Bolonga
region and promote new ethical entrepreneurship.

3. • An open international competition has been launched to transform an abandoned 5,000m² paper
factory into a new green academy in Marzabotto, Italy
• Backed by Italian recycling firm Dismeco, the contest seeks ideas for a new ‘high-level and ludic-
experiential’ centre focusing on ecology and sustainable development.
• Designed by acclaimed Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, the 1954 factory produced paper for
Rizzoli Editore print publications but shut down in 2006 amid challenging market conditions and is
now owned by Dismeco.
• According to the brief: ‘Dismeco knows well that a better world is only possible with an
increasingly widespread environmental awareness. That is why Dismeco, thinking about future
generations, aims at creating in its building the first and most excellent school in the world
dedicated to ecology and sustainability.
• ‘In one of the most innovative industrial areas, regarding recovery and disposal of waste, the
“recycling” of an architecture will enable the creation of the first and most important school of
ecology and sustainability aimed at transforming the building into a global epicenter for a more
responsible society and a more sustainable future.’
Competition: Green Academy, Bologna

4. • Life and death are unavoidable part of human life .
• Marzabotto ,Italy as city owns history of massacre in year 1911 where
more than 800 civilians lost there life. death is permanent termination
of all life processes in an organism.
• similarly, paper factory started in 950 AD had to face shutdown
whereas life pertains to the significance of living or existence.
• DISMOCO’s initiative to create Green Academy will definitely add new
chapter in new life form of sustainable living into city’s growth story.
• Dismeco is aiming to design its own green academy to become the
most acknowledged international reference in research, training and
development of sustainable disciplines.
• DISMOCO’s green academy is barometers of social, cultural and
technical change. A significant architectural impact should be seen in
terms of quantity and quality of space required to process, store and
exhibit collections. A single type of space is not appropriate for all
types of collections.
Design Strategy

5. Design Strategy

6. LIF
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Life and death are unavoidable part of human life .
Concept

7. Design Development

8. About Building Material

9. ClimateAnalysis

10. ClimateAnalysis

11. Sections
• The unavoidable pace of contemporary life demands that these new spaces allow visitors
to multi-task at a single location: relax, meet with friends, spend time with kids, get a bite to
eat, in addition to the more purely gallery activities of viewing exhibitions, attending
workshops, conducting research etc. hence the challenge here is to create experiences for
visitors that cannot be had elsewhere

12. Universal
Design

13. Universal

14. Thank You
“To create architecture is
to put in order.
Put what in order !
Function and objects.”
-Le Corbusier
“The best advice I've
received is to be yourself.
The best artists do that.”
- Frank Gehry