BA (Hons) Architecture: Year Three

This project proposes a residential landmark in India designed around solar-responsive architecture and community living. The development is carefully orientated and formed to work with the sun, using precise time-based shading strategies so that the building provides shade to residents at key moments throughout the day. The design balances unity and privacy by creating shared community spaces that encourage social interaction, while also protecting private dwellings through layered thresholds, screened façades, and shaded courtyards. By integrating climate, light, and time into the architecture, the project demonstrates how form can respond intelligently to environment while enhancing comfort, identity, and everyday life for its residents. Underpinning this approach is the concept of time-based architecture, where the building is not conceived as a static object but as a spatial system that unfolds through the hours of the day and across seasonal cycles. Here, time becomes a design material: sunlight is choreographed, shadow is shaped, and architecture is experienced as a fixed form instead of living without relief from the sun.

Time-Based architecture shaped by the movement and intensity of India’s sun