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National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kangra

National Institute of Fashion Technology, located at Kangra, Himachal Pradesh; was commissioned to us as a winning entry during a National Level competition in 2009. The entire masterplan is designed as a zero discharge 'Green' campus is to be constructed on a steep hilly terrain within the existing old banyan, mango and silver oak trees. The concept for the NIFT Kangra begins with understanding fashion design as an art form, expressed through a combination of visual graphic with textural quality. We chose to weave the building with the surrounding context; a visual graphic of agricultural fields rich in textural depth and variations, as a natural growth, where paths in the forests grow into the streets of a future urban fabric and the fields translate into urban footprints. The knitting threads drawn from the existing agricultural terraces, were woven together to make a uniformly flowing pattern of many intersecting functional cuboids. The pattern closely follows the site contours and the design then develops vertically; as an abstraction of the way the Great Himalayas developed, layers of matter folding onto each other, twisting with sudden forces, leaving in between gaps or cracks in the process, that become the passages and places of various kinds of interactions.