This Thesis is The Thesis

For those who came in late: In the early months of 2011, I was required to present a thesis on Architectural Design. My search for a topic started with a Resort in a hill station and ended in a Marine Park and Research Centre facility on the coast. At this stage, you're supposed to have an opinion on Architecture, and must have formed some sort of hypothesis (how I came to dislike that word!) that you would test in your Thesis. With some struggle, I decided my hypothesis would explore the generation of a form that would reflect the connection between Man and Sea, between recreation and research... (This is ArchiSpeak, or A.S. You've probably heard of it as B.S., but that is soooo 1990s, dahling)

Though I am a functionalist, this hypothesis steered me in the direction of form exploration, a painful journey, but with sweet enough fruit at the end. 

If you'd like to get a whiff, here's the link.

As with my slightly more painful Dissertation, just gimme a little credit if you use any part of it.

If the final form wasn't exciting enough for you, forgive me on two counts:

• I've never bothered about Form before, with the firm conviction that the Functions will generate the Form if they're in the right place
• The final design was done in less than a month, as a drastic jump from its previous avatar

Brought back from long absence, a haiku to mark the occasion:

Form follows Function

But with a slip of the tongue

Function follows Form

Mental note: Must haiku more.