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The Office of the development commissioner ( MSME),ministry of Micro ,small and medium enterprises ,Government of India ,and National Institute of Design recently launched the Design Clinic Scheme for design expertise to Micro ,small and medium enterprises (MSME) The objective of the scheme is to enhance industry understanding and application of design and innovation to promote design as a value add and integrate it into the mainstream and the industrial processes of MSMEs . The goal is to help MSME manufacturing industries move up the value chain,by switching the production mode,the emphasis will be on enriching design and marketing the end products ,besides giving importance to technology. The scheme is divided in two major parts -design awareness and Design Project funding .Awareness and sensitization will be created about the value and power of design for businesses ,through seminars ,talks ,workshops and other interactive methods. The MSMes will receive financial help ,should ...

“The basics of modern architecture were derived from pathbreaking revolutions, Inspiring minds to evolve techniques & materials to ensure different solutions.” INTRODUCTION The period from late 1800’s to the present has been described as one of the most creative & productive times in the history of architecture. Architects have used new materials & new building methods to develop the first completely new styles in centuries. The remarkable changes in architecture since the late 1800’s have emerged from the theories & works of some great architects. Many masterpieces of modern architecture were designed or influenced by some major architects. These include Frank Lloyd Wright of the U.S.A, Walter Gropius & Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe of Germany, Le Corbusier of France, Charles R Mackintosh of Great Britain, Louis-i-Kahn of U.S.A. ORIGIN & SOURCES OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE The various sources & factors that are responsible for the development of completely ...

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DEFINITIONS We have been liberally using the term ‘smart materials’ without precisely defining what we mean. Creating a precise definition, however, is surprisingly difficult. The term is already in wide use, but there is no general agreement about what it actually means. A quick review of the literature indicates that terms like ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ are used almost interchangeably by many in relation to materials and systems, while others draw sharp distinctions about which qualities or capabilities are implied. NASA defines smart materials as ‘materials that ‘‘remember’’ configurations and can conform to them when given a specific stimulus’,3 a definition that clearly gives an indication as to how NASA intends to investigate and apply them. A more sweeping definition comes from the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology: ‘smart materials and structures are those objects that sense environmental events, process that sensory information, and then act on the environment...

Missing from many of these efforts is the understanding of how boundaries physically behave. The definition of boundary that people typically accept is one similar to that offered by the Oxford English Dictionary: a real or notional line marking the limits of an area. As such, the boundary is static and defined, and its requirement for legibility (marking) prescribes that it is a tangible barrier – thus a visual artifact. For physicists, however, the boundary is not a thing, but an action. Environments are understood as energy fields, and the boundary operates as the transitional zone between different states of an energy field. As such, it is a place of change as an environment’s energy field transitions from a high-energy to low-energy state or from one form of energy to another. Boundaries are therefore, by definition, active zones of mediation rather than of delineation. We can’t see them, nor can we draw them as known objects fixed to a location. Breaking the paradigm of the ...

Orthographic projection in architectural representation inherently privileges the surface. When the three-dimensional world is sliced to fit into a two-dimensional representation, the physical objects of a building appear as flatplanes. Regardless of the third dimension of these planes, we recognize that the eventual occupant will rarely see anything other than the surface planes behind which the structure and systems are hidden. While the common mantra is that architects design space the reality is that architects make (draw) surfaces. This privileging of the surface drives the use of materials in two profound ways. First is that the material is identified as the surface: the visual understanding of architecture is determined by the visual qualities of the material. Second is that because architecture is synonymous with surface – and materials are that surface – we essentially think of materials as planar. The result is that we tend to consider materials in large two-dimensio...

The relationship between architecture and materials had been fairly straightforward until the Industrial Revolution. Materials were chosen either pragmatically – for their utility and availability – or they were chosen formally – for their appearance and ornamental qualities. Locally available stone formed foundations and walls, and high-quality marbles often appeared as thin veneers covering the rough construction. Decisions about building and architecture determined the material choice, and as such, we can consider the pre-19th century use of materials in design to have been subordinate to issues in function and form. Furthermore, materials were not standardized, so builders and architects were forced to rely on an extrinsic understanding of their properties and performance. In essence, knowledge of materials was gained through experience and observation. Master builders were those who had acquired that knowledge and the skills necessary for working with available materials, ofte...

Smart planes –  Intelligent houses – Shape memory textiles – Micro machines – self-assembling structures – Color-changing paint – Nano systems.  The vocabulary of the material world has changed dramatically since 1992, when the first ‘smart material’ emerged commercially in, of all things, snow skis. Defined as ‘highly engineered materials that respond intelligently to their environment’, smart materials have become the ‘go-to’ answer for the 21st century’s technological needs. Use of Nano materials in Architecture NASA is counting on smart materials to spearhead the first major change in aeronautic technology since the  development of hypersonic flight, and the US Defense Department envisions smart materials as the linchpin technology behind the ‘soldier of the future’, who will be equipped with everything from smart tourniquets to chameleon-like clothing. At the other end of the application spectrum, toys as basic as ‘Play-Doh’ and equipment as ubiquitous as la...

Seating infront of my drafting table i was just thinking of my past architecure studies and life...submissions,those late night studies , elevanth our model making , runnig for plotting , xeroxing the jurnals , computer failure befor the day of submissions....list will go on.. that was amazing..but whats the different between us and the other students like medical or enggi students? what do u think?? is there an difference??