Fractals Workshop

The Digital Vernacular is back with WeaveX 4.0: HyPArray! Coming soon to a town near you, #Telangana! The use of GenAI tools does not necessarily mean a disconnect from reality or tangible, material, experiential space. In this project for a prototypical vernacular bus shelter design for cities across Telangana, our process integrated computational design and physical formfinding: creating a dialog between the gestural and the vernacular, the speculative and the contextual. Design doesn’t have to be all digital or all analog: many kinds of tools, methods and approaches can come together to make the designer’s vision a reality. Special thanks to @layerlabz_3d and @hason_machine_2_precision for their timely support in creating this model.

A talk in the park! I love startup events. There’s this unique energy, drive, potential, and unfounded conviction that entrepreneurs bring that’s unparalleled and unkillable. This kind of borderline-delusional optimism I rarely see in the rest of the world and I relate to it, hard. When I meet a fellow founder, we speak our own unique language that others just don’t get. Listening to someone at the beginning of their journey takes me back: starting @designaware as a grad student with a laptop and a dream, in a corner of the @aadrl l, the @fractalsworkshop (when I had no way of knowing how the learning economy would boom), and more recently @buildaware (in the middle of the pandemic!). The world-changing idea, the curiosity, the nerve-wracking uncertainty, the joy of discovery, the creativity, the journey, at once backbreaking and highly rewarding; I’d choose it every time. Starting up is addictive, and that’s why serial entrepreneurs exist. This panel at @founders.fest 2026 was one of the most enjoyable ones I’ve been a part of, because it wasn’t about design or architecture. It was about leadership through collaboration, but also about running your own company, how we all approach it in different ways. What I appreciated was that we veered away from focusing on our identities as women, and instead centered on practice, decisions, struggles, and growth. I also enjoyed the startup pitches by students of VIP International School, starting them young, and more importantly, encouraging them to fail confidently. Many thanks to @merajismeraj for inviting me to be a part of this well-curated event, a front-row seat to a slice of #Telangana ‘s startup ecosystem. And why don’t we have more events in parks?! A pleasant winter day in the heritage setting of Public Gardens was the perfect way to start the year (and a rare chance to wear my aunt’s Kashmiri coat in #Hyderabad!). Last pic: Public Gardens gate seen through the Peacock designed by students of @csiit_hyd in a @fractalsworkshop during @hyderabaddesignweek . #entrepreneurship #startup #education

Terraced in Tehran // Becoming architecture: Generative AI diffusion models make it possible to communicate architectural ideas before static outcomes, as an evolving conceptual thought process. A ceramic vase with a curvaceous twist stacked and aggregated was reimagined as a terraced tower, its white marble massing echoing ceramic form, green terraces punctuated with copper accents, rooted in Tehran’s context. Veo 3.1 beautifully depicts the growth and aggregation down to the subtle sound of ceramic clinking! This kind of generative AI video becomes a powerful way to narrate conceptual intent, inviting viewers into the “becoming of architecture.” Created during the latest In Search of a Prompt workshop with @ceptsws .

Terraced in Tehran // Becoming architecture: Generative AI diffusion models make it possible to communicate architectural ideas before static outcomes, as an evolving conceptual thought process. A ceramic vase with a curvaceous twist stacked and aggregated was reimagined as a terraced tower, its white marble massing echoing ceramic form, green terraces punctuated with copper accents, rooted in Tehran’s context. Veo 3.1 beautifully depicts the growth and aggregation down to the subtle sound of ceramic clinking! This kind of generative AI video becomes a powerful way to narrate conceptual intent, inviting viewers into the “becoming of architecture.” Created during the latest In Search of a Prompt workshop with @ceptsws .

Terraced in Tehran // Becoming architecture: Generative AI diffusion models make it possible to communicate architectural ideas before static outcomes, as an evolving conceptual thought process. A ceramic vase with a curvaceous twist stacked and aggregated was reimagined as a terraced tower, its white marble massing echoing ceramic form, green terraces punctuated with copper accents, rooted in Tehran’s context. Veo 3.1 beautifully depicts the growth and aggregation down to the subtle sound of ceramic clinking! This kind of generative AI video becomes a powerful way to narrate conceptual intent, inviting viewers into the “becoming of architecture.” #architecture #conceptualdesign #generativedesign #artificialintelligence

Fractals 35.0: The Digital Vernacular 5.0 at @council_of_architecture_india Teachers Training Program

#LetsFLOCKtogether #trend #cinematic #wideangle #ultrawideangle #5120x1080 #workshop #studio #collective #architecture #design #computation #timelapse #digitalfabrication #aesthetic #interlock

Learning from master craftspersons // Artisans have perfected traditional techniques in natural material passed down from master to apprentice over generations. Learning these age-old crafts directly from the experts, as well as an understanding of materiality, supply chains and material lifecycles, informs our approach to design exploration in research, pedagogy and fabrication. Working under bamboo fabricators in Vellore, students of vsparcmakes designed and built a series of pavilions during the @fractalsworkshop 15.0: ProtoFolly in 2017. The 10-day workshop resulted in 8 parametric bamboo pavilions placed in the Woodstock forest at @vellore_vit . #architecture #design #materiality #prototyping #process #artisanal #naturalmaterials #traditional #craft #renewableresources #sustainability #vellore

Happy World Bamboo Day! #Throwback to an early 10-day bamboo design-and-build Fractals Workshop 15.0: ProtoFolly held at @vellore_vit in collaboration with @autuni with participants from @official.rvca and @bmsca_official . A series of eight pavilions was designed and fabricated by students, learning the techniques of building with bamboo from local expert craftspersons and applying them to generative complex geometries and structural experiments. This workshop was a part of our design research The Digital Vernacular, in which we explore ways of creating a dialog between natural material, traditional craft, and computational design processes inspired by the growth patterns of natural systems. #bamboo #architecture #designbuild #fabrication #construction #fractals #computationaldesign #craft #designresearch

#Repost @klaf_my A step into the future! As architecture shifts its gears into the innovations of technology DATUM: TECH 2025 convened by Ar. Azlan Syarawi, the event opens with a presentation by Ms. Takbir Fatima of DesignAware, India presenting her charity works and her integration of AI into construction, followed by Mr. Abdul Shakir Abu Samah and his “colorful” insight into FILAMEN and their works of light projection mapping onto heritage architecture. The short tea-break heightened spirits up as audiences jumped back into PlanRadar’s presentation on BIM and trending digital technology from Austria and ended with Mr. Mon Qu’s exploration of installations representing United Make, Australia!

FLOCK displayed at @onpaperofpaper , an exhibition of paper art in various forms, treatments and scales, curated by @ankonmitra as a part of @indiadesignid 2024. The next iteration of FLOCK takes the form of an intensive technical workshop for design and digital fabrication enthusiasts in #Hyderabad and will be held under the @DesignAware -ness lab within the world-class prototyping facilities of @tworkshyd . Apply via link in bio. DM us if you have any questions!