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THE NOMAD'S ABODES the design practice of Girish Dariyav Karnawat Siddhartha, May 2o11 an attempt to break away from the familiar.
On graduating in the first quarter of the '90s Girish Dariyav Karnawat soon realized the limitations of architectural education in preparing an individual to take a design beyond the drawing board and through the other half that constitutes project execution: dealing with the numerous other participants involved, running a project and building it on site. The coming decade was to bring upon GDK the 'real' training.
Though working with various architects in Ahmedabad and Zurich in the first half of the decade brought him valuable experience, it is the second half of the decade that would prove to be a critical period of transition. An attempt at setting up office in Ahmedabad in the third quarter of the decade met with severely discouraging results. Nonetheless, his assistance to Kurula Varkey at the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad and, later on, engagements with the studio of Bijoy Jain in Alibag offered GDK critical insights into the discipline and practice of architecture.
In 2001 he moved base to Mumbai to set up ATELIER GDK: a unique one-man architectural practice that would be his primary medium for addressing concerns of tradition, creativity, intention, contextuality, education and industry.

"…the practice of architecture cannot be confined to mere consultancy…"
In almost two decades since GDK's graduation a lot many tools - hard and soft - have flooded the processes of conceiving and realizing buildings. However, we are left wanting in how far the discipline of architecture has progressed in its education and in the industry which materializes it. It is noticeable from a random pick of projects and cities that as architects our homes are yet to celebrate the mundane and our urbanities are yet to accommodate the humane. Architecture, in a misplaced sense of identity, is made to compete with a myopic form of 'media'. Sensational imagery is the currency which has displaced the sensorial, the tactile, the serene and even the cultural and climatic appropriateness from buildings. Perhaps we can console ourselves that it is the government agencies and the real estate developers - the largest patrons to today's imaginations on built environments - who are responsible for short-changing our habitats for unsustainable shiny caskets. However, through inaction, we are sharing the pie as well. Architectural enterprises which engage in commissions for the sole purpose of sustenance turn a blind eye to their impact on the environment - in the broadest and deepest sense of the term. The young are learning from this race of mediocrity which perpetuates sensationalism. Mistaking glamour for power does irreparable damage - it corrupts the potential of cultures to grow.
GDK, nevertheless, seeks real power. Indeed, the kind that comes with equal or greater responsibility. He'd rather dwell into the appropriateness of a prospective project than worry about the pay check of an apathetic employee. Though it has its share of anxieties, this one-man-and-a-project-assistant enterprise is light on foot and unburdened by the paraphernalia of the white-collar clergy. Over the last decade, when and where-ever he has moved - Ahmedabad, Surat, Alibag, Mumbai, Goa, Bengaluru and Mangaluru (current base) - the bare essentials have travelled with him. This nomadic existence is owing to the enterprise's subservient relation to design; design encompassing the studio as well as the site.
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The East edge of the house forms the entrance passage, flanked by the building on one side and by a compound wall on the other, which rises to brace the water tower at the South-East vertex. The terrace line acting as the edifice on the right while moving up the entrance passage climbs down a flight of steps to reveal the arrival court - the prelude to the experience, located at the node anchoring the two arms of the 'L' of the house-form, which corresponds to the plot geometry. Each arm accommodates a generous.

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