BBLOX Design

If you’re a young architect with 2–3 years’ experience, and you love beautiful technical drawings on CAD, precise design details on SketchUp, and masterful physical models, we want you in our crew!

Bring your ideas, your craft, and maybe your (filter) coffee addiction. We’ll bring the projects worth bragging about!

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Let’s design spaces that make people go “Wow!”

Uday, Arjun and I are truly excited to announce that our social impact project, A School For the People By the People at Selenghat, Assam has been selected as one of the 6 finalists at Architecture-in-Development's Global Challenge. We will be partnering closely with Architecture-in-Development linking our grassroots efforts to a resource and advisory platform with experts, organizations and other projects from around the world! This is a huge moment for us and our friends at Karunar Kheti Trust.

"The A--D Global Challenge is not your usual competition. [...] It celebrates the ongoing efforts of self-built, community-led initiatives world-wide and offers them the stage they deserve" (Archdaily) and for showing "strong evidence of community engagement, team capacity, architectural added value, urgency, impact and feasibility at different scales, development phases and geographical locations". up to 202 different projects were entered into this global competition. Read more at: https://bit.ly/3CfCk1J

Meet the 6 Finalists of the Architecture-in-Development Global Challenge 2021 Architecture-in-Development (A--D) is proud to announce the six finalists of the 2021 Global Challenge. A--D will partner with these six teams in a...

Post 5/8: Building Beli Ghar

Our mission had been to firstly engage the community in constructing the first classroom thereby securing their ownership and second to elevate the experience through artistry.

With a hybrid foundation/plinth and built of bamboo, the classroom is a flexible and welcoming space for several community activities. Based on constant dialogue with the community, Uday and I prepared drawings that were then translated to the workers through a capacity building workshop. We worked with the community to build a scaled model to serve as a guide during the construction.

The design focused on transparency and ample ingress of daylight & ventilation - a foresight that is serving well in COVID times. The openings are covered in intricate crafted bamboo lattice works. The community added their touch by a choice of bright colours and even crafted the emblem of the Sun at the door.

Beli Ghar or House of the Sun is a name fondly given by the children of the community to this beautiful space. It is a symbol of acceptance and a most wonderful moment in our journey on this project.

We invite you to join us in this movement for grassroots social impact any way you can!

1. Consider making a tax-deductible donation to Karunar Kheti Trust on this link (Indian nationals only): https://bit.ly/3a8nNII
2.Consider donating your skill, time or expertise by reaching out to Arjun Trivedi, Uday Ranjan Goswami or Jayesh Ganesh. You can make a real impact!
3.Consider sharing this post and its contents on your personal and social networks and help us magnify the impact!

Selenghat Valley School’s unique architecture and social impact strategy has been recognized internationally by Architecture-in-Development’s Global Challenge! We are one of the 25 shortlisted entries in this challenge. Read more about the project and the key contributors by clicking this link: https://bit.ly/3Agdsop