VASTUKRITY INTEGRATED SOCIETY FOR STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE VISSA Newsletter                                                                 Page 1 ]

VASTUKRITY INTEGRATED SOCIETY FOR STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE VISSA Newsletter                                                                 Page 1 ]

VASTUKRITY INTEGRATED SOCIETY FOR STUDENTS
OF ARCHITECTURE
VISSA Newsletter Page 1
MESSAGE FROM THE H.O.D‐
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Our Vision
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To build a vibrant multicultural
learning environment founded on value
based academic principles, wherein all
involved shall contribute effectively,
efficiently and responsibly to the
nation and global community.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
•Message from the Director.
•Message from the H.O.D •N.A.S.A.
•Nimbus
•Hill’ffair
•Placements and •Placements and
Awards •VISSA activities
•Sports desk
•Change in syllabus
Issue no 1
The department has always aimed to provide a
practical knowledge to the students. This helps
them fit according to the need of the time. The
drudging nights before submissions prepare the
student entering the institute, become a
professional. The presentation skills improved
during the viva voce were well reflected during the
various events like NASA, NIMBUS and paper
presentations in IIT ROORKEE.
ROORKEE The performance of
the department during last semester was
commendable. The efforts made by the faculty staff
and students are highly appreciable. I wish them a
continuum success in the future.
February 2008
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Following the
Footprints
R.E.C. Hamirpur provided a platform to
the zest of various palpable ideas by
starting the course of B.Arch in the year
2002.
The torch holder was the batch of 12
students, guided by the faculty of five
teachers, under ER. R.L. SHARMA of civil
engineering department, N.I.T Hamirpur;
as the HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT.
R.E.C. turned N.I.T. Hamirpur girded for
the 20th rank in India .The platform built
seven years back, actuated a series of
creative yet chaste ideas. The flare of
these efforts still sparkles with every
single fest of the institute, may it be the
cultural,”hill’ffair”, technical,” nimbus”,
or the enthusiastic sports meet,”lalkaar”.
A class of 12 students today stands as
department of creative minds.
The building of the department is
expected to be an aesthetical landmark
in the campus.
Issue no 1
Faculty
The faculty of 12 members is y
working and delivering it’s best under the H.O.D., AR. I.P. SINGH.
Professors:
• AR. Minakshi Jain
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Asst. Professors:
• AR. I.P. Singh
• AR.Bhanu Marwaha
Lecturers
• AR. AMANJEET KAUR • AR. AMITAVA SARKAR
• AR. VANDANA SHARMA
AR VANDANA SHARMA
• AR. VENU SHREE
• AR. SANDEEP SHARMA
• AR. SARITA SOOD
• AR. NEETU KAPOOR
Technical Staff
• SH. Ajay Gupta
• SH. Sukhdev Singh
• AR. Reeta Singh
February 2008
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JANUARY‐MAY (2007)
Recently passed semester can provide a good insight to the creativity Recently
passed semester can provide a good insight to the creativity
and potential of the students.
NASA’ised-JANUARY . (9TH
– 11TH)
NASA or the National Association for the Students of Architecture was started
in 1957 with an aim to beautify and harmonize the fast developing free India by
becoming a common platform for interaction between architecture students
from around the country. Now in its 50th year, NASA has proven itself as the
torchbearer for these architecture students whose number is increasing every
year.
Every year, NASA hosts an extravagant
convention where every architecture
college from around the country
participates. NASA has an all‐student
administration
body
having
2
representatives each, from every
participating college. These are addressed
as the Unit. Secretary (U.Sec) and the unit
designee (U.D.)of that college. Also, the
group of students that represent the
college with U.D and U.Sec are addressed
as the delegates of that college.
Issue no 1
February 2008
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This year, the annual NASA
convention was held in
Manipal
Institute
of
Technology,
which
was
celebrating its 50th year
golden jubilee. Our college
participated
in
the
convention. A DELEGATION
OF 32 STUDENTS was sent to
attend the same.
same
The delegation was headed by MR.VARUN GOEL as the unit secretary and
MR. ARJUN UPPAL as the unit designee. The delegation consisted of 10
students from 2nd year and 22 from 3rd year.
The fest was a 4 day of fun,
fun sketching,
sketching dancing,
dancing model making,
making singing,
singing
concept development, debating, group discussions etc.
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February 2008
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NASA’ised.........
DAY 1:
DAY
1:
The delegation started from college campus on 2nd January and after
visiting various architectural sites in Bangalore, reached MIT campus on
9th January morning. The first
day of NASA saw thousands of
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architecture students from around the country, coming to MIT for the
biggest architecture fest in the whole of the world. The fest was a 4 day
of fun, sketching, dancing, model making, singing, concept
development, debating, group discussions etc.
DAY 2:
The day‐2 started with events and competitions. The events consisted of
formal lectures like Seminar by Ar. K. Jaisim (attended by richa ) , breathless
(Shubhra pande) to informal acts like feather lite(Mansi and Vimalpreet ),
Michelangelo(Pravesh,Richa,Piyush , Udaideep)
, shoot (Pankaj),
chameli(Swati
(
and Isha),
), movers and shakers(Shweta
(
,,Swati , Shabri)) . The
ideas were well pictured in the theatre workshop(Mithila Mattoo) and
under pressure(Piyush and Richa) and Impromptu events like Rang de
Basanti(Pravesh and Inderjeet) and a stitch in time (Varun and Shweta). Two
amazing SEMINARS on Mega structures and interiors in hospitality sector
buildings
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and PRERNA BANSAL
The second day was the starter for the maximum prize winner (observer
college ) , NIT Hamirpur.
The day ended with a very colorful cultural show by various colleges from
around the country.
y The dayy also saw the CULTURAL COMPETITION in which
MR. NISHANT and MR. PRAVESH . ave a stupendous performance.
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DAY3:
The day 3 was full of excitement as The Parikrama was scheduled to perform in
the evening. The day was jam‐packed with events showing a motivating team
spirit of the students.
It included events like spatial,
spatial auto,
auto lights –camera‐action,
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tungsten, Limerick, circa3000, need for speed and gray cell voltage.
Day 4:
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The last day grabbed few more experiences for the NITIANS on the mega platform of NASA 2007. The events conducted were scrubs(Inderjeet),
platform of NASA 2007. The events conducted were scrubs(Inderjeet), kaleidoscope( Nishant and Isha) , Dirty Dancing( Swati and Shweta) , Kam se Kam (Ashwani) , Aryabhatt( Richa and Pankaj) , Embo act( Piyush and Mitali) , Hot wheels( Anish and Pravesh) and Rhombus in the air (Udaideep , Naveen and Vimalpreet). The day also saw 2 great seminars by Ar. Shahrukh Mistry and by Ar. Uttam C.
The day also saw 2 great seminars by Ar. Shahrukh Mistry and by Ar. Uttam C. Jain which were attended by Shubhra and Swati respectively.
In the prize distribution ceremony, the college was adjudged with 7 prizes and 1 individual prize for pravesh in a
1 individual prize for pravesh in a painting competition arranged by camlin. The celebrations done and farewells said to newly made friends the delegation headed back to Hamirpur only to come back next year
Hamirpur only to come back next year as PERMANENT MEMBERS of this mighty and evergrowing NASA family. Since the return, the Unit secretary and Designee, under the sincere support of the faculty members; have been continuously working to join the next NASA as permanent members. We hope to bring more glory to the college this time and in years to come.
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NIMBUS’2007
Nimbus’07 proved to be a major step ahead for the architecture department.
Till now nimbus was symbolized as a technical fest with not even a speck of
architecture,, but this time the department
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the rest of the college. The efforts put in the fest were highly acclaimed by all
the other departments and its students.
A team was formed with around 6 to 7 students from each class that organized
. students namely Shweta Raghaw,Mansi
all the events and architecture
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Four formal events were held which were elucidated on the nimbus website
www.festnimbus.org under Arjun Uppal and Atif Raza, second year.
Where HUMPTY DUMPTY, a balanced event which refreshed and exercised the structural efficiency of architecture students as well as the civil students.MODELLO extracted innovative ideas for the revival of NIT gate. The design competition was the major g
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The major attraction were the documentaries on BHUJ EARTHQUAKE AND
MEXICO CITY EARTHQUAKE, screened in auditorium which well‐versed the
students with the mechanism and the devastating effects of earthquakes as
well as the structural precautions that are ought to be taken for earthquake
resistant buildings.
To be mentioned was the special seminar on CHANDIGARH CITY given byAR.
JIT KUMAR GUPTA, which enlightened the students and the faculty about
the Le Corbusier’s city.
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Congregating the whole organization of nimbus’07 by architecture
department, it was a major step taken ahead in the field of technical fests
and it gave the substantiation of the magnetism of architecture department
and its students.
HILLFFAIR’06
As always, Hill’ffair again proved to be a benchmark for the coming
Hill’ffairs. The various clubs of the cultural fest put a lot of hard work for
its success. The participation of students from architecture department
was easily noticeable. They were found sharing their creative ideas and
magical talent in 10 clubs out of the total of 14 Hill’Ffair clubs.
The architecture students left their mark on fine arts club and the
decoration club.
The list of the position holders in various clubs
DECORATION CLUB:
For the decoration club, it was rather more architecture club as all the
major posts were under taken by architecture students from third year
to then final year.
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Decoration Club
The complete first year batch
devoted their sincerityy and ideas for
the club .
The imagination and ideas of
architecture students were clearly
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‘ILLUSTRATIONS’ that was taken upon
for the decorative treatment of the
college and OAT. Here again the work
was highly admired where the
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cloth.
Convener Tushar Shrivastava
Co‐Convener
Nishant Rai
Sh t R h
Shweta Raghav
Co‐Ordinators
Varun goel
Eram Chauhan
Jaskirat Sangra
Exe members
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Sugandha harti
Sugandha Bharti
Prachi Chauhan
Isha Lahori
Vanita Verma
Swati Dhiman
Anish Madhav
Prerna Bansal
Prerna Bansal
Vijay
Mansi
Shabri Shaily
volunteers
Convener Ashwani Kumar
Co‐Convener
Udaideep
Rishiraj
Co‐Ordinators
Co
Ordinators
Exe members
Nikhil Sharma
Nikhil
Sharma
Amrit Banerjee
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Fine Arts Club
The post of the CONVENER of fine arts club was undertaken by ASHWANI KUMAR, B.arch, third year. The fine arts club did a commendable job with the efforts of the rest of the members. The “break free” on the stage was highly appreciated. October 2007
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Dance Club
Dramatics Club
Convener Mithila Mattoo
Convener Piyush Bhakre
Co‐Convener
Chandan Singh
Co‐Ordinators
C O di t
Co‐Ordinators
Shabri Shail
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Vimalpreet Monika patir
Abhishek Kukde
Yogesh Sood
Sparya Sharma
Sparya Sharma
Vivek Ananda
Inderjeet
Shweta Gautam
Exe members
volunteers
Nipun Behl
Princi Soni
Princi Soni
volunteers
Aditya Rahul
Kshama Dwevedi
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Music Club
Informal Club
Convener
Convener Pravesh Chauhan
Pravesh Chauhan
Convener Mithila Mattoo
Exe members
Ruchira Shrivastav
Kavit Sood
Nitin Virat
Co‐Convener
Isha Lahori
Co‐Ordinators
Anant Maria
Sagrika
Ratna Ghosh
Princi Soni
volunteers
Shipra kharwal
volunteers
Organisation Club
Exe Members
Sparya Sharma
Volunteers Heena Hussain
Timsy Garg
Security Exe Members
English Club
Convener Issue no 1
Inderjeet
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Pankaj Garhwal
Shubra Pandey
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On an exalting avenue
Paper presentation in I.I.T. Roorkee:
Apart from this the talented students of our institute participated in National level paper presentations and achieved quite a high level of appreciation. Most important among them was the techfest at I.I.T.‐
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Roorkee held during March. The following students of our department won prizes:‐
S .No.
Name of the participant
Topic Prize 1.
Riyan Habeeb
Mitali Katoch
Culture in the city
1st prize
2.
Anoop Sharma
Tushar Shrivastava
Digital Designing and Analysis
1st prize
PLACEMENTS AND AWARDS:‐
Coming to the placements of the department in the near past, ours was the proud department, giving campus recruitment to more than half of the strength, and that too in reputed firms and companies. Many of them preferred studying further and got selected in National Level Institutes like S.P.A. and the I.I.T.s.
Many of the students of the last passed out batch were well placed in firms like ARIHANT ENGG. ,NEW DELHI(Sachin Patil), ARCOP ASSOCIATES ,GURGAON(Sachin Sharma,Sujeet Kumar, Baljeet ,Parikshit Thakur).ADROITEC PVY. LTD.,NOIDA(Somitree Devdutt, Rahul Bhaskar,Anshu Dadwal, Shrutika Sharan) D.L.F. PVT. LTD. NOIDA(Abhay Chandel,Kamal Kishore,Swati Mahajan,Rashmi kuthleria, Aishni Chaudhary, Richa Sharma) GOSWAMI ASSOCIATES .
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Others are pursuing their post graduation from leading technical institutes i.e., I.I.T KHARAGPUR( Purshottam kesar,M.Arch) and I.I.T. ROORKEE ( Navneet Munoth. M.urb.)
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VISSA is an organization providing a platform to all the architecture students, where they can show their talents. It is working on new ways of developing .
interest in the subject and imparting qualities like team work amongst the students of the department.
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Weekly events like quiz, group discussions make the upcoming professionals fit for public interactions.
Also the creative part is enhanced by organizing events like sketching, painting and model making.
The V.I.S.S.A. team for the new session 2007‐2008 was encouraged by AR. AMANJEET KAUR.The management of the organization has been given in the hands of students which help them realize the importance of management skills.However , timely guidance is provided by all the faculty members and the H.O.D. The present posts of PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT are very well handled by MR.CHANDAN SINGH and MISS SHUBHRA PANDE.
The whole department has been divided into four groups, viz., ARYANS,
EGYPTIANS, ROMANS and GREEKS.
ARYANS
• CONVENER‐
• CO‐CONVENER
EGYPTIANS
• CONVENER‐
• CO‐CONVENER
GREEKS
• CONVENER‐
• CO‐CONVENER
ROMANS
• CONVENER‐
• CO‐CONVENER
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EVENTS ORGANIZED :
V.I.S.S.A. rejuvenated it’s activities from the very starting of the session 2007‐
2008.The events are planned with the vision of imparting team spirit and confidence amongst the students . A unanimous decision was thus taken ,to organize the events during the weekends , in order to ensure maximum h
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The first event conducted was:” SOLVE THE IMBROGLIO”, which was a hot group discussion. The topics chosen were both entertaining and educational, .
with a motive of imparting interesting knowledge to each and every one witnessing the event.The event was judged by AR. AMITAVA SARKAAR .
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Participation from 75% of student strength made it a mega success.
The very next week , an audio –visual quiz showed the interest of architecture students towards the history , general knowledge , sports , contemporary techniques and so on.
Events like “LOGO DESIGN”, “GLASS PAINTING” attracted students outside the department along with the organizing branch.
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WORKS OF COMMENDATION
The work of measured drawing, done by third year students, which covered the “BAIJNATH TEMLE”, KANGRA, was highly appreciated.
Second year students covered the “MAHAKALI TEMPLE”, SARAHAN , under the d
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tour for measured drawing .Five entries were sent for A.N.D.C. trophy. This was the very first N.A.S.A. entry, submitted by N.I.T. Hamirpur. All the five enteries have been selected for the semi finals .Apart from the academics , students have also been participating in design competitions like “TRANSPERENCE “.
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EXPOSURE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD:
The department of B. Arch has been organizing education trips during the end of each semester. These trips include jaunts to nearby places, to far of destinations ,where historical and contemporary architecture persists. Other tours are organized in between the semester, in order to satisfy the need of imparting i di b
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These educational tours also includes visit to zonal and annual nasa.
The five‐year course introduces the students to most of the cultures of the country. .
This also helps them in deciding the best suitable architecture for a place, and thus practicing sustainable architecture.
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Sports Desk
Archians known for their innumerous nights outs, inhumane toil showed the world that there was much more to them other than obscure lines and modern art. Some of the outcomes of sports meet 2007 popularly known as LALKAAR worthy of notice are following:‐
•Isha lahori from 3rd year showed a stupendous performance by winning gold medals in relay race and silver medal in 100 m, girls race.
•Jaskirat Sangra added another halo by winning 2 gold medals in shot‐put and g
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•Another active participant in the sports arena was Shweta Gautam second year who came second in 100 m and was also the captain of the women's basketball team.
• Kshama Dwivedi first year crowned overall girls champion for bagging the gold in y
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100 m, 200 m and high jump. •Ashish and Rakesh Mishra (final year) hold positions in the college’s cricket team.
•Atif won a gold and a silver medal during the mega event, “lalkaar”.
These are among the many other highlights of sporting season that NIT Hamirpur saw last summer from archians.With the new season beginning one can expect g
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Change In Syllabus
Introduction of new subjects like Mathematics, Computers and Engineering Drawing has opened new horizons of learning and understanding the basic as any other engineering student. In short the paradigms of architecture are not been restricted to creativity alone instead amalgamated with technological .
aspects as well. Adding to this, students will get new opportunities for their placements in various technical fields too.
This new addition will make architecture students eligible for the placements in software companies.
Also, this bridging with technical subjects will provide more options during post graduation courses.
The introduction to new subjects will not only help in the enhancement of individuals’ skills, but it will also help in easy adaptation to technical fields and team work.
The Editorial Team
The very first edition aimed at covering the introduction he very first edition aimed at covering the introduction
to the department as a creative and educational hub for the students. We have tried to reflect the present position of the department of architecture. V.I.S.S.A. aims at intensifying the glory of the success reached by architecture family in last 5 years
architecture family in last 5 years.
Teacher Incharge‐ Ar. Amanjeet Kaur
Editor‐ Shubhra Pande.
Literature‐Shabri Shally,Arjun Uppal,Pranjal Vajpayee ,Nishant Rai.
Design‐Udaideep .
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Send your views to‐ [email protected]
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