Themed Travel Studio is based on concept based from ancient Tamil Literature categorising the various landscape regions named as the Sangam Landscapes – Neithal – Coast; Kurinji – Hills; Marutham – Farmland; Mullai – Forests; Paalai – Dessert.
Each year when they enter RVS, they enter with a landscape that is alotted to them. The First and the third semesters projects are predominantly themed under these landscape. The first venture under these themed studios is travel to villages along these themed landscapes learning and observing the nuances of the same.
TRAVEL THEMED STUDIOS – 2025
Foundation Studio – Island of Islands
International Travel themed Studio – Sri Lanka 2025, covering the cities of Colombo, Sigiriya, Dambulla, and Bentota. This educational journey had provided our students valuable exposure to Sri Lanka’s architectural heritage, urban settings, and natural landscapes, under the theme “Island of Islands.”
The students explored the works of Ar. Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka’s most celebrated architect, whose designs beautifully integrate nature, climate, and culture. Visiting his key projects allowed students to observe firsthand how architecture can respond sensitively to tropical contexts and landscapes—an important learning experience for their foundational design education.
The travel-themed studio will build upon the exercises and explorations from their Foundation Design Studio, providing an opportunity to engage with peers and faculty in Sri Lanka, exchange ideas, and develop contextual design responses through hands-on activities.
Colombo, Sigiriya, Dambulla, and Bentota
Ar.Shahir , Ar.Joanna,
Ar. Hema Malini, Ar.Jacinth
The Mullai Travel Themed Studio explores the forest landscape of the TAMIL NADU as a part of a concept study for the BASIC DESIGN.
Marutham are the plains with vast expansive land with a rich and a fertile land that can grow anything. Marutham is denoted by the farmland that feed the nation.
The name of the region, Kurinchi, is also the name of the famous Kurinji flower from the lofty hills of Tamil country. The Strobilanthes, a shrub whose brilliant white flowers blossom for only a few days once every ten or twelve years.
The seashore affords many examples of the compelling charm of Sangam poetry and the extraordinary freshness of its realism. From behind the conventional symbolization of waiting there emerges a picture of the life of the fisherfolk.
