Thinking architecture outside college

Thinking architecture outside college | Part 13

Aslah and Thanvi were students from Mangalore. Though Aslah was a malayalee, Thanvi could figure out only few of the phrases we spoke in Malayalam because she is from Kudla. Thanks to them I was able to brush up my English again. It was awesome working with them in the office. Aslah would be mostly confined to her personal space inside the office, while Thanvi could be seen chasing me because I poured water on her. Gokul was decently a noble gas. I do regret the fact that I didn’t spend much time hanging out with Thanvi and Aslah outside the office.

Gokul is an artist. He travels a lot whenever he gets a chance. He don’t usually visit places for hangouts, but he like to explore. So we would travel by foot frequently when we have time and energy after office. We used bus for reaching the town and from there we would walk. We used to visit the beach always. Drinking Masala tea at Mugadar beach was our hobby as it enhanced our interest to explore the city. One of our senior had set up his design studio along with his friends near the beach. We at times visit them also

After few months, Gokul brought his bike all the way down from Pulpally. That was a boon for both of us as we could now easily travel to each and every place we could. I also took the bike owned by the family I was living with. One day we started working for a project on renovating the central market and crematorium in Kozhikode. Since we both had bikes, we were told to visit the central market every day early morning at five for one week. This was to study the behavior of people in the market, to learn different users and their activities inside the market over a period of time in a day. That was really an interesting activity.

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