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The Future of Our Plans: SAIC Graduate Class of 2020

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The Future of Our Plans: SAIC Graduate Class of 2020

Krina Shailesh Mehta

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects

krinasmehta25@gmail.com

researchbykrina.blogspot.com

Krina Shailesh Mehta is an Architect, born in Mumbai (India), who received her MFA in Architecture in May 2020 at SAIC. She completed her Bachelors in Architecture in India and has been a practicing Interior Architect ever since. During her time in the MFA program she focused on designing built environments and installation art. She is interested in Interior Design curation and collaborating art with architecture. True to her values and training, she looks forward to working for Architectural and Design firms within the United States. Krina’s thesis work at SAIC was based on her perspective of the Indian concept of Vastu Shastra. She believes in the true and scientific facts about Vastu Shastra and takes a stand against the placebo of religiousness in the practice. With this research, she intends on creating aesthetic environments to focus on the importance of one’s life rather than capitalism of Vastu Shastra.

Krina Shailesh Mehta - Ideal MFA Show 2020 Exhibition Space

Ideal MFA Show 2020 Exhibition Space, Introspective Mandala, clear acrylic, and copper metal sheet

The sculpture is suspended from the ceiling with a spotlight source in the centre. The sculpture rotates using a motor at a slow and steady speed, to bring movement into the space. The observer first encounters the "Wall of Frustration," symbolizing capitalism of non-essential Vastu Shastra objects, and then walks around it to find themselves in a meditative zone where the eye fixates on the moving patterns.

Krina Shailesh Mehta - Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation

Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation, Illustration, Sculpture application within an interior space

Be(Lie)ve or Be Happy

Krina Shailesh Mehta - Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation

Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation, Illustration

Architect's Consultation remarks on apartment layout. True "Vastu Shastra" Zone facts according to directions and providing remedies for harmonious space planning.

Krina Shailesh Mehta - Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation

Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation, Illustration

Designer's choice of object for color positivity. Object design, for a client whose aura needs the color red for "positivity" around them.

Krina Shailesh Mehta - Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation

Digital Drawing Vastu Shastra Implementation, Illustration, Outdoor sculpture

Tortoise symbolizing long life. Water and plants are true life givers not a placebo.

The concept this research focuses on is meditation, introspection, “dhyaan.” Instead of focusing one’s attention on the vastu objects, I envision creating an environment where one can focus on themselves and their life. This is the power of sacred images. Nature and its elements are always in proportion and in harmony. Not only architects and designers take inspiration from natural elements, but also mathematical equations and formulas are inspired by nature. One such mathematical concept is fractal geometry. Fractal geometry plays with the outer sight and inner vision (meditation) of a living being. It is a form of appropriate vessel for inner visions. Nature’s illusionary beauty is a work of art for the captivating vision for our outer sight (the eye). Their appeal is to our insatiable, restlessly roving, observing outer eye. The Indian sacred images do not exist simply to look at; the intent is that the inner eye fixates upon them. Each pattern can be used individually on any surface in any material. And a combination of them all brings dimensionality within the space.

Online presentation research data:

To support the research of Vastu Shastra, I played the role of an Architect/Designer, true to my profession, and offered online consultation to different clients seeking to build a home or design solution. Using these stories, every client has been given a different design response.

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