Reshaping spaces: The architecture students plan to create a vertical garden under the bridge on TTK Road. | Photo Credit: R_Ragu
Hold painting exhibition under TTK Road bridge
The aspiration of a group of architecture students to compete in a contest has turned the space below the bridge on TTK Road colourful.
When 20-year-old Shruti Mohan and 20 other students of Mohamed Sathak AJ Academy of Architecture wanted to participate in the annual NASA Design Competition conducted by the National Association of Students of Architecture, which requires them to effectively utilise public space, they struggled to mobilise the necessary money.
Quickly, they put together some pocket money and decided to put on a painting exhibition on Sunday under the bridge itself.
“This painting exhibition is like a fund-raiser for implementing the project of creating a vertical garden on the pillars of the bridge. We have used insulation and used tyres, made them colourful and turned them into seats. Then, we approached some artists, who promised to give us about 50% of the sale money from their paintings to us,” she said.
They have about 100 paintings of many noted artists with the price ranging from ₹1,000 to ₹3 lakh. This project, they say, will cost them ₹6 lakh.
Dhanya M, another student, said, “We have been able to raise about ₹10,000 so far. We are hopeful of getting funds somehow.”
[“Source-thehindu”]