Akshat Bhatt

Architect

[Forbes India @ForbesIndia]

Akshat Bhatt founder & principal architect of ‘Architecture Discipline’ features in Forbes India #TheBoldClub The Design Next Gen: Top 30 Under 45 @KOHLER_INDIA. Watch to know more
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@ArchDiscipline @misterarchitect

Video: @_MohanSiddharth

[Mirror Now @MirrorNow]

DELHI GETS 'AAP' KA MAYOR

"#Delhi needs proper leadership on sectors of health & #environment. We've been seeking it from everyone in power but didn't get any response": @jai_dhar, Environmental Activist to @iSamiakapoor on #TheUrbanDebate | #DelhiMayor #DelhiMayorElection

[News18 @CNNnews18]

"The entire air pollution strategy/campaign of AAP has been a colossal failure": Environmentalist Jai Dhar Gupta (@jai_dhar)

BJP's @HarishKhuranna also takes on Delhi government

@maryashakil | #Delhi #DelhiPollution #AirPollution #AirQuality #AQI #PollutionCrisis #AQI

[Pankaj Gupta @guptapankaj22]

@roshankar @SatyendarJain @ArchDiscipline 🙏🙏. Efforts shudnt go waste. It will be bad for India

[manoj kapur @ManojManojkapur]

@apj234 @roshankar @SatyendarJain @ArchDiscipline It gets frustrating beyond a point. This is such a brilliant take on MC's innovative and cost effective design and yes as you said hope Pb gets to benefit this.

Kudos Roshan 🙏 your resolve will pay off. It has to.

[APJ @apj234]

@roshankar @SatyendarJain @ArchDiscipline Every month I hoped it'll be scaled up and was worried if such a promising idea failed on critical parameters

Scuttling is even sadder, India doesn't deserve brilliance of folks like Roshan and Akshat

I hope this is welcomed by Mann Saab, Delhi's loss will be Punjab's gain☹️

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

If any journalist would like to chat for the details on any or all of the above, please DM.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

It is important for those who want high-quality universal health coverage in Delhi to ensure these clinics don't go the way of architects who couldn't care less about people, engineers who care too much about money and bureaucrats/medicos/politicos who care only about themselves.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

Officers/bureaucrats/politicos use arbitrary building bye-law clarifications, MCD committee orders, court stays/orders without maps, vigilance guidelines, police objections, PWD DSR and unscrupulous friendships with architectural firms and contractors to revert to the normal.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

If land permissions were received from MCD, DDA and Delhi Police (including Court stays/orders), and people don't muddle with plans in absence of @SatyendarJain, we can build 500 Oberoi-Hotel level Mohalla clinics at Rs. 30-40 lakhs each within 3 months and install within a week.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

1. Swiss challenge/competitionize architectural brief.

2. Take granular set of inputs/incomes from stakeholders with desired outputs/outcomes including a codebook/guide.

3. Implement with architect specs and department requirements with sign off from both needed for completion.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

We want each citizen to be happy and receive the best experience from their healthcare interactions. There is no reason why basics can't be provided with dignity and beauty if the roles and contracts are decided and implemented with intellectual, moral and financial integrity.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

.@ArchDiscipline solved all of these problems. Upcycled containers clinics could be assembled and finished offsite, brought on site or delivery/assembly after land permissions finished and looked dreamy! PRS Oberoi's vision for luxury hospitality is our vision of healthcare.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

The 1st gen of Mohalla clinics were a 20-fold improvement on building costs/timelines from traditional concrete clinics. However, they were not being sustainably produced (emissions), ran into land permission problems (MCD/DDA/Police) and weren't as aesthetically pleasing.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

Seeing potential for public service, he kindly contributed his studio's brain and time to design this Mohalla clinic and deliver two, all within a 50-60 lakh CSR grant from Tata Power. It took his office/department months to scrutinize, navigate and approve it. We pursued. Why?

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

We wanted to flip this story upside down within Delhi PWD. We approached (I begged!) Akshat Bhatt, the Principle Architect at Architecture Discipline to work with us. He was behind India's best ever pavilion at Make In India in Hannover and is the architect for the Oberois.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

After a few decades of bureaucrat-contractor-mafia-bad politician nexus, very few top practitioners or architects work with the state because of its decided focus on malignant profiteering instead of benevolent public service. Only a few like Bimal Patel manage to work with it.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

In the early days of our democracy, pre-independence architects like Lutyens, Baker, Kahn and Corbusier designed national heritage cities/sites/projects and paved the way for great generation of architects like Doshi, Rewal, Correa, Singh, Sri Prakash and Vishwanath.

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

The idea of piloting these clinics with @ArchDiscipline was three-fold:

1. How could high-quality architects using best tools/techniques work with government?

2. How can we build sustainably/cheaply in the city?

3. How could public infrastructure deployment be done faster?

[Roshan Shankar @roshankar]

Heard from officers in PWD/Health Dept. of Delhi Government that high-quality high-speed aesthetic recycled container implementation of Mohalla Clinic piloted by @SatyendarJain and @ArchDiscipline is being scuttled inside Dept for prior/less sustainable (money/materials) designs.