Simple ideas to innovative buildings: Alok Shetty at TEDxMuscat 2013

Alok's architecture firm takes simple ideas and combines them with innovative building solutions to bring about radical change in the social infrastructure of a community. From creating rural clinics made of locally available materials, designing aquamarine parks that are a source of fresh water and electricity, or transforming shipping containers into auditoriums, Alok is striving to improve the standard of living in third world and emerging economies.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Complete architectural solutions for Hospitals, Hotels, Mobile Auditoriums, Slum redevelopment, Low Cost Housing for Disaster Zones, Olympic sports academies, Schools and Institutional/Campus design
HIGHLIGHTS
• Designed a full-fledged, multi-specialty hospital at the age of 20.
• Youngest recipient of the Lucille Smyser Award for Design Excellence at Columbia University.
• Launching the Bhumiputra Scholarship and Housing Program this year.
• Official launch of the Black Box Theater Prototype
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[@JoseDorda]

The world needs more achitects like this man and less architect that want to be excentric artists. My college thesis was about this type of modular contructions, I develop a temporary shelter out of bambu, so the work of this man resonated a lot much with me and my views that architeture can be useful in pratical and concrete ways to society.

[@yulisatran8251]

Your story inspired me a lot!!! I’m currently a second-year architecture student in the US... I hope I can do something meaningful like what you have done after graduating ☺️

[@i2aq]

With the "black box" it would be so easy to set up schools and clinics anywhere in the world. This is just amazing. It would so helpful for after disaster help.

[@kreshia777]

I agree - the applications are HUGE for the black box

[@yosry12345]

i2aq n

[@9n2f3]

>Anywhere unless you think about much of the world being below 22 degrees at daytime, having wind and rainfall this only works for warm climates

[@RyanPaulMcCarthy]

@@9n2f3 well not to mention the structural nightmare that it presents. Guess thats why when I searched for the completed project all I saw were scale models.

[@leowulffan]

Bamboo could be a good Material is very strong but also very light and growth in the most region's of Asia

[@ahriahnamoon6237]

WoW. This touched my heart and spirit. Ive been designing low income housing complexes in my mind and on The Sims. He inspired me to go to architecture school, which is what I originally wanted to do a long time ago. This is one of my favorite Tedx. Thank you. 🙏

[@kreshia777]

wish I could hit LIKE repeatedly ..... thank you Alok Shetty

[@Adamughal867]

We need such real humans like this brilliant mind & soul in our world! Much love and respect to this man.

[@ghostbirdofprey]

Shipping containers are the BEST boxes to think inside really. I don't think I've been disappointed yet with shipping container architecture whether it's a collapsible/modular structure in one or two containers designed to be mobile, or their use as pieces to build the skeleton of larger structures.

[@shubhavida6961]

Really interesting ... inspires me to not give up on ideas and keep working on them or having my own practice

[@MaZEEZaM]

What an incredible start to ones career. Love how hes is using his skills to help others. Ideal life in my opinion, spend your life making other peoples lives better.

[@lalithsamanthapuri2055]

The story of an Intelligent kid to an Excellent Architect...!

[@voiceofreason1663]

Amazing idea. I wonder what will happen Alok do 10 years from now? He will have a great future ahead

[@divyamohankothari446]

really AMAZING ideas...I am an architecture student myself and keep taking part in different different competitions...truly got inspired by your work and hope I get to see more of it coming...

[@wendydevereux4375]

Fantastic ideas and ethos - we need more like you in Architecture and even some in government?

[@vasilgeorgiev1838]

Isn't this something similar to the concept of Customerso?

[@sahanasparbee6003]

Best ....architecture related vedio I ever saw 👍

[@prashantm4834]

You are Inspirational to back home Karnataka!

[@nermeenzaidi106]

BRILLIANT!

[@great5610]

A Very brilliant mind 🔥🔥🔥

[@bhavyashah6725]

Brilliant!!!

[@MsGnor]

Thanks Alok and best of luck to you and your team. Great to hear about your temporary accommodation for nomadic working and upcycled shipping container solutions. I'd love to have heard more about why your hospital and airport ideas were adopted. Well done to you.

[@myarchitecturalview6632]

Sir ! Salute to your creativity

[@katherandefy]

I am glad I watched this! 👏👏👏👏

[@MaZEEZaM]

What an incredible design concept, Fantastic :D

[@fredenam3141]

Awesome. truly innovative

[@farieddebruyns338]

We here in South Africa designed a Mobile Clinic and operating theatre for war situations, done by Dr Imtiaz Suleman of his NGO, titied , The Gift of Givers. The first was used in Bosnia, and many other countries, including Syria.

[@flourishomotola5306]

AWESOME IDEAS. JUST WOW.

[@jaloladdinmatnazarov5605]

really humane and creative bravo

[@TheChosenOnes18]

Unbelievable Awesome 👍💯

[@VickyDonar86758609]

All are superb ideas sir

[@mehdi4704]

Damn, this guy's work is incredible!

[@stevecooper3010]

The auditorium OMG I thought I was quite creative but that is definitely thinking creatively well done really well done

[@mehaaselvaraj4985]

great work !!

[@b_uppy]

Like this guy! Great story.

[@rachnaaggarwal7112]

Wonderful.... Keep it up

[@kkbejoy]

Amazing Design!

[@ivrkvarma2976]

Excellent. Hats off.

[@younaarchitect7940]

i want the container project for case study where i got this for my academic project

[@keyurnadiyadara8299]

Cool man amazing

[@muhammadamir8419]

Amazing

[@ramachandranb2501]

VERY INSPIRING

[@siddiqueahmad2010]

wow sir ver nice great

[@farieddebruyns338]

The concept of the expanding womb. The house grows with the occupant and can shrink back, for another's to start.

[@nthapn]

for slums...what about land? and much of the hygiene related issues arise of house and toilet waste disposal.

[@kawaiidere1023]

Right in the road like normal, but now it’s above the sludge

[@Rockstar.919]

Hats off

[@mariamz4]

very interesting talk

[@archyimran001]

Excellent please share your detail

[@backspace1230]

Bravo

[@CUBETechie]

I would like to see his clinic on train is there a name or something like that?

[@sindujaramanathan1540]

Am I the onlt one wondering how he started architecture school at 17??? I was still in high school at that age. And how was he in 3rd year when he was 18..What is happening ?

[@jacobsobelman3923]

That auditorium from the shipping container....WOW HOW did he do that??

[@sakshibais780]

Brilliant

[@shreejanmushyaju4008]

What about the air gaps in Slum Housing from which mosquitoes could enter?

[@hayaahmad619]

how beautiful

[@EdgarGerson]

Hi Alok would like to contact you.

[@Princess12613]

Interesting!

[@anjanaroy3250]

Very interesting

[@karthikg1202]

Great

[@afraameen9381]

inspiring !! am in my final year of b.arch. doing hospital design for my thesis.. can someone help me?

[@subhashreesundari4442]

You finished?

[@subhashreesundari4442]

Where are you working now?

[@shaharukhlamture678]

sir i want to work with you

[@yashbhaliya5421]

nice presentation mr.alok shetty...sir can uh help me for what material is used for sustainable cantile roofing for slum redevlopment..hope uh help me out..??

[@anoobhamza]

Kuddos Alok !! Proud of you.

[@YogeshGulati556]

i like your thoughts hopefully we will met soon

[@leowulffan]

What is the name of the hospital?

[@aydidmohammadarabshah5583]

sir if you put the floor 1 feet high would it not be a good place for mosquito to breed on the context of india?

[@parikshthchauhan1539]

aydid mohammad arab shah unless there is any stagnant water, mosquitos never breed. I think he has put a thought on this, before designing.

[@thomasmurray4717]

Start watching @about 6:00 min.

[@YogeshGulati556]

good idea

[@siddiqueahmad2010]

sir i wanna request u to plz visit pakistan and give us a presentation like this ,,,,,,

[@gokulmahes8886]

Nice

[@jerrynuqui1558]

Septic tanks should be mention. Around the world no sepic tanks standard. Best design for septic tanks should be like the blackwater (toilet) should be seperated from gray water( sink , Shower) and the liquified processsed from the black water tanks should be drain to the gray water tanks. the processed liquid from gray water tanks to the drain fields.

[@ahmedaoy]

good

[@abdullasaeed1558]

wow

[@hemanthkumar7669]

nice

[@migmartsering1010]

M ur upcoming challnger bro........

[@sanjitlaimayum5582]

now thats an ARCHITECTURE..

[@cloudxavier50]

Impractical.

[@thalissacarvalho4109]

damn are you salty

[@davidbeukes505]

ah yes the ever present Xx track

[@shivaninegi2060]

🇮🇳💚

[@aestheticcompilations8696]

Howwwww.???

[@riccardomeneghello8841]

fu**ing coooool

[@roseescritor8894]

Genius! 😂 0:28

[@FMFvideos]

the XX copyright violation

[@hemantwalanj2491]

How he is 18 in his 3 year of architecture He said i joined when he was 17 Dont get it

[@thanhpham-ss5gt]

Mokôpo.5

[@ajduo6431]

Same with me. I just turned 17 when I got in architecture school. I skipped grade 11 and 12 because we didn't have it at that time unlike in other countries.

[@shaivamuthaiya2015]

🤔he’s from my college lmao .

[@arpitmalhotra1440]

loved the projects :) but stop bragging

[@Blazer433]

lmao

[@geekworld5443]

Yeah go on brag and make it look extraordinary than it actually is.

[@sharadadesai8438]

Why is he bragging about himself!! It would be great if he didn’t add lot of unwanted messages!

[@farieddebruyns338]

Better to be at college. LoL

[@danielwilliams1956]

None of this is really innovative...these kinds of projects (and truly innovative projects) are presented and discussed in architecture schools every day. I had a professor that worked with students to design and build a low cost brick that filters air pollution, for example. This video is just 18 minutes of some dude bragging about his own accomplishments while trying to present his good but unremarkable ideas as if they are cutting edge...

[@pratikgole8444]

Dad ke paise se tedx ka slot khareeda hai. Nusta badbad

[@Houry247]

meh.

[@notru727]

xxxx

[@lamon7923]

Yang pilih allah like.

[@raymondmuli9067]

Brilliant

[@pratikgole8444]

Dad ke paise se tedx ka slot khareeda hai. Nusta badbad