Site Visit : HAHS II : Visit to Aurangabad, Ellora - 30/01/2016 and 31/01/2016

As a part of  History of Architecture and Human Settlements (HAHS), subject II year visited Aurangabad, Ellora caves to study and understand about the World Heritage Site.
Students visited and studied the impressive rock cut temples and monasteries.

Site Visit : AD & LA III : Fire Fighting , MIDC, Bhosari - 27/01/2016

As a part of  Building Services (BS II), students of II Year B. Arch visited MIDC, Bhosari to study existing fire fighting services of an Industrial Shed. Its working methodology with demonstration
on - site, also to understand its importance in building construction.

Experts giving on - site lecture on Fire Fighting services
 of an Industrial shed

Expert's lecture and discussion with students

Goal Gappe: Practical Training Session - 26/01/2016

As a part of Practical Training, the students of current Fifth Year, presented the experiences and learning during their internship at various architectural firms and organisations. The session intended to give exposure to the students of current Fourth year and Third year to various Architectural firms, their works and overall environment.

Republic Day 2016 - 26/01/2016

The eve of Republic day of India, 26th January 2016 was celebrated with full spirit by PVPCOA. This year the occasion focused on “Women Empowerment”.

Open Water Swimmer, Mr. Rohan More and Pilot Ms. Nikita Agarwal , were the Chief Guest and Invitee respectively. Their speeches motivated the students to follow and achieve their dreams. There were also speeches by Ms. Sandhya Patil from Faculty and a 2nd Year Student Ms. Aishwarya Khadalkar, along with songs performed by college orchestra stating the importance of Women Empowerment in today’s society. The event concluded with motivational speeches by Principal,
Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai and Secretary of V.I.T, Mr. Jitendra Pitaliya.

Poster for Republic Day 2016

Flag hoisting ceremony by Mr. Jitendra Pitalia, (Secretary,V.I.T),
 Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai (Director, PVPCOA) and
Chief Guest Mr. Rohan More (Open Water Swimmer)

Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai with Chief Guest Mr. Rohan More and Invitee
Ms. Nikita Agarwal 

Inauguration of students magazine - "KEYSTONE"
at the hands of Chief Guest Mr. Rohan More

Felicitation of Invitee by Ms. Nikita Agarwal ( Pilot ) 
at the hands of Mr. Jitendra Pitalia (Secretary, V.I.T)

Felicitation of Chief Guest Mr. Rohan More (Open Water Swimmer) 
at the hands of Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai ( Director, PVPCOA, Pune)

Group song performance by students (song : "SAKHI")
 on the theme of  "Women Empowerment" 

Mr. Jitendra Pitalia expressing his thoughts
on "Women Empowerment"

Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai expressing his views acknowledging
 the Chief Guests of the occasion :
"Sky is not the limit and Earth is not the end, 
one can fly high at young age like Ms. Nikita Agarwal and
 can go deep in waters and be a champion like Mr. Rohan More"

Ar. Mrunalini Anekar, Faculty, PVPCOA
 felicitating the students of third year winners of  Architectural Competition
IGBC 2015 (Green Transit Shelters for Construction Workers) conducted by "?Ethos!!"

Ar. Shradhha Bhortake, Faculty, PVPCOA, felicitaing the third year winners of 
Architectural Competition "Urban Nomads" (a transportable shelter) conducted by 
Arvindbhai Patel Institute of Environmental Design, Anand, Ahmedabad

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT : IIID Anchor Awards 2015 - 24/1/2016

Pune gets Award of the Year for its first DESIGNED URBAN SPACE

IIID Anchor Natioal Award 2015 presented "Award of the Year" to Prasanna Desai Architects (PDA) an Architecture and Urban Design firm, under the category of "AFFORDABLE DESIGN FOR THE MASSES" in New Delhi on January 23rd 2016 for their project "CREATING AN URBAN SPACE WITH PUBLIC PARTICIPATION" along ITI road in Aundh.

Project "DISHA" aimed at creating Healthy, Hygienic and Humane neighbourhood by Public Participatory approach and unique incorporation of design strategy "Drawing the DESIRE LINES" which prioritised 15 key components of a street, like Pedestrians, Cycle tracks, Integrating services and Hawkers, thus creating street as an urban space and social hub.This was achieved within the existing street fabric by streamlining the ongoing activities and reorganising the spaces for optimisation of "THE SOCIAL STREET CULTURE".

The Jury cited "It is an interesting urban intervention which has transformed an entire street in a very sensitive manner. It also involves all the stakeholders with its interesting concept. We hope that this initiative is taken up across the cities in our country to make the urban life of our citizens better."

The college congratulates Ar. Prof. Prasanna Desai, Director, PVPCOA, for the recognition of his achievement towards his great efforts in creating a habitable space in public domain. The college  is proud to have such an esteemed academician to guide the students and the budding architects of future.

IIID Anchor Awards 2015

Ar. Prof.  Prasanna Desai, Principal Architect of
Prasanna Desai Architects (PDA) receiving the Award

Winner of IIID Anchor Awards 2015

Visit & Interaction : Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa, Vietnam, Japan - 23/1/2016

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa paid a visit to the college on Saturday 23rd January, 2016. He visited the premises and appreciated the academic vigour of the college. The interaction with the students was especially very informative and inspiring.

He works as a partner Architect at head quarter of  Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. He studied architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Technischen University at Munchen, Munich, Germany.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects is a leading architectural practice in Vietnam with more than 60 International Architects, engineers and the staff work closely on cultural , residential and commercial projects worldwide.

Poster for Visit & Interaction with
Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa

Ar. Shekhar Garud welcoming Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa
 to the college premises

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa visiting college premises along with
Ar. Shekhar Garud and student representatives 

Ar. Shekhar Garud in conversation with
 Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa on the Terrace

Students discussing thier works with Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa with students and
Ar. Shekhar Garud in the studio

Ar. Vikas Bhandari welcoming Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa

Ar. Vikas Bhandari and Ar. Shekhar Garud
along with Ar. hidetoshi Sawa

Third year student Prajakta explaining
about the installation done by the
students during the Hands-on Workshop

Ar. hidetoshi Sawa going through
 the magazines in the Library

Ar. Shekhar Garud  showing the Yearbook compilation
 of the college

Bamboo bicycle, a tremendous effort put into action,
 designed by a Fourth year student, Ganesh Harimkar

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa rode the bamboo cycle and
appreciated  the effort of the student

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa honouring Ganesh Harimkar

Ar. Hidetoshi Sawa interacting with the students

Site Visit : ABTS IV : Rohan Abhilasha tunnel framework study, Wagholi - 22/1/2016

It was organised for IV year students of  B. Arch as a part of Academic curriculum for  Advanced Building Technology and Services (ABTS), students visited a live construction site of
Rohan Abhilasha apartments at Wagholi to study and understand the tunnel framework construction details.

Accompanied by : Ar. Vijaya Srinivasan, Ar. Hrishikesh Ashtekar and Ar. Deepti Shahi

Foundation being cast at the site

Students being briefed by the Site Authorities

Scaffolding at the Site

Newly Constructed building using Tunnel Formwork

The Site Engineer briefing about the Tunnel Formwork to students

Tunnel Formwork

Construction using Tunnel Formwork in progress at the site

Fourth Year Students and Faculty along with the Site Engineers and Staff

STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT : INSDAG Steel Design

The National Level "Competition for Civil/Structural Engineering students for best Innovative Structural Steel Design" is organised by INSDAG every year.

The "Competition" is open to all final year/pre-final year Undergraduate students. There are four Zonal selection committees consisting of renowned academics and Professional engineers.

Initial Round : 16 (sixteen) best entries are selected (four from each Zone) based on overall on overall merit of the proposals with the criteria formulated by the committees.

The Group entry selected for FINALS (West Zone) on 18th January 2016 :
Vaishnavi Paralikar, Shubbaam Rathi, Sayali Tarnekar, chaitanya Waghmare  (all four have been selected from  PVPCOA, Pune)

These students will be presenting in Final Round Evaluation Programme of  INSDAG Arch
Award 2015 to be held during February 11-12, 2016 at Kolkata.

COMPETITIONS FOR INSIGHT 2015-16 - 15/01/2016

For the upcoming INSIGHT  2015-16 week, following design competitions for installations in the college premises are being organised on the theme of : "UTOPIA".
The interested students shall submit the designs by Friday, 22nd January, 2016.

The designs will be selected by the jury and will be implemented for the INSIGHT INAUGURATION day. Looking forward for good amount of participation and enthusiasm from students.

The competitions are as follows :

Competition for SECTION WALL design on the theme,
 it is representative wall of PVPCOA

THE VERTICAL SHAFT design on the theme
 to be suspended from terrace vertically down
 up to the first lecture room

THE SILENCER design, as an universal indicator
 for the entire college premises.
Purpose to have complete silence

The ATRIUM design following the theme

The ALUMINIUM PANEL design based on the theme.
The installations begins at the right of the panel and ends on the left.

Shear Force 2016 - 15/01/2016 - 17/01/2016

Like last three years, this year also our college has organised an Inter-college sports event,
‘Shear Force’. Sports were played under three heads -
Football (Boys),
Basketball (Boys)
Basketball (Girls)

Pankaj M. Gundhecha (Director), Arihant Developers and Pushkar Developers sponsored the event. Colleges outside Pune city also participated in the event.

The Event spanned for over three days starting from Friday, 15th January 2016 to
Sunday, 17th January 2016. The event was successfully organised with full zest of the students of the participating colleges.

Poster for Shear Force 2015-16

Girls Basketball Game in progress

Girls of  PVPCOA giving tough
 competition to the opponent team

Brilliant team spirit by players on court

Boys Basketball Game in progress

Rujuta Chauhan of PVPCOA Girl's team making an attempt for basket

PVPCOA Girl's team in forward position

Set up of Registration Desk on ground

Prizes and Awards