X SEMESTER DESIGN THESIS (2018-19)

FORMAT FOR SYNOPSIS

Students must prepare and develop the following sections within their proposals:

1. Title

a. State the title of your thesis.

b. State a concise subtitle phrase that refers to the idea basis, context or program of your
thesis

2. Introduction and Background of the Study

a. Discuss the issues that are central to your design thesis. What is the historical and
theoretical context for the ideas behind your thesis? Link the discussion to sources from
your annotated bibliography. Discuss the citations.
b. Discuss the cultural context of your thesis. In what ways is your project situated in and
influenced by the culture in which we live?
c. What technical issues can you foresee becoming important?

3. Research Statement/Problem Statement

a. Describe the problem that your project work is focusing on

b. State your research question and discuss your intentions in framing that question
c. You may also express it as a problem statement, but ensure that it is in a form where
you can argue/demonstrate that you have analysed and evaluated the problem.

4. Aim and Objectives

a. State the broader aims and specific objectives that you have envisaged for the work
b. State the issues, concepts, and questions that are central to your thesis

5. Scope and Limitations

a. Discuss comprehensively the scope of the project envisaged by you in terms of the
programmatic needs and demands emphasizing on design outcomes
b. State definitively the limitations you will be bound by in your project

6. Project Justification

a. Discuss why you chose your program (Building typology, thrust area, context, theme
etc).
b. List and describe the major program activities and uses. State the approximate program
size. Discuss the scale of the project as it relates to the site and context.
c. Identify the use or user proposed specifically and clearly. Discuss about the users in
general descriptive terms.
7. Identification of Site

a. Identify the site location specifically and clearly. State the setting: city, town, suburban,
or rural. Discuss the history of the form and use of the site and context.
b. Explain your choice of site in terms of the idea basis of your thesis. Discuss its nature
and relevance in abstract terms that make clear how it is understood as a vehicle for the
development of the idea basis of your thesis.

8. Methodology

a. Discuss the research instruments that will adopted to acquire data/ information (primary
& secondary sources), propose methods of treating and analysing the data.
b. Explain all the process that will be required to accomplish your program

9. Inferences:

a. List major inferences, if any, that you were able to draw from your previous stage (Pre-
Thesis, Seminar). Discuss their potentiality vis-à-vis the design directions you wish to
explore.

10. Bibliography/Webliography:

a. Attach an annotated bibliography of the sources you have identified. In the annotations
discuss their potential relevance to your design. Note how your sources have influenced
your ideas.

Annexure as appropriate may be enclosed.

Two proposals have to be submitted in the same format as specified above.