Gates of IIT Bombay

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In this book, I attempted to create a useful guide to the many gates around the large campus of IIT Bombay. The campus has many sections, residential, academic, leisure and administrative. These areas are cordoned off from each other by walls and gates.

This guide is by no means a comprehensive list, it is rather a creative experiment to equate two very different concepts.

While I did intend to document every gate in the institute, I found that many, if not most, of the gates very closely resembled each other. This makes sense as many of them were made by the same few metal workers. Thus, while a comprehensive list would have been more useful as a tool of documentation, it would have been much duller and far too monotonous.

While doing research for this project, I collected a lot of data which did not make it into this guide. During data collection, more than twenty parameters were observed and recorded, however since I did not feel they added to the purpose of the book, I excluded them.

Many of the comparisons I have drawn in this book are purely subjective and might not hold up to rigorous scrutiny. I approached the task as a means of strengthening my own ability to abstract forms in my mind.

I hope you found the comparisons as interesting as I did.