Priya Gupta, Architectural portfolio 2022 by Priya Gupta

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PRIYA GUPTA

Hello I am Priya Gupta an architect fresh out of Architecture school. I am grateful to the perspective studying architecture has given me. It has set me on a path of enquiring into my environment critically. The relationships between people, their society and the built environment continue to fascinate me, part of the learning has influenced my own sense on belonging.

P R I YA G U P TA

I hope to convey my strong interest in the course though this portfolio.

PHONE : 9916946720 EMAIL ID : 2017_priya.g@wcfa.ac.in | 99.gpriya@gmail.com INSTAGRAM : kaar.khana ADDRESS : #48, Brindavan Apartment, Akashwani circle, Yadavgiri, Mysuru, 570020 D.O.B : 11 June 1999 English | Hindi | Punjabi | Kannada EDUCATION : B.ARCH | WADIYAR CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE (2017-2022) PRE-UNIVERSITY | JNANODAYA PU COLLEGE (2015-2017) SCHOOL | MANASAROWAR PUSHKARINI VIDYASHRAMA (2005-2015) SOFTWARE SKILLS : Autodesk Autocad Autodesk Revit Sketchup Adobe Photoshop Adobe illustrator Adobe Indesign Lumion Enscape Microsoft office suite

01 P L AY D E S I G N S T U D I O PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Principal Architect: Saketh Singh Location: Auroville Duration: 28 Feb - 28 June 2022

02 RECONFIGURING SCHOOL TYPOLOGY THESIS PROJECT Ar. Mahesh Ramakrishnan, MOAD Prof. Julie Ann Tharakan

03 L AW C A M P U S

SEMESTER 06 Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Prof. Prashant G pole Asst. Prof. Pallavi Dhomse

04 MERCADO DE GOA SEMESTER 05 Prof. Ryan Thomas Prof. Srinivas S G

05 HOUSING

SEMESTER 04 Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma

06 R S P | RELATED STUDY PROGRAM

SEMESTER 03 Prof. Nagesh H D Prof. Srinivas S G Asst. Prof. Shreyas Baindur Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma

07 C C S | CONNECTED COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

SEMESTER 04 Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma

01 P L AY D E S I G N S T U D I O PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Principal Architect: Saketh Singh Location: Auroville Duration: 28 Feb - 28 June 2022

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GENERAL NOTES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

DIMENSIONS TO BE CHECKED AS PER SITE CONDITION ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MM UNLESS MENTIONED DRAWINGS ARE TO BE READ AND NOT TO BE SCALED ARCHITECT MUST BE NOTIFIED IF ANY DISCREPANCY OCCURS BETWEEN THE DRAWING AND THE SITE BEFORE STARTING THE WORK. COPYRIGHT: THE CONTENTS OF THIS DRAWING MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF PLAY DESIGN STUDIO.

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SR.NO. DESCRIPTION F1 GEYSER 25 L F2 FLOOR TRAP F3 CONCEALED STOP COCK F4 GEYSER ANGULAR STOP COCK F5 TOILET SINK F6 TOILET SINK DRAIN F7 TOILET BOTTLE TRAP F8 TOILET FAUCET + MIXER F9 TOILET WATER CLOSET F10 CONCEALED CISTERN F11 FLUSH PLATE F12 HEALTH FAUCET F13 WALL OUTLET+SHOWER HOOK F14 SHOWER HEAD + ARM F15 BATH SPOUT F16 SHOWER CONCEALED MIXER

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TALIPOT

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REMARKS

DRAWN BY: PRIYA CHECKED BY: NIKHIL

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TOILET DETAIL AT +01 D/TOI/+01

VERSION_02 DATE_10.03.22

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ADDRESS CONTACT NUMBERS EMAIL ID

AURELEC, AUROVILLE, TN-605101 +0413 2622640 PROJECTS@PLAYDESIGNSTUDIO.IN

GENERAL NOTES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

OPTION 01

INFORMATION Alocasia macrorrhizos is a large, evergreen, herbaceous perennial plant, usually growing 2 - 4 metres tall, occasionally to 5 metres. It has thickened stems that can be 3 metres or more in height and 20cm in diameter, topped with leaves up to 1 metre long. The plant is cultivated in some parts of lowland tropical Asia, mainly for the edible stems but also for the corm. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental, valued especially for its large leaves and inflorescence.

OPTION 01

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DRAWN BY: PRIYA CHECKED BY: SAKETH

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PLANT STUDY CONCEPT BUILDING APPROVAL CONSULTANT EXECUTION AS BUILT

PLAY / SAKETH SINGH COA NUMBER: CA/2009/46729

SCALE 1:65

CODE NO. AR_21.06

CLIENT_JASON OMMEN LOCATION_KOTTARAKKARA,KL.

ELEVATION DRAWING VERSION_O.1.3 DATE_ 18.06.2022

AURELEC, AUROVILLE, TN-605101 +0413 2622640 PROJECTS@PLAYDESIGNSTUDIO.IN

02 RECONFIGURING SCHOOL TYPOLOGY THESIS PROJECT

Ar. Mahesh Ramakrishnan, MOAD Prof. Julie Ann Tharakan Project Brief: The thesis proposes to reconfigure a typology of school buildings which takes into account the changing relationships of student, teacher and institution as well as the role of the school at the community level. A key driver of this change is focused to be technological advances that have the potential to offset lack of resources such as space available, teachers. Research Questions • Scope of using technology in off-setting the lack of resources in the public education system? • Exploring publicness in public education? • How can architectural reconstruction create spaces for wholistic education of individuals? Objectives • Understanding trends in educational pedagogy and speculating an architecture flexible enough to accommodate the trends moving forward. • Exploring the possibility of the building doing more for the community thought out the day. • Creating a sample methodology in design that can be applied to various contexts.

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03 L AW C A M P U S SEMESTER 06

Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Prof. Prashant G pole Asst. Prof. Pallavi Dhomse Studio Brief: The semester intended to introduce students to the various aspects of designing an institution. From understanding an institution’s Intent and Philosophy to its Programmatic requirements. The students were tasked to design a campus for a law institution; requiring one to design the intent, program and the campus itself. Project brief : Institutional - Law institute Site location : Vanni Villas, Mysore Site area : 6000 sq m ; Built : 6500 sq m Duration : 14 weeks My Intent: Taking advantage of the location of the site in creating a space where students get to participate in as well as become catalysts to formal and/ informal dialogue between the government, society and academia. In the attempt, hence the learning spaces had to be versatile... They had to expand and contract as and when required. An attempt was made in creating a flexible, transforming and connected learning environment. In addition to this it was interesting to raise an inquiry into how much influence the structure can truly have on the learning process by critically looking at my own architecture school.

01: Proposed - vission of the institute | Academic intent 02: Attempt at understanding law as a subject 03: Initial Derivation of program 04: Study of architectural program and its grouping as in the current design 05: Series of three sketches depicting the spatial character of the Opinion Bank

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Location of the site with respect to the Court

01 : Civil Court Mysore 02 : Site Commercial buildings Residential buildings

Mapping of the surrounding building types and vegitation at site level Organisation ideation

Organisational explorations of program zones on site

Ideation sketches for the spatial organisation of activities in the library

Ground Floor

First Floor

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D E S I G N

Ground Floor

E V O L U T I O N

*workshop introduced program for hosting certificate courses that can involve the society *moot courts are spaces activated only during mooting events hence the program has been incorporated in the form of transforming classrooms.

*Opinion bank introduced as a multipurpose space that can host a variety of student led events.

Society involving activity Academic activity Servant spaces Opinion Bank

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View from the main road

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View of the Opinion Bank

04 MERCADO DE GOA SEMESTER 05

Prof. Ryan Thomas Prof. Srinivas S G Studio Brief: It is easy to be different and not too difficult to be a copy of the same. The challenge lies in being able to draw from the same place and Interpret it in a manner that is relevant now. In doing so one is enabling countinuity in time, creating meaningful history. The programs pursued would be oriented towards bringing up aspects associated with the nature of public space and the making of the public realm. The program is derived from the needs of the neighborhood. The site is flanked by the old market, the Communidade and the civil court. The intent was to explore the possibility of deriving a built entity out of responses to the context. The nature of the building is to facilitate the neighborhood, how to go beyond functionality and be an exercise at placemaking. Project brief : Commercial building- shops, officies and stay. Site location : Holy spirit Church Pricinct, Margoa, Goa Site area : 1200 sq m ; Built : 1800 sq m Duration : 12 weeks My Intent: Appropriately situating the program within a historical precinct, in the attempt of which; the structure tries to maintain a physical distance from its predecessors with the intension to not take away from their presence. Using interpretations from the language of the city to convey publicness that is familiar and readable to the user. At the precinct level an attempt was made to bring back the annual church fest into the old market, create space to accomodate the flux as well as seemlessly extend the old market into the new. In addition to this it was interesting to raise an inquiry into how changes on the site level can have implications on the city level.

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By understanding the vehicular movement patterns around the site, ideal locations for bus stops as well as entry points were established.

With the intention of respecting the historic context of the site nodes start getting created.

Post detailing out the structure a new exploration was made into the massing with the intension of blending the structure more seemlessly with its surrounding. Ground Floor

D E S I G N

First Floor

E V O L U T I O N

Second Floor

Spatial interaction

Organisation ideation

Whilst detailing the various blocks different forms of clustering resulted in a variety of buffer spaces and experiences of the pause.

The grid system of organisation is a continuation of the rhythmic vertical lines of the historic architecture in the precinct.

C O M M U N I D A D E

C I V I L

C O U R T

Current iteration is the combination of the above two ideas.

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H O U S E

01 : Holy Spirit Church 02 : Site 03 : Entry into Margao Vehicular movement

Intervension Site

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01 : Holy Spirit Church 04 : Communidade 05 : Civil Court 06 : Alvare’s House 07 : Market building to be demolished Commercial buildings Residential buildings Institutional buildings

The different faces of the site abut different activities, hence the structure must take on the role of creating a gradual transition. The vehicular patern around the site forms a uni-directional cycle which is advantageous in creating specific entry points catering to as well as attracting specific users.

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View from the Civil Court

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Aerial view of the roof form

View from the Comunidade

05 HOUSING SEMESTER 04

Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma Project brief : Low rise housing -- 30 units Site location : Gokulam, Mysore, Karnataka Site area : 3670 sq m Duration : 14 weeks My Intent: Having the precedence of the ccs study, the intention became to look at housing as an architecture of connectedness. For this an attempt was made into understanding rural forms and reinterpret them to suit the urban life of Mysore. It was interesting to raise an inquiry into how the built environment could enrich the sense of community as well as how the community could have an impact in shaping the built environment around them.

The site is located in the Gokulum area of Mysore. The area is predominantly residencial with mainly two to three storey houses. The site faces a park hence giving the oportunity of orientations taking advantage of the rich natural cover.

PA R K Residential buildings Site

Organisational idea

Spatial interaction

In the rural study it was noted that cul-de-sacs create intimate cluster spaces between houses and hence an attempt was made at creating 3 dimensional culde-sacs in the form of three non connected blocks. With in the blocks an attempt was made into realising spatial connectivity as in the two dimensional clusters of the rural settlements. This idea of organization was branched and the various nodes (open spaces) followed a hierarchical progression. At the unit level the open spaces signify a sense of arrival. The design process involved looking at the various scales (house, cluster, community) simultaneously and hence there was a lot of going back and forth along the way.

Some cluster form studies

P R O C E S S

One of the earlier design iterations

Sketches to try and derive cluster forms with maximum connectivity

Bringing the greenery of the park into the project in the form of terrace gardens.

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Continuation of the aproach street into the structure and out on to the park.

Understanding the built and unbuilt zones and their relations with eachother as well as with the park.

Detailing out the units.

Creating framed vistas opening the internal courts to the outside.

View from the Park

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View of the internal court

06 R S P | RELATED STUDY PROGRAM

SEMESTER 03

Location: Udaiyalur | Tamil Nadu | India Type: Measure Drawing Prof. Nagesh H D Prof. Srinivas S G Asst. Prof. Shreyas Baindur Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma Udiyalur is a village situated in the south of India around 12 km from Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. Udiyalur being in the delta region of river Cauvery, the eastern part of the Indian Peninsula, receives northeast monsoon. It holds nutrient-rich alluvial soils whose deposits are brought by slowing river. The land is known for the growth of paddy along with black gram, sugar cane, maize, etc. Udiyalur was initially renowned as ‘Bhoopathirajapuram’. Brahmins found a way to survive through their intellect and employed workers because the water was abundant. This led to agriculture as their major profession and the settlement was formed to control the production. Agraharam belongs to Brahmins, they were elevated, as it was believed that would depict their elevated stature in society. The elevated land helps prevent flooding at the agraharam. The close-knit settlement has a charm of its own.

07 C C S | CONNECTED COLLABORATIVE STUDIO

SEMESTER 04

Prof. Vidyashankar Ramakrishnan Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma The study was part of a collaboration between four architecture schools Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, Mysore | Avani Institute of Design, Calicut | C.A.R.E School of Architecture, Trichy | School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai. At WCFA the study conducted was a comparative study between two rural settlements with the intension of laying the basis to the housing studio. The study intended to understand architectural forms and the quality of human interactions that could be conducted in them. An inquiry was raised in clustering of recidencial units and then the progressive arrangement of these clusters in the settlement level, with the intention to uncover ideas of connectedness in architecture. By the end of the following studio a 3 day event conducted at Avani Institute of Design, Calicut helped students of the 4 colleges to share their collective learnings and experiences. The event also indended to start a dialogue between students and faculty on architectural pedagogy.

MISCELLANEOUS

RETHINK LOCAL | INTERIOR DESIGN sem 07

Asst. Prof. Anna Cherian Asst. Prof. Tejaswini Bedekar Studio Brief: The aim of the studio was to look at craft application into interior spaces. Students need to tackle and understand the transitions of different spaces with crafts. My Intent: Indian handicrafts have been a source of my fascination for quite some time now... However the dwindling state of this industry in India is unfortunate. Hence an important intent in approaching this assignment was to create a line of products that represent the essence of the craft whilst still suiting to contemporary design needs... Another key aspect considered was to try and design products; the production of which will involve the crafts persons and their skills. Since the number of crafts to take inspiration is enormous for the sake of this line I have restricted myself to just looking at one state in India that is West Bengal... As I saw the potential to visiting new handicrafts that I haven’t before come across. This opened up the possibility of understanding the crafts as a result of a particular culture and opened up the possibility for future product lines inspired by crafts from other states.

The figure of these dolls are being remembered throught this contemporary sculptural lighting feature, in the spirit of celebraing the same femitiny these dolls celebrate.

This wallpaper brings the strong borders of the maslond grass mat into the interior space in the form of wall panneling however the texture in the wall is of the weave and the colours like in the mat.

In the form of this pendant ligth, one celebrates the ingenuity of the traditional crafts men to mix the natural colours of the grass with dyed grass, the juxtaposition really talks bout the sentitivity of interference with the “natural”. A practice one is trying to bring into the contemporary world.

The simplicity of the form of the lac dolls is an incredible testiment to the level of abstraction the traditional craftsmen have been able to achieve in presenting the female form; with this side table I have tried to bring a similar understanding of formss and finally using white lines to showcase/ accent the form on the table like done in these dolls.

In the form of a low rise partition the beautiful kathan embroidery becomes a piece of art that can add dimension to any space.

The ellaborable embroidery designs of traditional Kantha are but another combination of lines and dots and here the dots and lines come together in achieving intricate decorative mandalas.

The chair presented above is designed as if an easel displaying a tapestry of embossed leather art. the two motifs represented here are a cubic interpretation of the recurring image of the elephant in the traditional craft. The iterations are limitless althought one can select from the predesigned tapestry

The craft generally centralises around motifes that create / set two substantially different rhythems in the background and the foreground. The intersection of these rhythemic geometries /patterns has inspired the creation of this cupboard.

THE CUBE sem 02

Prof. Kiran Kumar The aim of the design studio was to explore ideas of form, skin and light; and program. “A field condition could be any formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while respecting the identity of each.”

COMMUNITY CENTRE | LIBRARY sem 03 | Udiyalur, Tamil Nadu, India Prof. Nagesh H D Prof. S G Srinivas Asst. Prof. Anjali Sharma

AEG TURBINE FACTORY sem 05

Prof. Shreyas Baindur Breaking down Peter Behrens’ AEG Turbine Factory. Though a series of 4 models an attempt was made in understanding as well as expressing the forming ideas of the structure.

Priya Gupta | Srijan Dwivedi