Architecture Portfolio

PRATHAMESH DESHMUKH

ABOUT ME

I am a young architecture student keen to explore new ways of approaching design and how it creates a dailougue with the dwellers in the environment. As a curious mind i always seek out for new experiences and open to exploring new ideas and possibilities.

EDUCATION

Grade 1 to 10 | 2008 - 2018

Arunodaya Public School,Thane

Junior College | 2018 - 2020

Arunodaya Public School,Thane

B.Arch | 2021 onwards

School of Environment and Architecture,Borivali

EMAIL ADDRESS: prathameshd0077@gmail.com

CONTACT NO: +91 8928321262

EXTRA CURRICULAR

2016-20 - District level Basketball

Representing school at District level for 5 years

2021 - Content Committee

Creating content for social media for college handles

2022 - Content Committee

Making and Handling college website and making posters/visuals for college events

2023 - Annual Exhibtion

Assisting and helping in curation as well as produce works for the annual exhibition held at School of Environment and Architecture

2023 - Content Committee

Head of the Content Committee managing and ensuring the

ACHIEVEMENTS

LENS Awards 2023 - WINNER

Semester 5- Environmental Flows

LANGUAGES

English, Hindi, Marathi & Gujrati( Basic)

WORKSHOPS

2021 - Marketecture - Devashish Guruji

2021 - Creative A.I. Processes - Sujay Kumarji

2022 - 3D Digital Fabrication - Pratik Modi

2022 - Ceramic Structures - Aastha Malu

2022 - Photobook - Hemant Basankar

2023 - Urban Information Systems - Abhijit Ekbote

SKILLS

Autocad

Rhino

Sketch Up

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Premiere Pro

Blender

Enscape

Lumion

V-ray

Sketching

Model Making

QGIS

Fusion 360

SELECTED WORKS

01. WHAT IS A MUSEUM?

Byculla East, Mumbai

The project started with understanding what is a museum and looking it through the lens of genealogy. Genealogy helped us identify from where did this idea of museum emerge from and how over different centuries the museum has shaped and transformed all around the world. This studio chooses to look closely at the museum, its genealogy and its ontology. Through a careful analysis it seeks to ask what might a contemporary museum be?

Undertaking archival studies of the genealogy of the Museum across the world; reading texts, putting together drawings and images on a timeline through an archeological process. The questions to ponder over are: What was the societal structure that emerged? What were the critiques? How was knowledge organised? What new programmatic ideas were introduced vis a vis the museum? What new spatial structures emerged? What were the meanings associated?

So the contemporary question i was looking at wasWhy do museums have permanent artworks in a specific space and time? Can the museum content be more dynamic with the help of a digital interface? How does the digital interface shape the form of the space?

Experiencing artwork through a digital medium with multiple interfaces where the artwork evolves with time but at the same time gets archived into the digital interface which provides the user flexibility in consuming content created as well as creating new ways of interacting with users and artworks. The museum induces experience at different levels of elevations and depressions, creating a space that generates multiple ways of movement within itself. It creates a spatiality where one can meander within these spaces which tend to offer different spatial experiences. The porosity in the space keeps the user connected to the space and the existing context.

SEMESTER IV

Photoshop

This collage works with elements Bharat Bhavan, Neue stasgalleria, and Jantar Mantar creating multiple elevations and depressions, making different experiences at each space

Iterations of design models. Exploring how movement can change the way you inhabit space.

Stairs just not being s element of movement as well as space for museum and iteraction of public can be offered.

Smooth and seamless movement and creating multiple access points.

The form of the ramps allow the void in between to occupy space as well as create vantage points throughout the structure.

mass and void combination to understand open and closed spaces.

programatic understanding of the site.

Section

The ramp acts as a vantage point to view the city as well as a view towards the cricket ground.

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

View to undersatand the scale and the carved out spaces in between

Materiality of the design

view through the digital library and the porosity of the space

Rhino 3D

Rhino 3D

Rhino 3D Photoshop

Section

The open space in between allows informal activities and allowing different scales of interaction

Illustrator

Synthesis drawing view through the main road

Synthesis drawing view through the ramp, cafeteria having a dailougue with the existing cricket ground

Illustrator

02. SYSTEM ONTOLOGIES

Amravati, Maharashtra

The course intended to Design a Library through the material response and spatial engagements. The key objective of the course is to enable students to understand relationships between systems/materials and life (behaviour, experience and relationships) via the idea of space - the premise here is that form articulates space and hence the structure of form is instrumental in this articulation. (For example, a natural cave and a human made cave have two different structural logics; a trabeated system and a framed system produces different proportions of voids and give a different sense of material; a domed roof is different from a trussed roof in spatiality).

The design intent for the Library was to provide the experience of rest with the space. the space also creates curiosity tio explores spaces within and feels no barrier in occupying and activating areas within the space itself. there should be free movement to explore within spaces. the spaces within the structure are open and semi-open and have more inclusion of green patches within. The learning shouldn’t be only confined to books it can be through visuals, interacting with people within, and experiencing the space itself.

SEMESTER IV | Designing Library

Model Making

Elevation view of the design model to understand the structure and form.

Drafting & Photoshop

Design model

Model making Photoshop

Rhino 3D Photoshop

Model making

Exploring forms and material through model making.

Ground floor plan

Climate imapct on the design intervention.

First floor plan

03. ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS

Devka beach, Nani Daman

SEMESTER V

LENS AWARDS 2023 - WINNER

The name of the project is over-lapse. The site of intervention for this design is located in nani daman, near Devaka Beach. The Devka beach and wetlands have undergone a massive transformation as a tourist attraction. The process of beatification and commercialization has over the years led to the removal and casting out of native flora and fauna which sequentially has led to the disappearance of the native people who have fled these landscapes to earn as a result of lowering of exposure to their businesses there.

The Devka beach used to be covered by a huge stretch of saru trees and a large ecosystem thriving in it.

This landscape later changed into creating hard edges i.e. the promenade which stretches all along the beach which leads to the removal of the existing thriving species and huge concrete interventions like hotels and restaurants.

N The absence of the vernacular species has led to an increase in the temperatures, and a high risk of flooding, moreover, the lack of human presence and their activities consequently led to no interactions with other species existing there. Looking at these conditions the questions that were arising were How can we make the environment conducive for humans as well as the natural vegetation, marine life, and wetlands existing there? How can these interventions respond to the current conditions of the tourist influx and hunt of the native population for a livelihood?

Rhino 3D

Photoshop

View of boardwalk through waterbody and the way it can be inhabitated by people.

04. FOREST AS A PAVILION

Aarey colony, Mumbai

SEMESTER VII

The site Aarey Vasundhara is located in the Aarey forest. One of the boundaries is shared by the main Aarey Road. Other two boundaries are governed by the streams flowing. The design process begins by the students understanding the site in depth through various softwares and on site drawings.

A digital mapping tool QGIS was used to understand various parameters that fall within the site. The drainage was understood by making maps of streams and basins of a larger context of Goregaon. Slopes were understood by Contour Map, Slope Analysis and Aspect Map. Every tree was marked accurately with the help of ODK collect, which helped us collect various features of every tree. Various stakeholders of the project and their views were understood. On site observations were made about the physical experiences we had during the visits.

Further the DP remarks were referred for the site conditions and allowable built up on area. These studies and references led us to develop various programs and areas required for the same. Keeping these all in mind we started to design and develop forms for the program.

The designs explore various possibilities of built as well as unbuilt architecture which afford human and non human interaction. They also develop a syntax between humans and the environment creating an experience of its own.

Rhino 3D Lumion Photoshop

View of cafeteria co-exisiting with the vegetation dwelling around and the use of bamboo easily blends the structure in the landscape.

Overall Ground floor plan

05. BUILDING SYSTEMS AND DETAILS

Trombay, Mumbai

SEMESTER VI

Cheeta camp is a very cohesive and a intense in terms of physicality, hence it allows them to form thresholds around their spaces. These thresholds are skins, a membrane-like structure that swells and shrinks according to conditions. Such conditions are easily mapped out throughout the day and night. These skins modify with time and activities.

The light also has a major role in the site as it also affects how particular groups of people gather at specific niche spaces also the way they afford it. The design intent was to Imagine the built form as an extended night/ evening lantern allowing interstitial community programs and activities to extend through evening and night. The program timed spaces thus lend a new threshold providing the community with lit and well-illuminated spaces to aid their gathering to the existing forms of Anganwadi, Community Toilet and Pathlab

This course continued to further articulate detailed development stages for the built form through technical resolution of structural systems, material performance and experience, threshold-enclosure details and process of construction. Further, it allowed to bridge the gap between the design from concept to actualization and generate a construction documentation set along with specifications, quantities, estimation and putting together different materials and their assemblies in a manner that is conceptually coherent with the overall idea of the building.

Rhino 3D

Photoshop

Understanding form and interstitial spaces.

Ground floor plan & First floor plan

G.I.SHEET ROOFING Trackdeck double-skin galvalume metal sheet and including screws and clips. Insulation: Supply and Laying of 50mm thick log fiber resin bonded fiberglass roll insulation 16kg/m3 density to be fixed between internal and external sheets.

G.I.SHEET ROOFING Trackdeck double-skin galvalume metal sheet and including screws and clips. Insulation: Supply and Laying of 50mm thick log fiber resin bonded fiberglass roll insulation 16kg/m3 density to be fixed between internal and external sheets.

PURLINS C Channel sections/ISMC 75 used along with J Hooks to attach the roof

R.C.C COLUMN 300x300 mm

R.C.C COLUMN 300x300 mm Providing & laying M30/20, using RMC for RCC including pumping for foundation, pile caps, raft slab, column, walls, shear walls

Providing & laying M30/20, using RMC for RCC including pumping for foundation, pile caps, raft slab, column, walls, shear walls

R.C.C. COPING covering the exposed top of the roof or wall with a layer of concrete.

R.C.C. COPING covering the exposed top of the roof or wall with a layer of concrete.

DRIP MOULD Providing & applying a continuous cement plaster drip mould of size 50mm wide and 15mm thick under RCC pardi, chajja EXTERNAL PLASTER Providing sand face plaster externally in two coats using approved screened sand in all position including providing base coat of 18 mm thick in cement mortar 1:4

DRIP MOULD Providing & applying a continuous cement plaster drip mould of size 50mm wide and 15mm thick under RCC pardi, chajja EXTERNAL PLASTER Providing sand face plaster externally in two coats using approved screened sand in all position including providing base coat of 18 mm thick in cement mortar 1:4

BRICK PARAPET WALL 230mm thick brick parapet wall First class wire cut bricks

BRICK PARAPET WALL 230mm thick brick parapet wall First class wire cut bricks

R.C.C SLAB Providing and laying concrete M25/20 using RMC for floor slab on grade including finishing the surface smooth

R.C.C SLAB Providing and laying concrete M25/20 using RMC for floor slab on grade including finishing the surface smooth

VAATA

VAATA

CHAJJA

CHAJJA

DRIP MOULD Providing & applying a continuous cement plaster drip mould of size 50mm wide and 15mm thick under RCC pardi, chajja

DRIP MOULD Providing & applying a continuous cement plaster drip mould of size 50mm wide and 15mm thick under RCC pardi, chajja

R.C.C.LINTEL 150mm

R.C.C.LINTEL 150mm

ALUMINIUM FRAME SLIDING WINDOW

ALUMINIUM FRAME SLIDING WINDOW

R.C.C.SILL 150 mm

R.C.C.SILL 150 mm

SCREEDING 25mm

SCREEDING 25mm

VITRIFIED TILING Kajaria 15mm 600 x 600mm Vitrified Ceramic Tiles

G.L Plinth protection provided for waterproofing

G.L Plinth protection provided for waterproofing

DAMP PROOF COURSE 50 mm

R.C.C.ECCENTRIC FOOTING

DAMP PROOF COURSE 50 mm

R.C.C.ECCENTRIC FOOTING

P.C.C BED 150mm thick

P.C.C BED 150mm thick

RUBBLE

RUBBLE RAMMED EARTH

RAMMED EARTH

OUTER STEEL TRUSS FRAME Two 75 x 75 x 8 mm rolled equal angles are welded together to form a 'T'

INNER STEEL TRUSS MEMBERS Two 75 x 75 x 6 mm rolled equal angles are welded to the outer steel truss frame.

PURLINS C Channel sections/ISMC 75 used along with J Hooks to attach the roof J hooks 130mm long 4 mm dia

TRACKDECK GALVALUME DOUBLE-SKIN METAL SHEET

STEEL BASE PLATE 12mm thick plate with 4x18mm dia holes H.T.BOLTS 125 mm long

G.I.SHEET

G.I.GUTTER

S.H.S STEEL COLUMNS TATA STRUCTURA steel 300 x 300 x 10 mm square hollow section

SWAN NECK PIPE Provided at a angle to channel out rain water from the gutter outlet 100 mm dia

BUILDING

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ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO FOLLOWED.

DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT

OTHER DRAWINGS.

P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT COARSE AGGREGATE).

ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS.

ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING.

ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK.

RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED

THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED

THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.

VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK. WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS.

- OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.

SR. NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION

ISSUED BY CHECKED

KEY PLAN

SCALE 1:15

DPC (DAMP PROOF COURSE) 50mm

R.C.C ISOLATED FOOTING Providing & laying M30/20, using RMC for RCC including pumping for foundation, pile caps, raft slab, column, walls, shear walls

P.C.C BED 150 mm

RUBBLE 230 mm

RAMMED EARTH Mururm soil 230 mm

SCALE 1:15

STAMP & SIGN

COMMUNITY TOILET AT TROMBAY, MUMBAI

PRATHAMESH DESHMUKH

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT

NORTH SCALE

1:20

DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION

WD - SEA - S018

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GENERAL NOTES

ALL DIMENSIONS ARE IN MILLIMETERS UNLESS

OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

ALL THE WRITTEN DIMENSIONS ARE TO BE FOLLOWED. DRAWINGS TO BE SEEN WITH RESPECT TO ALL OTHER DRAWINGS.

P.C.C. IS IN THE RATIO OF 1:3:6 (CEMENT : SAND COARSE AGGREGATE).

ALL LEVELS SPECIFIED IN METERS.

ALL DECISIONS REINFORCEMENT CALCULATIONS NEED TO BE TAKEN BY STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING.

ALL DISCREPANCIES SHALL BE BROUGHT TO NOTICE TO THE ARCHITECT BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY WORK.

RICHER CONCRETE MIX TO BE USED FOR THE FOUNDATION AND M:30 MIX TO BE USED FOR THE SUPER STRUCTURE, ALL MIXES SHALL BE SUGGESTED, EXAMINED AND APPROVED BY THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER.-

VERIFY FIELD CONDITIONS AND COORDINATION WITH THE PROJECT DOCUMENTS PRIOR TO PROCEEDING WITH THE WORK. WORK WITHIN THE FIELD BOUNDARIES AS SPECIFIED IN THE PROJECT DOCUMENT AND COMPLY WITH ALL THE APPLICABLE BUILDING CODES, REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCE REQUIREMENTS. - OCCUPANTS ON THE ADJACENCIES TO THE PROJECT AREA SHALL CONTINUE UNINTERRUPTED/UNDISTURBED OCCUPANCY DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.

STAMP & SIGN

SR. NO. DATE REVISION DESCRIPTION

ISSUED BY CHECKED BY KEY PLAN

COMMUNITY TOILET AT TROMBAY, MUMBAI

PRATHAMESH DESHMUKH

2022 - 2023

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT

THIRD YEAR B.ARCH ROLL NO | A20 - 14 AND ARCHITECTURE

1:20

DRAWING TITLE & NUMBER

DETAIL 03 [STAIRCASE

WD - SEA - S021

06. MASS INHABITATION X RETROFIT

Thakkar Bappa Colony, Kurla SEMESTER IV

The housing question has been conventionally thought through as the problem of ‘house shortage’ and this is addressed by provisioning of newhouses. Here house becomes a consumable, tradable commodity and not a home. Also, the housing produced for the poor through such provisioning is of extremely poor quality with high segregations and discriminations. Moreover, formally trained architects in India participate in building habitation for less than 10% people.

For the course the housing question is redefined as the ‘problem of professional architects and state mechanisms being unable to enter the house production processes’. The course is aimed at training students to engage with a settlement with poor habitation conditions and develop strategies of improvement which can be implemented through the cultural logics that operate in the settlement.

For this purpose, the settlement of Thakkar Bappa Colony in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai has been chosen. This 50 year old settlement is a shoe making cluster and is inhabited by Rajasthani migrants to the city.

Uderstanding demographics and aspirations of the existing livlihoods of the settlement.

Rhino 3D Photoshop

Vulnerabilities

Design possibilities

Design scoping

Sketching Photoshop

Sketching Photoshop

Sketching Photoshop

AutoCad Photoshop

MY EXPLORATIONS & INTERESTS

Along with architecture I love 3D Modelling and Exploring different ways of visualizing forms and environment through digital format. I Read a lot of manga and watch movies and anime, they help me Push my imagination and creativity. I also play video games in spare time, as they also make us a part of a digital realm which we inhabit through our senses. I have a keen interest in Graphic Design and Typography as it is a really a powerful tool to hold attention and also communicate through its visuals. As a indivisual i am open mionded and always eager to learn more and never settle for less.

3D Conceptual Environment design

3D Printing

3D Printing

Fusion 360

Manga (Japanese comics)