SELECTED WORKS ABHILASHA PATIL
Abhilasha Prabhakar Patil I am currently a fourth year student of School of Environment and Architecture. The following is a curated collection of my processes and works that have helped me develop an understanding of architecture in multiple aspects. It is a reflection of my enthusiasm and rigour for architecture.
Objective | Seeking the position of an intern architect
Achievements | Awarded for category the most promising trajectory for the Academic Year 2018 - 2019
Volunteering | Connected and Connected Collaborative
Education | 2020 - Intern at e5 Studio, Mumbai
2018 - Intern at Jayant Kolte Architects, Nashik 2017 - 2022 - School of environment and Architecture | University of Mumbai, Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture 2015 - 2017 - G.D. Sawant Senior & Shri Siddhivinayak Junior Arts, Commerce, Science & B.C.S College, Nashik | The Maharashtra state board of higher secondary education - Grade 11 & 12 2005 - 2015 - Symbiosis School, Nashik | Central Board of secondary education - Grade 1 to Grade 10
Email : patilabhilasha8@gmail.com Phone : 7385500679 DOB : 08. 07.1999
Workshops |
Studio | Exchange program with AVANI institute of design, Calicut 2020 | Songs of Turbulence | Stage coordinating team of 5 year college event. Class representative for Conten Committee 2019 - 20 ( Social media team ) Class representative for Content Committee 2020 - 21 ( Social media team ) Participated in Transparence 2019.
2017 | Photography workshop | Dinesh Mehta 2018 | Hands and Body workshop by Sanyukta Wagh 2019 | Project Management workshop | Perkins Eastman office 2019 | Arts after Image | Art historian Sabih Ahemed 2019 | Illustration | Harshad Marathe 2019 | Urban Ecology | Anand Pendharkar 2020 | Astrobiology | Online elective
Studio Collaboration | SEA press publications 2017 | Buhari: An open village 2017 | Heights 2017 | History of Integrated Technology 2018 | Mumbai neighbourhood studies Vol.4 2018 | Pune: Intervening the Inner City 2018 | Pune Postcard book 2018 | Operative process 2018 | South Asian architecture and urbanism timeline 2019 | The Architecture of Ahom’s 2019 | What is a Clinic? 2019 | Long spans (cover design, layout and compilation)
Skills | Hand Drafting | Measure Drawings |Sketching Autocad Rhino | Grasshopper Adobe Illustrator | Photoshop | Indesign Google Sketch-up Procreate | Fresco Model making Basic Carpentatry Photography iMovie Microsoft Word | Excel | Powerpoint Pages | Numbers | Keynote
Contents | Neighbourhood as home
Design, Semester 7
Trails through terraces Design, Semester 4 The Sheath of Reamped Reeds Design, Semester 5 Working Drawing Technology, Semester 6 Trans, trails and tree houses Design, Semester 6 Hybrid High-Rise Structures Technology, Semester 7 Exhibition Design Technology, Semester 7 Material sense, Technology Semester 3 Settlement Studies, Buhari Semester 2 Other works
Neighbourhood as home - Design Semester 7 The brief was to design a rental housing complex for students living off-campus near the University of Mysore. The site is located in an area where owners have been giving out parts of their houses on rent for these students to live in. The initial deliberations of the project came from understanding the patterns of space occupation of the students. As most of the student activities unfold outside the house, the neighbourhood itself becomes a home for the students. The living room expands into becoming corners in the street, or the benches in gardens or the footpaths, whereas the kitchen is not inside the house anymore, and becomes the food trucks, restaurants or tiffin services that operate in the area. What happens because of this pattern of occupation is that the relationship of public and private gets completely inverted, where the important private conversations with your roommates start happening on the street. The city offers a sense of anonymity to these students and hence makes the neighbourhood as a home for them. My project here is an attempt at getting the neighbourhood inside the building. The idea revolves around the expanded idea of home, where most of the spaces are occupied outside the house. They become shared spaces for all the user groups that are living together. For example, the women in the nuclear families can offer tiffin service to the students, the old couple can spend time taking care of the vegetable garden for the kitchen. The ground floor of the building remains completely open for the public, with shops at both ends and the southern street that connects to the two parallel streets. The building gets divided in three clusters, the two ends that look towards the street are similar clusters, but the middle cluster follows the courtyard typology. The cluster detailed here is the cluster that is adjacent to the street, there are shops on the ground floor and then a stepped building that looks into the internal courtyard. These stepped corridors help in getting the neighbourhood inside the building. The units then get arranged in a manner where each unit has a possibility to rent out a room for students that also has its own entrance. The openings are designed in a way that there are eyes on the street throughout the day.
- Idea of an expanded home (top) - getting the neighbourhood inside the building. (right)
2 BHK Units where one room can be rented out to students. Additional entrance for student rental housing. Additional entrance for student rental housing.
1 BHK Units.
These units are designed to be flexible to rent out a room for student housing. Hence the 2bhk units have a possibility of additional entrance.
Streets and balconies Private spaces Rental rooms Shared spaces for families and the rentals.
Section showing the three clusters and the groundfloor that remains open to the public.
Sectional axo through the first cluster.
Sectional perspective showing the balconies and the streets in sky.
Trail through terraces - Design Semester 4 Alongside the Punoor river in the Kattipara village in Kozhikode lies a low income settlement terraced originally for rubber plantations. The houses here are laid out following the natural drainage of the site along a pedestrian trail that forms the communal spine of the settlement. Under the Kudumshree women empowerment program, women meet monthly to disburse funds received from the government for individual entrepreneurial activities. These meetings generally take place in verandahs or on the nodes of the trail. The architectural intervention looks at creating premises for entrepreneurial ventures of the settlement that are supported financially under the Kudumshree scheme. This includes workshops for coconut husk upcycling, poultry farming and allied meetings while also including facilities for monthly health camp, which have been a part of the above government scheme. The building has been imagined as a bypass, or a thoroughfare which respects the sanctity of the existing trail through the settlement. Thus, while placing itself on a terraced junction, the community centre offers covered corridors, where passersby can wait, meet, relax and loiter while still allowing the subsidiary activities to take place undisturbed. In the project coconut wood has been used as the structural frame reinforced with steel joineries. Coconut husk panels are used as screening materials along with louvers made of coconut wood.
Plan of the building (right)
The Sheath of Reamped Reeds - Design Semester 5 The main resource that I was exploring in this project is sunlight. The building has been designed with the aim that the resource consumption becomes less and the building becomes a positive resource consumer, being able to give out more resources than it consumes. The primary element of design and resource interaction in the building is a reedbed channel wrapping around it which cleans the grey water and the clean water will then be used for the vegetable gardens. A resource cycle was imagined where the people would eat in the community kitchen and wash the dishes on their own, the water with this organic solvents would then be collected in tanks that are there at various levels, which would go through the reedbed channels and the clean water at the end of the slopes would then be collected into different tanks to be supplied to the vegetable gardens. The vegetables and fruits from this garden can be used in the community kitchen itself. In this cycle, the idea of co-living was that people would come together and make smaller efforts in making the building self-sustainable by participating in things like terrace farming, maintenance of the reeds etc. The building is organised around these reedbed channels and there are voids and terraces created for the proper ventilation in the building. There are community gathering spaces which are semi open and on different levels. These terraces provide opportunities for spaces which foster social interaction. The materiality of the building comes from the idea of sustainability as well, using materials which have less embodied energy. The building has a steel framework with timbercrete blocks for the walls and has wooden flooring. The reedbed channel is a steel channel through which the keeps circulation around the building and gets stored in smaller tanks ar each floor.
Walkthrough the from Churchgate Station to the interior spaces of the building ( right )
The resource cycle that runs in the builing.
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Working Drawings
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- Technology, Semester 6
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This design was further detailed out during the working drawing module where we detailed the building with all the safety norms from the basement to the terrace. Negotiationg the design with respect to the norms was an interesting exercise. Working drawings for the same were made to understand how the building will be constructed on site.
Stainless steel hollow pipe anchores inside the brick wall.
Basement floor. Raft slab.
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Trans, trails and tree houses - Design, Semester 6 This interpretation centre was thought of and imagined as a space where the urban population of the city establishes an interaction with the local tribal community. There are various forms in which this interaction was thought of, including weekend workshops, residential stays, and natural interaction amongst others. This interaction can happen along with learning local practices like sustainable building construction methods, varli painting, farming practices ,etc. The project is thought of as clusters of private spaces connected through a network of pathways. At each node on this pathway, are the public spaces. The way these built - forms are laid out take sincere inspiration from the architectural layout of the villages. The spaces also have an element of incrementality to them with the structural system behaving as a huge space frame to generate opportunities for various activities to fit in the voids. The river that flows adjacent to the site floods every monsoon, and the settlement on the banks of this river also gets flooded along with it. On the contrary, the settlements at the edge of the lake face water shortage in summers. It was hence decided to build water bodies at the edge of this river so that the flooding water will overflow into these small water bodies which act seasonally as workshop spaces and storage spaces for the water that can later be supplied to the other villages through pumps and tankers. These water bodies can also slow down the flow of water during monsoons and help in reducing flooding in the settlement. The building is made of steel framework with mangalore tile roofs, wooden flooring and wattle and daub panels. These wattle and daub panels are designed to get adequate sunlight and ventilation in each area. Few of those panels have fins that can completely open up the whole space.
Conceptual idea of the builtform and the ponds for collecting water.
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Hybrid High-Rise Structures - Technology, Semester 7 The design process started by taking reference from the conceptual caricature drawings in the book Hoist tower. Conceptually, the building aims toward making public spaces on higher levels so that public interactions can be facilitated. The major assembly programs are at 40 m above the ground. The resultant high-rise consists of two towers that get bridged by a larger mass at the middle which serves the public spaces in the building. The programs of this include commercial spaces, Service apartments and Assembly components that are theatre, art galleries, etc. To hold the large mass in the middle of the two towers there are large trusses forming bridge connections between the two cores of the towers and then the cantilever is supported by the outriggers that come out from the two bridging trusses. These are steel trusses that get connected to the concrete core. The columns are circular composite columns that have circular hollow steel sections with concrete in it. The facade keeps varying with respect to the program that the floors serve, but the idea of having staggered facade with glass on one side and terracotta tiles on the other remains constant. The facade appears different from different viewpoints and hence generates curiosity while one crosses the building from the road The ground floor is left open for the public as there are large recreational spaces that encourage people to move freely around the building and inhabit it. The tower reaches to the height of 200m with residential, commercial and assembly components in it.
Form evolution ( right)
Exhibition Centre - Technology, Semester 5 The chosen site is opposite Rudra Sagar lake in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh is a state in central India. Nicknamed the “Heart of India� due to its geographical location, it is the second largest Indian state by area. The state has an agrarian economy and also houses many tribal communities. The products and other forest crafts carved out of bamboo, jute, chhind and sheeshal by the tribals of Madhya Pradesh have created a niche for themselves on the National map of handicrafts of India. Boat shaped table lamps, bamboo peacocks with resplendent colour paints, motifs embossed on bamboo vases and frames, modern laptop bags and stationary utilities, delicate sequins work on sheeshal/jute speak for their ethnic and authentic quotients while satisfying the creative faculties of urban shoppers, tourists and consumers. Ujjain is surrounded by many of these tribal villages, building an exhibition centre in this region would help the tribals explore their talent as well as the products will get displayed on a larger platform. Ujjain city is one of the developing cities in Madhya Pradesh which houses a lot of educational institutions, hence has a large number of student population. It also hosts Kumbha mela every 12 years, thus has a lot of religious boiling along with and to provide accommodation for people coming to visit these temples. As there is a lake at one edge of the site, all the spaces are oriented in a way that they face the lake. The structure is divided into three zones - Hall 1, Hall 2 and the office spaces. The office space comes in the middle along with the entrance lobby and the pre-functional space and provides the main entrance to the exhibition space from where it branches into exhibition halls. The existing patterns from the site context were studied to arrive at the gable roof form. Then, as the wind diagram suggests there needed to be openings on both sides for cool breeze to flow in throughout the day, hence the form has openings on both the sides. As the exhibition aimed towards encouraging local crafts, these openings and overhangs create niches for smaller shops to come in.
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Diagrams for form evolution ( right ) Form evolution
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Material sense - Technology, Semester 3 The aim of the design exercise was to try and explore the plastic nature of the concrete to its fullest potential. This will be possible only by reimagining the concrete not as a filler slurry, but a material that has a life of its own, when casted in a certain manner. The purpose of the exercise was to apply the understanding of the way forces work when cast in a specific geometry and to study the spaces that emerge out of these geometries. This exercise started with introduction to cement by making the perfect mixture with right proportion of water and concrete. Then the design exersise was to think of a single support ssystem that could cover a larger span.
Settlement Studies, Buhari - Semester 3 Bhuhari is a small village near Navsari in Gujarat. The first settlement study trip was in this village. Here I learned how to work as a team, the drawing on the right is the 1:500 scale site plan that I contributed to. The aim of the study was to identify the forces that created this type of settlement. It was important to understand how an occupation driven society develops and coordinates internally through culture and other factors. The process involved the documentation of every house, the environment around it, social spaces, and the roads in the village. We held a local exhibition of the work we did there in the local school and all the villagers were invited. This was my first experience of interaction with the locals which becomes a very integral part of the design process.
Other Works
The above illustration is from my semester 2 drawing module where the provocation was “Courtyard within calm trees�.
I was selected for a student exchange program that was amongst four colleges in India, from my college. It was a 2-week program which later continued in my design studio. I went to AVANI Institute of design after the Kerala floods to learn about post - disaster architecture.
This was from the semester 3 design module where the site was a historical site in Pune, Pataleshwar caves. Here I took patterns observed on site to go ahead with the design. This was a play of diagonals and spaces that work at three levels.
The above model is from the semester 4 Technology module where we learnt about steel structures and their calculation along with the deign considerations for a large steel structure.