Selected Works 2023

Masters in Architecture

Abhi Panchal

1996, August 05 +1 984 888 3477 aapancha@ncsu.edu 1705, Crest Road, Apt 2 Raleigh NC 27606

ABOUT ME

Growing up experimenting with wood and metal to fitting them together in a building is my journey of architecture. Exploring the materials, forms, shapes, and tools with adapting the future techniques such as digital fabrication has trained me for architectural challenges. Architecture is timeless and has a lot of things to describe your past and your coming future which can always be seen in my visualization in form of sketches. I find myself as an adaptable, ambitious, self-motivated, and persistent individual. My goal is to keep learning and refining my design perspective to an extent that it can start bringing about a change in society and make a difference in this field through my work.

Education

Recognitions

Masters in Architecture, Current North Carolina State University, USA specializations

Enery and Technology in Architecture City Planning

Bachelors in Architecture, 2014 Gujarat University, INDIA Licensed Architect, India

Work Experience

Teaching Assistance, Spring 2023 & Spring 2022 with Robin Abrams, PhD, FAIA, ASLA at Collage of Design, NC State ARC 140 Experiential Architecture

Teaching Assistance, Fall 2022 with Patricia Morgado, Ph.D at Collage of Design, NC State ARC 250 Fundamentals of Architectural Visualization

Project Architect, Studio 2+2

June 2019 - Jan 2021

Conceptualization and execution of government and private architecture and landscape projects. Worked on the redevelopment of Jallianwala Bagh, the restoration of Ellis Bridge and the creation of Walking greenspace, the redesign of Daman’s Pedestrian Street, and the seafront of Diu Beach.

Architectural Intern, MYVN Architecture

Jan 2019 - May 2019

Worked on construction drawings for JK House and House 3V

Nominated for Shawcroft Drawing Competition Spring 2023

GSSP Scholarship, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021

Nominated for AIA Triangle Scholarship fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Participated at NASA India 2018

Software Skills Workshops

Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, Dynamo Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Rhino, Grasshopper Vray, Lumion, Enscape Model Making, Sketching, Hand Drafting

Architecture with Algorithmic Design Rhino inside Revit. Rhino and grasshopper parametric Modeling Parametric Wall Origami and Kirigami Construction of Segmental Arch and Geodesic dome Leewardists for architectural Story Telling Glass Workshop 3D Painting and Wall Art

Apartments

The project is located in Ahmedabad, India. It is high end multi family housing. As apart of design team I was responsible for generating construction drawings for the projects. I have worked on floor plans, elevations and sections of the project. Also, my responsibility was to check the execution for the project.

Alphabet A

Multi-Family Apartments

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Site Plan

The project is located in Ahmedabad, India. It is high end multi family housing. As part of design team, I was responsible for creating conceptual drawings and realistic rendering for proposed scheme. It also includes schematic plans and landscape layout for the project

Kalhaar Blue and Green | 768

The site is situated in the suburbs of western Ahmedabad, With increasing population, development in the city has brought the barren lands into large individual housing scheme proposed as privately golf clubs and weekend leisure clubs. One such scheme is Kalhaar Blue and Green golf club.

As a builder proposed project the house was been build at a fixed location and leaving the large longitudinal vista towards the landscape. As a design approach, we divided into different zones of activity such as party lawns calming pond shrubs beds, lily pond and multiple activity decks.

DESIGN BRIEF

Each space defined by one or two intriguing element like wise at one corner of the drive has a cascade behind a seating deck, creating a soothing sound. The passageway to the central lawn has beautiful puncture screens which lie in between the passage along the sidewalk of the house. The only existing tree nearby house defines a play area for kids having modernized kids play equipment.

Legend

Driveway

Shrubbery island with embedded water cascade

Water Curtain

Shrub Bed

Dry Garden with feature walls and specimen trees.

Servant Entry with feature jali running along the pathway

Antique planter pots.

Cobbled deck around existing Khijdo tree with service platform

Feature Plantaer with Mosaic wall

Legend

1. 20thk stone as per selection 2. 18thk mortar 3. 150thk WBM 4. 300thk WBM 5. 100thk P.C.C 6. 75thk sandbed 7. 50thk fine grit 8. 40thk sandbed 9. 230thk brick wall 10. P.C.C as per structure 11. 50 thk farmyard manure 12. 300thk planting soil 13. 10thk tile 14. 600thk planting soil 15. 900thk planting soil 16. Rammed earth 17. Lawn 18. 50thk loose gravels 19. Lightweight filling 20. 150thk R.C.C 21. Geotextile sheet 22. GFRC planter 23. EPDM flooring 24. Adhesive 25. IPS flooring 26. Outdoor wood as per selection 27. 25mmx25mm aluminum section 28. Waterproofing layer 29. R.C.C coping 30. SS plate 31. MS base plate

Street Revitalization

Chhapali Sheri Night Market

Daman is an union territory. It has Portuguese character and ASI listed monuments. Has a coastline and a creek, shares its border with Gujarat and Maharashtra, it is a great place for weekend tourist and a small town for fisheries.

Project in coordination with Department of Urban Development

Open vs Built Building Use Building Height Building Condition

The character of facade is diminished as new structures are being developed in between the existing Portuguese buildings. Need for more recreational places and institutional buildings.

The primary function of the building is disturbed as the vendors illegally make space for the sale of their products.

Provides a clear idea for analyzing the density and the massing of the built structures The building height in nani daman differs as per the development of the area. The height of the building impacts the microclimate of the areas.

Major roads are commercial or mixed use stretches which contributes to the traffic and congestion. Newer buildings are defining the language which proves that daman is rewriting its history of being identified under various rulers but in another form this time

Present condition, Redlining defines encroached areas.

Proposed condition. Yellow color defines clear difference between street and walkways.

Unpaved walkways with non covered manholes, undefined parking spots

Mixed Traffic with no sign of lanes makes it difficult to control traffic. Hard to define building fronts and walkways

Problem of on-street parking, with no paved walkways, no sign of street lights or street infrastructure.

Open Construction sites.

Shared Streets

Street sharing by vehicular and pedestrian traffic. This will promote active healthy communities.

Equal importance is given to vehicular and pedestrian users. Shared streets ensure streets are safe and shared comfortably by vehicles and pedestrian at day times. Night use of the streets will be limited to pedestrian only.

Place making

To make the street user friendly

Various place making elements Will transform space into happy Places.

Benches, market stalls, parklets, Outdoor furniture will give a Complete street in terms of user Experience.

Greenscape

Streets are energy efficient, to maintain, and include healthy trees, plants, and Permeable surfaces. This will add soft spaces that are soothing to eyes.

Trees, plants and permeable surfaces will generate healthy street networks.

Smart Street

Physical and digital Transformation of the street will be triggered by smart equipment.

Security cameras for safety and Smart signage boards will enhance street characteristics and public information

View representing longitudinal street after the intervention.

The longitudinal street is typically a hot spot for traffic. And it was an approach towards creating slow pedestrian friendly street. By creating small pocket spaces which can act as gathering spots and hangout spots. With providing tree buffer between street and walkways we tried to create more shaded region. The streets are intentionally turned and not kept straight to decrease the speed of traffic flowing.

JK House

Coonoor Kerala

MYVN Architecture designed the JK house project in Coonoor, Kerela. All of the drawings shown here are part of my internship program for a Bachelor of Architecture.

Section 6

Ground Floor Plan

Obvious Interior Design

The project is a part of internship work at MYVN Architecture. It is located in Bangalore KA, India. We designed the interiors for 7000sq ft of work space.

Tall building design is studio project in collaboration with SOM San Francisco. It is a group project, partnered with Rishabh Patil and Guided by Dr. Wayne Place. The project is located in San Francisco Bay Area. Our efforts was to change the post industrial area into lively and pedestrian friendly community.

Tall Building Design Studio Guided by SOM San Francisco

Clearing the unused post industrial building

Keeping one Cultural Important grain silo building intact for adaptive reuse

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Re-purposing Cargo Rail Corridor into green walking streets and connecting existing playgrounds and park to central communal park which opens towards Bay area

Softening the shore line by giving back the unwanted deteriorated land to nature and create a living shore line

Introducing active life style by waterfront walking and biking trails, which connects to all the green streets and pocket parks. This pocket parks create a breathing space in between the community.

Green corridors are straight green parks which makes the community more walkable. The central park creates the pause points and also creates the communal celebration areas for the community.

Access points to the site and placement of the tower

Extruding the height to relate with the context neighborhood

Creating a podium with multi-level open green terraces.

Imitating the hills of San Francisco

Creating multilevel terraces which brings interaction spaces at different use of the building.

Educational Project | Tall Building Design | North Carolina State University

Bird eye view for Podium Level

Residential

View for Recreational area on Terrace

View for Recreational area on Terrace

Educational Project | Tall Building Design | North Carolina State University

Rejuvenating Riverfront with City Library

The New Bern Public Library is envisioned as a center for lifelong learning, oriented around interactions between learners. It offers a rich variety of resources – providing access to physical and on-line collections, technology, to grow alongside changing needs. The library will provide universal access to education and information, including engagement with both analog and digital resources for a rich learning and community experience.

LEGEND

1. Floating Jogging Track 2. Marsh Wetland 3. Exit point from Riverfront.

AXIS

Main axis present on site

Design idea

The idea was to develop the land in such a way that it responds towards the regeneration of the area by minimizing the flooding effects of natural local species of vegetation which act as buffer between the public areas and the waterfront.

CONSTRUCTIVE LINES

This constructive lines are drawn on basis of flow of water flow into the bottle neck and site

FURTHER EXPENDED AREA

Existing bottle neck enhance the flow of water in prominent way towards the broad street side, and some sustainable design element should be added

Zoning Diagram

Quite Areas Active Areas

Assailable Terrace with open air seating.

Primary office zone which have conference hall and meeting spaces.

3rd level have high tech labs such as computer cluster, sound studio Video studio and game development room

Placing block such a way that it create open area towards the riverfront

Rotation towards the constructing lines which were taken from master plan

3rd level have classrooms, meeting rooms and open study areas.

Public Space which has Social service office, Children play area, and community space

Split into two parts and reducing the size and creating the division between the silent and quite spaces

Extrusion and creating Vehicular entrance from the Broad street.

Rotation creating axis towards the broad street

Pushing the Form so, it create the floating effect.

Parti Diagram

Public Library

First Level Plan

Second Level Plan

Third Level Plan Forth Level Plan

Horizontal Louver system

Mesh Screen

Mesh skin acts good for cutting the direct vision to the outside and also can bring the north light into the places. Mental is punched into the round holes and fitted on the frame.

EAST ELEVATION NORTH ELEVATION

East Side elevation is also the River side elevation making it as the main elevation towards the proposed master plan. Maximum opening are provide on the east side.

North Side or Broad Street elevation is opening towards the Main street of the New Bern town and thus is creating the main Vehicular entrance to it.

The Anodized Aluminum Horizontal Louver system is be specifically designed to prevent from the glare and also cut dun the noon sun intensity. 14” Aluminum sheet is twisted along the entire Facade creating a fish scale effect.

Educational

Part Section B

Part Section C Part Section D

Part Section E

Educational Project | Rejuvenating Riverfront with City Library | North Carolina State

Accessible Terrace

Curtain Wall with horizontal Mullions to support Louver

Support system for Louver

Steel Structure on Concrete Base Slab

Mesh Skin

Anodized Aluminum Twisted Horizontal Louver

Concrete Platform Slab

Educational Project | Rejuvenating Riverfront with City Library | North Carolina State University

BIM

Fundamentals

This is a case study project: STRØM SPA NORDIQUE QUÉBEC build by LEMAYMICHAUD ARCHITECTURE DESIGN.

Ground Floor Plan

Drawings are generated in Revit and Concept Render from Enscape.

First Floor Plan Rear Elevation

Floor Plan

LAR 582 Computation Design

Oakland pavilion is the gathering space design for Makers and Artist community around the region.

Oakland has seen mass gentrification, Jack London square is the zoned as Entertainment district. We are proposing the mass tensile structure which can act as shading device as well as open display gallery.

A tensile structure is optimized to attain maximum shade for entire year. One side of the tensile structure is simulated in height so get different result.

Radiation Analysis

Building Sun path

Galapagos

A BIn this Illustration you can visualize the amount of radiation without tensile structure.

BIn this Illustration you can visualize the amount of radiation received on ground after the tensile structure.

| Generative Design | North Carolina State University

ARC 582

Ceramic Architectural Fabrication

This design & research seminar will explore 3D-printed ceramic assemblies drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of North Carolina clay craft. The course will oscillate between two mutually reinforcing projects: design & fabrication of a unitized screen wall and a study of regional ceramic history & techniques. Tutorials, prototyping, and field trips will support these pursuits. Through algorithmic modeling, digital fabrication, hands-on making, observation, collection, and discussion, this course will span from native makers and folk potters to emerging digital systems. These investigations will generate space for critical discourse around the use of (digital) technology in architecture.

Workflow from rhino and grasshopper.

Script was designed for 2 types of input just like potter-ware, you can make a simple object or you can import a rhino object, this part of script deal with the number of base layer height, overall object height and sides of objects.

Part of script contains the skirt settings, base settings and object contouring

Final script need to be copy past into notepad and renamed to .g code for printing.

Part of Script contains shifting the coordinates of the part of printing, flow of the mass and control over the rate of flow as well as, it contains the generation of g-code for printer.

Addition of the initial and end part of the script to make the desired workable script for the printer.