Abhishek Ray - Portfolio

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Abhishek Ray

I am a passionate architect (Bachelor of Architecture, 2014) with seven years’ work experience in various sectors in the AEC industry, having worked in major projects in India, UK, UAE, Bangladesh etc.

I have worked at BDP., one of Europe’s leading multidisciplinary practice, for seven years, and then at SpaceMatters, awarded India’s second best architecture firm by Architizer.

IIT MANDI, HIMACHAL PRADESH EDUCATION

IITMandi is a part of the extensive West Himalaya Biogeographic Province. The Campus falls within one of the upland watersheds of the river Beas.

The new campus will be a physical manifestation of the

aims, ambition and character of IIT Mandi. The built form will need to be designed to become a beacon of engineering excellence which is inspiring and sensitive to its natural surroundings, together creating a place which will leave a very strong impression on everyone who will live, work or visit.

KEY FIGURES:

Project:

Site Area:

Built up area:

Built up area

(Use Wise- All Phases):

Supported Population:

IIT, Mandi

538 Acres (200 acres developable)

9400 sqm- Phase 1A (2012)

116800 sqm- Phase 1B (2015)

422700 sqm- Phase 2

Academic- 124600 sqm

Residential- 344113 sqm

Common Facilities- 14920 sqm

6200 Students

620 Faculty (with families)

1040 Support Staff

THE SCHOOL & HOSTEL

The school in the campus

Student hostel

THE GYMNASIUM

The gymnasium is one of the more interesting structures in the site.

It is part of a non-academic space, dubbed ‘The Market Square”.

The gymnasium boasts a basketball court, a swimming pool, a squash court, among other things.

Blow-up view of the gymnasium

LODHA SOCIAL HOUSING, MUMBAI

Lodha

Social Housing in Palava is a combination of differently-sized 1 BHK apartments to be handed over to MHADA (Maharashtra Housing

and Development Authority). The site spreads over 29.72 acres with an overall built up area of 5,23,663 sqm. The apartments have been designed as prototypes which are repeated across the site to ease prefabrication methods of construction.

This would help save time, keep

construction cost-efficient, and result in an affordable yet functionally well-designed product.

Currently two pockets have been constructed. The rest of the pockets are being simultaneously designed, as the completed ones are being prepared to be handed over.

Concept sketch

Entrance lobby as built

Entrance lobby rendered concept

Tower view (under construction)

Courtyard view (under construction)

LODHA QUALITY HOUSING, MUMBAI

The next phase saw MHADA enter a special deal with Lodha group. Lodha would directly sell the units, and a certain percentage of the profit would be forwarded to MHADA. To accomodate for that, the project had been upscaled from affordable housing to quality housing, where the floor space was increased to more than 30 sqm.

The project still had a tight budget, and for the forst time, it was launched in a BIM platform, Revit. From the client’ss side, another project management BIM software, nPulse, was implemented.

The aim for this project on the architect’s side was to evolve to LOD 300 to LOD 350. The main barrier against achieving LOD 350 is the rarity of BIM-capable MEP or structural consultants. The next phase will aim to bridge that gap.

In this phase, links, quantities, schedules etc were made use of. Every family was custom-made for the project, with their own information and parameters.

There were four kinds of units in this particular project, which were used in permutation and combination. Special care was taken for making each unit well-lit and ventilated.

Unit

Unit

BIM COORDINATION & PRODUCTION

The structure model was modeled separately from the architecture model, based on the structure consultant’s CAD drawings. Both are combined to visually coordinate them and avoid any discrepencies.

From the architect’s side, the project is fully done in Revit, and all schedules, material take-offs etc are extracted from Revit.

The client required exact GPS coordinates relative to the surveyor’s origin point in a tabular form. Unfortunately, that is not a feature in out-of-the box Revit.

To automate the process, a simple code was composed in Dynamo and after quality control, it generates a schedule for certain points in the model.

TO WER-C

DHAKA METRO LINE 5 (NORTH)

The

The concourse is the first proper area of the station which a passenger may see. Therefore, it was designed to be welcoming and straightforward. There are very few obstructions at eye level, so one end of the passenger-accessible part of the concourse can be seen from the other end.

The concourse ceiling is made of light aluminium baffles placed with a primary support grid above the fins to nestle lighting fixtures and services between the baffles.

The baffles have a smooth, yet non-uniform curve at the bottom edge. In a lengthy space like the concourse, the bottoms of the baffles create a three-dimensional wave, which is pleasant to look at and grand to stand under.

The walls of the concourse are designed with three materials: brown lacquered glass at the top with copper T-profile joints, a brass band in the middle, and then light, matte-finish stone at the bottom. Matte-finish grey stone is provided on the floor to make it brighter and spacious. This is the same in all standard stations in the line.

The concourse is a modern and stylish space to travel through, yet elegant enough to stop for a moment to admire.

Bangladesh has been climbing the global economic ladder quite fast in the recent few years. As a result, Bangladesh government has launched a few megaprojects with some support from other countries.

The Dhaka Metro project has been awarded to a leading Japanese company, who has hired BDP for the design of nine

underground stations. This project is one of the pioneering TOD projects in Bangladesh’s history. The international design collaboration has ensured that context of the region and comfort for the locals remains at the forefront of the design.

Dhaka Metro Line 6 has already seen test runs in May 2021, and the whole project is planned to conclude and open to public by 2028.

Dhaka

The spaces within each floor level are illustrated and described on following plan drawings.

BLOWN-UP VIEW

A full set of General Arrangement drawings are also provided in Appendix A of the report.

The building is made up of the following key architectural components and features;

Above Ground :

Below Ground:

Basic Design Stage Report - ST10 Kochukhet

All the above are illustrated and explained in further detail in proceeding diagrams, drawings and visualisations.

1. Entrance and Escape Cores.

2. Entrance Canopies.

3. Tunnel and Building Vent Cores

4. External Ancillary spaces.

5. Concourse Ceiling

6. Concourse Circulation Area.

7. Retail Units.

8. MEP Spaces.

9. Platform with Services Undercroft.

Passenger Journey - Concourse Level

3TS HOSPITAL, BRIGHTON

buildings with modern facilities for the provision of 21st century healthcare.

The project fits a large scale hospital sensitively into its historic context. The topography of the site is fully exploited with the mass of the building broken down into fingers, which contain the bulk of the ward accommodation and face south with views over the English Channel.

also led extensive negotiations with the local authority on the complex Section 106 Agreement and planning conditions.

The brief was to redevelop the Royal Sussex County Hospital on a very constrained site and replace 200 year old

BDP was involved in detailed negotiations with the local planning authority and English Heritage, in relation to design and heritage issues. BDP

Two new state-of-the-art hospital buildings will bring Elderly Care, General Medicine, HIV and Clinical Infection wards up to modern standards, and establish the hospital as the Major Trauma Centre for the region. The new build will include 361 beds, 65% of which will be in single en-suite rooms, a helipad and additional parking spaces underground.

Axonometric view of all the phases, Kemp Tower at the back

Helipad on top of the Kemp Tower

Front Entrance

EDUCATION

CARR INFANT SCHOOL, SHEFFIELD

RevisonDescription

-First Issue

The Yorkshire Carr Infant School project is located in Acomb, York.

This school is a refurbishment and redesign of an older school, that suffered from a variety of issues, including dampness and a lack of proper natural light and ventilation. The new school building has successfully eliminated that.

The building is 2 storeys high and consists of two blocks: the main hall and the classroom block. It has been designed according to the latest and updated British specifications.

Image of the finished school

View of the Carr Infant school

EDUCATION

DON VALLEY ACADEMY, SHEFFIELD

Don Valley Academy is a school in Sheffield with a capacity for 1500 pupils.

The design consists of two separate new-build elements of Teaching Block and Sports Block. These are sited respectively to the north and south of a retained and refurbished single storey Sixth Form and Business Studies Centre, to

create a simple and legible new linear campus on the site.

The Teaching Block is a three storey building consisting of linear wings of teaching accommodation offset around a central triple-height atrium space. The communal spaces of Dining Hall, Library and Main Hall are clustered around this heart space and form the focus of school life.

The Sports Block is a single storey building, open to out of hours community use and located in close proximity to the sports pitches at the south of the site.

Entrance to the school

View of the school

Home science class

The sports block

PUBLIC & RETAIL

MARASSI GALLERIA MALL, BAHRAIN

Marassi Galleria is a gigantic mall in the heart of the new equally colossal Marassi city in Bahrain, a project undertaken by the Emaar group, UAE.

Inspired by the fine grain of the traditional Al-Muharraq Old Town, and the aspiration to create a centre which engages deeply into its context and surrounding community, the design seeks to create a Town Centre, rather than a Retail Centre. This is achieved by exploiting the retail planning to create a series of individual buildings, rather than continuous retail façades.

NEW COVENT GARDEN MARKET, LONDON

The masterplan for ‘The Garden’, a 23 hectare regeneration of New Covent Garden Wholesale Market, is the largest redevelopment scheme within the Nine Elms regeneration area on London’s South Bank. It will secure the future of New Covent Garden

Market, the UK’s largest fruit, vegetable and flower market, through the delivery of new 21st century facilities.

The market proposals will provide 47,000 sqm of modern facilities consolidated on one site for the 200 tenant businesses, which employ over 2,500 people. This will sit alongside a new food quarter as part of the new market, known as The Garden at New Covent Garden Market.

The design consolidates the market south of the Vauxhall railway viaduct, releasing 8 hectares of surplus land, which will be transformed into

a high quality residential-led mixed-use neighbourhood, comprising 3,000 new homes, office space and retail including shops, cafes and restaurants.

The entire scheme will be set alongside a new linear park stretching alongside the river Thames from Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station, and will also be home to the future American and Netherlands Embassies. The area will also benefit from the extension of the underground and the opening of two new tube stations, connecting people living and working in Nine Elms to wider areas in London and beyond.

Aerial

Entrance to the market

Interiors of one shop

Anatomy of the market

NIRLON KNOWLEDGE PARK, MUMBAI

Nirlon Ltd, previously a manufacturer of synthetic fibres, has its head office at Goregaon, located in western Mumbai. Here, an interior project was started as a follow-up of a much larger project for Nirlon knowledge park in Mumbai, India.

The project consisted of office spaces in two levels. The client had wanted the furniture and the decor to reflect the trademark Nirlon brand.

Reception as visualized

Pantry as visualized

Reception as built

Pantry as built

Office space as built

Meeting room as built

Top of the staircase

NHSR TRAINING FACILITY, VADODARA

National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited is implementing the project of high speed train corridor between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The total length of proposed High Speed Railway Corridor works out to be 508.17km.

The route of Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed

Rail will be passing through two states, Maharashtra and Gujarat and one Union Territory, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, of the Union of India.

The proposed corridor lies in Western Railway zone. It shall start from Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai and will end near Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad.

The training center in Vadodara would be a key institute for training railway staff and engineers. It will have every kind of cutting-edge technology and simulations which are currently used in Japanese Shinkansen training institutes in Japan.

Early concepts

Early concept view

TECHNO-ECONOMIC VIABILITY STUDY SUJALAAM AEROCITY, ANDAL

Incorporated in 2007, Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Limited (BAPL) is a specialized infrastructure company engaged in identification and development of aerotropolis projects in India. It is now developing an aerotropolis (or Skycity) at Durgapur in West Bengal within the 1616-sq-km Asansol-Durgapur Planning

Area (ADPA).

BAPL has signed a joint venture development agreement with West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited (WBIDC) for developing India’s first private Greenfield aerotropolis, comprising an airport, an industrial skyzone, a logistics skyhub, an information technology skypark and a township in the Asansol-Durgapur

region of Burdwan district in West Bengal, one of the most significant industrial zones in eastern India. The West Bengal Government under the leadership of the Honourable Chief Minister, takes an active interest in this marquee project of Bengal and through WBIDC has injected fresh equity funding for an increased stake in the company.

Proposal Option

BACHELOR THESIS

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, KOLKATA

The Museum of Modern Art, Kolkata, not to be confused with the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMoMA, by Herzog & De Meuron), was an effort towards redefining the concept of ‘art’ in the modern context.

Traditionally, art involved a physical medium like paint on canvas, or chiselled stone. But with the advent of modern technology, the limits of art has been broadened by the virtual world.

This museum aimed at marrying the old with the new, thereby blurring the horizon of art.

MUSEUM SPACES

Parking

Canteen

Exhibition wing

Open-air theatre

Entrance and administrative wing

Projector screen

Hologram display

Digital exhibition

Entrance lobby

Contemporary display

Traditional gallery

Staff Parking PTFE Stretched roof

The site

Assistance

Main entrance (Visitor)

Cloak room, Lost & Found, First-aid Souvenir shop

Offices

Curator’s cabin

Staff entrance Staff room

Restoration room

Painting studio

Sculpture studio

Digital art studio

The museum spaces

The museum boasts to be a balanced space between a workplace, a learning space, and a place for relaxation.

The museum is purposefully left visually porous, so that visitors can not only admire the finished artwork, but also the very process that creates them.

One special room in the museum is the hologram room, where hologram projectors are installed for a 360o view of digital artwork.

The galleries and the studios

The open air theatre

The hologram room

The entrance building

ARTICLE THE SAMI PEOPLE

The Sami are an ethnic group living in the far north in four countries- Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Sami have been recognised by the United Nations as an indigenous people, giving them the right to preserve and develop their crafts, language, education, reindeer husbandry, traditions and identity.

The Sami were originally nomads, living in tents during the summer and more sturdy peat huts during the colder seasons. Today, the Sami live in modern housing and only use tents as very temporary accommodations during reindeer migrations if they don’t already own cottages in the mountains and forests. Most Sami live in the north, but there are Sami all over Sweden. Today, only ten percent of Swedish Sami earn a living from the reindeer industry, and many combine their family businesses with tourism, fishing, crafts and other trades.

Traditionally, during summer, the Sami live in conical tents called lávvu (Northern Sami language) or kåta (Swedish). It has a design similar to a Native American tipi but is less vertical and more stable in high winds. It enables the indigenous cultures of the treeless plains of northern Scandinavia and the high arctic of Eurasia to follow their reindeer herds. The lávvu is perfect for their nomadic lifestyle.

Inside the living quarters of the lavvu, there is a fireplace in the middle used for heating and to keep mosquitoes away. The smoke escapes through the smoke hole in the top of the lavvu.

A lavvu under the Aurora

A Sami village

Sami people in front of lavvu

A Sami reindeer herder

“STUGA”, LYCKSELE, SWEDEN

Astuga (image in left), is a traditional Swedish cottage, usually with a single room, and built of timber. Nowadays, a stuga is more of a summer retreat to Swedish people.

The design for such a stuga was requested by the client for her mother, who describes herself as one with the “heart of a hermit”. She also emphasises that she is a fan of compact, miniature homes and rustic, traditional architecture.

The client’s mother currently lives in Vilhelmina, but wishes to shift near Lycksele, in close proximity to her existing family.

The site and it’s closest city, Lycksele

A summer stuga

1.A traditional lavvu, as the basic inspiration.

The form is inspired from a traditional lavvu, the house of the Sami people, who live in the Laplands, and are idigenous to the region. The client has Sami ancestry, and she is more than happy to see a symbol of the Sami incorporated in the core design.

The conical shape of the lavvu is perfect for the allowed 35 sq.m. of construction. Also, its efficiency goes higher,

2. The typical conical shape is retained, the hides replaced with wood.

considering the objective is to create a compact, miniature house.

The addition of a fireplace with a wood stove presents its own challenges, especially if it’s in the center of a confined space. But cutting the cone along its diameter brings the fireplace out to one external surface, and opens up a world of possibilities.

3. The cone is cut into half, and the central fireplace comes to one edge and a chimney can be placed.

4. The concept drawing. The roof is supported by wooden trusses on wooden columns. The roof is sod roof, a typical grass-covered roof that keeps the interiors warm and dry during winters.

Wooden Structural Framing

Southern view

Northern view

ABHISHEK RAY

B.Arch | M.Sc ITBE (ongoing)

Email: abhishekray4@gmail.com

Phone: +49 178 147 4445