Archive2.0 by Aditya Mandlik

Selected Works 2012-20

A R C H - I V E Aditya Mandlik

CV Work Experience

1 July 2020 - 8 Nov 2020

Architect - Mias Architects, Barcelona. Design for facade panels for Mercat Can Vidalet and La Plana and for a housing project Hospital 21. Graphic Design for brochure for the firm’s Exhibition at Center Pompidou, Paris. Artistic Impressions of pre-designed projects for the Firm’s upcoming exhibition.

1 Dec 2017 - 30 April 2018

Freelance, Mumbai M-SHED, an architecture project on Princess dock, Byculla, Mumbai.1:4 house, an architec-

ture/ interior project in Bandra, Mumbai. Designing various home decor products.

1 Dec 2017 - 30 April 2018

Visiting Faculty_ AOA, Mumbai Worked as a visiting faculty at Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture to execute a research project, “Doors - A Canvas”, The research doc- umentation was executed with the students of Academy Of Architecture.

1 Dec 2017 - 30 April 2018

Research Associate and Design Architect - Aunkruti Research on “The Culture and Development of Children’s Play. The socio-cultural influences

of playgrounds on the development of children and communities with case studies in Mumbai”, at TU Wein, Vienna, Austria.

2 Dec 2015 - 31 March 2016

Cadence Architects, Bangalore INTERNSHIP Worked on 7 Architecture Projects: On site work and management, Design Development, Details. Worked on Exhibitions like Praxis, Bangalore and KalaGhoda Art festival, Mumbai. Worked and headed 1 architectural competition.

1 May 2015 - 31 May 2015

Blankslate Studio, Mumbai INTERNSHIP Worked on 1 Architectural Project: Design Development, Details and Drawing production.

I was born in a family of creatives, nurturing and influencing my intellectual rationalities. Mumbai as a city has influenced my design sensibilities and its fast-paced lifestyle shaped me into a hard-working and an individual with professional and strong collaborative outlook.

Education and Training

I was pursuing Master’s at IAAC,Barcelona, has exposed me a lot to intra-cultural experiences and team work, keeping me curious as an

15 Sept 2019 - Present 15 Jan 2018 - 26 Feb 2018

May 2017 - September 2017

young architect, to various design approaches.

MAA-02 _The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. The Architectural Imagination Online course offered by Havard GSD1x

Sustainable Cities - Passed with Distinction Online course offered by SDG Academy, Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS)

I am looking forward to achieving new challenges through a position

1 July 2012 - 09 March 2017

as an Architect.

Bachelor Of Architecture (B.Arch) Graduated (1st Class), CGPA - 7.34 Academy Of Architecture, Mumbai University.

Languages

Contact: +34 612526499

English - Fluent (Language of education)

Email: adityamndlik@gmail.com

Hindi - Fluent ( National Language)

Web: www.adityamandlik.com

Spanish - Beginner _ A1

Awards and Academic Achievements

Sex: Male Date of Birth : 19 August 1994

Personal Skills

2019

M_Shed - UnBuilt Commission Award 3rd Place_ International Architecture Awards 2019

2017

Undergraduate Thesis- “IGNORED FRAMED” published by Hashtag Urbanism.

2016

Design Dissertation - First in class for “IGNORED FRAMED”.

2015

Asian Contest For Architectural Rookie’s Award 2015, - Automobile Showroom - Shortlisted in top 10 in India.

2017

Black Taj - International Ideas Competition organised by UNFUSE - Shortlisted in Top 50

2016

Film City Tower - International Ideas Competition organised by Archasm - Honourable Mention

2013

G-Sen Trophy, National Association Of Students Of Architecture (Nasa) “Parivartan In Search Of Community and Place.” - Special Mention

Rhino6

Lumion

Grasshopper

Vray

Revit

Adobe Suite

Autocad

Blender

SKETCHUP 3D

Houdini

Fabrication

Indian, Currently Based in Barcelona.

Soft Skills

ADITYA MA NDLI K

CNC LaserCutting 3D Printing Ha ndMode lling

deX.

MI+U

Ignored Framed

La Republica Alimentaria

FiberTangled

1:4

Mias Architects

M-Shed

REAL

SUR-REAL

MI+U Type : Design Dissertation (MAA) Year : 2021

Location : Uran, Mumbai

Mentors : Gonzalo Delacamara, Mathilde Marengo Published : Hashtag Urbanism https://hashtagurbanismblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/ignored-framed-revitalising-mumbai-mills/

MI+U is a research that tries to understand the curatorial practice of the Indian cities over a period of time, rural urban migratory influx as a driving force and hence, fundamentally tries to identify a lens towards developing an informed urban development for a transitionary society. The research plans to test the hinterlands of Mumbai, which are currently not only observing sporadic urban transitions, but also to understand the differences made more evident by the rapid need of ‘production of space’ merely for capital gains and images that re-instate political presence towards neo-liberal modernisation of a prosperous living. Meanwhile almost eliminating the ability and capacities of personal production, the hinterlands witness hyper transformative landscapes of the built environment.

Economic Capital Slowdown

The research positions itself in Uran, based on either proposed or existing promising vectors, showcasing potential urban transformations, and hence mapping the region to analyse and design gradients for the city.

57%

Atleast 1 NOn Agricultural

Zero Cultivation

28% 16%

Others

Ragi Rice “Between 2001 and 2011, the proportion of migrants in Hyderabad saw the greatest increase among the six metros (39 percentage points increase), followed by Chennai (26 percentage points) and Bengaluru (15 percentage points) whereas Mumbai (11 percentage points) and Delhi (0.8 percentage points) saw lower inf lows.”

Most of the short-term migrants are of rural origin and male. Of the estimated 13.6 million short-term migrants, 12.6 million were of rural origin, of which only 1.9 million were female. There were 1.04 million short-term migrants of urban origin of which 0.88 million were male. However, the destination of most – 71.6% – of these rural male migrants was urban, and of these 40.3% were in another state. Among women, 41.7% were going to urban areas, with 17.1% in another state.

Kulith Cashews Chawli Coconut

AGRICULTURE

Mango Coconut

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Bananas

urban

residents

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areas while another 21% come from other urban areas i.e., a total of 42.9% of all urban residents – about 161.9 million residents in 2011 In 2001, of the 18% of urban residents, who migrated from rural areas, 37% came from the same district, 33% from other districts of the same state and only 30%, i.e., 5.4% of all urban residents – about 15.3 million in 2001 – were inter-state rural urban migrants. Males, constituting 8.9 million, were majority of such migrants. However, for migrants from urban areas, females were 52% of 10.7 million inter-state migrants.

In urban areas, there are 8 mn working female migrant were 50% of the 16.1 million female work force.

- Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government Of India.

migrants (all durations) from rural

Indeed, in rural areas 76.4 mn working female migrants constituted 69% of the 111 mn female work force in 2001.

Source : REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON MIGRATION.

Source: In particular, the share of construction work, especially for migrants of rural origin is very high (41.6%), and over a quarter (25.2%) even for urban origin migrants.

39.60%

Census data of 2011 show that there were 363 households with a total population of 1,511 Literacy rates have increased from below 30 per cent to over 80 per cent, mirroring national trends. The sex ratio was 1,004 females per 1000 males.

24%

11.3% 10.7% 5.3%

29%

33%

26.0%

25.2% 23.0% 12.6% 6.6%

10% 9% 7% 5%

25.0%

19.9% 7.35% 5.3% 5.3%

24%

24% 16% 11%

15%

2.0% 21.0%

Female - Rural

Inter State

Family

5.1%

5.0%

42.2%

49.7%

19.3%

35.2%

10.7%

54%

1.6%

54.7%

35.2%

36.4% 18.4%

5.5% 17.0%

66.6%

9.9%

28.3% 12.7%

4.4%

30% 27% 42%

36% 31%

Female - Urban

0.6%

Other district within the state

8.6%

Study

Inter - State

37%

6.4%

84.6%

Male - Rural

30%

42%

0.6%

5.0%

23.9%

Others

Chennai

38%

34%

33%

33% 29% 39%

Male - Urban

13.1%

Traditional Services

29.75%

24%

Within the District

12.45 % 12.45 %

85.8% 8.6%

Work

25%

13.0%

50%

21.9%

WORK

16.8%

Rural In State

28%

Rural Other State

Manufacturing

31%

Urban In State

BIHAR Gujarat

3.5% 5% 5%

41.6%

Urban Other State

16.67%

Kunkeri village in Sawantwadi Taluka of Sindhudurg District, primarily because this village was earlier studied intensively by the Census of India in its series of village monographs and therefore had rich baseline data for two time periods—1961 and 1987.

GOA

13.84%

UTTAR PRADESH

10.06% 12.89%

SHORT TERM - UO

Pune

6.92%

37.4%

Total Short TERM

Ahmednagar

Satara

11%

Total Long Term

13%

IntRA-state

25%

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35%

SHORT TERM - RO

LAND OWNERSHIP.

Thane

+ 300

90%

42%

LONG TERM - RO

Laman

LONG TERM - UO

Kumbhar

(Maharashtra)

Maratha Deoli

Koli ( Christian)

52%

Family

OTHERS

GROUP

STUDY

WORKING

Tamil*

Female

THE

- Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government Of India.

Kudal

Nhavi Wadar Madaval Vani

Male

Ambegaon Kushewada

Dhangar

86.5%

64%

RURAL

1,511 people

Bhandari

43%

24.7%

URBAN

6.58%

Mahar

Source : REPORT OF MIGRATION.

1.6% 3.1%

MIGRATION IN INDIA

77.63%

CASTES

Kunkeri

9.6%

Bangalore Hyderabad

Khambale

KonKAN Region

363 HH

Ratanagiri

Ambeshet

Sindhudurg

Dapoli

Ori

Maratha

85.7%

Source: NSS 2007-08 * Using the National Industrial Classiﬁcation codes of 2004 (NIC) Primary includes agriculture, hunting. forestry, ﬁshing, mining and quarrying (NIC 01-14), Manufacturing is NIC 15-37, Public Services are NIC 40-41, Transport via Railways (NIC 6010), National Postal activities (NIC 64110), and Public Administration (NIC 751, 752 and 753), Construction is NIC 45), Traditional services include wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage and communications (NIC 50-52, 55, 60-64, except 6010 and 64110), and Modern services includes Financial Intermediation, Real estate, renting and business, education, health, social work, other community, social and personal services (NIC 65-74, 80, 85, 90-99, excluding 751, 752, 753).

MandanGad

Ambekarwadi

Kolkatta Delhi

DIGITAL DIVIDE

Wi-Fi zone in one place.

Source : Mass Migration from Rural India: A Restudy of Kunkeri Village in Konkan, Maharashtra, 1961–1987–2017.

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Most households have TV.

Manufacturing also employs a number of short-term migrants of rural origin as well as more than a quarter of such migrants of urban origin. Indeed, a larger share of short-term migrants are in manufacturing as compared to long-term migrants. This could be due to the ﬂuid nature of manufacturing employment.

Other districts within State

Within the district

300 Chillies

Construction

All houses have electricity connection.

Onions

Public and Social Services

Mobile range not there.

Modern Services

Landline phones since 2001.

21.9%

Women who move for marriage can also work after moving. This is well understood in rural areas where the new bride would be working in the ﬁelds, but it is as true in urban areas also (Box II.1). This can be seen in the huge diﬀerence in the Census of 2001 between the number of women who moved for economic reasons and the number of working female migrants.

Share of urban population in 2011

4.1% Most rural urban migrant males move for work and business related reasons, more so when the movement is inter-state than when it is within the district or within the state. Within the family category, most males move not for marriage (which is a very small portion) but with the household or after birth.

13% 9% 6%

However, the number of inter-state males who moved for work or business is relatively small, just under 6 million in 2001. This number is likely to be smaller in 2011, since the total number of migrants who moved for work/ business across all distances was 6.9 million, indicating that the number of those who moved inter-state will be much less.

This is a map of Uran, a 10km x 10km region of study, in the hinterlands of Mumbai. The cartographies are the mappings of strategic gradients and their inter-relationships in order to identify sporadic urbanisation in URAN.

Resolution at which the data is mapped is directly propotional to the accuracy of information that these maps are to communicate.

CARTOGRAPHIC LAYERS

GIS Data in form of Visual. Each layer as a method leads to construting the next step.

Existing Built Infrastructure + Eco-sensitive zones.

Vegetational + Vacant Land + Built Gradients.

Isochronalysis on the Vacant Land gradient.

Proximity relationships between ecological gradients and the vacant lands.

Identification of Urbanisation risk gradient with the help surface flow and radiation gradients.

Relationships between primary production systems and city to develop self-sufficient networks.

GIS Data in form of the GH CODE. A Graphical representation of the systemic flows of data triangulation.

# The Fishing Pixel. _ Production System 1

The Fishing Pixel looks into integrating small scale production and associated ancillary activities. Architecture acts like an exposed machine with an aim of easing the process.

EMERGENCY BOATS

RAIN WATER COLLECTION TANK WATER RESERVOIR

FISHING NETS

SUN DRYING FISH FISH COLLECTION TANK

FISH CLEANING DECK

PHASE NEXT SMALL CUTE PORTS

PHASE NEXT

ADDITIONAL MARKET SPACE

SMALL CUTE PORTS

Herbivorous Insects

Herbivores + Detrivores (Molluscs, Yellow-eyed & Grey Mullet, adult parore & crustacea.) Scavengers (whelks, crabs.)

SIMPLE TIMBER STRUCTURE Small Predators. (triplefins, small flounder, small eels, whelks) Planktivores (yellow-eyed mullet, smelt) Phytoplankton. (with Tidal Flow) zoo- plankton Filter feeders. (molluscs + crustaceans) Large Predator Fish (Kahawai,eels,large yellowbelly flounder)

MANGROVE LIKE ROOT STRUCTURE A LITTLE FAKE!

Section AA’

Fishing Pixel’s integration with landscape.

Exploded View

The diagrammatic showcase of the possible programmatic and systemic rationality integrated within design.

# The Salt Pixel. _ Production System 2

The Salt Pan pixel looks into integrating small scale production of salt within the neighbourhood. The architecture is exposed in a way to expose the system and allowing public sector to intervene.

Wind Meter

Sensor Unit.

Bridle Line System Traction Tether

Kite Control Unit

Drum Generator

Kite Power System

Evaporation Chambers

Control Panel

DISSOLVING SALT Tank Iron Removal

ROASTING

NATURAL DRYING

SEA WATER

URBAN GREEN

RAIN WATER COLLECTION TANK

WATER RESERVOIR PHASE NEXT

PHASE NEXT

Section BB’

Salt Pan Pixel’s integration with landscape.

Exploded View

The diagrammatic showcase of the possible programmatic and systemic rationality integrated within design.

# The Housing Pixel. _ Production System 3

The Housing pixel aims to curate programmatic functions like living and agricultural production in a way to mimic life patterns to that of the countryside.

RAIN WATER COLLECTION TANK

Wind Meter

ROOF _ PUBLIC SPACE

Sensor Unit.

WIND KITES_ HARVESTING WIND ENERGY

Bridle Line System Traction Tether

Kite Control Unit

FARMING

Ammonia Regulator

Drum Generator

Kite Power System Control Panel

NH3 Phosphorus

Digester Tank

Solid Waste Urine

Septic Tank

OPEN PLAN FOR ANCILLARY FUNCTIONS.

HOUSING UNIT

H12

PARKS + PLAY SPACES

H1 H2

VERTICAL PHASING

UNITS FOR SPATIAL INCREMENTS

CATTLE GRAZING

Section CC’

Housing Pixel’s integration with landscape.

Exploded View

The diagrammatic showcase of the possible programmatic and systemic rationality integrated within design.

VI_19-21*** This project was inspired by the idea of particle behavior out of a discussing of the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea of creating a particle system that is able to converge and disperse was chosen as the exercise to develop the understand of python and grasshopper’s capabilities. Mo del l e d : Pyt hon + G ra s s h o p p er ; R en d ered : B l e n de r T y pe : Sim ula t ion.

Ignored Framed Type : Design Dissertation (B.Arch) Mentors : Rohit Shinkre, Swati Choksi Year : 2017

Location : Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

Published : Hashtag Urbanism https://hashtagurbanismblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/04/ignored-framed-revitalising-mumbai-mills/

“Ignored framed” is a thesis proposal which investigates a thirty-five-year-old mill compound. Shakti Mill Compound is one of most infamous textile mills in the city of Mumbai. Due to incidents of various unlawful and illicit activities which housed within the Shakti Mill campus, resulted in its creation of an undesired social image. At first, this thesis attempts to understand how performed activities in a space, define the tone and identity to a place and then projects an alternative of redefining and establishing up a new tone for its collective image. Shakti Mills is located right in the heart of the city with one of the most vibrant and populous context. Making it difficult to understand the situational irony that reflected in its social and physical space, as time and neglect became the reason for this paradox. Shakti Mill then became a house for all those activities that were either not allowed within the constitutional outline of the city or needs that the city did not cater to. ‘Taxiwallas’ would line up outside the mill compound to use water from inside the mill compound to be able to perform their morning chores, Kids would play cricket as the terrace of the mill compound was the only flat ground which nurtured this activity. 2013 Mumbai Gangrape, also known as Shakti Mill gang rape not only resulted in a dubious con-

struct of social space around its immediate context but also affected the perception of the city as safe. The heightened tensions made the administration take a hasty decision of simply barring all the possible entrances inside Shakti Mill compound, completely disconnecting it from the city. Shakti Mills demanded to be re-framed, forming a new identity. The design proposal for Shakti Mills then aims for a free, democratic and inclusive space. This thesis studies the past and the present ‘Mill Redevelopment’ laws both as proposals and the executed. Analyzing the samples of the current built setting, cities today are exorbitant museums, where buildings are artifacts on ‘sale’ showcasing our monumental and capitalist way towards expanding our cities in a hyper-consumerist society. In this gamble, ‘need’ remained ignored. It has been evident that situations were manipulated in favor of the Mill Owners, Builders, and land sharks, which continues to remain similar even today. As Mumbai follows FSI based coding system for city development, architectural interventions are only about the numbers of “area statements” and “capital involved” and remains ignorant to the urban space in the city.

Exploded Axo _Site

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Study Models

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Design proposal for the Shakti Mill Compound. Overlay of Contextual and Social Data around the site.

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EXPLODED AXO _ B1.

END WALL DETAIL.

Scenarios of possible Functional take-over.

SECTION+PLAN MONTAGE Drawings exploring transitions between the Public and Private spaces through sectional and planar perspectives.

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tervene to reflect their own identities. N O T D E F I N I N G W H AT . . ?

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D E F I N I N G T H E U N - B U I LT W I T H T H E B U I LT

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SHAKTI MILL

MOBLEN. This project explores integration of two patterns of opposing nature and uses sculpting as a technique to blend in order to construct a single morphology. The 3 dimensional planarity as a point of view to the tile is a way to create visual intrigue between the highs and the lows as the patterns blend into one another. Sc u lp t in g : B le n d e r ; R e n d e r e d : Blender

LA REPUBLICA ALIMENTARIA Type : Academic Project, Masters (IAAC) Mentor: Marco Poletto, Apostolos Marios Mouzakopoulo Year : 2019 Collaboration : Mario Sequeira, Rani Kamel View at : https://adityamandlik.com/la-republica-alimentaria/

La Republica Alimentaria is an interesting project exploring the potential intersections of agriculture and the city, urban farming, poly-culture farming, biodiversity and precision agriculture. Guatemala is facing a crisis of food production. Why is food production pushed outside the city when it has the potential to positively impact neighborhoods by bringing fresh food closer to home and to the table? With increasingly little land and fewer natural resources for farmers to carry out subsistence farming, we are proposing to leverage the resources of Guatemala City to re-inject life back into Guatemala’s agriculture and inversely inject agriculture and biodiversity back into the city. How can we create an urbanism that promotes the growth of food? We set out to understand the conditions to grow the staple food crops of Guatemala. Understanding the flows of nutrients and environmental conditions for each variety of crop will allow us to create a specific, high-definition, granular proposal. Physical Model exploring the interelationships between the crops.

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Agriculture is linked primarily to the availability of empty land. The map above is a combination of topographic lines overlayed with a dot matrix of available land colored from hot to cold to show the strength of the slope.

We studied the relationships of the built fabric to natural topogra-

Natural supply and flow of water across the site to understand the

phy of the site to understand the extent to which the city has grown

potential rates of absorption of rainwater

and the proximity to the natural ravines of the site.

In search for an algorithm that promotes the growth of food in the city, we analysed the existing conditions over a specific zone of Guatemala City on a scale of 10km x 10km.

We mapped existing marketplaces and trading points to locate possibilities of connecting our intervention with the existing networks.

HE_201 Realising anthropocenic implications, form explorations ideating towards geometric disintegration and yet constant spatial organisation. Mo del l e d : Houd ini ; R en d ered : Bl en d er

FIBER-TANGLED Type : Academic Project, Masters (IAAC) Mentor: Areti Markopoulou, David Andres Leon, Raimund Year : 2020 Krenmeuller, Nikol Kirovalo Collaboration : Saurabh Singla, Nareh Khaloian, Akshay Mhamunkar. View at : http://www.iaacblog.com/programs/fiber_tangled-digital-matter/

Fiber_ Tangled is a research exploring architecture through the lense of Matter. The aim of the project is to explore the possibilities and limitations of spraying non woven natural fibers and bio-based binder composite for rapid on-site construction of low-cost tensile membrane structures. The project endorses human-machine collaboration both with high and low tech fabrication agents. Spraying as a technique is chosen as it is a low cost and fast method to aggregate non-woven fibers along with a bio-binder to create a rigid membrane which is not preprocessed and can be done on site decreasing the construction time. The fibers-binder composite is sprayed on a sub structure which can be constructed on site or could be pre-fabricated and installed during the construction process. The Technique is scalable and can be used in various scales depending on the function which also relates to the technology involved in the construction process, as the complexity of the structure or the scale, high tech fabrication systems using aerial flying machines and/or mixed reality are established to ease the construction, the construction could be also done by a human carrying a backpack with certain kit of materials.

Physical prototype exploring hemp fibers and its application process to create a surface with controlled perforations by just controlling the density of the fibers.

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Recipe Study_ Ingradients in variable Proportions

Study of the Self Strength.

Mapping Density

The Process

An Image exploring the temporary public space scenarios.

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SURFACE ANALYSIS

Surface Radiation informing responsive shading.

Surface radiation to informing the Densities of sprayed fibers to organise spatial habitability.

Geometric appropriations dictated by the surface water flow.

PROTOTYPE Hand Modelled : Metal Rods, Wire, Plywood, Hemp Fibers, Jute Net, Bio-Binder

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#HE_201a Realising anthropocenic implications, form explorations ideating towards geometric integration replicating organic chaos. Mo del l e d : Houd ini ; R en d ered : Bl en d er

1:4 Type : Residential

Status : Completed

In Process Of Construction.

Year : 2017 Collaboration : Khadija Tambawalla Location : Bandra, Mumbai View at : https://adityamandlik.com/14-2/

Site. The site is located in an urban village in Mumbai,India. The contextual organization.

Set amidst the tiny alleys of a humble village in Bandra. The winding streets are posed with people and shops, an evidently densely populated neighborhood that invites you deeper into it where we find our handkerchief sized plot of 500sqft. The site is flanked by an inward curving lane leading to the tiny settlements set deeper inside the village and neighboring homes snuggly hugging it. The project has still not reached its challenge, which was a space to house a family of 5 that required privacy at the same time a joint regrouping space with an equal distribution of spaces, storage, utilities etc. The layout saw opportunities within the limitation of the rectangular footprint. A bedroom with a double occupancy and ample storage with an attached bathroom was placed at one extreme end, while the other end had a similar spatial arrangement which left the central space as the common area. The entry into the house was through the central space that doubled as a living area as well

as a kitchen. A snug staircase at one end of the kitchen led to two sections of a loft with enough space to accommodate a 2 people bed each. Having only the lane side wall with openings, we took advantage of it being a single structure and provided a skylight in the central living space. This changed the perception of a 500sqft home having so many fragments. The light leaked into the private spaces equally whilst maintaining the decorum of their privacy.

Ideation.

SECTION+PLAN MONTAGE

iterations leading to the final outcome.

Drawings exploring spaces through planning drawings and its expected translation into material aesthetics.

Site Work in progress.....

VM Zinc Room

Rafters

Interiors

Exterior Shell

Exploded Axo The drawing exploring the conceptual distinction between a home and a house. Photographed by the Author

BLACK TAJ

Ty p e : Co m p eti ti o n / Ho n o u r a bl e m e n t i o n.

Architecture as the cultural, social and political manifestation of its time and place. The ornamental charm of Agra is presently only demonstrated by Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. The intervention aims at showcasing the over- shadowed charm whilst respecting the prevalent socio-cultural fabric. Basking merely on the glory of the past, the city might continue to sink and eventually its significance might run out of the Mughal context. Black Taj intends to paint a sham, glorious image of the past through candid narratives. Mo del l e d : A ut oc a d, I l l u s tra to r ; R en d ered : P h o t o s h o p.

Mias Architects Type : Commercial

Status : In Progress

Architect. Year : 2021

Location : Barcelona

The work included conceptualization, design, ideation of facades for the two up-coming markets in the city. The brief was to design the facades in a way to reflect on the socio-political framework of the neighborhoods they were placed in as a form of artwork. Additionally, working on housing projects, content production for exhibitions and production of images as artistic impressions in the tenure.

Graphics to all the facades.

Designed Decal

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Part facade implemented.

FOSSAL Form based exploration of movement as a concept to to create fluidity within the object. The floating-ness of the object is to enhance the feeling of buoyancy to the object, almost making the viewer curious of the matter around it.

Mo del l e d : Houd ini ; R en d ered : Bl en d er

M-Shed Type : UnBuilt Commission Year : 2019

View at : https://adityamandlik.com/m-shed/

Sides facing the North and the East receive pleasant sunlight.

Creating volume of the same height, that of the existing structure.

Sides facing the South and the West receive harsh sunlight.

Splitting the volume diagonally and shrinking the south-eastern half.

The eastern waterfront of Mumbai has been inaccessible to its city since the 19th century after the decline of the trading industry. This huge piece of land which is owned by the Mumbai Port Trust, now aims for new development. The new development not only aims at creating infrastructure that will elevate tourism and sea transport but also address issues like public spaces,housing etc. “M – Shed” a tiny spec on our elaborate coastline along the eastern edge of the city is a 10,000 sq ft plot dedicated to a public place for retail developments. The aim of the project is

Allowing public penetration by creating streets.

Maximising views facing the north and increasing the volume of the inner block on the south-eastern side and creating a roof garden.

Existing shell of the M-Shed building.

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to create multiple restaurants facing the sea and a facility for sea transport. The conception of the project saw the aim being accentuated by public spaces that are user- experience centric. The Client wanted to remove the old walls of the structure so we fused the skeleton of it with this design. At this point the old and new merge to address the future. The entire project is conceived as something that fuses with the urban, hence imagining an architectural scale like that of a city. It’s like zooming in while picturing the zoomed out. All in all a design that respects the previously built, salutes the majestic sea, pampers the user, and creates a space in this place to live a moment of relief!

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

INTERIOR VIEWS

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Modelled: Houdini; Rendered: Blender, Photoshop

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