Aditya Setalvad (2020) | CEPT University | Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio - Updated

THREE SEMESTER

OFFICE INTERNSHIP

‘LOOP SCI-PORT’

SCIENCE CAMPUS, SHENZHEN GUALLART ARCHITECTS, BARCELONA (SUMMER INTERNSHIP) AREA : 1.2 MILLION SQ. METERS

PRODUCED BY

OFFICE TEAM AND RENDERERS

IMAGES PRODUCED BY THE OFFFICE TEAM AND PROFESSIONAL RENDER COMPANIES

CUTAWAY AXONOMETRIC SECTION OF THE FORUM BUILDING

ADITYA SETALVAD & ELISABET FABREGA RODA

IMAGES PRODUCED BY THE OFFFICE TEAM (ASSISTED BY ADITYA SETALVAD)

PLANS AND FUNCTIONAL LAYOUTS

DETAIL DRAWINGS

DESIGN DIAGRAMMING

SIX SEMESTER

ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY RESTRO-CAFE AND CARETAKERS HOUSE WORKING DRAWINGS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

ROOF PLEVEL PLAN

SECTION BB

SECTION

SECTION CC

WALL SECTION A

WALL SECTION B

TOILET DETAIL

STAIRCASE VIEWS

STAIRCASE DETAIL

RENDERED VIEWS

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

FIVE SEMESTER

‘REPAUSER’

VISITORS REHABILITATION HUB, JAISALMER

INDIANIZING SHIGERU BAN‘S PRINCIPLES

-TRANSPARENCY -LIGHTNESS -LIFTED FROM THE GROUND. -FURNITURE STRUCTURE HOUSES. -MEMBRANE ROOFS AGGREGATE SPACE. -MATERIALS AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE. -TRANS -TRANSPARENT FACADES, IVY SCREENS, CONNECT TO NATURE. -MATERIAL REFLECTING THE VERNACULAR.

-ORGANISATION ON A STRUCTURAL GRID. -PRIVACY INCREASES WITH INCREASING LEVELS. -ROOF AND FLOOR SLABS ACT AS A DATUM. -USE OF SPACES WITHIN SPACES AMD AGGREGATING THEM WITH A ROOF. -F -FLOOR PLAN SHAPES ARE REPEATED IN THE ROOF JOINERY.

-DETAIL AS A JOINT EXPRESSING HUMAN EFFORT. -REPITITION OF SHAPE OF PLAN IN ROOF JOINERY AND INTERIOR SPACES. -USE OF PAPER TUBES AT VARIOUS SCALES, AS STRUCTURAL ELEMENT AND/OR MOTIF.

Exercise Brief This exercise dealt with understanding and creating a diary of attitudes of the Style of design followed by Shigeru ban. Alongside which, I was asked to create a momento in the form of a Cube, Maze and Trophy using various organisational, constructional and or spatial attitudes seen in Shigeru Bans designs.

Thius thus formed the basis for an informed design inspired by Bans work.

REPLICATING THE ROUTINE OF SITE SHOPS

First Floor Plan

TRADITIONAL MEMBRANES

SPACES IN MOTION

Ground Floor Plan

Top Floor Plan

THREE SEMESTER

‘ MESA ’

ATOP THE PLATEAUS OF MANDU

Contrasting Nature

Generating Views

Introvert vs Extrovert

Roof Inspiration

Design Intent and Central Idea This site dealt with a plateau condition with the building to be built on the ridge. The site slopes gradually on one side and descends along a steep slope on the other.

This exercise thus helped in understanding implications and advantagges of design wherein the visual connection is stronger than its physical counterpart.

Viewing Deck and Library

Restaurant and Bar

Conference Room

Admin and Lab

SECTION CC’

Design Intent : The lower level comprises of thick introverted stone walls while the upper level contrasts it to create a light, pavillion-like finish that opens outwards.

The pitch of the roof is derived from the two distinct slopes of the site, one, that is gradual and smooth and the other, steep and sudden.

THREE SEMESTER

‘ Z E N I T H ’ THE BEACHSIDE TOWER

Lab and Viewing Deck

Cantilevered Deck

Generating Views

Viewing Tower

Tending Towards the Sea

Admin Office

Design Intent and Central Idea This exercise dealt with the situation of a site on the beach, connection to the water, necessary disconnection and the idea of siting in an overpowering visual and physical connection.

Reception and Lab

This design thus helped creating a visual discourse from the regular inspiration and thus looking at unimplied inferences on a beach.

Lounge Waterfront Library

Design Idea : The form is inspired by that of a watchtower usually seen in and around oceans and tries to create a strong sense of verticality in an otherwise horizontal site.

THREE SEMESTER

‘ BAYSIDE ’

THE WATEREDGE IN UDAIPUR Stepping down to the Lake

Encircling the Mound

Design Intent and Central Idea Overlapping spaces

Lab

Branching out from the core

Admin and Conference Rooms Library

This site dealt with a rather flat undulating plane with small mounds in the middle towards the water such that it connects the site ground to the lake beside it. The backdrop is formed by hills on one side and a busy curved road on the other.

Restaurant

This exercise thus helped learn constructing and responding to the typology of small mounds and responding to waterbodies visually and physically.

Design Idea : The project starts from the top of the mound and steps down like an Indian Ghat as it tends to move down and craft its way to the waterbody.

SECTION CC’

TWO SEMESTER

‘

BANYAN ’

Accessible Terraces

Circling the Banyan

THE ARTISTS RETREAT AT ALLOAA HILLS

Privacy by Levels

Social Intersections

Design Intent and Central Idea This studio dealt with basic design exercises of Storyboarding, experience models, space sketching, proximity diagrams and Parti sketches which eventually led to the development of the final design.

Restaurant and Lounge

The site was one with three big mounds and a large banyan tree anchoring the spaces around it in the middle.

Residences Workshops

Design Intent : The design tries to provide necessary importance to the tree and hence encircles the mounds around it so as to connnect them visually and overlook the seasonal river behind and also to create a sort of segregation in privacy by levels.

SECTION CC’

ONE SEMESTER

‘BELVEDERE’ THE LAKESIDE PAVILLION

Central

Symmetry

Water Front

Inward and Outward Looking

Design Intent and Central Idea This first semester studio dealt with the use of modular blocks to design a pavillion in the 600 year old complex of Sarkhej Roza (for an imaginary prince and princess) in Ahmedabad to fit in with the context and somewhat use ideas specific to the site and to the program of creating spaces for two differently natured users. di The main idea revolves behind the old concepts used on site, namely Symmetry, Grid Organisation, Columnar space demarcation, Inward looking spaces for the princess with a private space on the upper level and outward looking spaces and courtyards for combat practive for the prince.

FOUR SEMESTER

‘PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE’ VISUALISATION AND REPRESENTATION STUDIO

Material noun 1.The matter from which a thing is or can be made.

2. Denoting or comprising of physical things.

Medium: Photoshop, AutoCad Size: 420x297mm PRODUCED BY OFFICE TEAM AND RENDERERS

Studio and Exercise Brief This studio dealt in topics related to the practice of architecture and its representation using architectonic drawing styles so as to bring out the idea and the essence behind the given subjects. subject

The exercise presented here is of drawing and representing a given word in the language of an architectural drawing such that it tries to capture the greater meaning behind the term in place of being plainly literal.

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OFFICE TEAM AND RENDERERS

Medium : Graphite on Cartridge Size: 420x270mm

Medium : AutoCad Size : 420 x 297mm

Medium: Photoshop Size : 420 x 297mm

PRODUCED BY

OFFICE TEAM AND RENDERERS

Medium : AutoCad, Photoshop Size: 280x280 mm

Internal Exercises Drawing interiors and immediate surroundings of ones house using various methods of representation alongside sketching, photographing, architectonic drawings etc.

The drawings were made so as to reflect a certain emotion, story or narrative related to an individual and their experience in or around the space.

All of these, while using drawing techniques apart from basic sketches and perspectives.

Depicting Urban concerns using Sattirical Drawings

Planners trying to mend the haphazard expansion and construction.

Depicting Spaces using Indian Miniature Painting Styles

Consistently Increasing population, constant but ineffecient provision by authorities.

Unconventional Drawings A. Visually depicting concerns at the urban level using sattirical drawings to highlight the essence of the problem by relating it to objects and activities completely unrelated to it.

B.

Taping the city together, expanding boundaries and taking in parts of the exteriors.

Uncontrolled Expansion.

“What goes around, comes around!”

Size : 420x297mm Software

“Steps Of Cept” Size : 420x297mm Software

D Depicting spaces using principles of Indian Miniature painting like Frame within a frame, flipped elevations and creation of a narrative to depict the experience of a space in absence of depth perception of a perspective drawing.

RSP

MANGALORE CLAY TILES WOOD RAFTER

MEASURE D R A W I N G

WOOD BATONS

‘PORTUGUESE HOUSES’

CEILING JOIST

FONTAINHAS, GOA

CONCRETE WALL

GOA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE CONCRETE LINTEL

SITE PLAN

WOOD FRAME AND GLASS

DOOR FRAME

EARTH FILL

PLINTH BEAM

PRODUCED BY

OFFICE TEAM AND RENDERERS

CASE STUDY STRUCTURES

‘THE BLACK PERCH’ AHMEDABAD

A PARASITIC ADDITION ATOP AN OLD BRUTALIST HOUSE

THIS PARASITIC BLACK BOX SLYLY SITS ATOP A WHITE SLOPING ROOFED BRUTALIST HOUSE AND GENTLY LENDS A HEND TO MERGE WITH THE INTERIORS THROUGH A WOODEN STAIRCASE. THE CASE STUDY STU DEALS WITH VARIOUS JOINTS AND DETAILS OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THIS PROJECT.

SMART

MATERIALS W O R K SH O P

‘DEPLOYABLE ROOF ’ COMPUTER PROGRAMMED

CREATED USING RHINOCEROS, ARDUINO, AND GRASSHOPPER,

THE ORGANISATION DEVELOPED USING AN ORIGAMI FOLD.

THIS ROOF STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS WITH THE HELP OF A HEAT SENSOR THAT DEPLOYS AND CONTRACTS THE ROOF CREATED USING AN ORIGAMI FOLD. APPLIC APPLICATIONS : GARDEN SHED, COURTYARD COVERS, RESTAURANT UMBRELLAS, ETC.

SECOND ALTERATION USING A EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION FOLDABLE FORMATION.

1:1 INSTALLATION ON-SITE STRUCTURE

‘PARAMETRIC PAPER WAVE ’ GROUPING, MEASURING AND MARKING TUBES

AHMEDABAD

SUSPENDED STEEL FRAME THE PARAMETRIC PAPER TUBE STRUCTURE ACTS AS AN ENTRY PAVILLION FOR A UNIVERSITY FESTIVAL.

RHINOCEROS PLOT POINTS

AREA : 650 SQ. M WEILDING THE SUSPENDED FRAME

BOLTING THE SUSPENSION CABLE HOOKS

TOTAL USERS : 30,000 DAILY AVERAGE USERS : 3,000 CORE TEAM : ADITYA, PARIKSHIT, ADITI, PALAK

TENSION CABLES ON THE FORMWORK

TUBE-CHANNEL ASSEMBLY

PAPER TUBE FORMATION

BV DOSHI AT THE PROJECT

SMART

MATERIALS W O R K SH O P

‘DEPLOYABLE ROOF ’ COMPUTER PROGRAMMED

CREATED USING RHINOCEROS, ARDUINO, AND GRASSHOPPER, THIS ROOF STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS WITH THE HELP OF A HEAT SENSOR THAT DEPLOYS AND CONTRACTS THE ROOF CREATED USING AN ORIGAMI FOLD. APPLIC APPLICATIONS : GARDEN SHED, COURTYARD COVERS, RESTAURANT UMBRELLAS, ETC.

DIGITAL VISUALISATION

PLAN AND STRUCTURE

ON-SITE ASSEMBLY