Centre for Good Governance, Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration , Pune
Institutional Design
2021-Ongoing
Work undertaken at CCBA Designs Team: Prof. Benninger, Ajinkya J. Daraius C.
YASHADA is an administrative training institute and meets the training needs of government departments, officials and stakeholders.
Given the condition of its existing Baner campus, a masterplan had been proposed to utilise and repurpose the existing space in a more efficient way.
A major undertaking was the acquisition of the plot for Center for Good Governance (CGG) programme. It would have an academic building which would take care of the additional training facilities that were required and a hostel building would accomodate all the trainees.
The area constraints and the fanned shape geometry of the classrooms were organised into a semi-circular form as is seen in the renders.
Lodha Giardino, Kharadi, Pune
Retail + Multi-Level Car Park + Offices
2022-Ongoing
Work undertaken at CCBA Designs Team: Prof. Benninger, Rahul D. Ajinkya J. Jay P. Daraius C.
Lodha is one of the leading real-estate developers in the country. The site at Kharadi, aims to tap into the upcoming clientele from booming IT segment at Kharadi.
The development primarily composes of three segments. Aspirational segment, premium segment and retail and offices.
The MLCP caters to the parking requirment of all these segments, with separate access and ramps respectively. It include High-street oriented retail on the ground and offices on the uppermost floor. The building also accomodates clubhouses on the ground and terrace along with sport facilties.
Typical
Office Layouts
Typical Parking Layouts
Lodha Estilo, Kharadi, Pune
Premium Segment Housing
2023-Ongoing
Work undertaken at CCBA Designs Team: Prof. Benninger, Rahul D. Ajinkya J. Diya D., Swati M., Daraius C.
Unlike the aspirational segment, which has ‘six-to-acore’ configuration of floor-plate arrangement, The premium segment looks at more spatious and luxurious flat configurations.
The ‘four-to-a-core’ arrangement, houses 4BHKs at the periphery and 3.5BHKs at the inner side. The robust policy frameworks within the develop company, emphasise on concepts of ‘Floor-Plate Efficiency and Inefficiency’ to gauge and compare probable options.
Informed planning schemes on floor plate level and carving green spaces combined with studio’s signature approach in dealing with verticality in buildings, gives the product that is seen as the premium segment of this residential complex.
Institutional Project
2019-Ongoing
Work undertaken at CCBA Designs
Team: Prof. Benninger, Alex W. Aditya U. Wasim H. Shreyas G. Ajinkya J. Jay P. Anuj I. Daraius C.
Gujrat Institute of Prisons and Correctional Administration (GIPCA) at Sabarmati, Ahmedabad as name suggests is an institute for corrrectional administration. The programme is centered along the central court and held in place by a collonade and layouts are spread radially.
While the entire conceptual planning had taken place earlier, the work undertaken here was of the preparaisin of tender drawings and working drawings along with tedious resolutions that typically arise translating concepts into a neat building.
A resolution of one particular condition, when seen as a holistic part of the scheme and apllicable, becomes architectural vocabulary of the campus itself.
Redevelopment of Bhaucha Dhakka fish market at Mumbai’s eastern waterfront as an Urban Food Hub
Academic Thesis project: A Socio-Cultural hub / Batch Top 2
The Project is small part of the larger urban redevelopment. The idea is to propose a socio-cultural hub centred around the theme of food. It is seen as a socio-cultural space along with a market, boosting socio-cultural and economic activities in the place. Through the project, the derelict site will attain a new identity in becoming a city level destination.
‘Food culture’ which is one of the five themes in focus in the redevelopment scenario lies in the hands of the people seen as informal vendors and micro-businesses. Given the kind of development that is proposed and probable gentrification, it would be harder for small local businesses to compete in the projected scenario.
The fish market, which is livelihood for the fishing community is about to be displaced under this redevelopment and there is possibility to develop a model that is inclusive towards the fishing community and can also cater to other communities related to food business.
One of the major insights after a study of the working life of street food vendors and small businesses and needs management is their ‘right to public space’.
The idea here is to get them to the forefront of the market and hence
promote the culture, improving their economic activity along with a cultural output. This social cause is the driving force in the conception of this project
The need for the right to public space + bringing food culture to the public realm is addressed by the kind of public space that is being designed. Lack of access to facilities due to affordability issues would be addressed by sharing infrastructure with temporal and fixed programming tailored to the function.
SkyCity Design Sketches from Housing Studio / Semester VII
Housing design for a site under smart-city scheme, Bhopal.
Borrows the ‘courtyards-in-sky’ approach from the personal experience at J57 SkyCity, China + Floor-plate geometry explorations
Under the selected yard design of J57 fab) + A visit to Broad ing, Changsha, China
Design Competition
selected 17 teams for courtJ57 Skycity Housing (PreBroad Sustainable BuildChina
A courtyard in the sky!
A 57-storied tower is built on site in record-breaking pace of 21 days, that too as a comelete tower with finishing involved. This was made possible by Pre-fab technology where entire parts of floor slab are fabricated at the factory and assembled at site.
Three-storey-high courtyard atriums were envisioned as community space. Suddenly the problem of typical apartmental living and lost access to the shared ground is addresed.
The brief though, was to activate them and enrich these spaces.
