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A KS H A R GA J J A R architecture p o r t f o l i o 2021

question “I think therefore I am” Architecture for me is an act of response. ‘Response’ not only to the content and the context but most importantly a response to inquiries. These are social, economic and ecological inquires in tandem to introspective and extrospective ones. This is an assemblage of my works as a response to many such inquiries but more essentially my thoughts, questions and values as an architect.

part 01 How does the built environment of past and present inform the architecture of tomorrow? Using architecture as a way of seeing rather than making, the following work considers how to see and map the existing to learn from what has evolved overtime and then make meaningful interventions. Can an understanding of the vernacular, the existing mould the way we intervene in the future?

1.1

1.2

Related Study Program

Pandemic Microcosm

drawing a kilometer long street of a medieval Indian town

same space different spatial behaviour

1.3 A walk to remember follies for personal memories and urban identity

1.1 drawing a kilometer long street of a medieval Indian town Related Study Program Measure drawing a town street, Chanderi Smit Vyas Winter 2016 The settlement at Chanderi dates back more than a thousand years. Its production of world-renowned hand silk has remained a continuing tradition. Chanderi is a palimpsest of architectural styles ranging from the Pratihara-Gurjar dynasty, Malwa Sultanate, Mughals to the Bundela Rajputs & Maratha. The overall streetscape was studied by detailed measurement of plan profiles, elevations, street gradient, paving & material finishes as well as observation of activity & interactions supported by it

Ink on gateway paper | 3M X 2M

1.2 same space different spatial behaviour Pandemic Microcosm Drawing Learning Pandemic times

spaces

Momoyo Kaijima, Chair of Architectural Behaviorology ETH Summer 2020 Covid-19 confinement affected the behaviors and the relationships between users, built, and natural environment. The boundaries between private and public, between learning and working situations, are shifted. Through the drawing of the student housing the attempt is to exemplify and shine a light into the architectural behaviorology in times of the pandemic.

WOKO Student housing Mierwiesenstrasse 62, Zurich

1.3 follies memories identity

for personal and urban

A walk to remember An alternate urban narrative Udayan Mazumdar, Blanca Bravo Reyes Monsoon 2020 With new cities being built and developed at an unimaginable pace one sees genericness in their design and perception. Bopal like many other recently developed peri-urban area is subjected to the same fate. With no history to attach to, what creates memories in such generic city scape. Leisure being defined as “time free of necessity” is introduced in the landscape of Bopal using architectural follies. They lead to creation of alternative narratives. These narratives negate the existing and create unexpected, drastic and surprising moments in the city.

A network of follies create a friction in the existing utlitarian urbanscape providing space for creation of memories and identity of the city

Personal memories

Community memories

Identifiers of the city

Folly I : The eye climbs the existing water tank at the edge of Bopal lake creating an alternate vertical movement. An elevator and a spiral staircase are added alongside the existing spiral staircase making the top as well as the ground a thriving public space.

Folly II: The madness, sits on the Bopal bus stand, mocking the utilitarian use of architectural elements. The stair winds around the shear walls creating an alternate journey of meandering.

Folly III: The escape, is located on the busy junction creating an alternate narrative of solitude and calm. Leisure is in slowing down and enjoying small moments of walking, sitting, talking, meeting etc. The miniature painting attempts to depict these possibilities of leisure in the folly.

part 02 What is architecture of the future? The second part explores physicality of spaces and their thresholds in tandem to breaking norms. How can architectural thinking move beyond its current realm to be able to respond to rapidly changing social, economic and ecological scenarios of our urban landscapes?

2.1

2.2 Housing the Non-human a place for ‘beyond humans‘

2.3 Verticity 2030 a city of ambiences

Adapting Multispecies Studies into Architectural Thinking towards a “responseable“ architecture

2.1 a place for ‘beyond humans’ Housing the Non-human Architecture of Control Arno Brandlhuber, ETH Zurich Spring 2020 Five years ago the consequences of climate change seemed distanced enough to not care about them. Too abstract, too blurry, too far away, to actually change our behaviour and architectural practice. But how do we, as individuals and a profession, face the challenges of the current environmental crisis within the “given” economical, political and social system? How to manage climate change and take care of landscape and nature while our cities are still growing? A cohabitation studio where each student was working with one species on site and became an agent for them. A series of episodes were generated by the end of the studio where each episode built up the storyline for the next.

EPISODE 01

EPISODE 02

In the process of cohabitation with an invasive algal species the first step was to research and introduce the species as its agent.

Cohabitation through control ! Is it possible?

Manual for Cohabitation : To enter a site and intervene in interest of multiple species a legislation was designed to ensure proliferation of all the species. FINAL VERSION RULES:

"One exposes oneself when one makes, one imposes oneself when one unmakes. When one unmakes, one is never wrong, in effect. I know of no better way to be always right. I do not believe I know, on the other hand, a better definition of man that the old adage errare humanum est, to which I saw, Whoever makes mistakes is human. At least he tried.“ Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge, 1997. 1.1 OBSERVE Observe and evaluate all species’ requirements in a place #evaluation #existing #context #location #topography #research #landscape #readscience #nature #artificial #natural #biodiversity #correlations #unknown #alien #exposeyourself Cohabitation is a game played in a “Multiplayer Mode” 1.2. REGULATE - co-habitaion-mode has a framework which recognizes every players voice

channels Create a legislative framework to give a legal voice to non-human species. #agency #values #intention #legislation #rules #norms #speculation #plausibility #policy #natural-voice #equivalence #regulation #existence #rights #ecosystem Every player counts the same 1.3. NEGOTIATE Act on the balanced interest of all the species present, according to observations. #function #program #needs #users #mutualism #neutralism #parasitism #benefits #balance #biodiversity #wellbeing #protection #symbiosis #consideration #tolerance Don’t be afraid to destroy,but the same can happen to you 2.1.UPDATE Update systems according to feedback and new conditions. #life #cycle #circularity #closedsystem #feedback #time #decay #exposure #future #change 2.2. BALANCE (Re)use resources like matter, ground, water, air and energy proportionally and reasonably in a balanced and species-conscious manner. #proportionality #relative durability(?) #sustainability #material #matter #self-consciousness #species-consciousness #resources #microclimate #macroclimate #materialuse #scale #balance #relativity #sharing #saving #circular system #take #return Take a block - add a block 2.3. CARE Design for reasonable and intrinsic lifespans. Maintain in a caring way. #maintenance #care #plan #longterm #reuse #waste #safe #balance #relational #sustainability 3.1. FUND Create a financing model where all potential revenue is used for the upkeep and safeguarding of the site. It is not based on exponential growth. #ecosystems #ecology #economy #degrowth #solidarity #affordability #cooperative #reinvestment #zerosumgame

3.2. FRANKENSTEIN Architectural expression must result from multi-layered thinking. Assemble parts based on inherent logic, not a predetermined image. #design #frankenstein #result #uncertainty #unleashing #dissolve #random #chaos #assembling To frankenstein is to put your blocks on another player’s blocks Update: 24.4.2020

Manual for Architecting Cohabitation

EPISODE 03

TRAILER

Sharing control for possible cohabitation

If the idea of cohabitation and its urgency was to be explained to a child how would one go about it ?

An attempt at architecting the conflict of control to come up with a design intervention.

2.2 towards a “responseable” architecture Adapting Studies in Thinking

Methodology of the research

Staying trouble

Multispecies Architectural

with

the

A: RECALIBRATE

Donna Haraway

• What are the insufficiencies of anthropocentrism in architecture? • What is multispecies studies? • How is it relevant in architecture?

Research thesis Guide: Sonal Mithal Spring 2021

The mushroom at the end of the world. Anna Tsing

Premise:

Aim:

The built environment is an inextricable part of the ecosystem in which it places itself. The process and product of the construction of built form transform myriads of inter-species entanglements in its vicinity.

To determine parameters of posthumanist multispecies reading of the built environment.

As shapers and transformers of the built environment, architects lack the ability to respond to these other species. The significant gap that the thesis has identified is the absence of a way in which architecture for cohabitation of multiple species in cities can be imagined and designed.

‘The introduction’ sets the base for inquiry, the urgency of the argument in the current context and uses various anthropologists’ theories to determine an alternate way of thinking.

Multispecies Studies Cultivating Arts of Attentiveness THOM VAN DOOREN Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales, Australia

EBEN KIRKSEY Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales, Australia

URSULA MÜNSTER Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Abstract

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are experimenting with novel ways

of engaging with worlds around us. Passionate immersion in the lives of fungi, microorganisms, animals, and plants is opening up new understandings, relationships, and accountabilities. This introduction to the special issue offers an overview of the emerging ﬁeld of multispecies studies. Unsettling given notions of species, it explores a broad terrain of possible modes of classifying, categorizing, and paying attention to the diverse ways of life that constitute worlds. From detailed attention to particular entities, a multiplicity of possible connection and understanding opens up: species are always multiple, multiplying their forms and associations. It is this coming together of questions of kinds and their multiplicities that characterizes multispecies studies. A range of approaches to knowing and understanding others—modes of immersion—ground and guide this research: engagements and collaborations with scientists, farmers, hunters, indigenous peoples, activists, and artists are catalyzing new forms of ethnographic and ethological inquiry. This article also explores the broader theoretical context of multispecies studies, asking what is at stake—epistemologically, politically, ethically—in learning to be attentive to diverse ways of life. Are all lively entities biological, or might a tornado, a stone, or a volcano be amenable to similar forms of immersion? What does it mean to live with others in entangled worlds of contingency and uncertainty? More fundamentally, how can we do the work of inhabiting and coconstituting worlds well? In taking up these questions, this article explores the cultivation of “arts of attentiveness”: modes of both paying attention to others and crafting meaningful response. Keywords

multispecies, immersive methods, attentiveness, more-than-human ethics, world-

making, cobecoming, responsibility, liveliness

To determine the qualities of spatial manifestation (that can be adapted to architectural thinking) of posthumanist multispecies thinking.

Multispecies Studies Cultivating Arts Attentiveness

Environmental Humanities 8:1 (May 2016) DOI 10.1215/22011919-3527695 © 2016 Thom van Dooren, Eben Kirksey, and Ursula Münster This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

Downloaded from https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/8/1/1/408987/1vanDooren.pdf by ETH Zurich user on 23 January 2020

B: INTERPRET Architectural cues were extracted for characteristics of physical spaces that allow for multispecies interaction

Architectural precedent studies were done to find an architectural interpretation of these physical characteristics. ‘If we have to read the built environment for such a possibility, what will be the parameters of mapping the site.’

‘The architectural interpretation’ of the anthropological texts, can be further divided into two parts, firstly the extraction of architectural cues and secondly, architectural precedents that demonstrate cohabitation are analyzed.

C: MAPPING THE SITE ‘Mapping the site’ using the obtained parameters is done to analyze the site NC Mills, an abandoned textile mill in Ahmedabad. Moss - exposed brick wall. Dry green moss

What allows for the moss to grow here? 1. Constant shade of the tree. 2. Spaces between the brick allow space. 3. Due to shade the bricks are cooler than others. 4.The water evaporation is slower hence more moisture for the moss to grow. 5. Rough texture of brick allows moss to latch on to. 6. Post the growth the surface becomes dense(tight) amd relatively smooth.

Yellow patina - exposed brick wall. Over dried moss

How did it turn into patina? 1. Harsh sunlight falls on these parts of the wall. 2. Due to the drying the green layers of moss disintegrate and fall revealing a layer of yellow patina below. 3.The layer of patina is more rougher in texture than the moss.

Moss - exposed brick wall.

What allows for the growth of

fresh moss here?

1. Thick shade from the

1. Shade from the treeand

neem tree all day round.

from the protusion of beam.

2. The surface is just below

the beam and is a bit

Wet(fresh) moss

depressed. This allows for

The physical patterns that allow for the proliferation of various species on architectural elements are understood.

CONCLUSIONS

01 A

new lens of looking at the built environment: The study reveals the following set of mappable parameters for reading building environment.

depressed. This allows for

more moisture retention.

Remenants of plaster.

3. As the moss takes over

The original finish?

the cracks and interstices

What does not allow for the

the surface becomes dense

growth of fresh moss here?

and tight.

1. Direct sunlight.

02 Shifts in design thinking:

The reserach revealed that there is a necessity for consideration and accommodation of parameters that are absent in the traditional architectural thinking.

2.Surface: smooth

03 Towards a collaborative future:

The empirical observations in this research can be studied scientifically to understand the exact scientific conditions of growth.

Plaster on exposed brick

Moss-exposed brick Fresh green moss

1. The plaster is in

Why is it growing here?

direct sunlight and

1. This part of the wall

hence has very less

is under heavy shade of

moisture content.

the surrounding trees.

2. Hence this part of the

2. The protuding beam

wall is left intact.

has more moisture retention capacity allowing for the moss to proliferate.

Yellow patina-exposed brick

is transitioning from dry

Why is it drying here?

green moss to yellow

1. This part of the wall is

patina.

under direct sunlight.

2. The top layers of

2. The patina starts

the moss are drying

chipping off exposing

because of partial

the cracks between the

sunlight and start falling

bricks.

off, exposing the yellow

3. The texture is

patina layer below.

comparitively rough

1. This part of the wall

Over dried moss

Moss-exposed brick

Why is it growing here?

Why is it drying here?

1. This part of the wall

1. This part of surface

is under heavy shade of

is under partail sunlight

the surrounding trees.

for some part of the

2. The protuding beam

day.

has more moisture

2. The texture is

retention capacity

rough but even as the

allowing for the moss to

moss fills all the gaps

proliferate.

between the bricks

3. The texture is soft

resulting in a very even

and even.

surface.

Fresh green moss

Dry pale green moss

3. Texture is rough but even

2.3 a city of ambiences

Atmosfaira: Verticity 2030 Live | Work | Play Vishwanath Kashikar Monsoon 2020 During the studio a lot of thought was given Are plans and sections enough? to the temporal context of 2030 rather than the physical context. As the world is Is placing a bed in a space enough to moving towards flexible spaces a context call it a bedroom? was imagined where spaces are no more function specific but are Ambience specific.

What is feeling/experience of a space?

The ambience of “AWE“ was picked and text and sketches of various mediums on Can we capture that feeling through different surfaces were used as design an architectural tool? and representation tools. How do we design that feeling?

Digital render of the space depicting the imagined ambience of the temple.

A comic strip was made to depict the life of a person in the imagined context of 2030.

UP and DOWN

“Gaping upward it seemed as if I was standing at the ocean bed looking up towards an endless volume. It felt as if the smaller slabs would detach themselves from the parent plates any moment and swim up to the mouth of the light”.

A sketch essay of 33 sketches was made as the final representation which took one around the design. Each sketch is accompanied with a oneliner talking about the feeling of the viewer.

part 03 Architecture is generally thought first and conceived next but what if the boundaries between thinking and making were blurred? The last part is an exploration of the acts of thinking and making as parallels and not necessarily consecutive. Can foregrounding making/ building bring out new meanings to architectural language and design thinking?

3.1

3.2

3.3

Arcuate

Butterfly sitting on a rock

when the structural system came first

a bathhouse for hostel campus

3.4

Busride Design Studio Internship a peek into the real world

3.6

3.5 Design+ Build Workshop

Lines to surfaces

building a flood resilient school in the Majuli village

a hyperbolic paraboloid bamboo pavilion

Feather pavilion a basketball pavilion from bamboo and papertube

3.1 when the structural system came first Arcuate Structure | Material | Space Sankalpa Spring 2019 The studio began with attempts to come up with various systems under the constraints set. Each student had gotten a symbol which was to be expressed in the system. These smaller modules were then propagated in various directions to form a horizontal and vertical structural system. Materials were then introduced. In the end a 1:10 scale model of the structural system + its architectural manifestation was made.

A line and dot symbol was translated into structural modules which were then propogated into horizontal spanning system and vertical bearing system.

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3.2 a bathhouse for hostel campus Butterfly sitting on a rock Bathhouse Smit Vyas Monsoon 2018 India has a rich history of water structures and hamams. The project anchors itself in the traditional stepwell and royal baths. Being an extension project the bathhouse is a departure from the exisiting hostel building.Existing building is acknowledged by creating a similar expression of heavy base of stone cladded masonry walls. As this program uniquely brings human body and surface finishes in direct contact a wide plethora of finishes ranging from seamless terrazzos to flawless white marbles are used to generate a sensorial experience.

Int on gateway hand drafted construction drawing.

3.3 a peek into the real world Busride Design Studio Office Training Zameer Basrai Monsoon 2019 Project: Sangolda Twins, Goa This residence is a vacation home in Sangolda Goa. The design idea was to create a ruin giving rise to a the rugged exterior material palette contradicting the luxurious interior. Major role in project: Interior • Design development • Presentation meetings

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• Working drawings

Interior render and flooring options. All drawings are copyright of busride design studio

Project: Street Design competition organised by Municipal corporation.

A. VIEW LOOKING AT MARKET MODULE

B. VIEW LOOKING AT THE AMPHITHEATRE & VIEWING DECK MODULE

The design develops on the natural slope exisiting on site by creating an elevated pathway. This pathway ends in a deck showcasing views of the proposed urban equator. It house amenities and markets along the descending pedestrian path.

The design attempts to connect the new central public realm to the existing green spaces which are flanked on either side of the carriageways. The compound wall has been punctured to strengthen public accessibility by increasing the visual porosity.

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The site, located in a mixed used context is also a connector from the East to West of Mumbai. As observed, the median of the existing street is wider than usual and houses public programs. The design intends to optimise and leverage the possible usage of the central median, the Urban Equator, for enhanced pedestrian oriented activities. It also attempts to increase the green spaces to the public visually and physically by proposing

Winning entry

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POP-UP MARKET MODULE

AMPHITHEATRE MODULE

PARK CONNECTOR MODULE

PUBLIC AMENITY MODULE

VIEWING DECK MODULE

1. Benches 2. Pedestrian path + Cycyling track 3. Market stall 4. Landscape mound

1. Benches 2. Filtered water from reed beds 3. Amphitheatre 4. Landscape mound 5. Pedestrian path + Cycyling track

1. Pedestrian path + Cycyling track 2. Carriageway 3. Reed bed 4. Horizontal connection into existing MCGM park 5. Play area

1. Built-in seating 2. Drinking water fountain 3. Public toilet 4. Pedestrian path + Cycyling track 5. Reed beds

1. Newspaper Stand 2. Pedestrian path + Cycyling track 3. Viewing deck 4. Skateboard ramps

Viewing Deck

Market Module

A. Filtered water pool

Amphitheatre Module

various landscape elements. Landscape Mounds

Major role in project: • Design development • Final presentation drawings

Park Connnector Mounds Play area

The modules consist of enclosed public amenities such as public toilets, public drinking water fountains, programs ranging from permanent stalls to temporary markets, vertical and horizontal connectors and social public programs such as seating coves, benches & amphitheatres.

Reed Beds Market Module

SCHEMATIC ISOMETRIC VIEW

FOOTPATH PARKING/BUSTOP (maintaining existing drainage) 1.8M

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CARRIAGEWAY 6M

URBAN EQUATOR 7-11M

CARRIAGEWAY 6M

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FOOTPATH (maintaining existing drainage) 1.8M

3.4 a flood resilient school for underpriviledged students Design + Build Workshop Designing resilience Summer Workshop Summer 2018 In May and June of 2018 I was part of a Design + Build Resilience workshop in one of the remotest areas of Assam, India, with the intention of nurturing cultural confidence, to brace local economies and foster ecological harmony. The precinct serves as a school, and as a community shelter + retreat during annual floods. It remains resilient to highly intensive earthquakes, soil erosion along the islands edges and heavy monsoons.

3.5 making surfaces from lines Summer school Study of hyperbolic paraboloid forms Vaibhavi Agarwal | Shital Chaudhari Summer 2016 The idea behind the course was to provide a hands on experience to the hyperbolic paraboloid structure and forms. The characteristics of adaptability, economy and constructability of the materials used, make these forms very usable and easy to build. A pavilion was designed using the learnings from the exercises and was made at 1:1 scale on campus.

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3.6 a basketball pavilion from bamboo and papertube Feather Pavilion Design and construction Sankalpa Spring 2016 The design was a pavilion next to the exisiting basketball court. The overall material used were bamboo and papertube and six different modules were developed. Each module had a different way of joining the roof to the base. The effects of various loads and time were studied after the making of the pavilion to understand the most feasible joinery.

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