AMEYA LOKESH KAULASKAR ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO
2022
CONTENTS 01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
Hybrid Planetarium
City as a Museum
Satara Munical Corporation
Vijay Niwas Residences
KASU Zira Houses
Heal + Kerela Regenrative housing for kerela
Digital Planetarium for Women Empowerment
Mutenook
Kerela, IN
Alexandria, VA
Satara, IN
Kerela, IN
Kerela, IN
Kerela, IN
Kerela, IN
PROFESSIONAL
ACADEMIC
PROFESSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
PROFESSIONAL
ARCHITECTURE | PUBLIC BUILDING
VIRGINIA TECH
ARCHITECTURE | COMPETITION
PROFESSIONAL
ARCHITECTURE | HOUSING
URBAN PLANNING | COMPETITION
ARCHITECTURE | PUBLIC BUILDING
PRODUCT DESIGN | STARTUP
ARCHITECTURE | HOUSING
01
HYBRID PLANETARIUM KERALA, INDIA
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2020 - ONGOING
OFFICE Studio Emergence, Mumbai, India
ROLE Project Architect
COMPETITON The government of Kerela was to build a planetarium that exhibits the achievements of ISRO and current space programs. It acheives to impress upon the students the wonders of space and the prospects it has in research for their future.
TEAM Seeja Sudhakaran, Khusbu Davda, Ameya Kaulaskar, Prakash Rajan
DESIGN CONCEPT The form of the planetarium is inspired from the black hole. The black hole consists of a a central energy sphere that is surrounded by a force of energy around. This is a space where there is no sense of time. This is main objective of the museum, to make the vistors develop their sense of time and space in the museum itself. The form achieves tis by incorporating the form from the black hole.
CENTRAL DOME The interior of the central dome works as a projector screen.
HISTORY WALKWAY
CENTRAL DOME
TELESCOPE AREA
ISRO EXHIBITION
CENTRAL DOME IT UNIT
EXHIBITS 02
SKYLIGHT The skylight brighten is designed to bring in more natural light and brightening up the space around the dome.
FLOATING PLANETS The Planets are hung from the ceiling. The space around the central dome works as the orbit.
CENTRAL DOME The central dome contains the theatre inside and has the texture of the sun on the exteriors.
TELESCOPES The Telescopes let the visitors experience the the stars in the sky while being among the planets.
SVAVE SEATING The seating follows the waves patterns of lights in the space.
SPACE OBJECT SEATS
PROJECTED SPACE ON CEILING The Planets are hung from the ceiling. The space around the central dome works as the orbit. Each planet is
FLOATING PLANETS
EXPLORATION MUSEUM The exploration musume contains the history of work done by ISRO on black holes.
02 CITY AS A MUSEUM ALEXANDRIA, VA
ACADEMIC 1ST YEAR - SPRING 2021 DESIGN BRIEF Alexandria has eight accredited museums/ historic sites but no single civic locus to tell its stories. This studio proposes that a city of such historical significance deserves an equally significant home for those stories. INSTRUCTOR SUSAN PIEDEMONT-PALLADINO DESIGN METHODOLOGY Museumification of any city is almost a death sentecnce for it. It is important that while trying to treserve the city’s history/heritage we also promote future developement that is senesitive to its context. Building on this thought the project aims at preserving the essence of Alexandria city and converting it into a city museums. this is achieved by integration of the digital and physical strategies. It uses physical place making strategies and digital navigation strategies for seemeless navigation into the city museum. QUESTION
CITY MUSEUM ANNOTATION CATALOG
URBAN MUSEUM TOOLKIT
In the time of such technological advanceements does Museum still be a noun or can it be a Verb?
Historic Buildings
Museums
Events
Greenscapes
Street Furniture
Smart Street-Light
SMART MUSEUM STREET The street is designeed by keeping in minfd the provacy and the connectivity of the street to the buiult form. `
STREET PLANNING
SAFETY LANES DIMENSIONS
CLEAR CENTRAL PATH
CITY MUSEUM POINTS
PATHWAY FOR PAVING TEXTURE
STREET LIFE IN SUMMER
STREET LIFE IN AUTUMN
SMART MUSEUM STREET The
street
become
the
physical
museum where visitors can experience the history of the palce and the street in the current times. This also promotes the economic activities of the street.
BUILDING 01 The visitor can place the phone in front of the building, after detecting the buildign the app shall show its history.
BUILDING 02 The visitor can place the phone in front of the building, after detecting the buildign the app shall show its history.
GREEN SPACE The economic corridoor of the city has many old buildings that are repurposed for commercial use.
City Of Alexandria Museum App The App works as the digital space of the museum. This app complements the museum streets and egages the visitor with the history of the City.
Ticketing Page
The App also gives them real time data of for recreational activities and events in the historic city and its waterfront.
Landing Menu
Spot Description
03
SATARA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SATARA, INDIA
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2019 - JANUARY 2020
OFFICE Studio Sp+a, Mumbai, India
COMPETITON The promoter Satara Municipal Council had decided to promote a single stage Competition and invite Architects to submit designs in competition for New Administrative Building of Satara Municipal Council.
TEAM Principal - Sameep Padora, Vami Kothecha, Design - Ameya K, Jemin Mehta, Kaushal Tathiya,Pranav Thole.
DESIGN CONCEPT Our proposal for the Municipal Building of Satara attempts to rework the physical nature & experience of the institution. The core of our proposal are two public spaces created for the city and its citizens, these are a public plaza/resiliency space at ground and a public garden at the roof. All official programs lay sandwiched inbetween the two public realms thus inverting the default nature of today’s institutions by symbolically putting a public program.
ENTRANCE
PERIPHERAL RAMP
POSITION OF KUND
INTEGRATION OF PROGRAM
PROGRAM GROUPS (AS PER BRIEF)
LOCATING PROGRAMS
MOVEMENT
PUBLIC RAMP
ROOF GARDEN - 400 SQ.M
PUBLIC SPACE VIP AREA - 1335 SQ.M
PUBLIC RAMP
CORE OFFICES - 1115 SQ.M A) FINANCE - 845 SQ.M
B) PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY- 405 SQ.M
CORE C) PUBLIC WELFARE - 350 SQ.M
D) PUBLIC WORKS - 710 SQ.M
CORE
ENTRANCE PLAZA (PUBLIC PROGRAMS)- 880 SQ.M PUBLIC SPACE
PUBLIC VISITORS OFFICIALS VIP
+24.00M
T.O.SIXTH FLOOR
9
+20.85M
1
7
2
8
T.O.FIFTH FLOOR
+17.45M
10
T.O.FOURTH FLOOR
11
3
+14.05M
T.O.THIRD FLOOR
+10.65M
12
4
T.O.SECOND FLOOR
5 13
+7.25M
T.O.FIRST FLOOR
6 +3.85M
T.O.GROUND FLOOR
+0.45M
PLINTH LEVEL
14
LEGEND 1 2 3 4 5
-3.55M
BASEMENT LEVEL 1
6 7 8 9
-6.55M
BASEMENT LEVEL 2
10 11 12 13 14
SUBJECT COMMITTEE MAIN RECORD ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT AUDITOR INWARD/OUTWARD EXHIBITON HALL COUNCIL HALL STAFF PRESIDENTS CABIN PURCHASE DEPARTMENT GARDEN DEPARTMENT CIVIL DEPARTMENT OPPOSITE PARTY HALL ENTRANCE LOBBY
SECTION B-B’
04
HIGH RISE TOWER MUMBAI, INDIA
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2020 - DECEMEBER 2020 ROLE Design Resolution Making Construction Drawings OFFICE Studio Emergence, Mumbai, India
The promoter Satara Municipal Council had decided to promote a single stage Competition and invite Architects to submit designs in competition for New Administrative Building of Satara Municipal Council. TEAM Client - Sugee builders Architects - Seeja Sudhakaran, Ameya Kaulaskar.
DESIGN The proposal was an elegant shape of form of the building that exoresses the subtle but complex nature of the coty the it resides in.
PIT LAYOUT
PIT SECTION
DESIGN Being built in a dense city of mumbai the building services are are seemlessly integrated without afftecting the design ambitions of the building. The drawings shows the fire tank and the househol water tanks.
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KASU ZIRA RESIDENCES NAGPUR, INDIA
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2019 - JANUARY 2020
OFFICE Sameep Padora + Associates , Mumbai, India
PROJECT BRIEF Kasu Zira is an exclusive development of apartments in the coastal village of Reis Magos. The homes are located in a quiet road that is a stone’s throw from the river mandovi.
TEAM Lead - Sameep Padora, Vami Kothecha Senior Architect - Jemin Mehta Junior Architect - Ameya Kaulaskar
DESIGN CONCEPT The form of the housing takes inspiration from the traditional Indan form of the courtyard house that is superimposed on the sloping site. The residences are aligned the peripheries to make the most of hte view of the river Mandovi. Each residence also consists of a gallery with a shrub that brings the surrounding greenscape into each house. The design respects the slope of the site and incorporates the same sillhoute with its design. The 2 residential buildings are connected with the same entrance and but contain separate parking and entrance lobbies. The central courtyard becomes the commen room for the residences to enjoy the comon space.
MASSING The massing of the residences is respecteful of the site and derives precedence of the old goan forms of houses. The central courtyard are a vital part of the tropical housing.
RESIDENCES & SPACE BETWEEN Each residence caters to a different buyer scale but each offers a recreational space for the user to enjoy the views.
06
ANTIFRAGILE REGENERATIVE HOUSING FOR KERALA KERALA, INDIA
ARCHITECTURE PEOPLE + GOVERNMENT = BUILDING FOR SOCIETY ROLE OF PEOPLE Plant Trees. Build dweliing units around existing trees. ROLE OF GOVERNMENT Build trenches, Refugee Carrier and public infrastructure.
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2018 - SEPTEMBER 2019
OFFICE Daisaria Associates, Mumbai, India
COMPETITON A series of events follow after flood where people try to rebuild their lives after claiming aid from insurance agencies, savings and government aid that is given to affected areas based on losses of property and the lives. The already struck down transport network has costs of resources surged which makes the rebuilding slow and even more costly. With already a weak support/resource/ strength they are burdened not only with survival but challenges that are beyond generic living.
TEAM Karan Daisaria, Ameya Kaulaskar, Mansi Surekha.
DESIGN CONCEPT Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility and uncertainty. Imagine a tomorrow that builds on the resilience from unpredictability using elements of Nature & power of regeneration towards a new horizon. ANTI-FRAGILE is a 3 insert approach to celebrate community, instate resilience in structures & thrive a new habitat.
Provide service to the unit
CONSTRUCTION The ownership of construction is between 2 entities. The private individual and the government.
STEP 01
STEP 02
To make a dwelling unit, you need to source 4 strong trees that would formulate
On examination and approval, the officer shall sanction the fiunding and develpement
the guideline of th eform and scale of the structure On the basis of the available
of service lines and put in an application for the water community Organization (WCO)
ground cover, mark the desired setting for your dwelling unit and call the nearlest
to process the digging of the trench thereby also notifying you to commence of your
community officer to examine the same.
dwelling unit.
STEP 03
STEP 04
Once the commencement certificate is recieves, the owner shall be able to begin
Now, the owner can begin the construction of the skeleton of the refuge deck and
the stage wise construction starting the alternative layering of ‘Bamboo Flooring
the dwelling units by assembling of trangular frames. Thin skin of the houses can be
frame’ and ‘Barrels’ that would be stacked into the trench of depth of 2.1M, this would
chosen by the owner as per their choice of aesthetics
help create a Buoyant.
07
DIGITAL MUSEUM FOR WOMEN OF INDIA NAGPUR, INDIA
PROFESSIONAL JULY 2019 - SEPTEMBER 2019
OFFICE Daisaria Associates , Mumbai, India
PROJECT BRIEF The 1 area site is called upon a position for a museum dedicated to the imprtant women of India. This includes politicians, sports start, actresses, singers, dancers and many more. Women from each parts of life are celebrated for their contributions to nation building.
TEAM Karan Daisaria, Ameya Kaulaskar, Jayank Patel, Saanchi jhunjhunwala.
DESIGN CONCEPT
The digital museum of motherhood aims to showcase the various roles and achievements of the women in the making of the Indian society. The musuem uses AR & VR Technologies to make the information transmission easier. The visitor gets a chance to interact with events that have went into shaping the women to what they are remembered for.
PATHWAY A liners cirulation and one ways corridoor restricts the free movement of the crowd. A circular zmooth circulation creates a different surfaces areas for the exhibition
LINEAR EXHIBITS
FLEXIBLE EXHIBITS
GRASSHOPPER SCRIPT The grasshopper script is for the museum form. The size of the internal tube and expansive roof is contrlled by script to offer flexibility of planning.
EXHIBITION STRUCTURE The central exhibition spine is made up of circular truss frames. The space in the truss is used for network of cables required for the digital experience.
CENTRAL CIRCULAR BASE
CIRCULAR RIBS
STRUCTURAL SUPPORT
FACADE PANELS
CUBICAL Each cubical is to a particular women. These selection of women are rotated twice every year. Her achievements and
WORD PLAY The word game is for the most words used by the poet.
skills are translated into interactive planes to allow the visitor to engage in her life.
HOLOGRAM The Hologram immitates Sarojini Naidu immitates her narrating her poems to the audience.
HISTORY WALL The wall contains the famous historical SAROJINI NAIDU
poems written by Sarojini Naidu for the
Poet DATA SCREEN The screen is a computer for the reader to screen through any of her poems.
CEILING The interactive ceiling that morphs as per the punch on the punching wall.
VIDEO The television sets displays the major olympic fights of Mary Kom.
PUNCHING WALL The Punching wall is an interactive wall for the visitor to punch and test their strength.
HOLOGRAM The Hologram projectiong of all the finishing punches delivered by Mary Kom. Mary Kom Boxer
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MUTENOOK PRIVATE WORK CABINS PRODUCT DESIGN
PROFESSIONAL FEBRUARY 2020 - JULY 2020 OFFICE Isocelese Design Studio , Mumbai, India PROJECT As we move to a more collaborative working model, we should not ignore the importance of privacy and insulated envirnment. Mutenook was thus conceptualised as a product to provide prvate space in an incresingly open & collaborative workspace.
TEAM Ameya Kaulaskar, Nikhil Arora
DESIGN CONCEPT The private space in an increasingly collaborative workspace is still accessible to one collegues. As sometimes one needs to take a call or a meeting but needs to disconnect from the surrounding. mutenook offers this solution by helping the user to disconnect for personal or work reasons. This interior of cabing has an adjustable table and a seat-
SPEED WORK
CALL
PERSONAL
ing for the user to adjust as per one’s requirements. It
For an employee to
The seat and the table
The Blinds on the galss
also contains blinds that allows the user to take a video
disconnect -isolate and
can be folded and can
door help the user
call privately.
completely focus on
make the cabin spacious
to get privacy for the
the taks.
for the user to stand and
private activities
take a private phone
eg. - Feeding a baby
call.
MOVABLE DESK The height of the desk can be adjusted as per the user.
VENTILATION FANS Two ultra-quiet fans keep you cool under pressure.
SOUND INSULATION 1.6” sound insulation made from recycled materials to tune out the noise.
2ND LAYER OF SOUND INSULATION 1.6” sound insulation made from recycled materials to tune out the noise.
BUILT-IN DESK Desk and magnetic board give you ample space for your VENTILATION The cabin offers ventialtion for the user to maintian continuous temperature inside & outside
INSULATION LAYER The cabin offer atmosphere and sound insulation.
big ideas.
BUILT-IN DESK SEAT Desk and magnetic seat that can accomodate the User
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