Aparna Singh
Portfolio Architecture + Design | VaKA 2015
curriculumvitae ar.aparnasingh@gmail.com
Education • B. Arch. (2015), Vastu Kala Academy, College of Architecture, New Delhi (IGNOU) • A.I.S.S.C.E (2010), CBSE (Computer Science), K. V. Sector-8, R. K. Puram, New Delhi • A.I.S.S.E (2008), CBSE, K. V. Sector-8, R. K. Puram, New Delhi
Work Experience Worked as an Intern Architect at Studio for Habitat Futures, Architects & Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (previously known as Sanjay Prakash & Associates Pvt. Ltd.) for a period of six months.
Workshops | Activities | Awards • Successfully completed one week course on production and applications of CSEB (theory & drafting) in February 2013, at Auroville, Tamil Nadu • Successfully completed Intensive Training Workshop on production of and construction with CSEB and Stabilized Rammed Earth (theory & hands-on practice) in July 2013 at Auroville, Tamil Nadu • Represented the college as a delegate at the Annual NASA 2012 Convention at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad • Represented the college as a delegate at the Zonal NASA 2011 Convention at Apeejay University, Noida • Active member of VaKA Student Chapter of ISHRAE and attended workshops and site visits under the same • Won first prize in annual Photography competition at college level (March, 2012) • Won first prize in annual Logo Design competition at college level (March, 2012) • Won first prize in Lamp Design competition at college level (October, 2013) • Won third prize in annual Sketching competition at college level (March, 2011) • Merit/special mention award in 1st all India Architecture Photography competition, 2012 organized by Green zone
Skills • • • • • • • • • • •
Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Google Sketchup Vray Rendering Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator (Basic) Rhinoceros 3D (Basic) Manual Drafting Model making Free hand sketching Mix media graphics & illustration
Strengths • • • • •
Fast learner Adept at analysis and logic Good reading, writing and presentation skills Good at team work and management Good observation skills
Interests | Hobbies • • • • • •
Products/Interior Styling for professional photo shoots Graphic design, Illustration & Photography Founder & author at ‘Doodles, doodles everywhere’, a books & lifestyle blog (http://gopaintbrush.blogspot.com/) Avid reader and passionate ‘bookstagrammer’ (hashtag #bookstagram on Instagram) Hoarding vintage items (especially old books and accessories) Travelling, watching, observing
Personal Information | Contact details D. O. B. Email
22nd October, 1992 ar.aparnasingh@gmail.com
professional training work: ban kutir
nrityagan dance academy
primary health centre
industrial warehouse
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Residential | Urban | Institutional | Public | Industrial | Miscellaneous miscellaneous
architectural thesis: micro housing
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“It’s important to think. It’s what separates us from lentils.” The Fisher King, dir. Terry Gilliam
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Micro Housing: Studios for Young Professionals Semester Year Site location Faculty
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VIII – X (Architectural Thesis) 2014-15 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi Prof. Vijay Kumar (guide), Prof. Vivek Sabarwal, Prof. V. P. Raori
New Delhi has a housing crisis. In particular, there is a demonstrated need for so-called micro-housing — small units for single men and women (especially young professionals). Given that, this thesis proposes to fill the gap between supply and demand of ‘micro housing’ – by means of proposed studio apartments, along with ample outdoor green spaces, recreational areas, terrace gardens, facilities like gym, common rooms, cafeteria with additional outdoor hangout spaces, three small convenience stores, surface and basement parking along with all necessary services and HVAC requirements. A suitable 1.7 Acre site in Vasant Kunj, has been proposed, as an existing part of an integrated housing development plan, given in the Delhi Master plan 2021. The proposed design has been done using sustainable design concepts like DeWAT system for processing and reusing the site’s grey and black water, Rain Water Harvesting, urban farming, solar passive cooling techniques implemented with proper building orientation, shading devices and cavity walls, solar water heating and lastly solar powered lights as part of the landscape to cultivate solar power during the day and use that power to light up the site at night. The building’s orientation with respect to the sun’s angles has been given the utmost priority while governing the placement and planning of the studios, followed closely by the concept to incorporate maximum amount of large green spaces while allowing smooth, unhindered movement on site.
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3D MODEL
CONCEPT
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
The building form is made interesting with the use of voids and projections (slightly protruding apartments). The voids are actually large ‘green’ punctures in the built form with vertical gardens and open sitting spaces after every two floors.
SITE
Basement Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Elevation ‘A’
Section XX’
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Section YY’
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Ban Kutir Luxury Resort, Sundarbans Semester Year Site location Head architects
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X 2015 Sundarbans, West Bengal Ar. Sanjay Prakash (Principal ar.), Ar. Nitin Sharma, Ar. Mayank Mishra (Studio head)
I worked on this project with a team of highly talented architects and designers as a part of my Professional Training at Studio for Habitat Futures Architects & Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (previously known as Sanjay Prakash & Associates) during my last semester of B.Arch. An ongoing project, the aim here is to design a luxury resort with a total built up area of about 8000 sq.m, on a very challenging 65 x 850m narrow strip of land in the marshy Sundarbans. The site has little to no tree cover and a marshy surface with highly saline soil, existing freshwater ponds. The whole site gets flooded upto 1.5m height every year during the monsoon or at the time of high tide. Hence, the whole proposed scheme is designed, raised on a 2.1m high deck, where golf carts will be used for letting the guests experience the resort. In the landscape and ecological strategy, aquaculture (small fish and king prawns) along with paddy farming has been proposed to give employment opportunities to the locals.
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Site Entry
Cottages & Villas
View of typical Cottage
Villa Ground floor plan
Villa Upper floor plan
Cottage Ground floor plan
Cottage Upper floor plan
Landscape: Flora chart
Front of House Areas Restaurant, Banquet Hall & Spa
Front of House Areas Restaurant & Banquet Hall
View of Entrance Dock
Reception plan
Mood board for Reception interiors View of Reception Entrance
View of Reception Interiors
Key plan
Front of House Areas Restaurant & Banquet Hall
View of Restaurant & Banquet Hall
Restaurant & Banquet Hall Plan Mood board for Banquet Hall interiors View of Restaurant
View of Banquet Hall Interiors
Key plan
Front of House Areas Spa
View of Infinity Pool
Spa Plan View of Therapy Room Key plan Mood board for reception interiors
View of Courtyard Inside Spa
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Nrityagan Dance Academy Semester Year Site location Faculty
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V 2012 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi Prof. Beena Narain, Prof. Priyajit Pandit, Prof. Vivek Sabarwal
The aim of this project is to design a dance school/academy for students to learn Indian classical dance forms like Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Kuchhipudi, etc. The school design consists of six dance studios, two lecture rooms for theory classes, a spacious library and research centre, cafeteria, admin block, and a separate audotirium for performances with a capacity to hold three hundred to three-fifty persons. Surface parking for seventy cars has also been incorporated in the design due to the heavy demand for parking spaces during performances.
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SITE SECTION
SITE PLAN
CONCEPT The key concept behind the design of this project is to create an element of mystery, of curiosity, of surprise to the person approaching the academy. The approach to the main building has been designed keeping in mind the same. The entrance is hidden until the point of arrival.
A ‘spiral’ approach sequence of the emphasise on the built spaces as we perimeter.
ELEVATION A
– to prolong the approach and 3D form of the move around its
ELEVATION B
SECTION XX
SECTION YY
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A
B
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN Y
Y
X
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
PLAN
CONCEPT The 350 capacity auditorium has a simple yet unconventional form. The shape selection and planning has been done, keeping functionality and comfort as the key deciding factors. Just as the dance school building, the auditorium too is disabled friendly. The roof of the auditorium is also partly incorporated in the landscaping by joining it with the green spaces on site level through gently sloped nine meter wide pathways on two sides and a landscaped amphitheatre cascading down from the auditorium’s roof to the ground below. This gives the auditorium an appearance of ‘emerging’ or ‘growing’ out of the ground as an entity belonging to nature itself.
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Primary Health Centre 04 Semester Year Site location Faculty
IV 2012 Dalhousie Prof. Lena Gupta, Prof. Fatima Qazmi
Being a form based exercise, the main objective of this project is to develop a design scheme with a ‘function follows form’ approach. Being more of a ‘form follows function’ kind of designer, this was a challenge to me. And I immensely enjoyed every part of the design process. The site is located in a small rural area in Dalhousie. The built forms of the Primary Health Centre and the Multi-Purpose Hall are derived from the mountain profile itself. While the three dimensional form stands in sync with the surroundings, the planning is done, with functionality and comfort as the key deciding factors.
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PHC (Primary Health Centre)
MPH (Multi Purpose Hall)
The plans are simple in shape, with a courtyard at the middle of the PHC and a raised platform ‘sit-out’ for the local people visiting the MPH.
CONCEPT The forms in the overall design are derived from the profile of the mountain terrain. The concept includes unconventional, disjointed sloping roofs (PHC) and a mountain-cave like profile (MPH).
ELEVATION
SECTION
MULTI PURPOSE HALL PLAN
SITE PLAN
FRONT ELEVATION
LHS ELEVATION
PHC FORM (Inspired from the mountain terrain)
PHC (PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE)
REAR ELEVATION
RHS ELEVATION
SECTION BB
PLAN
SECTION AA
MODEL & VIEWS
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Industrial Warehouse Semester Year Site location Faculty
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V 2012 Industrial area, Gurgaon Prof. Beena Narain, Prof. Priyajit Pandit, Prof. Vivek Sabarwal
The idea is to experiment with structure and form, and to come up with an innovative concept, while designing a simple and highly functional industrial warehouse (industrial shed) as an extension to an already existing ceramic goods factory. The shed is to be used for sorting, packaging and temporary stacking of the goods before loading and shipping them to the main storage warehouses at other locations. The design consists of a series of slanting columns that support lightweight proflex roofing (curved & corrugated), through a network of tensile steel cables. A large amount of glazing on all three external walls ensure maximum natural light and ventilation.
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SECTION CC
SECTION AA
SECTION DD SECTION BB
ELEVATION Y
ELEVATION X
Loading bay
Y
B Office
C
Conveyer belts
C
D
Pantry
Stacking
X D
Quality checks & Sorting Stacking
A
KEY PLAN
Office
Conveyer belts
B Packaging
PLAN
Ready To stack
Lockers
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Miscellaneous The world, as I see it. An attempt to capture it all. Photography | Sketches | Plush design | Graphics
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PHOTOGRAPHY
JEWELRY DESIGN
SKETCH
PLUSH DESIGN
SKETCH
PLUSH DESIGN
SKETCH
PLUSH DESIGN
SKETCH
PAINTING
GRAPHIC DESIGN (Building Abstraction)
T-SHIRT DESIGN (Competition Entry) GRAPHIC DESIGN (Building Interpretation)
LOGO DESIGN (Monochrome) GRAPHIC DESIGN (Building Poster)
LOGO DESIGN (Color)
Aparna Singh
Portfolio ar.aparnasingh@gmail.com