Design Portfolio _ Jan 2021

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Selected Works _ 2013 - 2021

Aniket Surve

Note : 1. All drawings, images, and texts in the portfolio have been produced by the author.

2. For group and professional projects, only the drawings, images that were produced by the author have been displaced. If otherwise, credits are mentioned.

3. For all the professional projects, the copyright for all the drawings and images belong to the organization mentioned. The permission to use the information has been duly taken only for academic purposes.

CONTENTS

01.

Ecology & Sustainability

1.1 Retrieving the Baug Botanical Research Centre Byculla

1.2 A Portable Conservation | Historical Neglects Fisheries Institute + Community Centre Sewri Fort & Wetlands

1.3 The Hive Co-Working Space _ Pune

1.4 Sangolda Twins Villas _ Goa

1 5 Udyaan Pravaha

02. House

2 1 Kapoor House Juhu Mumbai

2.2 House for the DEAD Hosang Shah’s Tomb _ Mandu

03.

Documentation

3.1 Government Public Library Annual Study Tour _ Prayagraj (Allahabad)

04. Hands-on

4.1 The War Machine Building Technology _ KRVIA _ Mumbai

4 2 Cantilever Building Technology _ KRVIA _ Mumbai

Open Grounds

Open Green

Green Promenade

Tree Cover

North

1.1 | Retrieving the Baug

Botanical Research Centre

1of the 9 Special Mentions | 6th June, 2018

Kurula Varkey Design Forum (KVDF) 2018, South Asia

Academic work _ Year 5 _ Sem IX

Monsoon 2017 (June - Sept)

Jijamata Udyaan, Byculla, Mumbai

Architectural Design

Research & Site Study team _ Sanika G. + Aishwariya P. + Nupur G. + Aniket Surve

Faculty _ Samira Rathod + Jerry George

South

West-East axis

North-South axis

Eastern waterfront

WHO Standards : 9m2 green space per capita, to reach this, Mumbai needs 165km2 more of green space

Vienna: 51% i.e. 120m2 green space per capita

Singapore: 47% i.e. 66m2 green space per capita

London: 47% i.e. 27m2 green space per capita

New York: 47% i.e. 23.1m2 green space per capita

Paris: 9.5% i.e. 11.5m2 green space per capita

Barcelona: 17.3% i.e. 5.6m2 green space per capita

Mumbai City

18.4 million population

482.7 km2 total area

262.6km2 open space

14km2 public green space

2.5% green space

0.76m2 green space per capita

One of the lowest in the world

If Mumbai followed WHO standards, it would have 165.6km2 of public space i.e., 34.3% of the city area Jijamata Udyaan, previously listed in ‘Gardens & Parks’ has been specially designated as ‘Botanical Garden, garden and zoo’ for the draft DP 2034 as of May 2017. It is imperative that we nurture and preserve the Baug as it is the only such ecosystem in the city and serves as a model for other green spaces.

Google Earth + Autocad + Photoshop

1200 mm x 750

Mahalakshmi Racecourse

Jijamata Udyaan

Mahalakshmi Station

Byculla Station

Jacob circle

Haji Ali Dargah

Arabian Sea

3. Inside the baug 2. The edge of the baug

1. Outside the baug

ES Patankar Marg Cordoned off bungalow

‘Retrieving the Baug’, is the relationship between scientific work space and nature. It aims to transform the idea of a work space always being banal to an energetic nature as well as a social space. The study starts with observing the amount of green open spaces the city of Mumbai has, and how we all should come together to save at least that much and later think about expanding it.

Looking at the larger city plan, we can observe that as we go northwards, the green spaces are depleting and the only rich eco system available in the island city of Bombay is ‘Jijamata Udyaan’. So, an intervention that helps create awareness and celebrate such palces; and also having a botanical research space in the lung of the city becomes imperative.

The site which was a Botanical garden is now under the trap of animal voyeurism, where I suggest the animals should be left free into their natural habitat, where first they should be kept in a rehabilitation centers and then moved into the nature. The space available after rehabilitation, should be made as a sacrosanct and a new masterplan that looks at pauses or recreational spaces in the baug.

Lack of green spaces in Mumbai which are not treated as important. Rani Baug’s (Jijamata Udyaan) rich ecology is a vital lung which needs to be celebrated.

Paved areas taking over the baug

Untapped potential of the conservatory which can give people a glimpse of botanical diversity of the baug

Axes are the major circulation routes in the baug

Untapped potential of the only water body on site, currently an animal enclosure

Unnecessary/unused dilapidated animal enclosures taking up potential of the conservatory which can give people a glimpse of botanical diversity of the baug

Autocad + Photoshop 250mm x 120 mm

Need for reviving the importance of Rani baug instead of Byculla zoo

Shifting from animal voyeurism to nature based educational awareness through removal of enclosures and revival of flora

Water body can be an attraction for visitors and can also be used for water based plant research

Educational, recreational and research oriented functions can be implemented

Conservatory is not experienced by visitors due to restricted enrty

Reimagining entry to the baug through conservatory, thus making it an available experience

Existing animal enclosures in dilapidated conditions

Axes are unnecessary, rigid, dominating and don’t respond to trees

Public path should be subservient to flora and should be dedicated by interesting experiences

The suggestion was clear to create a sacrosanct that allows very less human interference and no enclosure remains in the end. The animals from the enclosures need to move to a rehabilitation centre before letting them free into their natural habitat.

Proposal:

Afforestation of maximum built up spaces to create a sacrosanct

Large diversity of trees & several rare specimen found only in the Baug

Neglected water body in sambhar deer enclosure

Chawls materials used as inventory for new Research centre in the baug

Observations also involved looking at materials which could be used later in the suggestion (a built structure) rather than only studying the site. A few cess buildings behind the zoo were studied along with the redundant animal enclosures from the zoo. The buildings studied were under dilapidated conditions and were soon to be bulldozed.

Autocad | 420mm x 300 mm

Maximum

Internal Forests - Conceptual Sketches

Botanical

Existing Conservatory

Dr.BhauDajiLadMuseum

Handsketch+Photoshop 200mmx200mm

Hand sketch + Photoshop 500mm x 200 mm

Hand sketch + Autocad+Photoshop 650mm x 300 mm

Roots zone + Conceptual Diagram

The masterplan looked at creating fun, energetic spaces around the sacrosanct while the main focus remains in creating a Botanical research centre, that deals with activists, scientists, interested locals and also young students pursuing higher education in botany which would help create awareness and later might help in increase in green open spaces.

The Botanical Research Centre is placed such that it creates a virtual connection between the two heritage buildings one in the campus (Bhau Daji Lad Museum) and the Victoria Garden Church which is next to the campus. Trees’ roots study was done at the entrance plots of the campus, which was imperative to select a proper site that does not hinder the growth of trees near it.

ScientificLibrary+Nursery

The building involves functions like laboratories that look at growing plants in and on water; study on medicinal plants, economic botany, microbiology. The building is wrapped by conservation centre which is a greenhouse and a herbarium. Another building which allows scientists to move out of their work schedule is a Scientific library and archives, also a nursery (plant sale) underground it, which makes it a visitors centre and allows a good walk from the research centre to the library building.

The idea of letting the greenhouses cover the main functions in the building so that the plants/ trees in the greenhouse cover/ shelters the activities that happen inside which in turn creates a symbiotic relationship between the trees and the activities.

Botanical Research centre + Green House

Revit : Render+Drafting

Photoshop : Digital Sketch 1000mm x 600mm

1.2 | A Portable Conservation

Historical Neglects _ Sewri Fort & Wetands

Academic work _ Year 5 _ Sem IX & X

Monsoon 2017 to Summer 2018 (June - April)

Sewri, Mumbai

Design Dissertation | April 2018

Faculty _ Shirish Joshi + Vandana Ranjitsinh + Hussain Indorewala

Dissertation volume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ZdiKsG8B9zB6U625tSFwLf5 TCtxMigo/view?usp=sharing

Forts Studied

Lens:

The lens used to read heritage is via land transformation and its relation with the society. Today there are different paraphrases of heritage in the city which we need to develop it with its relation to the context; i.e. land and the communities. The evolution and the development of human settlement with respect to forts through different time periods of history, the thesis attempts to decipher how the lands were appropriated affecting the heritage and also some how the settlements.

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3.

6.

7.

Bandra Reclamation Bandra Worli Sea Link

Worli Fort Worli Gaon

Western Railway Castella Aguada

Mahim Fort Mahim Causeway

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4.

2.

1. Bombay Castle

2. Mazagaon Fort

3. Sewri Fort

4. Sion Fort

5. Rewa Fort

6. Mahim Fort

7. Worli Fort

Current landform superimposed on seven islands of Bombay

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6.

Eastern waterfront

Arabian Sea

3. Sewri

5. Rewa

7. Worli

6. Mahim GIS + Illustrator 1500mm x 650 mm

Autocad | 150mm x 80 mm

‘Historical neglects’ is a relationship between forts and the communities. The thesis intends to bring about a change in which the society, government and also communities itself perceive at forts to attend their economic / social / political agendas.

The thesis aims to remodel the perception of forts as land for property / economy / development to forts (Mahim, Rewa, Worli, Sion, Sewri) as institution / housing / sacrosanct / recreational / tourism / socio-economic forms of living in the city.

Why always restoration or conservation is considered when we think about heritage buildings?

There is a need to find out a new way of looking at conservation

‘‘Claiming Urban Landscape As Public History’’

-Chapter1, The Power Of Place, Dolores Hayden

Communities earlier grew around the forts which was a sign of protection for these communities, protection/preservation/conservation can be shared/shown in both ways i.e.; it can be provided by the forts to the communities and vice versa. So, we need to establish a balance between preserved heritage to life and livelihood of a community which is deeply rooted to the context and which would also weigh more.

Can there be a way in which these two ideas co-exist where the community is the stakeholder with some rights to exist along with responsibilities to mantain, preserve their ‘‘homes’’ (i.e. forts; Worli, Mahim, Sewri, Rewa)?

To create a win-win situation for both; the government as well as the communities To create a new lens to experience a fort (Sewri) as livelihood as well as socioeconomic form of living in the city.

Communities that have their past attached with the land and also the forts where their day-to-day activities used to happen in / around / through forts. After removal or the absence of these communities staying around the forts, forts will just become mere boxes, where these have a wide and ancient relationship with the communities. It will just deteriorate the quality of the city.

Can we not do so and give these forts a new lens of urban preservation ?

‘Historical neglects’ is a prelude to the future of forts where the settlers (Inhabitants) become a thriving community and participate in the new form of conservation of forts.

In this process, not only the forts (alienated object) will receive its significance back, a better upkeep and maintainence but also the communities will become a thriving community with new opportunities and larger participation in the growth and development of the city.

‘‘An aesthetic of urban design must be rooted in the normal processes of nature and living’’

Everyday Life of an individual _ British Period, Post Reclamation 1845 - 1947 AD

Towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society, unless these people share a common pattern language within which to make these buildings and unless this common pattern language is alive itself.

We can use it to work with your neighbours to improve your town and neighbourhood. You can use it to design a house for yourself, with your family, or to work with other people, to design an office or workshop or a public building like a school.

- A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander

These twelve sketches show patterns that shall take you through a few day to day activities of a person belonging to a particular community and how they dealt with forts, oceans and land in early times.

Forts were used for keeping an eye on the oceans and also dealt with trade. Forts then in a person’s mind were like a guardian to them, where in daily meandering patterns, forts always left presence in their lifes. Forts, temples, churches, dargah, hills, agricultural land, homes, oceans, hills were the most integral parts of their lifes.

Sewri

Sion Farms

Sewri

Sewri

Sewri

Mahim

Sewri

Worli

Nature & Fort _ Mayem, Ancient Period Nature, Fort & Settlements _ Mayem Fort, 15th Century

Addition of a Custom Office _ Mahim Fort, 18th Century

Loss of the Fort _ Mahim Fort, 20th Century

on rice paper

Islamic Period - Colonialism

Lots of things have changed in this region. Since, the Kolis worshipped land, no harm was done to the land, mangroves, wetlands but migrants were observed over here. New temples, dargah, mosques, church had come up. Muslim community grew near mosques, a gaothan and a cemetery came in front of it. This led to the increase in farmlands, less number of trees but an enhanced movement pattern.

Colonialism - Post Reclamation

Industralisation led to construction of mills, factories and increased migrants. Now Sewri falls on just one side of the water front, rest have gotten filled; railway line connecting Sewri station to Thane was laid. Farmlands now belong only to the Kolis where rest are all occupied by mills, BDD chawls and settlements.

Conclusion :

Life in a hamlet Sewri Island

Life in a city Sewri

The metamorphological study of land through historical timeline reveals that it resulted in growth of the city, which led to the insignificance or the loss of the forts’ value, which inturn affected the livelihood of the original inhabitants (Kolis) who had an ancient relationship with land as well as forts as the fort used to control the day to day activity of the community. The growth of the city which used to happen because of these communities where their activities were directly asscociated to the identity of the forts. In the current scenario, there’s a loss and insignificance of communities is also observed, where forts and communities can be brought together to preserve each other.

Temple

Verandah

Harbour Line

Nature & Settlements _ Worli, Ancient Period Fort & Settlements _ Worli Fort, 1675 Growth & Addition of a gym _ Worli Fort, 20th Century

A New Viewpoint _ Worli Fort, 2009

Our Lady of Fatima

Water-tank

Sewri Cemetery

Auliya Masjid

Masjid-ERabbani

Datta Mandir Sewri Station

To BDD Chawls

Sewri Koliwada

Wire Industries

Farmlands

Water tank

To Flamingo

West West

Bandra Reclamation

Worli Fort Worli Gaon

Western Railway Castella Aguada Mayem Fort Mahim Causeway

Graphite + colour pencils on rice paper | 450mm x 250 mm |

Graphite + colour pencils on rice paper | 450mm x 250 mm |

Islamic Period - Portuguese Period

Lots of things have changed in this region. Since, the Kolis worshipped land, no harm was done to the land, mangroves, wetlands but migrants were observed over here. New temples, dargah, mosques, church had come up. Muslim community grew near mosques, a gaothan and a cemetery came in front of it. This led to the increase in farmlands, less number of trees but an enhanced movement pattern.

Life in a hamlet Sewri Island

British Period - Post Reclamation

Industralisation led to construction of mills, factories and increased migrants. Now Sewri falls on just one side of the water front, rest have gotten filled; railway line connecting Sewri station to Thane was laid. Farmlands now belong only to the Kolis where rest are all occupied by mills, BDD chawls and settlements.

Jalal Shah Baba Dargha

Sewri hill Migratory Birds

Trombay hill Oil Refineries

Rotring ink on mylar, 420 mm x 300 mm Rotring ink on mylar, 420 mm x 300 mm

Now no farmlands exist in the Koliwada and is replaced by Sewri Koli Samaj C.H.S. Most of the mill lands are not functional while all of the Sewri east except Sewri Koliwada is under MPT which are Bharat petroleum oil refineries. Flamingos come in the wetland area from October for six months since 1995 and one flamingo point is used for ship breaking. The movement pattern which was constant in all the other maps is now absent.

Graphite + Ink on rice paper Each | 150mm x 150 mm

Graphite + Ink on cartridge paper 420 mm x 300 mm

Ink on cartridge paper 210 mm x 150 mm Ink on cartridge paper

x 150 mm

The non functional building to the north of the fort, which was a Colgate factory 20 years back would now be used as a Fisheries Institute. The local fishermen could learn new techniques of fishing as the fishing and the ecological conditions are not the same as it were before. The city has two fisheries institutes, both at two extreme ends, so its imperative to have one at the centre of the city that is easily accessible.

The existing building has a structural grid of 4m x 4m. The building will be retrofitted in modules of functions necessary for the institute. In this way the functions could also be changed with the changing ecological state around.

Creating market space underground

Allowing light by having the access to the south

Creating multiple voids to allow south west wind to flow

Giving a setback to allow public functions to happen on the ground floor

Retaining south toilets

Green wall for south facade

Respecting the existing Fort’s height

Stacking elevated volumes at the south blocking rest of the building

Creating set backs from the existing framework to allow plantations to grow

3D drafting : SketchUp Each | 300 mm x 200 mm

Pavilion 4 Sufi Club

Fisheries Institute

Restoration of non functional colgate factory

Pavilion 1 Entrance

Pavilion 2 Theatre

Conceptual section Fisheries Institute

A

C B A

C

Plugging in capsules: Hand sketch Graphite on cartridge 200 mm x 150 mm

Graphite on cartridge : Hand sketch Each | 200 mm x 150 mm

Graphite on cartridge : Hand sketch Each | 100 mm x 70 mm

Graphite on cartridge : Hand sketch All 3 details | 200 mm x 150 mm

The Fisheries Institute also houses some ancillary functions like; fish market, information centre for tourists, department that looks at the flamingo festival, activity area for both the institute and flamingo festival dept. Labs for scientists to research and look at the photo remediation or polishing ponds; ecology department to study the changing wetland and it effects on the occupation of fishing.

2. Theatre

1.Entrance

4. Sufi Club

3. Archival

Fisheries Institute

To Wetland Park

Constructed Wetlands

Reed Beds

i feel loved / ‘conserved’ around these kids. They have kept me alive in a way. Let me die and reincarnate peacefully with them and their culture; not with lime mortar and new bricks.

i am back !!! ain’t dying now

Why do you feel so?

this new wetland has helped i believe ... now i feel i might grow on this new fit out fisheries institute.

it’s our time ‘‘conserve’’ nature we step up and our carbon / emission that term elitists coined.

i ask why shut it completely

Sufi Maestro ghost looking at his kids practicing the way he had imagined.

Aahh!!

buddy...to remaining have...to and reduce footprint whatever elitists have reduce?!! down no?!!!

Sewri Flamingo Festival is thriving these days...

Whoa...i guess from now on, all my mingo friends can fly down to Sewri every winters...yayyy!!!

The crane that used to be part of the ship breaking activities, now helps to lift up and add the new fit out containers or volumes in the fisheries institute as it is growing every year.

Also, at times, is seen protesting against the new upcoming route that links up the Raigad and Bombay districts.

This times while protesting, it didnt realise the water levels are back to normal and subconciously just entered the old protest ground ... all thanks to growth in the number of healthy mangroves.

I Theoppose NHAVA SEVA Bridge

What a disaster it’d be if it’s up !!!

project

YASSS!! You go crane

These cranes and soft activists would never let me concentrate on the match :/

1.3 | The Hive _ Pune

Winner | June 2020

Sustainable Co Working Place, City Level _ Pune, Maharashtra, India

Professional work _ The Busride Design Studio

2019-2020 (Aug-Feb) _ Completed

Pune, Maharashtra

Architectural Design _ Restoration

Architects _ Zameer Basrai + Varun G. + Chetana K. + Jinal W. + Asawari Bhagwat + Piyush Pahuja + Aniket Surve

Role _ GFC Drawings, Structural and Site co-ordination

Web _ https://www.hiveworkspaces.com/coworking-space-in-pune

Clients _ XPANDR Ventures India Pvt. Ltd.

A co-working space at Pune. Established at the revamped ‘Mills’ in Pune’s CBD, The Hive at The Mills offers 1,000 seats of premium workspaces. The major task at our hands was to complete the construction in 3 months which we, fortunately, managed to complete. Concept and development plus construction in total took around one and a half year. This project recently won a sustainable co-working space award.

Aligned to bottom of the existing roof

Changes as per roof bottom lvl.

Aligned to L - angles of the existing truss

RCP hanging members for MEP

Anodised aluminium strip bolted to the L angle to hold the polycarbonate sheet

L angles welded to create polycarbonate frame

Elevation A Polycarb. drawing

Elevation B

Framing drawing

Elevation B Polycarb. drawing

10mm THK multiwall polycarbonate sheet as per specification provided

L angles welded to create polycarbonate frame

Anodised aluminium strip bolted to the L angle to hold the polycarbonate sheet

6mm THK multiwall polycarbonate sheet as per specification provided

100X200X4 RHS beam

The tasks at my hands were to coordinate and find design solutions with the structural engineer which majorly involved designing the scaffolds for art installations, ferris wheel, the amphitheatre, trapezoidal roofs at meeting rooms and the huge polycarb partition walls. 100

100X100X4 SHS column

JEB partition as per specification

Titanic

Marine MDF packing around purlins

seater workspace

Ferris wheel - Informal meeting space Cafe at the main entrance

Site images clicked by Varun G. | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Site images clicked by Varun G. | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Sangolda Twins_Goa

Professional work _ The Busride Design Studio

2019 - 2020 (Sept-Aug)_ Completed

Sangolda, Goa

Architectural + Landscape Design

Architects _ Zameer Basrai + Jaideep Mulye + Aniket Surve

Role _ GFC Drawings + Site execution + Landscape Design

Clients _ Sharon D’mello + Pankaj K.

The clients had an old ruin-like house in dilapidated condition already there on site. We were keen on keeping the walls and constructing on it. But since the clients wanted us to completely remove the house, we had to respect their demands and thought about atleast playing with idea of ruins

The basic idea of the project was to keep the villas contextually relatable hence the villas give a sense of modern heritage fit into a ruin.

Both the villas were partially erect when I was handed over the project, my job majorly involved designing the interiors & landscape and assuring the final work on site goes smoothly. One of the villas is completely ready now and only the landscape needs to be finished.

Lounge

The outdoor dining requires a barbecue station where integration of planters and informal seating becomes logical. This addition would allow plants to climb on the pergola.

Flower Garden

The experience would be such that each plant is visible and at the same time all plants come at the eye level. Hence the idea of stepping earth such that the tallest plant goes at the end and short plants come right in front of a person.

A place that overpowers ones presence still being cozy and comforting to the person is a forest. One loves to sit in such place that creates a pause in time.

It’s a place where one would lounge around in foreground of flowers.

An integrated landscape of all the experiences creating a movement pattern.

Observing herbs or flowers is an activity one really enjoys and it also helps in mellowing the mood.

Birds in search for nectar/food are always attracted to such plants making a keen observer’s experience more fun.

To create such experience, all such plants need to be at human level, hence the ground is taken down creating a passageway through it.

Herb Garden

Bamboo Forest

Planting Drawing Graphite on rice paper 450mm x 300 mm

Villa 1

Villa 2

paper + Photoshop|

Trees_Fruits

3. Built in barbecue station with planters allows the plants to grow onto the pergola creating a filter/ shade for the outdoor dining area.

The service entry is left as it is since this area would be less accessed. Vegetable or fruit bearing plants would be planted around the perimeter of this area so that the space remains covered from the outside and also cause it is easily accessible from the kitchen.

Short Herb Plants

Tall Grasses

Short Grasses

Tall Flowering Plants

Short Flowering Plants

Tall Herb Plants

Short Herb Plants

Lawn

Charu Path

Paving Water Body

Creepers/ Climbers

Fruits or vegetable trees

Short Herb Plants

Vines_Fruits

2. The ramp going down and later ascending up between the planting and the pool creates a pleasant journey as the heights of the plants also descend and then ascend as one moves through it.

The heights of the plants also descend and then ascend as one moves through the ramp creating a pleasant journey.

Planting DrawingPhotoshop | 450mm x

Tall Flowering Plants

2.

A. Seating

B. Boulder Pathway

C. Built-in barbecue + planting + seating

D. Swing

Tall Grasses

Bambusa Balcooa

Short Grasses

Saccharum Spontaneum Agave

Plumeria

Artocarpus Beterophyllus

Mangifera Indica

Solanum Lycopersicum

Musa Balbisiana

Rauwolfia Serpentina

Nelumbo Nucifera

Tall Herb Plants

Plumbago zeylanica

Plumbago indica

The perimeter wall has vegetable and fruit plants as it creates a path to the kitchen and becomes easily accessible.

3.

1. The entrance has a huge bamboo grove fencing a seating tucked inside it and champa tree; which makes the tree a focal point to the movement pattern in the landscape.

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5. The herb garden ascends from the seating which creates a buffer from the parking area.

The seating is surrounded by short shrubs with a creeper jali in the backdrop.

4. The area is left open creating a private play area.

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4. The outdoor bathing area needs to be covered with creepers so that it is well covered from the outside.

5. 5. The outdoor dining area has a barbecue area with an in-built seating and the ascending flowering garden in the backdrop.

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3. The taller herbs are in circular form surrounded by short herb plants along side a gradually ramp.

2. The huge bamboo grove creates a semiopen cage around the seating with a lotus pond in front of it.

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1. The entrance is stagered such that the pool becomes the centre as you enter with a sculpture in the overflow area and the flower garden in the backdrop.

1.

Heliconia Rostrata Lycoris Radiata

Short Flowering Plant

Amica Rosa Bracteatae

Tall Flowering Shrubs

x 300 mm

View of seating nooks from Villa 2

Autocad | 1:100, 420mm x 75 mm

SketchUp +Photo montage on Site image | 420mm x 300 mm

Dining Area_Villa 1

Stairway to 1st Floor_Villa 1

Site images clicked by author | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Site images clicked by author | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Entry way to the Porch above the Lotus pond_Villa

1.5 | Udyaan Pravaha_Ahmedabad

Professional work _ M/s Prabhakar B. Bhagwat

2019 (Jan-May)_ Completed

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Landscape Design

Architects _ Vinay Kushwah + Miloni Mody + Aniket Surve

Role _ GFC Drawings + Site execution

Pro-bono Project

Parks worked on :

Nikol Park_D-Mart

Sindhu Bhavan Park

Ranip Park

Badshah Villa Park_Thaltej

Swati Bungalow

Kids Park_Sabarmati Society

SAND PIT FOR KIDS PLAY AREA

1. GARDEN ENTRY

2. MAP/ SPACE FOR SIGNAGE

3. ENTRANCE PLAZA OF LARGE SPECIMEN TREES

4. 2.50 MT. WIDE WALKWAY IN CHARU

5. MAIDAN

6. TREE GROVE IN CHARU

7. BENCH

8. PLANTING

9. HEDGE COURT

10. TREE PIT

11. PLAY COURT IN SANDPIT

12. GARDEN SHED

13. RECHARGE WATER WELL

14. HOLDING AREA

deep Charu

115mm thk. Charu 20mm thk. Stonecrete

10mm thk. Mortar

115mm thk. Masonry

230mm thk. Masonry Good soil for Planting

A pro bono project where we worked on reviving the open spaces of Ahmedabad and turning them into public gardens. The vision of this project is to at least transform 100 such places in the city and we have already completed more than 10 gardens there now. Since it is a pro bono project, we had to quickly design the gardens keeping in mind these should be kids friendly and also functional for senior citizens at the same time and construct them using cheap but good quality materials.

PLANTING + SWALE

PLANTING + SWALE

PLANTING + SWALE

CHARU WALKWAY CHARU WALKWAY

CHARU WALKWAY

CHARU WALKWAY

Sandpit alongside Charu

100mm

100mm deep Charu

300mm deep Sandpit Compact Earth Compact Earth

Masonry in Stonecrete finish 100mm thk. Metalling

100mm thk. Metalling

ENTRANCE PLAZA IN STONE CRETE

PLANTING

SANDPIT

PLANTING SIGNAGE WALL Section CC

Brickwork holding Charu

AutoCad drafting All drawings on a single sheet | 840 mm x 600 mm

1. Entrance Ramp

2. Charu trail + Green trellis

3. Swale behind seating

Site images clicked by photograher Shilpa Gavane | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Site images clicked by photograher Shilpa Gavane | 1024 pi x 768 pi

Site images clicked by photograher Shilpa Gavane | 1024 pi x 768 pi

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1.

2.

Sindhu Bhavan Park

Site images

clicked by photograher Shilpa Gavane | 1024 pi x 768 pi

2.1 | Kapoor House _Juhu

Professional work _ The Busride Design Studio

2019-2021 (Dec - Feb)_Ongoing

Juhu, Mumbai

Architectural Design Architects _ Zameer Basrai + Shivanghi A. + Varun G. + Aniket Surve

Role _ Lead Architect - Concept + Design Resolution Clients _ Kapoors

We started designing part wall sections as per a few major functions and then implement them on the whole structure. Since, vastu was the prime concern, we got at alloting fuctions on a basic layout format which would create voids and interstitial spaces or become interactive as per the wall sections & vastu. The building is divided into four villas, so that such spaces become achievable.

The clients have finalised the outer look of the building but the layouts need a little fix, so now we have brought in all the consultants who would help us to finalise the layouts as well.

Jalis _ Verandahs

Wall Sections _Kit of parts

Slide & Fold _ Bedrooms

Slide & Fold _ Bedrooms

Fixed Marble _ Toilets

Fixed Marble _ Toilets

Double ht. _ Living/Bedrooms

Louvered Panels _ Living/Bedrooms

Jalis _ Bedrooms

Louvered Panels _ Living/Bedrooms

Louvers _ Study/Bedrooms

Louvered Panels _ Living/Study/Bedrooms

SketchUp + Hand sketch Graphite on cartridge Each | 150 mm x 150 mm

A G+8 home for a single-family at Juhu. The brief is quite simple, the clients’ want a sober tropical house that keeps them away from the outside. A few elements that would create such vibes:

+ 35.0 m

Lounges_Public Fn.

Pool + Bar

Materials : Acrylic, grey board, file card 1:50 | 1200mm x 600mm x 60 mm

Antique/Modern Connectedness

Transparency

Tropical/ Calming/ Intimate Verandahs

White; but the major task for us was to keep the spaces interactive since it is G+8 structure for a single-family and it shouldn’t happen that people from the same house would rarely see each other.

Also, the clients have a collection of antique architectural elements which they plan to use for the new structure, hence Geoffrey Bawa (tropical & antique) was always at the back of their minds.

Dining room

Living room

Bedrooms_Private Fn.

Den + Gym

Son’s Bedroom

Bedrooms_Private Fn.

Daughters’ Bedroom

Family room

Master Bedroom

Staff_Public Fn.

Office

Reception Lobby + 4.2 m

Male staff quarters

Panditji’s room

Automated Parking

Rainwater Collection tank

Final Design derived after applying DCPR rules

Slender Arch

Verandahs - Design Development

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1. Security Cabin _ 2.24 SQ.M ~ 24.11 SQ.FT.

2. Car Lift _ 31.6 SQ.M ~ 340 SQ.FT.

3. Entrance Lobby _ 32.5 SQ.M ~ 350 SQ.FT.

4. Meeting Room _ 13 SQ.M ~145 SQ.FT.

5. Drop-off area

6. Guest Toilet

7. Drivers’ Toilet

8. Parking

NORTH SOUTH ROAD NO. 7

FOOTPATH

House for the DEAD

Academic work _ Year 2 _ Sem IV

Winter 2014 (Sept - Nov)

Hosang Shah’s Tomb, Mandu, India

Integrated Studio _ House Project

Faculty _ Rohan Shivkumar

This project was made on a Haiku (Chinese poem); Ungraciously, under A great soldier’s helmet, A cricket sings. which means even a small thing can irritate or create problems for the ‘big’.

The tomb of Hosang Shah is considered as the inspiration to the architect of Taj Mahal in Agra. Hence, this site was selected keeping the haiku in mind. The house here acts like a cricket & the tomb as soldier’s helmet.

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Jama masjid

Winner | 26th August 2015

INTACH Heritage Awards for Excellence in Documentation 2015

Archiving Allahabad, National Level, India

Academic work _ Year 2 _ Sem IV

Winter 2014 - 2015 (Nov - Jan)

Civil Lines, Prayagraj (Allahabad), India

Annual Study Tour _ Documentation

Documentation team _ Jay Shah + Shweta Shah + Aayushi Sejpal + Aniket Surve

Faculty _ Shirish Joshi + Rohan Shivkumar

The Public Library is situated in the centre of the Chandrashekhar Azad Park currently known as the Company garden . It was initially built in 1857 as a memorial hall and a place where important meetings were held. Being gothic is style the colonial influence can be clearly seen in the sandstone building with its gothic arches, buttresses, and gargoyles. This highly ornamental building consist of an entrance , a tall turret and the main hall, currently used as library and archive space. The main building is a triple height space with huge arches as tall as 9m and a wooden pitched roof above that.

Construction model fly ash, P.O.P., balsa _

relief model of Allahabad

Exploded Axo | Rotring ink on mylar, 1200 mm x 750 mm

This project helped us improve our hands on skills and also understand how bamboo reacts to tension as well as compression.

The cantilever had a step formation that allowed a person to climb on it. It was a 9m long cantilever. Since, the primary material bamboo being poor in tension, nylon strings were tied at both the ends allowing the cantilever to stay in its form. The structure’s triangular form allowed it to take upto 45kg of weight.

Construction materials bamboo, jute, nylon strings

4.1 | The War Machine

Catapult | Winners | October 2013

Academic work _ Year 1 _ Sem I

Monsoon 2013 (July - Sept)

KRVIA, Mumbai

Building Technology

Offence Team _ Lorenzo F + Aditya J. + Jash V. + Varun B. + Devanshi S. + Manish C. + Aniket S.

Faculty _ Kaushik Mukhopadhyay + Jerry George + Apurv Parekh + Prachi P. + Vinita

The studio aimed at student engagement with natural materials like bamboo, jute and also engineered wood; and applying them in fun innovative way .

This machine works on a handle that is rotated manually at intervals which in turn releases the strings held in tension allowing the balls placed in the strings to take a projectile path at greater velocity.

Construction materials bamboo, jute, engineered wood, elastic cloth, pvc pipes L - 5800 mm x H - 1900 mm x W - 1100 mm

4.2 | Cantilever

Winners | April 2014

Academic work _ Year 1 _ Sem II

Winter 2013 (Jan - Mar)

KRVIA, Mumbai

Building Technology

Team _ Danay K. + Orko R. + Amod N. + Varun B. + Aakanksha S. + Shaina R. + Aniket S.

Faculty _ Kaushik Mukhopadhyay + Jerry George + Apurv Parekh + Hussain Indorewala + Prachi P. + Vinita