SELECTED WORKS 2022

HELLO.

My name is Anjan, I am a gradudate from at the School of Environment and Architecture.

I am always in the process of unlearning and learning new sides of architecture through various programs and to learn innovative methods to communicate my ideas, improvising my design and visualisation skills. I tend to dwell into a problem solving psyche and find different ways of deconstructing the given situation and come up with a suitable solution.

PERSONAL INFO

Anjan Kudtarkar

Contact: +919969211300 Email id: design.anjan@gmail.com

DOB: 16th March 2000

Languages: English | Hindi | Marathi Mumbai: 400034

EDUCATION

| St Xavier’s High School, Fort

| KC College, Churchgate

| Jai Hind College, Churchgate

| School of Environment and Architecture(SEA)

SKILLS

CAD 3D MODELLING RENDERING ADOBE UI/UX GIS

Autocad | Archicad Rhinoceros 3D | Grasshopper | Autodesk Revit | Sketch Up | Blender Lumion | V-Ray | KeyShot | Blender Illustrator | Photoshop | Indesign | After Effects | Premiere Pro Figma | Canva | Illustrator QGIS Drafting | Model Making | Photography | Basic masonry and carpentry

HOBBIES

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SELECTED PROJECTS

Calvim House Abode by the river

Urban Heritigization Abode by the river

Urban (Re)use Abode by the river

Of Transition Abode by the river

Twisted Duo Abode by the river

Leisure + Work Abode by the river

Blurred Edges Abode by the river

Talatal Ghar Abode by the river

Buhari Abode by the river

Abode by the river

CALVIM

BY THE RIVER

URBAN HERITIGIZATION

TYPE:

SITE:

Heritage is a fundamental piece of a city’s life and it incorporates all that the past age acquired to today’s generation, which ought to be esteemed and regarded. It associates individuals to the historical backdrop of the city through recollections. The city comprises both the past and the present with the consistent arrangement of movements, the aggregate, fortitudes, clashes and strains that help the process of making a memory. There is a mnemonic link created among architecture and memory through one’s relationship with space, and the contrast between the tenses appears to fall when such connections are set up. Individuals’ insight and sympathy for images are critical to reviewing relics of the past, to explain the collective nature of time, unique relationships with the space; all this support the solid interdependency of memory and architecture. Memory is the product of our body’s perception of physical space.

The thesis talks about one such neighbourhood, the city of Bombay and the urban conservation movement which started in the 90s. With advancing urban conservation, various alternative histories have been written and interpreted. The intent is to expand the scope of heritage identification and articulate an alternate framework for history based on memories that lead to its conservation. This argument goes beyond the glorification of the past. It engages in critical dialogue with the contributions of Aldo Rossi, Kevin Lynch, David Harvey, Juhani Pallasmaa to the study of memory, as well as the works of Dwivedi and Mehrotra (1994) to the urban heritage movement. Addressing these urban memories on accounts of comprehensive visual and textual narratives and stories, it claims that memory actualization takes three forms: (i) to practice (ii) to move iii) to regulate, which finally contributes to space conservation.

Further, it investigates the possibility that heritage can be reimagined through the three emerged tropes. Heritage is a vital instrument for mobilizing communities, distorting the existing network, and criticizing social structures principally synergized by memory. It also helps reimagine the process of a narrative generation of the space and urges the people to be spatially dynamic in arranging their current scenarios. Moreover, it is the heritage that conserves the memory of the space in the form of historical records like stories, myths and anecdotes.

Spatial Dimension Experiences

Act of Mimicing

Conservation

Artifacts

Heritage

Regulations

History

Memory

NarrativesStory Events Movements Physical

Recollecting Remembering Comparing Objects Practices

Culture Colletive Important Identity

Away from Idetification

Actualization Commonality

Public detach ment

Act Of Remembering

Our perception of the present is heavily influenced by our past knowledge and how we recall it. To understand the correlation between memory and the built environment, the concept of memory and its creation must first be ad dressed. Memory is neither a static archive that records and saves information nor does it have the ability to store information in a linear structure. Memory, on the other hand, is always a reconstruction of the past based on genuine, real concerns and purpose in the present. The

of remembrance and the construction of collective memory

experience is uncontrollable; it represents

about the needs of people, people of many religions, practices, and economic groups to es tablish

If the market is like a market, then it is right. No match of residence and everything works for you. I got to know about this place through a network Earlier there was a printing shop, and before that it was a godown. The owner was not willing to sell, so rented to different people. I had to adapt to the space and reuse it. The shop was on the ground floor, and my business is of cyber cafe, what more could I ask for? The account is simple, boss, both are benefiting, so who will refuse

Why this road? Who would take the long route and go around GPO in the morning. Right in the beginning you would see jain community people going to worship barefoot in the Jain temple. But you would see a huge gathering of crowd at Yeole Tea shop (landmark). As soon as I reach there I understand that I am halfway through. By far I think this watch shop and that mattress maker are the oldest. The hustle and bustle of people returned as soon as the lockdown was lifted.

The shop is there now. Tea has been around for a long time. One chakkar (round) in every lane and easy income. People will not stop drinking tea even if there is a lockdown. I’ve been doing this since 1951 but now we have a tapri (Tea stall) in every street. If I would have left the city earlier, then I would not have got this ready-made market (which is supported by settings).

As soon as you enter the lane, take the first right. This right brings you to a corner where you may find many people gathered around a snack corner having their first meal of the day. Earlier he used to come on a cycle but now he has a proper shop. If you ever pass by here in the night, you won’t find anything on the street, everything would have been kept folded whereas the next day, the shop would be set up well before time. This node was not so active until this shop came.

There used to be a paper market, now tell me where is it visible? That community has gone out and maybe something is going on in the Crawford market. Whatever is left here is very old and because it is old it is still running. Later the market modified itself during these time and thus these business are still alive as a memory marker Otherwise if there is no struggle in Bombay then what is Bombay?

URBAN (RE)USE

Neighbourhood is understood in a negative term. Industrialization of bombay , the area also got know as a place from where the underground emerge. The kamthi settlement in the precinct too had a wide influence over the house as it demanded care spaces for sex workers children in the night. Due to presence of sports grounds and courts the sports was too flourishing and the building took a form of an institution. Writers and film directors seek a different type of architectural language in the precinct. The idea of

care too was induced with the emerging context of hospitals and health infrastructures. The kothas too demanded performances spaces which used to conflicts with the religious institution and thus introduced and open theatre ground with jharokas as viewing galleries. All these spatial clues were taken forward in speculating the new emerging form of the niehgbourhood house which responds to the historical and well as present condition and ambitions.

Due to disintergrated economy the building started comparmenentalising and fissuring into many different segments. Majorly around 60 percent of that to be of residential spaces which were spilling into other programmatic spaces and dispersing the spatiality of the builtform. The building was folding and extending in the form of large halls and sections. The intent was to connect all these spaces centrally to a circulation core and and each programs branching out from it. The form was imagined as three towers emerging from the public spaces below and derive a new typology. The plan shows the two major roads connecting and making the building porous which allows the people to spill into the public programs on the ground floor. Similarly art gallery and sport learning centre was planned on the floors above. With respect to the acoustics, the library and the administration block accomodated two tower on the lower floors. And the top floor was connected and imagined as a multipurpose th

Since the building was negotiated with large spaces into smaller segments it was overlooked with its sectional nature. The form emerged of the neighbourhood house was as a shed for exchanging a culture and art. And thus started carving out sectional niches and extensions in the building as a form of strengthening the existing structural system which can be a form of parasitic element. Thus one large connected roof was imagined as a shed for the building with light wells carved out. The structural system of the roof was supported by tension cables and cantilever beams counter balancing the spans. The roof was supported by cables The open, glazed surfaces of the roof, folds and extends to regulate the light and enable or restrict the view.

OF TRANSITION

AN INTERPRETATION CENTRE

TYPE: EDUCATIONAL WORKS SITE: VIHAR LAKE, MUMBAI SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

AMBIGOUS

SPACE

STRENGTHDIVERSE CULTURE

CONCERNS RESOURCES

INTERATION BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY

WEAKNESSINTERACTION, EXPOSURE

SKILL EXCHANGE

HORTICULTURE

POSSIBLE

THREATTHRIVE FOR ITS IDENTITY, GROUPISM

MARKET OPPORTUNITY

URBAN

COMMUNITY

‘Transition Spaces’ are commonly referred to as bridge or transition between two spaces. The constant transition happening through these three settlement has changed their lifestlye in all means and the settlement has developed into a space for these individual community. The provocation is about how a space which can bridge these three settlement not only in physical form but breaking that psychological threshold by doing so. Physical conditions of the environment, cultural pattern, and climate can help in shaping these spaces. This space can be a series of episodes or juxtaposition of never ending transition.

The form is developed from understanding the various transition happening between two destinantion, static process and its relation with the nature. An individual expierence is changed with respect to each program and the transition space acts as a buffer between the two.

The idea is to develop form based on these various forms of transition spaces and utilize in the spatial configuration so that a part of it can represent the whole volume and viceversa.

During the summer

completely dry and the drains from these two

in to it.

DESTINATION

During monsoon the

from the Vihar lake and flows down the valley

the river originates, the lower level of the

too.

the

Post monsoon, the water

flows out of the

and river starts to dry out till the winters arrive.

AND BUILT FORM

Due

over flow of the

enced from

PROCESS

Collonade

Courtyard

Stepwell

Backyards

The form was based on the concept of mutual twists. Each tower has its own program; the taller tower only houses offices, while the other houses service apartments. The ground floor was made accessible to the public, and the volume was split to allow vehicles to drive through, creating a porous surface. The assembly programs are located on six podium floors, making them easily accessible from the street. The podium’s first floor connects to the metro station plaza, which is right next to the actual site. It opens up to 6m high foyer spaces that lead to a semi-open food court.The other floors of the podium consist of public programs like an art gallery, library and theatres.

tower mime hatched floors

circumventing towers

circular cantilever

The structural system consists primarily of a single central core complemented by an exterior casing system in which round hollow steel sections with concrete in-filled columns are placed 10m apart, following the curved form of the building and tied with peripheral beams to create a slender appearance. The core to floor area ratio is 1:4 for terraces and extension. The external casing and central cores are linked by castellated I-section beams of 1m depth, which also serve as passageways for services. The building’s facade is made up of double glazing units with automatic louvres installed inside that function according to the direction of the sun

WORK

TYPE:

MYSURU,

WORKS

IT Firms

Vegetable Market

Band of open spaces formed in a linear manner around the periphery of the site

Residential Apartments + Duplex

IT Startups

Linear spatial arrangement of the existing houses

Yoga Shaala

Restaurants

Series of paraallel streets

Main road parallel to the site

The project is about reimaginig the housing typologies in the current rental accomodation in second city like Mysuru.

It has varied demographic but mainly focused on IT rental and Investment housing typology as there is emergence in IT sector of Mysuru. It imagines a type of housing in covid time where work from home scenario comes to play and how is home defined in work and live relationship.

In addition to this exisiting query, how does leisure becomes an integral part of the apartment types of IT workers. The key design elements is too bleed the garden into the site and work with the park edge condition of the site. The larger site strategy involes introducing mounds and forming a massing strategy around it throuh bridges and spliitting the mass in order to enhance the movement across the site. The mounds are the informal spaces and the formal housing was developed around it by investigating each user catergorie and how leisure and work at such vivid scale where such different units types try to negitate with each other.

In the end the amenities are of much important in such gated communites and the informal nature of the mounds is being opened to the city as well.

Housing unit

coupling

Housing unit

Group

BLURRED EDGES

VISUALIZING THE EDGE OF WATER AND LAND

TYPE: RESEARCH

SITE: WEST VIHAR, MUMBAI SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

The module aimed to open up the idea of visualizing the edge of water and land, the line between water and land through a study of wetness and lake precincts. At the western side of Vihar lake, the areas of study were the Vihar Udhyan, two settlements (Ultan pada and Sahi Bangoda) and a forest zone. The actors included the people at the settlement whose livelihood depended on the lake (through fishing), the wildlife, dogs, flora and specific community people. To build up the knowledge, it also required an understanding of the history of the settlements and their relationship with the lake. The map of wetness focused on the difference in the activities along the transect during summer and monsoon.

TALATAL GHAR

Sivasagar is a town located in the Sivasagar district of Assam, at the confluence of the Brahmaputra (Dibang) and Lohit rivers. The early architecture of the Ahoms seems to be built of ephemeral materials like bamboo but none of this survives today. Talatal Ghar, which literally means a house having several storeys, was one of the first structures built as a result of this activity. It is said to be a house for the functioning of the government. Another peculiar thing one notices about Talatal Ghar is the massive wall thickness. The walls, for the most part are 1.2 meters thick and become as thick as 2 meters at some places. The ASI carries the restoration work now.

BUHARI

AN OPEN VILLAGE

TYPE: RESEARCH SITE: GUJARAT

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

The main aim of the study was to identify the forces that created this type of settlement and to understand how an occupation driven society develops and coordinates internally through culture and other factors. The plan of the village brings out how the built form of a community affects the lifestyle of the people in it. The houses are linear, very long and conjoined to each other, sometimes even sharing a wall. The street becomes an extension of the house in the sense that it allows one to experience the lives of their neighbours and be part of a larger family.

COMPILATION OF WORKS

TYPE: EDUCATIONAL WORKS SITE: MUMBAI

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

Model Making

design

Photography Workshop

Dinesh Mehta

Origami And Kirigami Bobbie Vijaykkar

Anjan Kudtarkar

9969211300 Email id : design.anjan@gmail.com