Architecture Portfolio by ANJAN KUDTARKAR

PORTFOLIO ANJAN KUDTARKAR SELECTED WORKS | 2017-2020

Academic Workshops

EDUCATION 2015

St Xavierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s High School, Fort

2016

KC College, Churchgate

2017

Jai Hind College, Churchgate

Currently

HELLO. My name is Anjan, I am currently studying architecture 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 sail around the coast of Bombay while hitting some keys on the keyboard musically or to live in virtual world.

Personal Information Anjan Kudtarkar Contact: +919969211300 Email id: anjankudtarkar3@gmail.com DOB: 16th March 2000 Languages: English | Hindi | Marathi Mumbai -400034

2018 2018 2018 2018 2019 2019 2019 2020 2020

School of Environment and Architecture(SEA)

SKILLS Autocad Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper Autodesk Revit Sketch Up Pro Lumion V-Ray Twin Motion

SEA Press Publications(Studio Collaborations) 2017 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2019 2019 2019 2020

Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe After Effects Hand Drafting Model Making Photography Basic masonry and carpentry

Hobbies An Dinghy class Optimist Sailor Piano Guitar Music Compostion Gamer

CONTENTS

LEISURE +WORK HOUSING

ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION

TWISTED DUO

Academic Work 2020

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION + DETAILING

COLLABORATIONS

MISCELLANEOUS

Academic Work 2019

Academic Work 2017-2019

Academic Work 2017-2020

01. Leisure + Work Housing 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.

02. Architecture of Transition â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Transition Spacesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

TRANSITION SPACE SPACE A

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 vice-versa.

RIVER AND ITS EXTENT:

Stepwell

Terraces

Collanade

Corridors

STATIC DESTINATION

COLLECTIVE SPACE AMBIGOUS SPACE

NATURE AND BUILT FORM

TRANSITIONAL ELEMENTS: SPACE B

FORMS AND ITERATION:

FILTERPADA

SUMMERS

During the summer the river is completely dry and the drains from these two settlement flows in to it. FILTERPADA

STEPWELL

MITHI RIVER OVERFLOWING INTO THE SETTLEMENT

TERRACE ACT AS BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO VOLUMES

MONSOON

During monsoon the water overflows from the Vihar lake and flows down the valley where the river originates, the lower level of the Filterpada is flooded and the water overflows the the reinforced wall too. FILTERPADA

Due to over flow of the river the region, the structure can be on stilts, thus the volume is experienced from all the sides

CONSTRUCTION OF A WALL TO PREVENT THE RIVER FROM OVERFLOWING

WINTER

Post monsoon, the water gadually flows out of the settlement and river starts to dry out till the winters arrive.

THE ROOF, THE FLOOR, THE GROUND, ALL THE SAME

LIBRARY AND DISPLAY CENTRE

DINING AND KITCHEN AREA

MARKET SQUARE

03. Twisted Duo The form was inspired by a concept of mutual twists. Each tower has its own program - the taller tower is used only for office spaces and the other is used for service apartments. The ground floor was opened to the public and the volume was split to allow vehicles to drive through, making it porous. The assembly programs are located on 6 podium floors so that the people can easily access it from the roadside. The first floor of the podium is connected to the metro station plaza which is just beside the actual site. It opens up to 6m high foyer spaces which connect them to the semi-open food court. The other floors of the podium consist of public programs like an art gallery, library and theatres. The kidney shaped core is also derived from an organic form. The core to floor area ratio is 1:4 which allows the office spaces to have long corridors and extended terraces. The structural system of the tower mainly consists of a one central core complemented by a casing system on the exterior, where 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 look. The external casing and central cores are connected by castellated I-section beams of 1m depth which are also used for services to pass through. The facade of the building is covered with double glazing units with automatic louvers fitted inside, which function according to the direction of sun.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION AAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

04. Architectural Representation and Detailings “It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it is the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” -David Allan Coe The construction drawing opened up a to the dimension of intricate detailing and to trigger the thinking process behind making the building function. The drawings made may have a certain purpose but the challenge was to reporesent in such a manner wheres your thought process is also being portrayed. The representation is required because it tells a lot about the nature of various materials, its limitations and experience. The services plays a bigger role in functioning of the building and how it negotaties with the design and form one system altogether. This is a project of a Co-Living Space where the intent was to utilise less resources and to find various ways to harvest natural resources. Water beds are points where rain water was being collected during the monsoons and unbaked bricks were used in order to reduce the embodied energy of the project. You see more things. God is in the details.” – Mies van der Rohe

EXTERNAL WALL SECTION

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

TYPICAL TOILET PLAN

SECTION AA’

SECTION BB’

SECTION AAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

DOOR 1

DOOR 2

05. Studio Collaboration Buhari: An Open Village The main aim of the study was to identify the forces that created this type of settlement. It was important to understand how an occupation driven society develops and coordinates internally through culture and other factors. The process involved the documentation of each and every house, the environment around it, social spaces and the roads in the village. The plan of the village is very interesting because it 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.

05. Studio Collaborations West Vihar The module aimed to open up the idea of visualizing the edge of water and land, the line between water and land throughCa study of wetness O and lake precincts.

M At the western side M of Vihar lake, the areas of study were the Vihar UdU S hyan, two settlements N T (Ultan pada and Sahi Bangoda) and a forest I O the peozone. The actors included T Rwhose liveliple at the settlement hood depended Y on Ithe lake (through fishing), the wildlife, dogs, flora and E specific community people. To build up the knowledge, itS 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.

V I H A R

W E S T

Sangeeta Kolekar is married in the village of Ultanpada. She joined the Adivasi Seva mandal as the only woman member of the committee. She then realized that womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participation was equally necessary and therefore decided to educate women about the importance of voicing their opinions. While seeing the condition of children in the village, where teenage boys take up housekeeping jobs and girls give up studying and take care of household chores, she thought of educating children. With the help of an NGO, she provides education to children for free

The above narrative shows the proximity of all the amenities near the settlement. Where amenities like hospital, English medium school, and college are approximately 1 hour far by walk. Whereas it takes approx 10-15 mins to reach Marathi medium school and Royal palm hotels. Even before going for these amenities approx 15 mins is taken by each villager to come out of the village.

The warli tribe is one of the first settlers in th Due to this link, their major occupation is fa obtain their everyday essentials from the for wooden logs, fruits, flowers to make garland etc. While the men are away at work, wome daily household activities as well as make g gossiping with other women. After finishing men generally frequent the Parsi land where to have lunch. They also consume alcohol t forbidden to drink in the village vicinity. Duri girls travel to the nearest market at filter pad gathered fruits along with the garlands.

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The Kohli family is the one which stays very close to the Vihar lake. Most of the time the men do fishing and then they later sell all fishes in the filter pada market. While the children spend most of their time playing near the lake. They go swimming in a small pond which is located near the start of the Mithi river or they just hang out and play various games near the embankment. At the same time, women of the house and some relatives are helping out to make a new brick house for themselves which is fully furnished with tiles and have various rooms and kitchen as opposed to their old earthen plastered brick house which only consists of a single room.

Leopard is a God of a tribal community known as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Waghobaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Many leopards from the national park were moved out in the nearby forest as they were not able to feed them. In search of food leopards go into the small villages near those forests, where leopards eat humans and some animals. Even though they sometimes hurt the villagers and their animals, they think that the leopards protect their forest and houses and it is their right to hunt for their needs. This tribe worships these leopards and hence do not harm them in any way possible.

Since the past 20 years, the village has been expanding into the forest area due to an increase in housing requirements. Several trees were cut down in order to make more houses. In 2011, the forest department took a survey that showed this immense growth.

The BMC and the contractor had proposed to shift the villages in SRA buildings at the Aarey colony and Chandivali. When refused by the villagers, they decided to build a wall between the village and the forest to stop any further expansion.

05. Studio Collaborations The Architecture of Ahoms 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. 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. Talatal Ghar is aligned on the North-South axis, with the entrance on the south. 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. In its present condition, Talatal Ghar is undergoing restoration work carried out by the A.S.I. A lot of visitors come on a daily basis, most of which are school students.

06. Miscellaneous Material Sense Exploration Sameer Raut + Milind Mahale

In this project, the material concrete was explored in its physical property, strength and its limitations. Many concrete blocks were casted using moulds made of Sunboard and a concrete city was composed. It opened up the working behind reinforcements, conrete and moulds collectively in an hands on experience.

Photography Workshop Dinesh Mehta

It was workshop which enable to explore the lens of a camera through various light settings, shutter speed, picture compostion and largely how to deliver the idea through your photographs. Various architectural monuments photographs were studies in order to catch the essence of the whole system by just one click of the camera. Further it was explained how kite drones are used to capture certain sky views.

Origami And Kirigami Bobbie Vijaykkar

Origami workshop helped understand the strength of paper as a material and how it can be used for various purpose. The playfullness of paper was explored and how various objects can be made by just folding paper in a systematic manner. Another idea was to achieve interactive paper models by making cuts and folds in a particular ways in order to experience imaterialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flexibility.

Model Making

from top to bottom 1. Sem5 | Co-Living Space 2. SEm4 | Inhabitable Edge (Idea of Clinic in an Informal Settlement) 3. Sem5 | Parametric Design for an Exhibition Centre The complex design allowed me to understand various methods and materials to work with depending on the form of the project.

ANJAN KUDTARKAR +91 9969211300 anjankudtarkar3@gmail.com