WORK SAMPLE Bachelors of Urban Design CEPT University Anoushka Mukherjee
CURRICULAM VITAE
ACHIEVEMENTS
Cept Excellence Awards Studio Shortlisted 2022
Unmute Publication: State of Water
ABOUT
Indian 6 August 2001 New Delhi
CONTACT
+91 8510005747 anoushka.ug190120@cept.ac.in/ anoushka.mukherjee2001@gmail.com
ADDRESS
A-703, Prabha Apartment, Sector-23, Plot-11, Dwarka, New Delhi-110075
EDUCATION
CEPT University, Ahmedabad Bachelors of Urban Design (2019-present) Venkateshwar International School, Sector-10, Dwarka, New Delhi (Till 2019)
LANGUAGES English Hindi Bengali
DIGITAL SKILLSET Autodesk Autocad Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhinoceros 3D SketchUp ArcGis Microsoft Office Wix Website Design
MANUAL SKILLSET
Drafting Model Making Laser Cutting Sketching Researching and Writing
HOBBIES/INTEREST Reading Writing Theatre Photography Illustrating Travelling
Compartment S4 Selected 2021
WORK EXPERIENCE
INTERNSHIP TRAINEE
SpaceMatters New Delhi July 2021- August 2021 (2 months)
GRAPHIC TEAM
Prameya Event Faculty of Planning 2020
VOLUNTEER
UN Youth Volunteer 2020
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CORE TEAM MEMBER Urban Powwow (Academic Club) 2021
TEAM LEADER- LARI TEAM Unit Light Infrastructures Semester 3 2020
MEMBER
Natakbaazi (Theatre Club) 2020
WORKSHOPS
FOUNDATIONS: DATA DATA EVERYWHERE Google Coursera 2021
NID NODE
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad Online Course 2019
Relative Study Programme Exploring Varanasi 2019
Forethought India Seminar- I The Trevi 2021
CONTENTS
All the below projects are individual work unless and otherwise stated
I. SEMESTER 5___________________________________________ 01- 08 Studio: Vulnerability in a Pandemic City PAKWAN JUNCTION MAPPING Mapping site (Group Project)
ANALYSIS
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Identifying the needs of women and children pavement dwellers
DESIGN STRATEGIES
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Angan: Learning and Training Centre for Women
II. SEMESTER 4__________________________________________ 09- 18 Studio: Designing Water Infrastructure for Civic Expression (Website: https://www.dwice.online/anoushka)
UN(GROUPED) CANAL
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THE SYNERGETIC CANAL
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GHAR GHAR KA PAANI
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CHARGE-IN WATER
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City Scale Mapping
Speculative Design
Neighbourhood Scale Mapping
Neighbourhood Scale Speculation
III. SEMESTER 3__________________________________________ 19- 28 Studio: Unit Light Infrastructures (Website: https://www.lightinfrastructures.com/unblock) ASHA LARI (PROJECT UNBLOCK)
Mobile Infrastructure Design for Displaced Communities (Group Project)
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IV. OTHER WORK_________________________________________ 29- 34 Mandatories and Electives
ENGAGEMENTS WITH WEEKLY NIGHT MARKET Street Mapping and Analysis
TOLL PLAZA DESIGN
Construction and Working Drawings
NARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES Chipko Movement Cartography
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PAKWAN JUNCTION MAPPING
Mapping of pavement dwellers and infrastructure on site Group Work
Ahmedabad September-Decemeber 2021 Studio Shortlisted for CEPT Excellence Award
VISIT:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UTHPjUMdeUDcaYDuHakrnAkTf_JjGI6S?usp=sharing
The project is situated on Pakwan Junction in Ahmedabad and involved mapping, analysing and strategising design for the site. Vulnerablities exist on various scale, the site in focus is home to many pavement dwellers who have migrated and are now living under the flyover. The aim of the project is to create an inclusive space for these vulnerable groups following the processes of understanding the patterns in their day to day lives and inferring the needs to be addressed.
Physical Trace Map of Pakwan Junction, S.G. Highway
Figure Ground Map
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Street Network Map
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Building Use Map
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Infrastructure aiding the pavement dwellers on site
Movements of pavement dwellers across Sanitation and Water Infrastructure
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ANALYSIS
Identifying needs and aspirations of women pavement dwellers at Pakwan Junction
Identifying on-ground conditions of the women pavement dwellers
Reflections from the policies and schemes by the Government and their process of implementation.
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Women across all age groups were interviewed on site to understand their wants and aspirations as well as the current conditions of their living. Through these discussions, women and children were observed to be vulnerable in terms oh agency over their decisions and livelihood due to lack of awareness, education and health conditions. The site lacks a school or centre which could provide the same to them. The narratives of these women brought up sensitive topics of hygiene maintenance after childbirth, during menstruation and childcare. Thus, a space for women to have an identity and instill the required skills and learning in the realm of public was necessary for the pavement dwellers.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES
Angan: Training and Learning Centre for Women Angan, a play of public and private spaces is a Learning Centre for women and children pavement dwellers to learn, develop and grow through skill training, education programs, and community engagement. Situated on the southern side of the Pakwan Junction, it aims at transforming into a safe space for pavement dwellers particularly women and children. Through level differences and plinths, the space provides public areas of sitting surrounded by vending and exhibition spaces. While the othlas or semi-open corridors act as semi-private spaces for women to gather. Private spaces include the Training room, Kitchen, Counseling, Toilets, Angan, and the Classroom. All the spaces use existing trees to allow shaded open spaces or an angan. The space is aimed to provide nurturing to the vulnerable group and instill the needed skills and education in them.
Design concepts and strategies with the programmatic organisation
Space Zoom-ins
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Elevation and Sections of the design
Plan at 1.5M
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Isometric view of the Design
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UN(GROUPED) CANAL City Scale Mapping
Ahmedabad February 2021
Water is guided by a set of machines before reaching the city of Ahmedabad, Un(Grouped) Canal deconstructs this mechanized route by ungrouping the journey of various structures located on the Narmada main canal. The idea is to form a taxonomy of apparatus constructed to make the water move in the city. The journey of water supply for the city begins from inspecting and ungrouping its surrounding watersheds, formed by Sabarmati, Mahi, and Narmada rivers. On each of these watersheds, dams are constructed to direct the water for supply. The newest Sardar Sarovar Dam constructed on the Narmada river in 2017 is the primary source of supply for the city. The dam is the largest amongst the three with a catchment area of 88,00 sq kilometers. The journey of the canal spans about 240 km till Ahmedabad and begins from the dam through a canal gate passing through the head regulator which controls the amount of water entering, Along the path the water passes through cross regulators, escape structures, road bridges, aqueducts, canal, and drainage siphons, siphon aqueducts and canal crossings to reach its destination. Along this complex route, These multiple structures constructed regulate and control the water, thus transforming the journey of the natural source to a mechanized movement.
Watersheds for the city of Ahmedabad
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Taxonomy of Structures present on the Main Canal
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Linear Map potraying the network of Narmada Main Canal along with the structures present on the route till Ahmedabad 11
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THE SYNERGETIC CANAL Speculative Design
Vadodara District March - April 2021
Network of Narmada Main Canal along with the construction progress through the years
The Synergetic Canal is a response to shifting narratives for water use, failure in infrastructure execution, and non-prevalent last mile connectivity of the Narmada Canal that has robbed thousands of farmers of the promise of water for irrigation. Situated in the Vadodara district, it re-imagines the canal network and its associated infrastructural systems as mechanisms that function to benefit the agrarian sector and farmers. The speculation works with existing infrastructure systems and reimagines them as machines that contribute to the cycles of growing and harvesting that are not only productive but also regenerative. Added to the existing are community-developed mechanisms that are deployed to create decentralized and distributed agents of care and growth. The speculation is more a question ‘What if the canal system started working to create a sustainable holistic network for its initial purpose of agriculture?’ 13
Site: Vadodara District
Farming System Diagram
Transformed structures for intervention on the Narmada Main Canal working for the benefits of farmers and their lands following farming cycle
A section of the Branch Canal
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Isometric View of the transformed canal
View 2: Seed sowing and planting
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View 3: Irrigating the fields
View 1: Land Preparation
View 4: Harvesting and storage
View 5: Selling through Markets
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GHAR GHAR KA PAANI Neighbourhood Scale Mapping
New Delhi January 2021
Ghar Ghar ka Paani studies the consumption patterns in my apartment bifurcating the households with the water usage activities and the number of buckets utilized. Observing the apartment, each house has a story with water, an activity where they consume more water charting a water activity rank to each house. Here, one bucket represents 20 liters of water with activities being illustrated on each floor showing how the supply of water is being taken for granted with a large amount of wastewater being generated with no proper mechanism of re-use. 17
CHARGE-IN WATER
Neighbourhood Scale Speculation
Charge-in water imagines an alternate water community where along with the consumption of water, the residents have to pay a maintenance charge through shared activity spaces which enables the recycling of water. It consists of two typologies of pods, Individual Pods for in-house spillage and Collective Pods for community use aiming to create a closed-loop system. The speculation imagines two typologies of pods. First, individual vacuum pods having a capacity of 1000 liters from which mini pods are dispatched into each household. Second are the collective charge-in pods which are shared activity spaces for the residents which through the engagement of the community recycles greywater in steps and transports it back to the main supply line.
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ASHA LARI
Mobile Infrastructure Design
Ganeshnagar, Ahmedabad July 2020- November 2020 Group Project
VISIT:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oy5PJdTkhusU82wpVuwGfpZ_t-3wvwXK
‘Asha Lari’ visualises to aid the communities through dynamic creation of safe and uplifting spaces that generate community engagement for the people of Ganeshnagar who were displaced due to the Sabarmati Riverfront Project. It uses the element of khatlas with complementary elements of radio, projector, blackboard, planks used as tables, microphones, books, and newspapers which involves the entire community and unites them. The aim of the Asha lari is to provide a voice for the people who can unite in the spaces created by lari and engage with solutions and actions for the injustice faced by them. The reading section engages the community to be well aware of the happenings around and act as a library for children to learn. The use of the khatlas, opens up the spaces for education, awareness programs, community meetings, celebrations and festivals, leisure activities, women empowerment, engagement and a library
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Working Drawing (Mainframe) Scale: 1:20
Laser Cut Model of the Lari 21
Working Drawing (Khatla) Scale: 1:20
Joinery Mock-Ups 22
Lari Katha is an illustrated narrative representing the series of events that occur during a relocation, and the aid Sahyog Lari and Transit Kit provide to the communities. The premise of the story begins hypothetically from the Sabarmati River Development Project gradually progressing as an implementation guide for the displaced families. VISIT:https://issuu.com/anoushka_mukherjee/ docs/individual_pages
Spreads from The Lari Katha
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ASHA LARI
Construction Pamphlet aids in understanding the step by step construction of both Asha and Construction Lari. It is provided at the end of the Lari Katha. The pamphlet aims to materialize the planning, coordinate of agencies and estimate the materials. This is a guide to the construction process. VISIT:https://issuu.com/anoushka_ mukherjee/docs/individual_pages/24
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Stage 8 for the construction process of sliding panels fitting in the Construction Lari
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TOOLS
PUBLIC MEETINGS
WORKSHOPS
Public meetings provide an opportunity to consult large numbers of people. Meetings can be organised to allow for small group discussions with oral feedback. There are often opportunities for participants to set or influence the agenda and to ask questions. They are organised at a larger scale. Asha Lari provides the platform to hold such meetings and bring awareness.
Workshops are aimed to teach and develop skills within communities. They are short courses organised to engage people and generate job opportunities. They can be designed to exchange information; opportunities and to obtain ideas and innovative thinking for a way forward for a project. Construction Lari provides the platform to hold skill development workshops.
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COMMUNITY MAPPING
PLANNING FOR REAL
Maps and photographs of an area or specific location are used to illustrate how people view their area: what they like or dislike or improvements they would like to see. Ideas are generated in small group discussions and recorded on ‘post-its’ or pre-prepared cards. Discussions should be facilitated to help people explore issues, build consensus or identify areas of conflict.
At the centre of this method is the construction of a model of the area in question with locals being the designers. The model can be displayed at one or more public venues to generate participation. Cards proposals, along with blank cards, are made available. People write their own cards which reflect their interests and place them on the model where they think the idea should be implemented. 28
ENGAGEMENTS WITH WEEKLY NIGHT MARKET Street Mapping and Analysis
STUDY DETAILS Where: Sector-23, Dwarka, New Delhi, India When: 19 March 2021: 8:00 p.m., 20 March 2021: 8:00 p.m. Method: Recording observations, photographic and video documentation The study determines the relationship between the flow of people and densities of activities on a street occupied temporarily by a night market. The study is performed on a street situated in Dwarka, New Delhi, and consists of a junction with the presence of a temple, a school, and the night market street. The prime focus is on the market street which is occupied twice a week on Thursdays and Saturdays by vendors. The night market acts as a catalyst for multiple activities around the street since it creates commotion and increases the flow of people. The radius of influence of the market is wide which brings public interaction to an otherwise vacant street. The activities in the center of focus for the study are the presence of beggars, gathering around food stalls, vehicular traffic, and public interaction of two or more people creating pause points. To study the site indepth and understand its relationship with the weekly night market, two parts of the street were observed and mapped. The inferences from the study proved that an increase in the number of mentioned activities are seen due to the occupying of the street with a weekly night market. The street usually observes a vacancy but with the addition of the market, the space is transformed into an activator of public engagement. Thus with the presence of the market, a rise in activities influenced by the public is seen creating a direct relationship between commotion or flow of people and activities observed.
The same part of the street observed with and without the market. The market activates public interaction and commotion. 29
Friday, 8:00 p.m. map showing all four activities concentrated near the temple junction since it is the primary engagement without the presence of a night market.
Saturday, 8:00 p.m. map highlighted a transformation of the presence of them on the street. A significant increase in the number of mentioned activities is observed with the presence of the night market. 30
TOLL PLAZA DESIGN
Construction and Working Drawings Referring to the Bandhwari Toll Plaza, Gurugram- Faridabad through a structural analysis case study, a toll plaza along with the booth and canopy is visualised to be re-designed. The toll is designed as a steel frame structure supported with a system of trusses beneath the roofing sheet. A shallow foundation with isolated footings supports the structure vertically to withstand load and pressure. STEEL FRAMED STRUCTURE
Ground Floor Plan at 1500 MM (Scale: 1:100)
Front Elevation AA’ (Scale: 1:100) 31
Shallow Foundation Detail (Scale: 1:20)
Truss Detail (Scale: 1:20)
Roof Plan (Scale: 1:100)
Section BB’ (Scale: 1:100)
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NARRATIVE CARTOGRAPHIES Cartography on Eco-Feminist Protest
The cartography follows the 1974 Chipko movement protest led by women of Reni village with Gaura Devi. The f stood together and saved their precious mother earth.
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forest department summoned all the men to the main district and sent labourers to cut the trees. But the women
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Anoushka Mukherjee Email: anoushka.ug190120@cept.ac.in/ anoushka.mukherjee2001@gmail.com Contact: +91 8510005747