Architecture Portfolio- Anshu Pal

ANSHU PAL SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, Delhi

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The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent.

Peter Zumthor Teaching Architecture, Learning Architecture. Written in 1996.

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Contents Academic projects

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Convention Hotel | Gurugram Hill Housing | Mussoorie MNRE Office | Delhi Sustainable Livelihood Institute| Auroville

work experience

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Internship Drawings | PPAL

mixed-media

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Light Painting | Modular Installation

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Prototype Research & Design | Design Innovation Centre, MHRD

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Group Competition | 120 Hours

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Volunteer | Auroville

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Hand-rendered Drawings | Part of Academics

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Hand-lettering, Sketches & Paintings | For Self 5

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academic projects Hotel design hill housing office design sustainable livelihood institute 7

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Hotel design Convention hotel hni full service and value service hotel gurgaon, NCR

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DESCRIPTION

Designed a 5-star (HNI Full Service) and a 4-star (Value Service) hotel for commercial development on a ~ 48,000 m2 area in a leading financial and industrial hub of India. Functionally robust and incorporated with sustainable design features, the site design included a convention centre, a banquet hall, leasable office and retail spaces, along with accommodation areas.

DESIGN ELEMENTS

The main objective was to understand the services of the building and incorporate in design. A spatial experience was created by segregating the built mass according to functionality and reconnecting the overall scheme architecturally through transition spaces for a holistic approach as the main design intent. The landscaping was done such that it enhances and compliments the functions surrounding it, since the site planning was another major element as demanded by the huge site and hotel functions & services.

DESIGN ELEMENTS

The design also addressed elements for conservation of energy and the ability to grow vegetables and fruits for hotel visitors. Solar panels were integrated on the large roof of Convention Hall alternating with green garden patches, such that the water used to clean the solar panel will drip into the rectilinear gardens bearing fruits and vegetables.

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Housing Hill housing mussoorie

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DESCRIPTION

The site is approximately 25,000 sqm large nestled between steep hills on the way to the town of Mussoorie with a large expanse of forest reserve bordering the site & offering a view of the valley as well. The intent was to study the environment as a relationship between the build, topography & society. The resultant ideas were implemented to design the site for inhabitation by 200 families and short term residents.

DESIGN INTENT-site

The spaces were designed with particular emphasis on connecting it together as a community through architecture while respecting privacy of individuals at the same time. The clusters were divided into 1BHK, 2BHK & 3BHK, and a main arterial road ran through the clusters forming the spine.

All clusters came together through extensively connected pedestrian paths leading to the largest existing flat area of the site.

Design INTENT-UNITS & CLUSTERS

The overall scheme for the site planning was to reconnect the community architecturally with partwhole development. The same design intent and language was used to connect the public & private spaces in the units. Units varied from family 17

dwellings of two sizes as well as visitor housing, rooms & dorms. The spaces were further provided with maximum views possible without interrupting privacy. The attempt was to understand activity & spaces at various scales, enhance & connect them through various functional elements at that particular scale corridors in units, skylights in roof of clusters, pergolas for

shading street sides, glazing & balconies in elevation.

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Office design Ministry of new and renewable energy Delhi

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Description

The intent was to design the then-live project of the new proposed multi-use Akshay Urja Bhawan building for the housing the offices of the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy at CGO Complex, New Delhi over a site of ~12000 sqm with energy efficiency as an important design determinant.

DESIGN INTENT

Designed a medium-rise office building with the intent to devise a comprehensive framework with a vision of Net Zero energy that outlines building interior, structural system & services, & the relation of the interior with the exterior environment through energy efficient building skin & integration of active energy systems.

DESIGN INTENT

The program dealt with hierarchy of spaces and degree of privacy & accessibility between officials & visitors. The intent to design lively spaces for offices was achieved by developing terrace gardens which also helped in reducing the overall energy consumption of the building. Development Controls, Building Codes & Byelaws were taken into account.

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Color-Pigment extraction Centre Sustainable livelihood institute auroville, pondicherry

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DESCRIPTION

The brief included the incorporation of a livelihood, which was left open to be chosen by the designer, & to design a sustainable building keeping in mind the values of Auroville on this site next to seasonal flood plains.

The livelihood in this design was taken as ColorPigment Extraction Centre where color pigments would be extracted from nature and developed for further use, capturing the spirit & colorful essence of the experimental township of Auroville.

DESIGN INTENT

Designed a multi-functional public building as a moderator of urban space, utilizing passive design strategies with an emphasis on solar responsive design, along with engaging programmatic relationships, interactions with site and surroundings, understanding social utilization and incorporating local construction techniques.

DESIGN INTENT

Existing site features (a huge tree and well) were the starting point for the design & the rest of the building was developed keeping them as the focus of the design. An engaging, subtle, low-height building form free flowing along the site, as a representation of ‘down-to-earth’ was designed respecting the context. Road on the site was restricted to the periphery of the site to maintain the privacy of the institute, whereas the rest of the institute was landscaped enhancing the functions & connected through shaded pedestrians paths.

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work experience working drawings

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mixed-media research competition volunteering hand-done drawings sketches paintings 43

light paintings (installation) Elective- Modular labs

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The installation had to be developed from a module, the choice of which was left open to the designer. Here, the module was inspired from hexagon & based on principles of stained glass. The final installation consisted of four panels of colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Green, each of them as a result of tessellations of the evolved module by defining the parameters & path. When let sunlight pass through it and slides across defined paths, it let a wide spectrum of colors on the floor as the final result & hence painting with light.

A low-cost universal solar-responsive window shading device was developed. Responsibilities included conducting comprehensive material research & exploring joinery to optimize product design under the guidance of Project Head, Coordinator and Head of Dept., Industrial Design.

Different models of the device for maximizing performance using solar path considerations in Ecotect was studied & analyzed.

shading devices: system design and project laboratory dic project- dept. of architecture

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The brief for the competition was to design ‘a house without function’. The house designed was a ‘skin’ since the space receives its essential being from the individual inhabiting it. Satisfying the most essential values of house- to reside and dwell, to be content and safe, exhibiting truth in every aspect.

Floating in an unextended realm and representing all existing things out of itself.

Fulfilling needs in the least possible way with iconic simplicity and individuality of unbounded potential; this ‘skin’ reaches out to being metaphysical.

competition entry- 120 hours done in group (team 1215)

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Accomplished hands-on development of structures, including works from masonry to detailing, in a ecological community building program using Ecofriendly & organic materials led by Manu Gopalan.

Explored innovative construction methods by independently testing samples on-site with unusual but traditional tools & materials such as Cob, Adobe, Wattle & Daub, Earthcreting, etc. and incorporating them in final prototype structures.

volunteer sacred groves, auroville

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hand-done expressions drawings/ renders

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paintings/ doodling/ hand-lettering hobbies

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Meticulous undergrad student with proven imaginative skills, seeking to obtain increasingly responsible role in the creative field of Architectural Design.

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