URBAN URBAN DESIGN DESIGN Portfolio
Anushka Priyedarshi
ANUSHKA PRIYEDARSHI DATE OF BIRTH: 06-01-1999 NATIONALITY: INDIAN CONTACT: 7979086809, 9470632949 Email ID: anushka.priyedarshi.bud17@cept.ac.in anushkapriyedarshi@gmail.com LANGUAGE: English Hindi
SKILL SET
EDUCATION
2017-Present
Autocad
CEPT University (Ahmedabad)
WORKSHOPS
2017
Bachelor’s of Urban Design Shivam International School (Patna) Senior secondary School
Illustrator
2017
Banasthali Vidyapith (Jaipur) Secondary School 6th - 10th
EXPLORING MAJULI ISLAND: Documenting Culture
Indesign
2019
Documenting Metro Rail Ahmedabad: Mapping along The Metro Route
2019
and Human Settlement
11th - 12th (Science) 2010-2015
2018
Construction
Photoshop 2015-2017
HUNNARSHALA: Understanding Earth
EXPERIENCE
HIMALAYA & THE DESIGN OF LIFE: A Pilgrimage Through Time
Paani Lari: Chaal Chaal Agency: Part of Model Making & Working Drawing Team
Sketch Up Rhinoceros
COMPETITION
Hand Drafting
ACHIEVEMENT
Model Making 2019
Volume Zero Micro Housing
2018
Project Amrut Vahana given CEPT Honours and published in Honours project
CONTENT URBAN THEATRE
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AMRUT VAHANA
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OCCUPIED:graphic anatomy of everyday urban
PLAY METHODOLOGIES
MASS HOUSING
UTOPIA to HETEROTOPIA ;Migrant Housing: Values of Time, Density, Culture and Energy
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URBAN INSERTS
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EXPLORING MAJULI
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CONSTRUCTION & STRUCTURE
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Making of a shared space
Documentation Culture and Human Settlement
graphic anatomy of everyday urban
Tourist in Mahurat ni pol chowk
01 URBAN THEATRE OCCUPIES: graphic anatomy of everyday urban
Feeding cows
Project Site: Old City, Ahmedabad Objective: The studio was based on the concept of cartography as mapping tool and identifying problems. The selected six site for the studio was spread all over the old city of Ahmedabad.
Stuck among vehicles
Through this studio we designed a public plaza, which has multiple uses and stakeholders. The area faces problems of space congestion and overlapping of multiple activities. The main focus of the project is to resolve the issue of space congestion by allocating demarked area for the various users.
Observing colonial building
The design process includes: -Identifying and observing the problems through a particular lens through cartography -Showing the actual site conditions and problem through axonometric view. -Understanding the overlapping of networks and deriving design inferences. -Designing the area from the derived inferences.
Having tea This is the chowk, attracting tourist due to the presence of Ahmadabad first pol and the old stock exchange building. Also as it is surrounded by monuments such as Jama Masjid, Rani ni Hajiro and Raja no Hajiro, it attracts more tourists. During the early morning the chowk acts like a grazing ground for cows, people come here to feed the cows. From morning till late evening this chowk acts as a parking lot and surrounded by jewellary shops . At night the chowk transforms into a food market. This chowk is also included in the heritage walk route. This cartography shows different tourists at during different times of a day and their experiences. The cartography is done at three different timings and overlapped on top of each other to depict the changing activities of the chowk. LEGENDS: MORNING Shopkeeper Vendor Tourist Hawker
Lari Two Wheeler
NOON Cow Pleasant feeling View site
Vendor Tourist Two Wheeler Stationary Auto Auto
NIGHT Car
Vendor Tourist
Pleasant feeling
Two Wheeler Mats on Ground Lari
View site
Auto
Irritated
Stationary Auto
Sound
Car
Lari
View site
Buying fruits
Sound Irritated Pleasant feeling
Eating golgappas
Existing situation in Mahurat ni pol chowk
No seating spaces for people
No space between the shops and the public realm
No allocated space for the vendors
Haphazard Parking
Police Station in the middle of the chowk
Toilet in the middle of the chowk
Chaotic Pedestrian and vehicular movement
Haphazard Parking near the otlas
Proposed plan in Mahurat ni pol chowk
Proposed plan for seating spaces in the plaza.
Proposed plan for exhibition in old stock exchange building and a path to connect Rani no hajiro.
Proposed plan for amphitheater.
Proposed plan for reconstructing temple with lawn.
Visualizing proposed intervention in Mahurat ni pol chowk Amphitheater with a backdrop of old stock exchange building to revive the culture and to highlight the historical building which was earlier hard to see because of small temporary structures in front of the building
Reconstructed temple with lawn,trees and seating. Friendly for the older to spend evening time. earlier there was no space to sit and spend time.
Play area for children and seating for the people for night food market.
Small seating pockets for shopkeepers and for buyers. Earlier people use to sit on two wheelers to talk or to rest.
Lift and staircase to connect underground parking, which steps directly into plaza.
Fixed table tops for morning vendors which become an insentive for the night food vendors as pre-cooking table which will lead them to stand at the allocated space
FIRST DRAFT OF GAME
02 AMRUT VAHANA PLAY METHODOLOGIES Site Condition Project Site: New Faisal Nagar, Ahmedabad
Objective: The studio was based on the concept of game as a tool to interact and engage with the community and derive inference . The selected site for the studio was near the dump yard of Ahmedabad. Through this studio we designed a modular device for the community, which is multi functional and mobile. The community faces problems such as poor water quality, garbage accumilation, lack of electricity, poor health facilities and congested work spaces. Our focus is to cater to the community by providing them clean and drinking water through the device.
Water logged
The design process includes:
Testing of game with batch mates and faculties.
-Identifying and observing the problems of a particular network on site. -Conveying network complexity through game board. -Understanding the overlap of networks and making a game board. -Designing the device from the derived inferences.
Water supply system
Board after game.
FINAL GAME BOARD
Game with group of few families.
Using the rope and binder clips, we hang the solution boards One team is given a question card, while the other team suggests answers by putting the question card colour coded stickers
Game with CEPT students and faculties.
AIM To understand how what solution seems fit according the target audience and also encourage discussions on more permutaion and combination of solutions.
Explaning the design idea to the community.
INITIAL DESIGN IDEAS
FINAL DESIGN This was inspired by Aqua duct bike. The process is to purify water through carbon Filter and peristaltic Pump. A person to pedal cycle and earn money.
Then the bike changed into a device having sitting space and with same mechanism. But in this people themselves have to pedal water to purify.
Then the process of purifying water remain same, just sitting arrangement changed. Converted into a mobile device, inspired by the bear party bike.
Some more iteration in the seats and the seating space. Given a roof. Converted sitting into U shape so there would be more interaction and added a adjustable table.
Seats were given back rest and under seat converted into storage space.
AMRUT VAHANA : The project aims at constructing a device which can filter water while creating a gathering space for the people of New Faizal Nagar. This community has developed out of scarcity, with very poor institutional facilities and resources. The water provided by the borewell owners is not potable due to contamination by the surrounding conditions. All these conditions result into deteriorated health conditions. Hence, water purifying becomes an inavoidable necessity for the people. The Amrut Vahana is a device which filters water through the use of peristaltic pump. It also provides a gathering space which can be used by the residents of New Faizalnagar as per their convenience. Hence, the Amrut Vahana can prove to be a promising deivce which can be used in spaces of scarcity. STAKEHOLDERS : The stakeholders taken into consideration are the residents, the shopkeepers who will be using the device as a vehicle to transport the goods within the site and the driver who will be appointed by the community (as there are many unemployed people in site).
The device can be constructed using the waste materials on site
OTLA
SOLAR PANELS
An element which promotes gathering
EXPENSIVE
Turns out to be , as they are not financially stable
STOR-
contamination
PIRANA
The local
CONSTRUCTION
WORKERS
will construct the device
GAVLVANIZED steel roofing
An important element which promotes gatherings
ING water causing
to proximity with
SHADE MATKA
Improper amenities for
CONTAMINATION due
LAARI
A widely used device for motion A device used for storing water
MILD STEEL sections for the frame work
Lack of
WATER CANS for POTABLE water
Buy extra
CHATAI panels for
HYGIENE and
proper INFRASTRUC-
TURE
covering the device
IRREGULAR AMC TANKERS provides water to few lanes
HEALTH
Poor conditions due to drinking water
POLYETHYLENE
plastic used in water tanks
WOODEN PLANKS for seating
SHOPKEEPERS will now get goods at their doorstep
WOMEN can gather and do their small household chores
The device uses solar panels to generate electricity for the bulbs as well as to run the vehicle, the connections of which are given beneath the driver’s seat. The centre table can be lifted up and down as per convenience using the pulley system.
MEN can also use this
Sewing machine mechanism
gathering space for meetings
PARKING in the maidan during NIGHT time.
CHILDREN can use it as their study space
Peristaltic pump
DRIVER will be appointed by the community.This will increase
EMPLOYMENT
Filter
Cellophane membrane
The device uses the pedalling mechanism of a sewing machine in which instead of the circle a peristaltic pump is attached to it which draws water in and out from the tank. During the process the water passes through carbon filter which contains an additional cellophane membrane. After which it passes through an an alumina filter and the water then comes out through the outlet.
Driver’s seat
Water Inlet
Water outlet
Seating area
Plan view of the device showing organization of the space
Frame work
03 MASS HOUSING UTOPIA To HETEROTOPIA
Project Site: Maan Darwaza, Surat Objective: The studio was based on the concept of mass housing across time and space. The evolution of hosing settlements through linking and stacking. The selected site for the studio was occupied by the migrants of other state, who are labours and workers of the textile mills. Through this studio I designed a housing project for the community, which is spacious and have open spaces. The community faces problems such as narrow lanes, garbage accumilation, lack of electricity, less open area and no work spaces inside their houses. My focus was to provide community a better lifestlye and space for all chores and other earning works.
West elevation
East elevation
-Identifying and observing the problems for a particular community on the site
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The design process includes:
-Conveying network complexity through drawings. -Understanding the linking, staking and horizontal and vertical circulation.
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-Designing the project through the understandings.
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Section AA’
Section BB’
Section CC’
Section DD’
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Axon view of street with activity.
The units are formed by a grid of 3.6 x 3.6 m cube using different shapes ideas.
EXISTING SITE DATA TOTAL AREA : 7586 SQ. M TOTAL BUILT ON GROUND FLOOR : 5118.11 SQ. M TOTAL BUILT AREA : 9630.6 SQ. M BUILT VS. OPEN RATION : 67:33 NUMBER OF FAMILIES : 184 BUILDING HEIGHT : 2 FLOORS (G + 1)
PROPOSED SITE DATA TOTAL AREA : 7586 SQ. M TOTAL BUILT ON GROUND FLOOR : 2536 SQ. M TOTAL BUILT AREA : 8854.6 SQ. M BUILT VS. OPEN RATION : 34:66 NUMBER OF FAMILIES : 175 BUILDING HEIGHT : 4 FLOORS (G + 3)
2 PERSON UNIT DESIGN ITERATION AREA : 34.6 SQ. M (CARPET AREA)
4 PERSON UNIT DESIGN ITERATION AREA : 46.24 SQ. M (CARPET AREA)
OPEN CHOWKS INSIDE CLUSTER BIG OPEN SPACE FOR FUNCTION AND WHICH CONNECTS TO MOSQUE COMMERCIAL AREA PARKING AREA FOR VEHICLES
The space between street and housing is uplifted and have space for Commercial activities. The inner chowk as community spaces without any vehicular disturbance.
G+3
G+2
G+1
Ground floor
04 URBAN INSERTS Project Site: Anand, Gujarat Objective: The studio is based on the pattern of streets across the site extent. Understanding and mapping different layers of activities. The site has a small bus network which connects the city from both ends. having no specific infrastructure for the stops.
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Due to insufficient parking plots, 4 wheelers are parked on footpath and on road edges as well which leads to shrinking in road size.
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Lari vendors are placed on footpath and road edges. which attract people with vehicles which starts creating chaos.
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Lari vendors are placed on footpath and road edges. loading and unloading are done at road which hinders movement.
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Due to roaming of animals on road and sitting on road edge hinders the movement (pedestrian and vehicular).
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Due to no specific auto stand, autos are parked at road edge and at the junction which hinders buses to take turn, which hinders whole traffic. Due to no specific auto stand, autos are parked at road edge which shrinks the road size and hinders in movement.
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Section AA’
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The studio looks forward to design a modular bus stop and street design so that each activity has a specific space and they do not overlap to each other. The modular bus stop design should fulfill each aspects.
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Small hawkers moving on the road side which create hindrance in movement of vehicle.
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Due to no footpath, people came at the road side which leads shrinking of road size and hindrance in movement (pedestrian and vehicular).
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Due to pedestrian movement small vendors are sitting at the edge of the footpath with create chaos in tuning of vehicles.
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In outer edge of city due to less traffic movement people like too sit at edges of the road under the shade of trees.
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For dropping off from auto are done slightly middle of the road with create chaos in traffic movement.
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Due to insufficient parking space two wheelers are parked on the edges of the road and slightly on the footpath ( were exists).
Section BB’
Section CC’
04 DOCUMENTING MAJULI
Project Site: Majuli, Assam
Objective: The workshop was based on the concept of understanding community, culture and their adaptation to climate. The evolution of hosing settlements in the area of water all around. The selected site of the workshop was accommodated by a regional tribe. Through this workshop we learnt community interacting, understanding and documenting the culture of the area. We represented our documentation of three houses through hand drawn axon. The site had five Satras, which had their own culture and tradition. One of them was famous for mask making which my team documented.
06 CONSTRUCTION & STRUCTURE
Project Site: CEPT University, Ahmedabad Objective: The course essentially focuses on learning through hands-on experience the properties and construction techniques/methods of various materials like bricks, concrete, wood, metal and bamboo. The aim was to build a composite structure using materials like brick, concrete, wood, metal and bamboo. For the construction process, the batch of 40 students was divided into 5 groups based on the materials. Along with number of tools and materials were also provided to the students which were to be either bought or issued from the CEPT lab. Apart from this list, new tools were introduced as when required during the process of construction. The construction process includes: -Understanding all materials and learning of different tools. -Working on particular material in groups. Part of wood l and bamboo team. -Understanding the process of construction and different wooden joints