Arjun Chopra Architecture Portfolio 2019

ARJUN CHOPRA BA (Hons) ARB/RIBA Part I, DipArch ARB PART II

PORTFOLIO 2019

CONTENTS

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PART II WORK: GLENN HOWELLS ARCHITECTS

pp. 4 - 11

PART I WORK: ANDREW NEIL ASSOCIATES

pp. 12 - 23

ACADEMIC WORK

pp. 24 - 35

ISOMETRIC VISUALISATION FROM NORTH FACING SOUTH

Arjun Chopra Student ID: 1021497 Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Pt 2) application

MEDS Competition Entry 2014: Interpretation of the theme “Global Green”

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PERSONAL WORK

pp. 36 - 41 EASA013 Competition Entry 2013: A poetic and symbolic response to the Slovene landscape as backdrop to the coming Architecture Student Assembly, exploring the theme of submerged histories

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PART II WORK GLENN HOWELLS ARCHITECTS

HS2 INTERCHANGE: SOLIHULL

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Client: HS2, Urban Growth Company (UGC) - joint owners of the overall site Council: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC), and consultation from Historic England Site: 146.21 ha of land east of NEC and Airport aka “Arden Cross”.

Proposed MSCP on appr. 4 ha on site of a quarry.

Design Team: GHA working as challenge scope designers within a larger design team, including base scope team and various consultants from Arup, Churchman Landscape Architects, Mott Macdonald + Budget: 160,000,000 £ Brief: Proposing and interrogating infrastructure surrounding the Arup-proposed Interchange station, including a pedestrian bridge over-trace, metro station and a visionary multistorey car park that frees up prime development land, accommodates nearly 7000 cars and uses the latest in vehicle management technology.

Stage: RIBA Stage 3/Design Assessment Level 5 (DAL 5) MSCP scheme submitted for pre-application February 2019.

Note: Due to signing an non-disclosure agreement for this project, further visual information cannot be provided here: only these images which have been publically circulated online.

Left: Hybrid Bill image of base scheme March 2018, with full-quantum surface parking, station situated on-trace and APM connection to NEC/airport Right: CGI images of base scope station February 2019 7

Above left: UGC Larger development scheme - aligning the interests of the NEC, Birmingham Airport, Jaguar Land Rover and Arden Cross Consortium Above right: UGC artist’s render of proposed scheme

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TFL KIDBROOKE: SOUTH LONDON

Client: Kidbrooke Partnership LLP, formed of Transport for London and Notting Hill Genesis.

Council: Royal Borough of Greenwich Site: 1.7 ha of land to north of Kidbrooke station Design Team: SLR, AECOM, RLF, CalfordSeaden, Pell Frischmann + Budget: 165,000,000 ÂŁ Brief: Lively mixed-use development which complements existing development at Kidbrooke village to south of railway, provides a beating heart to Kidbrooke centre, integrates a transport hub and new station entrance, and delivers currently over 600 units, at an unprecedented 50% affordable quota.

Stage: RIBA Stage 3/4, submitted for planning in November 2018

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PART I WORK

ANDREW NEIL ASSOCIATES LTD.

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HALEGROVE GARDENS: BARNET

3D modelling of mentor’s drawings using Sketchup Pro for client reference preceding Pre-Application

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Right: Aerials

Right: Final renders used for appeal 17

35 TORRINGTON PARK: BARNET

Arjun Chopra Student ID: 1021497 Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Pt 2) application

35 Torrington Park, Park,Barnet Barnet(3(3storey storeyprivate private semi-detached property): 35 Torrington disused semi detached property): Conversion ofexisting existinghouse houseinto into supported living care home full-width rear single Conversion of supported living care home withwith full width rear single storeystorey extension extension and box dormer roof,adjacent to be used adjacent existing care home owned by and box dormer to roof, to betoused to existing caretohome currently ownedcurrently by applicant.

Full survey, existing and proposed plans/elevations drawn from mentor’s sketchdesigns, full planning applicant. permission prepared for extension and change of use from C3 to C2.

Full survey,application existing and proposed plans/elevations drawn from mentor’s sketch designs, full planning permission prepared for extension and change of use from C3 to C2.

Andrew Neil Associates Ltd. Part I Architectural Assistant 2014-present

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33 BROUGHTON AVENUE: BARNET

33 Broughton Avenue, Barnet (private semi-detached property): 33 Broughton Avenue, Barnet (private semi-detached Full survey, existing/proposed plans and elevations,property): submission Full survey, existing/proposed plans and elevations, submission for householders planning permission for inset extension andfor householders planning permission for inset extension and porch, porch, lawful development certificate for loft conversion under lawful development certificate for loft conversion under permitted permitted development development

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33 Broughton Avenue (continued): Building Control set drawn for proposed porch and inset extension 33 Broughton Avenue (continued): under mentor’s supervision

Building control set drawn for proposed porch and inset extension

33 Broughton Avenue (continued): 33 Broughton Avenue (continued): 1:20 sections drawn for building control set under mentor’s 1:20 sections drawn for building control set supervision

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ACADEMIC WORK:

Professional Diploma in Architecture Advanced Environment and Energy Studies, The Centre for Alternative Technology

“RETHINKING LUTON�

BURY PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE: KENILWORTH ROAD, LUTON PART II MAJOR DESIGN PROJECT

A proposal for a cultural centre of civic importance in the Bury Park area of Luton, on the site of the existing football stadium which is projected to become vacant by 2020.

This will include facilities such as music broadcasting and education, cooking, arts and theatre, and health centre for predominantly young people in the local area; with a sports hall, exhibition space, auditorium, function rooms, market and debating platform for larger public access.

Situated within a tightly knit residential area, the proposal incorporates housing which is sensitive to surrounding forms, explores how a logical gradient is created between the residential and commercial, and how many complex functions can be resolved within a comprehensive morphology.

Luton is home to many ethnic minorities and this proposal, being in the heart of a predominantly South Asian Muslim community, attempts to achieve a level of embeddedness and acceptance within their cultural lifestyle, but become also a site of cultural integration, a place for free expression and speech for all people.

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To explore the potential for architecture as applied anthropology or socio-political activism 2) Exploring a “diasporic architecture” 3) Making the case that political and cultural concerns need to be absorbed into the sustainability debate in order to realise something not just “green” but holistically regenerative.

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promoting a positive image of Islam

PERSONAL MISSION

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promoting a positive image of Luton

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integrating cultures

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building a grassroots South Asian British youth culture 5) providing positive exposure to the Bury Park community through various means of communication, modern and otherwise

PROJECT AIMS

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1:5000 Connecting Bury Park to the Town Centre, encouraging racial integration 2) 1:2500 Pedestrianisation of Dunstable Road, Bury Park, renewal of street frontages and establishing a consistent architectural language across the street, bringing new sense of pride and welcoming to the area 3) 1:1250 A park/green space, for children to play, but for adults to also demonstrate and debate 4) 1:500 A youth centre with covert agenda to counsel and police against early signs of radicalisation through music teaching and production, with facilities for broadcasting.

5) 1:200 - 1:10 Integrating Islamic Design: A purpose-built temporary structure for Eid-alFitr celebrations

STRATEGIES

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Above: brief

(Illustrator, Indesign)

Arjun Chopra, u1630285, Centre for Alternative Technology, Architecture Prof.Dip. AEES, CE7400 Technical Report

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COURTYARD STARFISH PLAN - REGENERATION EARTH DOME SUFI MYSTICISM

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STRAW HAT ROOF GUMBRELLA/STREET AWNIN MUSALLA, BREAKOUT

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TRANSPORT/ TRANSMISSION

STORE

MINAR BROADCASTING TOWER

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Above: sketch development (Hand-drawn)

Folly

Playground

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Market Hard standing Folly Cafe and kitchen Habitat

Public square Arts and hacking

Sports

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MUGA Performance Health and community Garden

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Above: sketch programme

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The gymnasium is located on the ground floor to support heavy fitness machines and live loads from high levels of activity within. Similar is considered with the Hackspace – with heavy manufacturing machinery such as jig saws, CNC machines, laser cutters etc. These functions bear similarity insofar as they are community, membership-based access.

The theatre, café and shops are located on the ground floor, closer to the public west side of the building as freely accessible zones. The music school is lifted onto the first floor, as area the cooking classroom and the art rooms, freely accessible from the “Arts Deck” to define a raised, thus more private, space just for members of the youth centre, at the heart of the building. Note that these would require special RFID or keycard access for users.

PROGRAMME

The broadcast centre is raised onto the second floor above the music school as a kind of vantage, or tower, that could look over the town from all sides, again accessible for just the youth centre.

Youth Atrium/ Arts Deck Shops

Art Studio Cookery Classroom

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Community Sports Hall Gymnasium Boxing Gym Supplementary Education Centre Health and Counselling

Commercial building functions

Commercial vs Residential

Radio Broadcast and Recording

Residence types Music School and Practice Rooms

Above: three-dimensional representation of programme of proposed scheme

Arjun Chopra, u1630285, Centre for Alternative Technology, Architecture Prof.Dip. AEES, CE7400 Technical Report

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Programme infographic (AutoCAD 2D, Photoshop, Illustrator)

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Ground floor plan

Above: ground floor plan

(AutoCAD, Photoshop)

Arjun Chopra, u1630285, Centre for Alternative Technology, Architecture Prof.Dip. AEES, CE7400 Technical Report

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ISOMETRIC VISUALISATION FROM NORTH FACING SOUTH LONGITUDINAL SECTION AA FACING NORTH-EAST

SCALE 1:100

Control room

Technicians Booth

Stage Projection room

THEATRE

Orchestral pit

Rehearsal space

Dressing rooms

WC

Comm. Changing Room

SPORTS HALL

Below: project presentation panel

(AutoCAD, hand-drawn, Sketchup, VRay, Illustrator, Photoshop)

#6 MARKET COURTYARD

RENDER OF ROOF CONSTRUCTION

#2 RESIDENTIAL STREET

RADIO LIVE ROOM

Control Room

DANCE STUDIO

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CHANGING

Techicians’ Booth

BOXING GYM

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DETAIL SECTION OF SPORTS HALL SCALE 1:20

Left: detail section of sports hall @ 1:20 (AutoCAD) Right: sports hall floor build-up graphic

(Sketchup, Enscape, Indesign)

Parquet flooring Sports battens Sheepswool insulation between joists Jute fabric beween joists Posi-joists open web system suspended floor Posijoists below to support - open web structure allow passing of ventilation underneath Limecrete screed Limecrete and clay aggregate slab Clay aggregate substrate

Right: sports hall floor layers

Arjun Chopra, u1630285, Centre for Alternative Technology, Architecture Prof.Dip. AEES, CE7400 Technical Report

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PERSONAL WORK

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Below: The Inkpot, Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture internship, Lincolnshire, August - October 2014: Assistance building a classroom using green oak carpentry, straw bale and lime render, full drawings completed for retrospective planning permission 1

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Permaculture design for Sheperds Fennel, Mill Hill, February 2016 - present Freelance design constitutes part of Certificate in Applied Permaculture Design: Pattern design for an edible garden and basic implementation plan for plantings in front garden

The Inkpot, Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture internship, Lincolnshire, August - October 2014:

Permaculture design for Sheperds Fennel, Mill Hill,

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Orange-Tip Butterfly Caterpillar

Red Admiral

early flowers

Comfrey

Chickweed

Blackberry

Wild Garlic

Chestnut

Selfheal

Small Tortoiseshell Peacock

Comma

Painted Lady

Hornbeam

Silverhill Micro-farm, Shenley, Greater London Client: Richard Higgins Permaculture design completed in 2013 as part of a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) on-site, and in collaboration with four other participants. I drew, rendered and presented the final design along with infographics.

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Kitchen: with a prep zone and cooking zone - rocket stoves and biochars in the latter Three statues that front the polytunnels that maybe represent trimurthi: at Richard’s disgression, deriving from his interests in Vedic philosophy

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Chinampa: Mesoamerican agriculture technique

Adaptation of existing polytunnels and addition of a third with reasonable space between for raised beds and disabled access

Trellises with compost bins at either side, hopefully stopping a potential wind-tunneling effect between polytunnels

Vegetable beds: currently designed to drain inwards, but there does not appear to be trouble collecting water - makes more sense

Habitat Boosters

Large scale demonstration forest-garden, for community parks etc.

Southern end in shade throughout the year

Keyhole beds with integrated compost bins, to allow for migration of worms Herb Spiral Existing espaliered apple trees

African Roundhouse

Increase number of predators on garden pests i.e. Bats

Northern forest-garden: most light exposed

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Reduction in Codling Moth: larvae found in Apples

Willow Woven Structure. perhaps with climbing plants

Creating a new forest-garden entrance

The Inkpot, Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture nternship, Lincolnshire, August - October 2014: Assistance building a classroom using green oak carpentry, straw bale and lime ender, full drawings completed for retrospective planning permission

SOUTHERN LARGE-SCALE FOREST GARDEN

Existing toolshed and store for quadbike, trailer and lawnmower

HĂźgelkultur beds Fire/commune

Recreational open space

NORTHERN FOREST GARDEN Fig

Hedge Plants: Nitrogen Fixing Green Alder (alnus viridis)

Preserving existing northern entrance to park from cattery

Rainwater Collection

Willow woven entrance piece

Bamboo Raised Beds demonstrating succession of construction techniques (i.e. cob,timber,recycled tyres, hempcrete, timber)

Beehives: 2 already existing and a third cut open for demonstration

Small-scale forest garden: demonstrating space-economy permaculture in housing plots etc. possibly a seating zone in the centre

Peach

Eleagnus ebbingei

Demonstration compost toilets Straw-Bale house with adjoining compost toilet Arrangement of building structures based on Vasthu principles in Vedic philosophy

Southern Large-Scale Forest Garden

Area for Bodgery etc. (possibly a forge) H-H2 composting demonstration zone the forest

A place for Richard to sit and obseve his land may be around this area: may swivel, or recline to stargaze.

May want to introduce some sort of rudimentary shelter

Mulberry

Permaculture design for Sheperds Fennel, Mill Hill, February 2016 - present Freelance design constitutes part of Certificate in Applied Permaculture Design: Pattern design for an edible garden and basic implementation plan for plantings in front garden

Redcurrants

Gooseberry

Cooking Apples

Cherry Plums

Apricot

Small treehouse to be built in woods

BOUNDARY PLANTINGS Boundary Plantings

Shepards Bullace (Prunus institia): providing late season fruit

Dynamic Accumulator: Comfrey (Bocking 14)

Pollinator and insect-attracting plant species

Guild Planting

Companion Planting (i.e apples and chives)

Morrello (cooking) Cherries

Most of the land is bounded by trees and shrubs. The woodland area adjoins the road with little change in its makeup. The northern boundary consists of wooden fencing and a gate to the neighbours to the north.

The boundary between the woodland and the field area has a land drainage ditch running along its length.

On the wooded side the vegetation is similar to that of the woodland but with the addition of elder trees and increased numbers of a small unidentified elm like tree.

SUN PATH DIAGRAM AND SHADING

Permaculture design for Shepards Fennel, Mill Hill, February 2016: Freelance design constitutes part of Certificate in Applied Permacultural Design.

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Field Side: Nettles and Creeping Buttercup prevail

NORTH-EASTERN WIND

Productive plants include those that provide: dyes, spices, poles and canes, basketry materials, medicines, fruits, vegetables, soaps, sap and wood products, nuts and seeds, salads and herbs, firewood, tying materials mushrooms and honey.

The eastern boundary mainly consists of thin hedging of blackthorne hornbeam and blackberry with a couple of large goat willow and thin etiolated ash. Tree seedlings of holly, oak lime and the unidentified elm like tree.

Plants to avoid include those that are very invasive, allelopathic, acid loving and too shade producing.

The southern boundary of the field consists of large trees including oak, sycamore, cherry and ash with some smaller hawthorne trees.

SOUTH-WESTERLY PREVAILING WIND

Structural and climbing frame plants Nitrogen Fixers (i.e. Herbaceous Legumes) Shade and shelter-providing plants Living mulch plants

The eastern boundary would benefit for some attention. It could be added to in order to create a thicker hedge of about three to four meters high with standards interspersed along its length to break up some of the cold winds from the NE. Bullace and crab apple trees would make good edible standards that are fairly short so reducing shading problems and various kinds of Eleagnus species are also hardy and nitrogen fixing. Worcesterberry and possibly gooseberry could be used to keep the base of the hedge thick.

An area specifically for growing edible flowers would be beautiful and bring more colour to the site. It would also be educational and an attractant for beneficial insects.

Beds showing ornamental vegetable growing and perennial vegetable growing would be good as these forms of vegetable growing are able to be incorporated into small gardens which people feel are too small to have a separate vegetable growing area and so don't grow vegetables. Anything that can be done to increase suburban vegetable growing and change people's perception that vegetables are not aesthetically pleasing and so should be hidden at the bottom of the garden or not grown at all is worthwhile.

rjun Chopra tudent ID: 1021497 rchitecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Pt 2) application

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Above: MEDS competition entry 2014; Interpretation of the theme “Global Green” (Autocad, hand-drawn)

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